ATP Adelaide International: Day 3 – Australian Bolts into quarter finals
THE remaining seven quarter finalists have joined Daniel Evans in the last eight after a round of straight sets wins at the Adelaide International yesterday. It was a fairly predictable day in terms of results, though still through up a few surprises. The biggest surprise was 157th ranked Alex Bolt topping seventh seed German, Jan-Lennard […]
ATP Adelaide International: Day 2 – Evans continues rise as first round completed
DANIEL Evans is already through to the quarter Finals of the Adelaide International after a straight sets win over Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik in the sole second round match yesterday. Evans had already cruised past Argentinian Juan Ignacio Londero, while Bublik caused the upset of Day 1, triumphing over the highest ranked seed with a first […]
ATP Adelaide International: Day 1 – Seeds fall as draw opens up
FOUR of the top eight players are out of the Adelaide International with news filtering through that top seed Alex de Minaur had withdrawn from the tournament yesterday. He chose to exit, but he was joined on an extended break before the Australian Open by fifth seed Taylor Fritz, sixth seed Cristian Garin and eighth […]
ATP/WTA Rankings: Risers and Sliders – 13/01/19
IN the first edition of a regular piece tracking the risers and sliders of the ATP and WTA Tours, we take a look at five players who have improved their ranking, and five who have dropped theirs, on each tour as we head into the next week of competition. It is worth noting that in […]
Qatar Open: Final – Rublev makes top 20 debut with straight sets win
ONE of the ATP Tour’s next big things in Andrey Rublev has continued his ripping form of the past 12 months to claim the first ATP Tour title of 2020. The 22-year-old Russian entered the top 20 for the first time with the Qatar Open title, downing world number 81 Frenchman, Corentin Moutet 6-2 7-6. […]
Qatar Open: Day 7/8 – Moutet upsets Wawrinka to face Rublev
NUMBER TWO seed Andrey Rublev will face Frenchman Corentin Moutet in the Qatar Open final after the two players overcame rain delays to complete both quarter finals and semi-finals on the same day. Rublev moved through thanks to a straight sets win over Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanovic who had more rest than any of the other […]
Qatar Open: Day 6 – Rain causes delays
MOTHER Nature had a say on proceedings at the Qatar Open, with rain causing serious delays over Day 6 with just one match fully played on the former and matches delayed on the latter. The only completed quarter final on Thursday was Miomir Kecmanovic completely dismantling qualifier, Marton Fucsovics 6-2 6-0. The Serbian looked keen […]
2020 Adelaide International ATP preview: Djoker of the pack leads young gun charge
TOURNAMENT organisers in Adelaide would have been thrilled at the announcement that world number two and multiple Grand Slam winner, Novak Djokovic had committed to the tournament for 2020. Djokovic leads a host of young guns who are hoping to upset the heavy favourite at the final warm-up tournament prior to the Australian Open. FAVOURITE: […]
Qatar Open: Day 3 wrap – Tsonga, Raonic knocked out of contention
SEEDED players dropped like flies in Day 3 of the Qatar Open, with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Milos Raonic among those knocked out in only the second round of the tournament. Qualifier, Corentin Moutet put up a spectacular performance against Raonic to head into the fourth day of competition, collecting a debut win against the fourth […]
2020 Qatar ExxonMobil Open preview: Is Stan the man for this year’s title?
BOASTING an open field with plenty of potential winners, the 2020 Qatar Open will almost certainly have a first-time title holder. The most recent winner was Roberto Bautista Agut, with Gael Monfils winning in 2018, ending the run of back-to-back victories by Novak Djokovic, and triumphs to David Ferrer and Rafael Nadal. In fact, the […]
