2020 ATP Astana Open preview: Paire and Kecmanovic lead field in Kazakhstan
WHILST the world’s top ATP Tour players are battling it out in Austria, a number of mid-tier talents will hope to win the penultimate ATP 250 event in Kazakhstan starting today. The 28-player hard court event is another new event on the calendar, taking place in Nur-Sultan and named the Astana Open. The top ranked […]
Bergs stuns Ramos-Vinolas in first tour level match
THE Round of 32 was complete at both the ATP 250 tournaments in Cologne, Germany and Antwerp, Belgium, with a mostly predictable day – bar one huge scalp at Antwerp – seeing just one seed across the two competitions take the court. At Cologne, just the four matches played out with young gun Jannik Sinner downing […]
Ruud downed at Sardinia while seeds prevail in Cologne
IT was another big day across the two ATP 250 tournaments, seeing a much more successful pursuit from the respective home nations in Germany and Italy though a couple more seeds fell across the two competitions. Sardinia favourite Casper Ruud was the upset of the round, downed in straight sets and seeing just one seed […]
Medvedev headlines massive exits in Roland Garros first round
IT might only be the second day, but it was carnage at Roland Garros with four top 20 seeds bombing out, including two top eight seeds in a huge day of upsets. The biggest of the lot was fourth seed Daniil Medvedev, who faltered in his first match for the second consecutive tournament, losing to […]
Thiem and Auger-Aliassime set up blockbuster
FELIX Auger-Aliassime booked his ticket to Round 4 of the US Open with a dominant 6-1 6-0 6-4 victory over Corentin Moutet. The Canadian has had an outstanding tournament so far, having only dropped one set across his three matches to date. Moutet came into this match with confidence after a strong win against 23rd […]
Fucsovics wins in five sets and hours to upset Dimitrov
IT was the longest match of the tournament thus far, but Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics will not mind, emerging victorious over highly fancied 13th seed, Grigor Dimitrov. The unseeded Hungarian has enjoyed a promising year in 2020, and that form continued with a 6-7 7-6 3-6 6-4 6-1 win in what took four hours and 50 […]
Millmania hits US Open as Aussies have great day out
JOHN Millman is through to the second round of the US Open after upsetting Georgian 22nd seed, Nikoloz Basilashvili in a memorable win. Millman is most famous for his upset victory in the third round against Roger Federer a couple of years ago at Flushing Meadows, and he showed why he is capable of running […]
2020 Libema Open fantasy tennis: Seeds mostly go to plan, with a couple of upsets on opening day
THERE were no major shocks in the ATP Libema Open, whilst six of the eight WTA seeds reached the second round in the WTA fantasy tennis tournament in s’Hertogenbosch. Of the day’s winners, the top three women dominated proceedings, whilst the highest seeded men largely had greater degree of difficulty to win. In the ATP […]
2020 ATP Roland Garros fantasy tennis: Johnson stands tall to oust Dimitrov
THE first round of the 2020 ATP Roland Garros fantasy tennis tournament is complete, after the fourth day of first round matches played out in Paris today. In a similar story to the past three days, just one seed fell at the first hurdle, with 18th seed Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov being the only casualty of […]
2020 ATP Miami Open fantasy tennis: French lead charge on day one of Miami
THE first day of the ATP Tour’s Miami Open fantasy tennis tournament opened with a bang as the bottom half of the first round took place. There were a number of interesting results with plenty of outside contenders for the title winning through to face a seed in the Round of 64. It was a […]
