Davis Cup Playoffs preview: Part 1 – September 17-18 – World Group I
THE first of the Davis Cup ties running into the team events for the second half of 2021 take place from tonight, with a host of teams battling it out to earn World Group Playoff and World Group I Playoff honours. The way it works is that the 24 teams (12 matches) in World Group […]
ATP Tour wrap: Clay court seeds fall to qualifiers
IT was not a great day for the clay court dominant players in the men’s US Open Round of 64 on day three, with two of the best clay courters bowing out at Flushing Meadows among three top 16 seeds. The bottom half of the draw has really opened up with only the seven seeds […]
ATP Tour wrap: Seeds scatter on opening day of US Open
A MIXED bag of results were had on the opening day of the men’s US Open draw, with all of the top 18 seeds paving the way into the second round, before a flurry of lower seeded losses proved that seeding is not everything. The New York heat made five set clashes intriguing, with a […]
ATP Tour wrap: Maiden finalists set to make history
THE Winston-Salem Open final will play out between two unseeded competitors, with everything on the line for Sweden 22-year-old Mikael Ymer, and Belarusian 27-year-old Ilya Ivashka. Neither player has reached an ATP Tour-level final to this point, making this clash all the more important for the two competitors, who both earned their finals chance through a […]
ATP Tour wrap: Seeds drop in Winston-Salem
IT was absolute carnage in Winston-Salem as the seeds dropped like flies overnight to present some opportunities for lower ranked players at the ATP Tour 250 event. In the final men’s tournament prior to the US Open, the lower ranked players inside the Top 100 prevailed, with the 63rd ranked Ilya Ivashka, 76th ranked Emil […]
ATP Tour wrap: Carreno Busta firms as title favourite after upset-fillet Round of 16 at Winston-Salem
TOP seed Pablo Carreno Busta has firmed as the ATP Tour Winston-Salem Open title favourite after winning through to the quarter finals at the ATP 250 event, and watching many of his closest rivals fall. The Spanish world number 12 is the only player left standing inside the Top 50 in the hard court event, […]
ATP Tour wrap: Qualifiers succeed as second round begins
WINSTON-SALEM continued today with a plethora of interesting results as qualifiers continued their winning runs to pass the opening round and the first two players reached the third round. The qualifying winners were split evenly with Australian Alexei Popyrin and Frenchman Lucas Pouille both claiming straight sets wins against American Steve Johnson and Spaniard Feliciano Lopez respectively to […]
ATP Tour wrap: Nadal withdraws as Americans stand up and second round gets going
THE second day of men’s National Bank Open action saw the completion of the Round of 64, while the Round of 32 action got underway in Toronto, Canada. Rafael Nadal also announced his withdrawal from the competition, citing soreness to the foot injury that kept him out of Wimbledon and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. His […]
ATP Tour wrap: Americans shine in Washington
THERE was plenty to cheer about for the United States back home in Washington as the Citi Open Round of 32 results were completed today. The ATP Tour 500 event saw a whopping nine Americans out on court across eight different games. Of the eight possible winners, six were successful, with the only two going […]
ATP Tour wrap: Americans control the airways as Round of 32 and 64 come to blows
A HUGE day of results was had at the Citi Open, with the Round of 64 completed as the Round of 32 began and plenty of Americans setting up shop on home turf in Washington. In the Round of 54, all five Americans reigned supreme while it was a completely different story for the trio […]
