ATP 250 wraps: Aussies succeed on home soil as Kyrgios returns
ANOTHER huge day was had at both the Great Ocean Road Open and Murray River Open, with the ATP 250 tournaments showcasing plenty of formidable names heading into the Australian Open next week. It was a massive day at the Great Ocean Road Open, with a couple of intriguing results coming out of the Round […]
2021 Murray River Open ATP preview: Deep draw provides even competition
UNLIKE its opposing ATP 250 event, the 2021 Murray River Open has some good depth to its ranks, with 14 players inside the Top 50 and many of the qualifying direct acceptances are far from easy beats as well. It looks like a difficult draw to predict who will win, but top seed Stan Wawrinka […]
ATP Antalya & Delray Beach wraps: Top talents advance largely unchallenged
SEVEN of the eight seeds at the Antalya Open moved through to the second round, with only two of them needing to fight it out in three sets. The only losing seed to conclude the Round of 32 in Turkey was Miomir Kecmanovic, who, after winning the first set 6-1, fell away in a disappointing […]
2021 ATP Antalya and Delray Beach previews: Top 30 talents hit the hard courts in New Year
AFTER a long 2020, the 2021 ATP Tour is underway, with the main draw matches to take place today in Antalya, Turkey and Delray Beach, United States. Both hard court events are ATP 250 ones to give players a taste of the action before heading Down Under for an extended period in Australia where multiple […]
Millman on verge of history following another comeback win
JOHN Millman is through to this third ATP Tour final after fighting back from a set down and a third set deficit to win three sets against American hitter, Frances Tiafoe at the Astana Open in Nur-Saltan. Just a day after having to save a couple of match points and being 5-0 down in a […]
Millman grinds out remarkable win to advance through to Astana semis
JOHN MIllman has won in a very John Millman way, coming back from the brink of defeat to defeat seventh seed Tommy Paul in three epic sets to book his spot in the Astana Open semi-finals. Losing the first set in a tiebreaker, Millman needed two hours and 51 minutes to defeat seventh seed Paul, […]
Kukushkin adds more pain to out-of-sorts Paire
BENOIT Paire‘s forgettable ATP Tour season in 2020 continued today in the Astana Open in Nur-Sultan after the top seed Frenchman and world number 28 bowed out to home nation hope, Mikhail Kukushkin. Since August when the Tour resumed, Paire has won one match, retired twice, and even had a positive COVID-19 test to miss […]
Americans roll on in Nur-Sultan as Millman advances
AUSTRALIAN John Millman is through to the quarter finals of Astana Open in Nur-Sultan and with a number of other upsets, has put himself in a good position to win his maiden ATP Tour title. The fourth seed in Kazakhstan, Millman took care of Spanish veteran Fernando Verdasco 6-3 6-4 in an hour and 22 […]
Vesely too stong for Sandgren as Finn young gun destroys local hope
CZECH Jiri Vesely has outclassed fifth seed American Tennys Sandgren in an hour and 40 minutes in the first round at the Astana Open in Nur-Saltan, Kazakhstan. The pair fought hard but Vesely’s record on indoor hard courts over the years proved too much, downing the seed 6-4 7-6 to advance through to the Round […]
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 […]
