ATP Tour wrap: Players heating up heading into quarter finals
WORLD number 4 Stefanos Tsitsipas had a good return to the court overnight progressing to the quarter finals at the Hamburg European Open, defeating German Dominik Koepfer in straight sets. Having lost to American Frances Tiafoe in a disappointing first round exit at Wimbledon, the top ranked Greek was a little shaky early when he […]
ATP Tour wrap: Competitions fire up on second day
ALL three ATP tour events continued overnight, with the ATP 500 tournament in Hamburg seeing a trio of Serbians survive the first round, while at Newport, Americans ruled the roost on home turf and in Sweden another hometown hope fell at the first stage. At Hamburg, it was the Serbian show as fifth and sixth […]
ATP Tour wrap: Frenchmen falter as Djokovic and Nadal claim quick wins
DAY 3 at the 2021 Roland Garros produced some intriguing results, with two of the top seeds in Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal retaining their winning form with respective straight set wins, while Andrey Rublev‘s Roland Garros run was cut dastardly short. The world number seven struggled to keep up with German Jan-Lennard Struff early in the three hour and […]
ATP Tour wrap: Seeds fall in Parma as Belgrade sees seesawing action
THE two ATP 250 events are heating up as we enter the semi finals stage, following two huge days of quarter finals action at both Parma, Italy and Belgrade, Serbia. At the Emilia-Romagna Open, three of the day’s four seeds fell, while at Belgrade, world number one Novak Djokovic continued his run on home soil. Djokovic needed […]
ATP Tour wrap: Djokovic equals fifth-most ATP Tour Open Era wins as seeds clean up at Parma
THE Belgrade and Emilia-Romagna Opens continue, with the former entering the Round of 16 stage while the latter played the remainder of its Round of 32 matches a day behind schedule following rain delays yesterday. In the Round of 16 in Serbia, Novak Djokovic made it through his first matchup relatively unscathed, escaping a third set […]
ATP Tour wrap: Belgrade and Parma get underway
WITH both the Geneva and Lyon Open done and dusted, we turn our eyes to the Belgrade and Parma ATP 250 events this week with the first day of Round of 32 action beginning overnight. Belgrade saw three matches play out, with a couple of Serbian wildcards taking the court though only one heads into […]
ATP Tour wrap: Shapovalov bundled out among walkovers aplenty
THE Round of 16 has rolled on at the two ATP 250 events this week, with a couple of interesting results across both the BMW Open in Munich, Germany, and the Estoril Open in Portugal. A walkover was had at both tournaments in an intriguing quirk heading into the quarter-finals, as a top seed heads […]
ATP Tour wrap: Matches underway at Munich and Estoril
PROCEEDINGS are underway at the ATP Tour 250 events in Munich, Germany and Estoril, Portugal, as the Round of 32 begins. At Estoril, a number of Spaniards took the court with just the one reigning supreme in eighth seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina – the only seed of the day – in a hard-fought day on the […]
ATP Tour wrap: Mixed bag for Serbians, while Nishikori survives Barcelona scare
KEI Nishikori is no stranger to adversity. The Japanese 2014 US Open runner-up has had his fair share of injuries over the past couple of years, seeing the former Top 5 talent to slip outside the Top 30. Heading into the Barcelona, the unseeded world number 39 had won six of 13 games in 2021, […]
ATP Tour wrap: Round of 32 complete at Sardegna and Marbella
COMPETITION continued in Sardegna and Marbella today with the Round of 32 at both ATP 250 events still going strong and homegrown talent proving influential on Day 2 of proceedings. At Sardegna, three set encounters told the story with fifth and sixth seeds Jan-Lennard Struff and John Millman amongst a group of six players who required a […]
