Chile Open: Chilean wildcards out as three out of four seeds advance
THREE of the four seeded players who took to the court in Santiago yesterday are through to the final eight after straight-set wins on the clay. In the upset of the day, Argentinian qualifier, Renzo Olivo defeated fourth seed, Pablo Cuevas in three epic sets. The little-known 297th ranked Argentinian made his way through qualifying […]
Chile Open: Dellien through in day of tight matches
A TIGHT first day of Round of 32 matches opened the Chile Open in Santiago with the sole seed – Bolivia’s Hugo Dellien – moving through to the next round. Dellien saw off talented claycourter, Italian Marco Cecchinato in three sets, winning 6-3 1-6 6-3 in an hour and 44 minutes. The big serving Italian […]
Buenos Aires/New York ATP wrap: Aus Open quarter finalist out in first round at New York
AN Australian Open quarter finalist was bundled out in the first round of the New York Open, while an Argentinian had to battle hard on home soil to move through to the Round of 16 in the Argentina Open. ARGENTINA OPEN – BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: In the only three-set match of the day and the […]
Cordoba/Montpellier/Pune wrap: Duckworth through to Round of 16 in Pune
IT was a more complete day for the three ATP Tour tournaments on the go across the world, with mostly expected results. OPEN SUD DE FRANCE – MONTPELLIER, FRANCE: Fifth seed wildcard, Felix Auger-Aliassime survived a three-set match to down qualifier, Damir Dzumhur. Losing the first set tiebreaker, the Canadian came back to post a […]
Australian Open: Men’s Day 2 review – Gulbis winds back clock with first round upset
ON Day 2 of the 2020 Australian Open, a second top 20 Canadian seed fell – this time to a qualifier – while a number of others had to fight hard in order to survive against stiff opposition. In the top eighth of the draw, world number one Rafael Nadal started off his Australian Open […]
Federer claims tenth Swiss Indoors title with Demon destruction
HE might be Australia’s next big thing, but Alex de Minaur had no answers for a rampant Roger Federer in front of a home crowd in Basel, Switzerland. The Swiss Master did just that, put on a clinical display, turning back the clock to notch up a record tenth Swiss Indoor title with a smashing […]
