When we started to type this score, we accidentally listed Serena Williams as seed #0. Wrong, but it makes some sense: She probably should be considered at least a seeding tier ahead of everyone else.
It was a typical Djokovic/Nadal match -- in other words, way too long between points. Especially for that time of night. Nadal actually got a warning during a crazy match that featured scoreline confusion and much more.
No lapses for Novak Djokovic this time! And this was a rerun of last year's final, so Richard Gasquet loses more than 10% of his points and will fall from #9 to no better than #10. It will be #11 if Milos Raonic makes the final.
Marcel Granollers sees his winning streak end at six, meaning that he will lose the Top Forty spot he just regained. This pretty well ends his hopes for a U. S. Open seed.
Australian Bernard Tomic missed out on a chance to test himself against world No. 1 Novak Djokovic as the youngest member of the ATP top 50 lost an early lead to go down in the opening round 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 to German Florian Mayer.
Dominika Cibulkova booked the first of the third-round spot as she upset German eighth seed Angelique Kerber 6-7(0), 6-2, 7-5 to run her record in the series to 4-0 including a Sydney semi-final win in January.
Tennis Canada announced on Wednesday that Eugenie Bouchard is the winner of the 2018 Excellence Awards in the Female Player of the Year and Singles Player of the Year categories.
Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia hits a forehand to Kaia Kanepi of Estonia during her second round match at the Nature Valley International tennis tournament in Eastbourne, Great Britain, on Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
