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Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) is playing her first tournament since the U.S. Open this week at the Wuhan Open in China. She advanced to the quarter-finals of the WTA Premier 5 event on Wednesday thanks to a 6-2, 6-3 win over American Alison Riske.
Many doubts remain about the long-term prospects of the forthcoming International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) that is scheduled to begin at the end of November but Mahesh Bhupathi, the former ATP World Tour and Indian Davis Cup veteran who is fronting the new venture insists it has all the ingredients to be a great success.
In the first set, Novak Djokovic looked very unsteady, as if he wasn't quite well, and Kei Nishikori was on fire. An early break gave Nishikori the set. In the second set, something started to get to him. Maybe it was the high heat; maybe it was just the wear and tear from his two tough matches in the previous rounds.
They are used to battling it out on the tennis court, but there were some mixed results when stars of the ATP World Tour went head-to-head in an art showdown on Monday at the Rogers Cup in Toronto.
Roger Federer swapped his tennis racquet for a hockey stick on Sunday at the Rexall Centre as the Toronto Maple Leafs took on stars of the ATP World Tour on a transformed centre court.
One way or another, we were guaranteed a first-time winner here. Not only were both players in their first finals, neither had ever made a semifinal before. David Goffin had three ATP quarterfinals (Chennai 2012, Winston-Salem 2012, Valencia 2012); Dominic Thiem had two (Kitzbuhel and Vienna 2013).
Maybe we should have taken the idea of Donald Young as the American #2 more seriously. Kevin Anderson will remain below the Top Twenty, but Young moves past Sam Querrey, Jack Sock, and Steve Johnson; he is on the brink of the Top Fifty.
Take a look at these photos of Pospisil and his life while on tour.
Click here to check out the men's draws and schedule from the Vegeta Croatia Open Umag.
Check out the draws & order of play from the ATP tournament in Bogota, Colombia.
Saturday's semifinal lineup in Hamburg is a surprising one, but also one that the German faithful will greet with delight. Each of the two matches will have a player representing the host nation, as both Alexander Zverev and Philipp Kohlschreiber continued their runs on Friday.
Rafael Nadal will return to London this November in an attempt to capture his first career season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals title. Nadal joins three-time champion Novak Djokovic as the first two singles players to qualify for this year’s season finale, to be held at The O2 from 9-16 November.
The Western & Southern Open announced on Monday its 2014 player field. As a mandatory Masters 1000 event on the ATP World Tour, every one of the top 43 men in the rankings is signed up. The top 39 women are all on the entry list for what is a Premier 5 WTA tournament.
The U.S. Open Series is still a week away, but the ATP Would Tour is heading back to hard courts for the first time since March for the Claro Open Colombia. Meanwhile, the clay-court season resumes in Hamburg with the bet-at-home Open.
Tennis Canada announced Monday the official player acceptance list for the 2014 Rogers Cup presented by National Bank in Toronto.
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