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Fernando Verdasco afrontaba un debut muy complicado en el ‘Valencia Open 500 ATP World Tour’ y no sólo ha salido con el triunfo bajo el brazo sino también con buenas sensaciones de muñeca. La victoria sobre Leonardo Mayer (6-4, 3-6, 6-3) ha dado valor al trabajo del tenista español, que se ha encontrado a gusto a pesar del buen partido de su rival.
This is about as good as it gets when it comes to a pair of 500-point tournaments. Roger Federer will play in front of home fans as the No. 1 seed at the Swiss Indoors Basel, where Rafael Nadal’s comeback from a wrist injury and perseverance through appendicitis will continue.
This was pretty straightforward: Marin Cilic broke once in the middle of the first set, and again at the beginning of the second, and he was never broken. It's his fourth title of the year -- twice as many as he had ever won before even if you ignore the fact that one of them was the U. S. Open.
We keep crossing Ernests Gulbis out of London, and it's never quite officially true. But this makes it incredibly close (more in the Feature). Roberto Bautista Agut can't quite make London, but with this, he's up to #14. That's as high as he can go this week, and probably this year, but still, what a breakthrough season!
Check out these awesome EPA photos of Grigor Dimitrov.
Después de Villarreal, Valencia, Castellón, Xátiva, el ‘Valencia Open 500 Street Tennis’ no podía faltar en la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias durante el ‘Valencia Open 500 ATP World Tour’.
Bernard Tomic's first tournament with Xavier Malisse in his coaching corner continued on Friday with a 0-6, 6-4, 7-6 (6) win over Fernando Verdasco in the quarterfinals of the Stockholm Open. At the Kremlin Cup, meanwhile, Ernests Gulbis also prevailed in a third-set tiebreaker. The Latvian held off Andreas Seppi 7-6(6), 4-6, 7-6(3) to reach the semis.
Four legends holding a total of 17 Grand Slam singles titles between them have arrived in Italy for the Grande Sfida, a new ATP Champions Tour event. John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, Goran Ivanisevic and Michael Chang were welcomed by 200 members of the media on Thursday afternoon ahead of the two-day event which kicks off in Genoa on Friday and concludes in Milan on Saturday.
Top seed Tomas Berdych opened his campaign for a second title at the If Stockholm Open with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Germany's Dustin Brown on Thursday. The 29-year-old Czech saved all three break points he faced during the 83-minute match, and claimed 78 per cent of service points.
With new coach Xavier Malisse guiding him at least through the end of this season, Bernard Tomic booked a spot in the If Stockholm Open quarterfinals by upsetting No. 3 seed Kevin Anderson on Wednesday. Tomic is joined in the last eight by Grigor Dimitrov and Fernando Verdasco, respective straight-set winners over Teymuraz Gabashvili and Jarkko Nieminen.
Croatian sixth seed Ivo Karlovic spent two and a half hours in defeating Argentine Federico Delbonis 6-7 (1-7), 7-6 (11-9), 7-6 (7-2). Karlovic finished with 29 aces. Serb Viktor Troicki, who served a ban which ended in July for delaying a post-match blood test by 24 hours in 2013, beat Victor Estrella Burgos 6-0, 6-3.
Check out these EPA photos of Roger Federer during the Shanghai Rolex Masters.
Roger Federer has never been short of self-praise whenever he wins a title. And if it is a trophy he’s never raised before, such as the Shanghai Rolex Masters, then the personal contentment is heightened even more.
Andy Murray will have no walk in the park in the Vienna, at least if the draw has anything to do with it. The second-seeded Scot’s opener will likely come against Vasek Pospisil
SHANGHAI UPDATE - FEDERER WAS BETTERER ! HE WAS AMAZEBALLS
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