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Kei Nishikori celebrated his unofficial first full day as a member of the ATP Top 10 (he will not officially reach that mark until the new rankings are released, likely on Monday morning) with one of the most impressive wins of his career on Saturday at the Mutua Madrid Open.
The famous Top4 are getting older, maturing, settling down – at least off court. Roger Federer, of course, has been settled for some time with Mirka, the twins and another child due in weeks, or even days, if Roger's late withdrawal from the ATP Masters1000 in Madrid is any indication.
Amidst Andy Murray's 2013 struggles that may be attributed to either recovery from back surgery and/or his split from coach Ivan Lendl, it should not be overlooked that his brother is getting along quite nicely this spring.
Kei Nishikori won the first clay-court title of his career--and his fourth overall--by making quick 6-2, 6-2 work of Santiago Giraldo on Sunday in Barcelona. Nishikori broke his opponent five times in eight return games to prevail in one hour and 13 minutes.
Grigor Dimitrov won the tourney in Bucharest. He beat Lukas Rosol 7-6, 6-1 to make that 3 ATP titles he has notched. His ranking will move up tomorrow when the ATP weekly rankings are posted. He is currently ranked 16. Will this put him in the top ten ? Or just near it.
Mike Bryan is the first player to win 100 tour-level doubles titles after he and twin brother Bob triumphed at the Monte Carlo on Sunday. The Americans captured their 98th team title as they defeated Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo, 6-3, 3-6, 10-8. in 72 minutes.
The Bryan's win another Masters tourney. For Mike it was his 100th. title. For Bob his 98th! They beat Melo and Dodig 6-3,3-6,10-8 ! Wow. Unreal feat. This record breaking duo are Amazeballs. For real what a nice Easter present from the Tennis Channel. They actually televised the doubles.
Novak Djokovic kicked off his title defense at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters with the loss of just one game on Tuesday afternoon. Djokovic thrashed Albert Montanes 6-1, 6-0 in a mere 45 minutes while saving all four of the break points he faced--all in the first set.
Death, taxes, and Spanish tennis players dominating on clay. Those may be the three certainties of life, and so far 2014 has done nothing to suggest otherwise.
It will be an all-Spanish singles final at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship on Sunday afternoon. The two compatriots, though, are heading into it after much different days at the office.
Acrimony toward the NCAA continues to grow – they've now abolished the third set for the women and made the men’s game no-ad scoring. Ever the contrarian, this time I’m going to side with the organization.
The Aegon Championships has been voted ATP 250 Tournament of the Year by the players of the ATP World Tour in the 2013 awards. It is the first time that the Aegon Championships, held every June on grass at The Queen’s Club in London, has received the award, which had gone to the tournament in Bastad, Sweden for the previous 11 years.
“This is unreal,” said Boyd, the Boys’ 18s No. 8 seeded player from Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who for the second straight year eliminated Charlie Adams of Wayzata, Minn., from this event in a 6-2, 6-1 first-round victory on Monday.
After an initial flourish of outspoken concern over the political situation in his troubled Ukraine homeland, Alexandr Dolgopolov realizes there may be little as an athlete that he can actually do to influence the situation.
Düsseldorf (pps) Good news for all tennis fans as seven German players have already confirmed that they will be appearing at the Rochusclub: Michael Berrer (world ranked No. 124), Julian Reister (No. 115), Dustin Brown (No. 100), Tobias Kamke (96), Daniel Brands (No. 94), Benjamin Becker (No. 68), and Philipp Kohlschreiber (No. 24).
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