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Judy Murray has admitted that critical 2011 remarks from Boris Becker over her son Andy's lack of major success at the time can still be hurtful. The British Fed Cup captain and mother of the current Wimbledon winner used British Mother’s Day to make her feeling known.
Japan's Davis Cup quarter-final campaign could be in trouble if the groin injury of team No. 1 Kei Nishikori keeps him away from the weekend tie in Tokyo against the defending champion Czech Republic.
Just two weeks ago, Deiton Baughman found himself playing in the main draw of one of the biggest professional tournaments in the world outside the Grand Slams as he received a doubles wild card into the Sony Open in Key Biscayne, Fla.
With both men's semifinals not played because of walkovers, Miami may see its revenue for next year significantly affected by exchanged tickets.
The Bryan brothers and Bruno Soares, who reached the finals of the men's doubles at Miami, have called for ATP doubles finals to be televised online.
If the purpose of the lesser events is to set the tone for Slams, Rafael Nadal is hearing sirens. This was about as one-sided as a Nadal/Djokovic match can be. It took only an hour and 23 minutes (a very short contest by their standards), and Djokovic won 60% of the points. He broke three times; he saved the only break point he faced.
Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, a former Top 10 player and Australian Open finalist, has received the first wild card for the Fayez Sarofim & Co. US Men's Clay Court Championship that will be held at River Oaks Country Club April 7-13.
Although it was close, the Bryans never really felt like they were under threat here; they faced only one break point, which they saved, while earning five break points of their own. All through the match, it felt as if they would win it in tiebreaks if not before. As it turned out, in the second set, it was before.
Television coverage of Miami has been the subject of controversy over the past week, attracting scrutiny of the rights deals covering the tournament.
For most of the first set of this, Rafael Nadal was holding fairly easily and Milos Raonic was struggling. Then, out of the blue, Raonic had a break point in game ten, and Nadal double-faulted, and that was the set.
One match doesn't really tell us what a player's form is like -- but this really seemed typical of how Andy Murray in 2014. Although the real issue here may have been how wound up he got about a particular point.
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Rafael Nadal hammered Fabio Fognini 6-2, 6-2 in just over an hour as Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray set up a re-run of the 2013 Wimbledon final. Nadal next plays Canadian 12th seed Milos Raonic, who reached the Miami quarters for the first time by beating German Benjamin Becker 6-3, 6-4 on a fourth match point.
Top seed Rafael Nadal thrilled a Spanish-speaking home crowd as he crushed Denis Istomin 6-1, 6-0 to steamroll into the fourth round. The Australian Open finalist fished off his demolition in 59 minutes with six breaks of serve to maintain a perfect 4-0 slate in the series with the Uzbek coached by his mother.
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