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If Rafael Nadal is the King of Clay, Dominic Thiem is the Duke of the Dirt. Clearly the second best clay-courter in the world behind Nadal right now, Thiem continued his scintillating form on the slow stuff by capturing the Argentine Open title this past Sunday.
One month. Four weeks. Twelve events. Such is life on the ATP World Tour in February. Tournaments in Rotterdam, New York, and Buenos Aires make for one of February's most high-profile weeks.
Nicolas Mahut and Vasek Pospisil captured their first ATP World Tour doubles title together on Sunday as they defeated Philipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya 7-6(2), 6-4 in the final of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament.
Dominic Thiem's rise reached new heights on Saturday with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(4) win over Rafael Nadal in the semifinals of the Argentina Open. Thiem saved one match point at 4-5 in the final set before prevailing in two hours and 50 minutes.
Rafael Nadal made a winning return to his beloved clay Thursday night in Buenos Aires, beating close friend Juan Monaco in a repeat of last year’s final of the Argentina Open.
Rafael Nadal’s Argentina Open title defense did not get off to a convincing start on Thursday night. But it started nonetheless.
There are three tournaments on three different continents, including the first ATP World Tour 500 level event of the season. World No. 10 Richard Gasquet is the top seed in Rotterdam.
Check out these 2015 Davis Cup photos from Dusan Vemic from Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Spain will not be in Davis Cup World Group action next week after being unceremoniously bounced out of last year's playoffs. But the nation's two best players did it proud this weekend on the ATP Tour. One day after David Ferrer captured the Abierto Mexicano Telcel title, Rafael Nadal lifted the Argentina Open trophy.
Roger Federer began the campaign for a seventh title in the emirate as he beat Mikhail Youzhny for the 16th time without a loss, 6-3, 6-1. The second seed spent 56 minutes on court, making sure he did not get too careful in his tennis - a mistake he made in his shock third-round Australian Open loss to Andreas Seppi a month ago.
Nine years after his last ATP appearance in the country as a raw teenaged talent, Rafael Nadal is back on court in Brazil and eager to make a fresh start in 2014 in the land of football and samba.
Nine years after his last ATP appearance in the country as a raw teenaged talent, Rafael Nadal is back on court in Brazil and eager to make a fresh start in 2014 in the land of football and samba.
Top seed and winner of the last two editions David Ferrer looked unstoppable on South American clay as the Spaniard began his Argentine title defence by beating Maximo Gonzalez 7-6(7), 6-4 and running his Buenos Aires win streak to 11 matches.
The aftermath of the back issues Rafael Nadal suffered in the Australian Open final, allied to a stomach upset, have forced the world no.1 to pull out of next week’s Copa Claro tournament in Buenos Aires.
If you want to read about exciting matches -- read about the day's other singles finals.
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