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Andy Murray closed in on a qualification berth for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals after a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Julien Benneteau in the BNP Paribas Masters second round on Wednesday.
Russian tennis star, Maria Sharapova and boyfriend Grigor Dimitrov confirmed their participation for the XXII edition of the 2015 Mexican Tennis Open held in Acapulco from February 23-28. While Dimitrov will be back for seconds after winning the men’s field in 2014 against Kevin Anderson, this will be Sharapova’s first time playing in the famed Mexican resort town.
The stakes cannot get much higher at a Masters 1000 event. Not only is the BNP Paribas Masters title on the line, but there are also four World Tour Finals spots left to be decided this week in Paris. Six contenders are battling for the remaining berths in London: Andy Murray, Kei Nishikori, Tomas Berdych, David Ferrer, Milos Raonic, and Grigor Dimitrov.
Ivo Karlovic's serve was humming -- you don't hit 33 aces against Roger Federer otherwise! Federer's serve was pretty good, too -- he faced only two break points, whereas Karlovic faced four. But Karlovic managed to convert on one chance, and in the second set, Karlovic's serve was untouchable -- 13 aces in the set, 78% of first serves in, 88% of points won on first serve.
Last call. That’s the usual description of Paris: The last chance to earn points before the Race is closed. And, for all but the Top Eight, the last chance to settle their year-end rankings. The effects of that are curious. Some years, when the Race is tight, Paris is extraordinarily strong. Other years, it ends up extremely weak.
It was an ideal Friday afternoon for David Ferrer and Andy Murray. The two World Tour Finals hopefuls won their respective quarterfinal matches at the Valencia Open and also saw fellow London contender Milos Raonic lose to David Goffin in Basel. Ferrer and Murray are now set to face each other on Saturday in a match that will have significant London implications.
Tommy Robredo dethroned undefeated champion Feliciano Lopez in the fourth edition of “Corona’s Longest Serve” competition on Monday at the City of Arts and Sciences, venue of the Valencia event.The Spaniard hit the ball a distance of 72m in his “Corona’s Longest Serve” debut, surpassing Lopez’s 68m and John Isner's 67m.
Milos Raonic kept his World Tour Finals chances afloat by fighting past Donald Young 6-4, 6-7(5), 7-6(2) in the second round of the Swiss Indoors Basel on Thursday. It was an especially important victory because fellow London contender David Ferrer advanced to the quarterfinals at the Valencia Open. Ferrer downed fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 6-2.
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.
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.
The Novak Djokovic vs. Roger Federer rivalry will add another chapter to its lore after the soon-to-be top two players in the world won their respective quarterfinal matches at the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Friday. Djokovic took care of David Ferrer 6-4, 6-2 to book his semifinal spot before Federer downed Julien Benneteau 7-6(4), 6-0.
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Rafael Nadal and a whole host of other seeds are out, but the third-round schedule at the Shanghai Rolex Masters is still an intriguing one. A showdown between Andy Murray and David Ferrer is among the eight matches on Thursday, while Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer are also aiming for spots in the quarterfinals.
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