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Wimbledon top seed, Novak Djokovic arrived at The Boodles in a HR Owen silver Bentley with intent on playing his first match on grass this year against the Dutchman, Robin Haase. However following some sponsor commitments on site, after some consideration the world number two decided, as a precaution, not to play the match.
Another stunning day of warm sunshine for The Boodles at Stoke Park saw a host of players continuing their preparations for Wimbledon.
Three days into the BMW Open, only three seeds remain. No. 4 Gael Monfils withdrew prior to his opening match due to an ankle injury. No. 5 Philipp Kohlschreiber, No. 6 Feliciano Lopez, and No. 8 Ivan Dodig all joined him on the sidelines with first-round losses on Tuesday.
For a second straight week there is no Masters 1000 event and this time around there is not even a 500-pointer on the menu. Monte-Carlo and Barcelona have gone by the wayside and the back-to-back stretch of Madri followed by Rome does not begin until next week.
Italy’s hopes of reaching a first Davis Cup World Group semi-final since 1998 could be jeopardized by leading player Fabio Fognini either missing next week’s tie against Great Britain or playing in pain because of an injured leg muscle.
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Alexandr Dolgopolov’s homeland is currently beset with problems but the Ukrainian is reveling in the freedom he is experiencing in California’s Coachella Valley as he has reached the semi-final of a Masters 1000 series tournament for the first time at Indian Wells’ BNP Paribas Open.
I had the amazing opportunity of spending four days at the 2014 BNP Paribas Open. As it turns out, that was eight too few. Next year, I simply have to be there for the entire tournament. There can be no other way.
Maybe we’re spoiled. In the first year of the luxurious but also intimate Stadium 2, we expect every match in there to live up to the standard of the host building itself.
The Australian Open may be called “the Happy Slam,” but perhaps at no event are the players in a more jovial mood than they are at the BNP Paribas Open.
Click here to view the latest ATP draws from the BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells.
Andy Murray cannot help but look ahead after Davis Cup quarter-final opponent Italy confirmed it will host the visiting Brits in Naples. The chaotic southern metropolis will be like nothing the team has likely ever experienced...
Top seed Tommy Haas continued to break barriers at age 35, advancing in his opening match over Wayne Odesnik in well under an hour. "With injuries, I lost probably three or four years of my career," said the 12th-ranked Haas.
With players straggling in from Davis Cup, action was slow on the ATP on Monday. Only one main draw match was scheduled, with Paul-Henri Mathieu beating Nicolas Mahut 6-1, 3-0 when Mahut retired with influenza in a poor day of play for any ticketholders.
The race may not always be to the swift, but right now, the swift are doing just fine, thank you. Rafael Nadal is #1, and he will stay #1, and he will be #1 by a very wide margin. We still don't know how wide, but he will lead Novak Djokovic by a lot more than a thousand points.
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