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Roger Federer improved to 14-1 in what has been a remarkable season so far when he defeated Frances Tiafoe 7-6(2), 6-3 in the second round of the Miami Open.
Just 19 years old, Frances Tiafoe was playing at the Miami Open on Thursday for a chance to take the court against 18-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer. Tiafoe and Konstantin Kravchuk went into their first-round showdown knowing that the winner would meet Federer on Saturday.
Top Tennis Players and Award Winning Chefs ‘Serve Up’ a Culinary Experience
Taylor Fritz finished his first-round match at the Memphis Open on Tuesday with 13 fewer points won than Yen-Hsun Lu.
The second round of the Australian Open will continue on Thursday, when Rafael Nadal returns to the court to face fellow veteran Marcos Baghdatis.
It is always difficult to predict the top 10 American men, in order, at the end of each year. This season may be especially difficult, because John Isner no longer has a stranglehold on the No. 1 spot.
To the surprise of no one, John Isner and Jack Sock marched into the U.S. Open third round on Wednesday. The arrival of a third musketeer in the last 32 of the season's final Grand Slam, however, was entirely unexpected.
There was no passing of the torch in American men's tennis at the U.S. Open on Monday. But there certainly were some close calls.
The 2016 U.S. Open gets underway on Monday, and Rafael Nadal will be among those in action. A two-time champion in New York, Nadal will kick off his campaign against an opponent he has owned in the past--Denis Istomin.
The U.S. Open cannot be won or lost at the draw ceremony, but Andy Murray had to be considered an early winner at Friday’s proceedings in New York.
If there had been any doubts about Juan Martin Del Potro's U.S. Open status, his amazing run to the silver medal at the Rio Olympics erased all of it.
Taylor Fritz and Jared Donaldson helped carry the American torch on the opening day of main-draw action at the Citi Open, where the host nation produced mixed results.
Frances Tiafoe scored his biggest win of his professional career at the expense of a good friend on Thursday afternoon at the BNP Paribas Open. In a showdown between up-and-coming Americans, Tiafoe edged a red-hot Taylor Fritz 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 in one hour and 36 minutes.
The 2016 BNP Paribas Open men’s singles draw ceremony was held on Tuesday afternoon. Thanks to Roger Federer’s withdrawal because of a knee injury, Rafael Nadal bagged a top-four seed to avoid any chance of facing Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals.
Rising teenager Taylor Fritz has won his first match on home soil, defeating fellow American Memphis Open debutant Michael Mmoh 6-3, 6-4 to reach the second round on Tuesday.
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