Despite retiring seven years ago, Guillermo Coria is still in peak physical shape. Watching him walk, there’s little difference between the 34-year-old Coria today and the 18-year-old teenager who won four consecutives Challenger titles to make his debut inside the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings in November 2000. The former World No. 3 still vividly remembers winning the ATP Challenger Tour title that month in his hometown of Buenos Aires. Facing former World No. 8 Alberto Berasategui in the final, Coria delighted the local crowd by prevailing in a deciding set. He said the match, and in his time overall in Challengers, was pivotal in setting him up for the outstanding ATP World Tour career he went on...
Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo are the fifth team to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals following the completion of sign-in on-site at the If Stockholm Open, the European Open in Antwerp and the VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow. Buy Tickets The Croatian/Brazilian duo will return to The O2 for a fourth successive appearance. They have an 8-5 record at the year-end championships, finishing runners-up in 2014 (l. to Bryans) and reaching the semi-finals in 2013 (l. to Marrero/Verdasco) and 2015 (l. to Bopanna/Mergea). Dodig and Melo, who did not compete in Shanghai this week while Dodig played an ATP Challenger Tour singles event in Tashkent, have put together another stellar season and are fifth in the year-to-date...
First-time ATP World Tour Masters 1000 finalist Roberto Bautista Agut and two-time Shanghai Rolex Masters champion Andy Murray meet in Sunday’s championship match. This is the third meeting between the two and Murray owns a 2-0 record, winning at 2014 Wimbledon and 2015 Munich, both in straight sets. Both players have not dropped a set en route to the final. They each have been broken four times while each breaking opponents 17 times. The No. 15-seeded Bautista Agut is trying to become the first Spaniard to win the title in the tournament’s eight year history. Nadal was runner-up in 2009 and Ferrer in 2011. Murray, who won titles in 2010-11, is making his fourth Shanghai final appearance (2-1). He is attempting...
The season-ending European indoor swing is here and the Emirates ATP Race To London has entered the home stretch. The final ATP World Tour 250 events of the year will be held next week at the VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow, inaugural European Open in Antwerp and If Stockholm Open. Contenders are jockeying for positions to secure the three remaining berths at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, with four players sitting within 1,000 points of Dominic Thiem and the coveted eighth spot. In position to make his debut at The O2 from 13-20 November, Gael Monfils currently occupies the sixth spot with 3,625 points. The Frenchman will be looking to separate himself from the pack as the top seed...
The gap is narrowing. Andy Murray is hot on Novak Djokovic's tail in pursuit of year-end No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. For four of the past five years, the Serbian has sat atop the tennis world come November, but following a semi-final defeat to Roberto Bautista Agut at the Shanghai Rolex Masters, his continued reign is not guaranteed. Despite suffering just his second loss at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event since 2010, Djokovic is optimistic for a strong finish to the season, which will culminate with a title defence at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. "It's not over yet," said Djokovic. "There are a couple of big tournaments still along the way in Paris and...