David Goffin narrowly avoided joining comeback king Juan Martin del Potro’s list of early-round seeded casualties in 2016. The Belgian 11th seed looked on his way to packing his bags after he trailed a set and 2-0 against the wild card Argentine before he turned his fortunes around in a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 result on Tuesday at the Shanghai Rolex Masters. Having lost the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2016 final in three sets to Nick Kyrgios on Sunday, the Belgian took time to work his way into his opening match in China. After he broke to level at 2-2 in the second set, Goffin reeled off eight of the next 12 games to hold a 4-2 lead in the...
Get ready for Marin Cilic's clash with Next Generation star Sascha Zverev in the Shanghai Rolex Masters second round Tuesday. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Photo: Getty Images
In this Shanghai Classic Moment, Novak Djokovic successfully defends his Masters 1000 title as he edges Juan Martin del Potro 6-1, 3-6, 7-6(3) in a two-hour, 33-minute battle. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
There are so many firsts for you here, but more importantly for me, this is the first time in your career that you’ve had four straight-sets win. What does that say about your focus this week? Finally, I’m not having to squeak matches out like I have been. Like I said in Cary, I still wasn’t fully there mentally. I really buckled down this week after seeing my friend Darian King win the title in Tiburon, thinking I really could have won that. That got me locked in here and I was very business-like this week. This was a really good mental week for me. I dug in deep and took it to all my opponents. What does reaching the...