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Oct 26, 2017

Best of ATP Stars 2017

Oct 26, 2017

Tsonga, Paire Make Sweet Treats In Vienna & Basel

Follow all the latest off-court action on MyATP! Download the app for iPhone or Android and visit MyATP.com. Swiss Indoors Basel – Basel, Switzerland Benoit Paire took some time off ahead of his second-round clash against Roger Federer at the Swiss Indoors Basel. The Frenchman visited the “Läckerli House” in Basel’s old town and prepared the famous cookie specialty. The Basler Läckerli is a traditional hard, spice biscuit made of honey, hazelnuts, almonds, candied peel and Kirsch. After a nice walk through the old town, Paire arrived at the shop and helped bake some Läckerli. “This is a very nice experience. The biscuits are very tasty and it was fun to prepare them. It’s not easy, almost more difficult than...

Oct 25, 2017

Delpo Boosts London Hopes In Basel Opener

Two-time champion Juan Martin del Potro won his fifth consecutive match on Wednesday at the Swiss Indoors Basel, beating Portugal's Joao Sousa 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. The Intrum Stockholm Open champion (d. Dimitrov) won 83 per cent of his first-serve points and saved both break points faced in the third set. “I think I dominated most of the match but in the second set I played worse than in the first and the third sets. He broke me at 4-all and then he closed the set. But in the end I started to play better as I did in the first one and I'm looking forward to playing better the whole match tomorrow,” del Potro said. “I need to improve my...

Oct 25, 2017

Shapovalov Shines In Vogue Alongside Karlie Kloss

A season full of highlights for Denis Shapovalov just keeps getting better. Reaching the Coupe Rogers semi-finals, the second week of the US Open, and breaking into the Top 50 of the Emirates ATP Rankings as a teenager have made Shapovalov a household name in the tennis world. Now the 18-year-old Canadian is getting attention in the fashion world after joining supermodel Karlie Kloss on the cover of the November issue of VOGUE. “I was really nervous heading there. I didn’t know what to expect from Karlie, I’ve never met a model that’s so famous before,” said Shapovalov of Kloss, who has more than 7 million followers on Instagram and has featured on 32 Vogue covers internationally. “But she was...

Oct 25, 2017

Tsonga Comes Back To Improve London Hopes

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga gave his Nitto ATP Finals hopes another jolt on Wednesday when he came back from a set down to beat Next Gen ATP Finals qualifier Karen Khachanov 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-3 at the Erste Bank Open 500 in Vienna. The Frenchman broke Khachanov to go ahead 5-4 in the second set and cruised in the decider, breaking the 20-year-old Russian twice to advance to the second round. Tsonga, 2016 Vienna finalist, is currently in 15th place in the Emirates ATP Race To London with 2,055 points, 595 points behind Pablo Carreno Busta, who currently holds the final qualification spot for the Nitto ATP Finals, to be held 12-19 November at The O2 in London. [ALSO LIKE] The 32-year-old Tsonga...