It has been a long and winding road for Ante Pavic throughout his eight-year career. But as arduous as the journey has been for the 28 year old, victory never tasted so sweet. Pavic stood in the winners' circle for the first time on the ATP Challenger Tour on Sunday, lifting the trophy in Columbus, Ohio. It came in dramatic fashion, as the Croatian stormed back from a set and a break down to defeat Alexander Ward 6-7(11), 6-4, 6-3. "It was a really good feeling,” Pavic told ATPWorldtour.com. “I've had good results, winning a round at Wimbledon and some matches in ATP events, but I never won a Challenger. It was a great feeling and I was just relieved." After...
40/30 seems like a very competitive point score, with the returner already capturing two points and being just three points from breaking serve. But don’t be fooled: It’s still one-way traffic for the server. Even though the returner has won 40 per cent (two of five) of the points played so far in the game, his chance of breaking serve is still less than 10 per cent. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of the current Top 10 players in the Emirates ATP Rankings shows that, since the start of the 2015 season, they have held serve from 40/30 92.7 per cent (6331/6826) of the time. The player who has been the toughest to break when leading 40/30 on...
#NextGenATP American Jared Donaldson battled into the quarter-finals of the Chengdu Open as he edged Kyle Edmund 6-0, 1-6, 6-4 on Wednesday at the ATP World Tour 250 tournament. It is an important win for the 20-year-old Donaldson, who is currently sixth in the Emirates ATP Race To Milan, as he bids to qualify for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals. Just five weeks remain in the battle to qualify for the eight-player event. Donaldson defeated Edmund for the second time this year, breaking the Briton in the final game of the match to convert his third match point after one hour and 39 minutes. The right-hander also came through a tight first-round encounter, beating Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-5 in the...
Watch as NextGenATP players Jared Donaldson, Karen Khachanov and Taylor Fritz visit the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding during the 2017 Chengdu Open. Video and photo courtesy Chengdu Open.
Zhizhen Zhang began his week with one career ATP World Tour victory. But after the 20 year old’s stunning 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4) upset over fourth-seeded Paolo Lorenzi, the Chinese qualifier is into his first tour-level quarter-final at the Shenzhen Open. "I feel very excited," Zhang said. "I just wished tonight I can survive and I will be ready for the next one." Zhang was up 3-1 in the deciding set when he lost three games in a row, and then faced two break points, which would have allowed the No. 2 Italian to serve for the match. But once Zhang was able to hold, both players managed their service games well until the tie-break. Under the greatest pressure of his...
