Before the end of last year, Poland's Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo of Brazil had played together only two times. But those two weeks in Vienna and the results they produced – two Erste Bank Open 500 titles and an 8-0 record – had convinced the pairing that they might have a future successful partnership between them. They acted on those ideas this year, joining forces in January, and the results have been almost as perfect. During their first seven months as a team, Kubot and Melo posted a 36-10 record and captured five tour-level titles, including Wimbledon, Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Ricoh Open in 's-Hertogenbosch and two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crowns – the Mutua Madrid Open...
Sam Querrey reveals how doing chores around the house helps keep his mind fresh at home and also talks about the funny guys in the locker room in this ATP Player Profile delivered by FedEx.
Four more points is all you need. You have put yourself into position to win the match, and now you need to serve it out. The Top 10 players in the world are clutch in situations just like this but none of them are perfect on serve with the match on the line. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of the Top 10 (on 31 July) reveals that, since the start of the 2015 season, they have combined to hold serve just under 90 per cent of the time when serving out a match. They are performing slightly better in the 2017 season, but nobody has held every single time they have had the opportunity to seal the match....
View FedEx ATP Head2Head for Day 2 of the Coupe Rogers & vote for who you think will win! Thiem vs. Schwartzman | Lopez vs. Chung | Anderson vs. Sela [GROUP POLL]57[/GROUP POLL] View Tuesday Schedule 1) World No. 7 Dominic Thiem of Austria, American No. 1 Jack Sock and four-time quarter-finalist Tomas Berdych headline play on Court Central Tuesday at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal. 2) Thiem, seeking his first win here in four tries (2014, l. to Simon, R64; 2015, l. to Gulbis, R64; 2016, l. to Anderson, R32), vies for his 40th match win of the year when he meets Diego Schwartzman of Argentina for a berth in the R16. The No. 3 seed from Austria began his summer hard-court campaign by...
Jack Sock pulls off an impressive behind-the-back volley against Pierre-Hugues Herbert at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal. Watch live matches at tennistv.com. Photo: Getty Images
