Before March, Oscar Otte had never won a singles match on the ATP Challenger Tour in six previous attempts. A victory over Edward Corrie at the Open Harmonie Mutuelle last month laid the foundations for a stunning run this week at the $125,000 event in Qingdao, China. Otte, currently No. 367 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, qualified for the main draw in Qingdao, and has since won three matches to the loss of just four games to advance into a maiden ATP Challenger Tour semi-final. He defeated local wild card Aoxiong Wang 6-1, 6-0, followed by a 6-1, 6-1 win over rising Australian teenager Alex De Minaur, before a 6-0, 6-1 victory over China's Di Wu. “I’ve managed to get...
Having managed to avoid a major injury in more than a decade of professional tennis, Matthew Ebden was rocked by a six-month absence from competitive tennis in 2016. Following surgery on a persistent knee injury, the Australian has rekindled his passion for the sport and is hauling himself back up through the Emirates ATP Rankings. Ebden reached a career-high No. 61 in singles in 2012, he won the 2013 Australian Open mixed doubles title, has six ATP Challenger Tour titles, and is a four-time winner in doubles on the ATP World Tour. However, the 29 year old began 2017 languishing at World No. 699. A quarter-final run at the Caterpillar Burnie International (l. Jasika) in January signalled his return to...
Romain Arneodo walked on court at his home tournament at the start of the week with just 54 dollars in prize money to his name for 2017. On Friday, he and doubles partner Hugo Nys ousted third seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 6-2, 6-7(3), 10-3 to reach the semi-finals of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, guaranteeing them to split at least 62,360 Euros. Prior to the start of the tournament, 24-year-old Monegasque Arneodo was ranked No. 851 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Rankings and had just three ATP World Tour doubles match wins to his name, which all came in Monte-Carlo. He reached the last eight in 2014 and the Round of 16 in 2014 (both times with compatriot Benjamin...
David Goffin recorded the biggest win of his career on Friday when he broke a 14-match losing streak against the Top 3 in the Emirates ATP Rankings with a hard-fought and high-quality 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 victory over Novak Djokovic at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. Tenth-seeded Belgian Goffin recovered from a 2-4 deficit in the deciding set and sealed victory on his fifth match point when second seed and two-time former champion Djokovic struck a backhand into the net. "I don't know why, but the atmosphere on the court was really nice. It was a really special match and the best win of my career,” said Goffin. “It doesn't matter how you played before against [Djokovic]. You just have to do...
Second seed Novak Djokovic loses his footing and crashes to the clay against David Goffin in the quarter-finals of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. Watch live matches at TennisTV.com
