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Tsitsipas Voted #NextGenATP Shining Shot In Q1

The votes have been counted and you chose Stefanos Tsitsipas’ incredible dive volley at the Rennes Challenger as the #NextGenATP Shining Shot of the first quarter of the 2017 ATP World Tour season. Tsitsipas’ hot shot won with 35 per cent of the vote cast over a five-day period. View Complete Results For #NextGenATP Shining Shot Casper Ruud came a close second, with his perseverance on the clay of Rio de Janeiro earning him 34 per cent of the vote. Borna Coric received 20 per cent of the vote after demonstrating his great agility in Rotterdam, while Stefan Kozlov (six per cent) and Alexander Bublik (five per cent) rounded out the voting. Follow the Next Gen ATP Finals on Facebook,...

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Vote For Match-Ups In Monte-Carlo Monday Preview

View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following match-ups & vote for the players you think will win! Zverev vs Seppi  |  Carreno Busta vs Fognini  |  Berdych vs Kuznetsov [GROUP POLL]31[/GROUP POLL] View Monday schedule. [ALSO LIKE] DAY 2 PREVIEW: No. 9 seed and 2015 finalist Tomas Berdych is among the six seeds in first-round action on Monday at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. Other seeds on the schedule are: No. 12 Roberto Bautista Agut, No. 13 Pablo Carreno Busta, No. 14 #NextGenATP star Alexander Zverev, No. 15 Albert Ramos-Vinolas and No. 16 Pablo Cuevas. Leading off  on Court Rainier III is Serbian No. 2 Viktor Troicki, who brings a 3-0 FedEx ATP Head2Head record (all on hard courts) against Cuevas....

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Coric Breaks New Ground, Mover Of The Week

#NextGenATP player Borna Coric has risen 30 places to return to the Top 50 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. The 20 year old clinched his first ATP World Tour title on Sunday at the Grand Prix Hassan II following a remarkable final in Marrakech against third seed Philipp Kohlschreiber. Coric, now ranked at World No. 49, stormed back from a break down in both the second and third sets, before staving off five championship points in the 5-7, 7-6(3), 7-5 triumph. Coric now stands second in the Emirates ATP Race To Milan and is a strong contender to qualify for the inaugural #NextGenATP Finals in November. Read Marrakech Final Report. Steve Johnson has moved up four places to No. 25 in the...

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Fourteen Years Later, Nadal Reflects On Monte-Carlo Debut

It has been 14 years since Rafael Nadal first set foot on the hallowed grounds of the Monte-Carlo Country Club.  A precocious 16 year old with immense promise, Nadal would notch his first Top 10 win over countryman Albert Costa in 2003, before falling to Guillermo Coria in the third round, but that was just the beginning of a reign that sent shockwaves throughout the ATP World Tour for years to come. The Spaniard would return to the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters two years later and proceeded to exact revenge on Coria in the final - his first of eight consecutive titles in the Principality. Nadal has fond memories from his tenure at the prestigious Masters 1000 event. "Everything was new...

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