Former World No. 7 Fernando Verdasco battled to a confidence-boosting win on Wednesday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, edging fellow Spaniard and sixth seed Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals. Since reaching the semi-finals in the first week of the season at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha (l. to Djokovic after holding five match points), the left-hander had won just one match in three tournaments. But he toughed out victory over Bautista Agut in two hours and 26 minutes, breaking in the final game to seal the win. "With him, until the last point you have to have unbelievable focus and fight every point," said Verdasco. "That's what I did, and I'm very...
Feliciano Lopez views Acapulco from the air and also watches divers jump off a 136-foot cliff, while Marin Cilic takes a trip on a jet ski for the first time. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Juan Martin del Potro wins the match, but there is a great moment of sportsmanship with Frances Tiafoe on Tuesday at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel. Watch what happened... Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Photo: Abierto Mexicano
Seven-time champion Roger Federer finds the line with this backhand winner at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships during his thrilling match against Evgeny Donskoy. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Juan Martin del Potro has set a blockbuster second-round clash with top seed Novak Djokovic at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel on Tuesday night. The Argentine, playing just his second event of 2017, narrowly held off the free-swinging Frances Tiafoe 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(1) to claim his opening match in Acapulco. The 19-year-old #NextGenATP player Tiafoe grew up idolising del Potro and went close to toppling the former World No. 4 in the Emirates ATP Rankings in the two-hour, 33-minute affair. It was del Potro, a semi-finalist last week at the Delray Beach Open, who started stronger when he broke for 5-4 in the opening set. The Argentine brought up three set points on a return error from the American qualifier’s racquet. Tiafoe...
