ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot takes you behind the scenes at the ATP Basketball Challenge, in which Marin Cilic, Grigor Dimitrov, Novak Djokovic, David Ferrer, Jack Sock and Alexander Zverev tackle a new sport in an intense competition.
Roger Federer, the 97-time tour-level titlist who has spent a record 308 weeks atop the ATP Rankings during his illustrious career, was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People on Thursday. Out of the 100 selectees, just six people were chosen to be photographed for a TIME cover. The 36-year-old Swiss got the call along with activist Tarana Burke, comedian Tiffany Haddish, actress Nicole Kidman, singer Jennifer Lopez and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, wrote about Federer's success on and off the court for TIME: It’s no secret that Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player ever. As David Foster Wallace wrote, he is “one of those rare, preternatural athletes who appear to be exempt, at least...
Alexander Zverev won a battle of German giants on Thursday for a place in his first Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters quarter-final. In a match of power tennis that featured 15 service breaks, 6’6” Zverev overcame his 6’5” compatriot, Jan-Lennard Struff, in a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win over two hours and three minutes. “I think I was hitting the ball pretty well, but we couldn’t hold onto our serves,” said Zverev post-match. On Friday, his 21st birthday, Zverev will play 2005 semi-finalist Richard Gasquet, who today became the first Frenchman in the Open Era to record 500 tour-level match wins. “To be in the quarter-finals of an [ATP World Tour] Masters 1000, you have to play well and the draw doesn’t get...
David Goffin was made to work hard on Thursday to beat Roberto Bautista Agut at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters for a place in the quarter-finals for the second consecutive year. The sixth-seeded Belgian found a way to beat fellow baseliner, No. 11 seed Bautista Agut, 6-4, 7-5 in one hour and 42 minutes on Court Des Princes, the second show court at the Monte-Carlo Country Club. “In the second set there were big points that hurt me physically, but I was able to win them,” said Goffin. “He always fights until the last point. He gives away no points. You have to fight for each point. At 5-5, I was able to turn it up a notch for me to...
Dominic Thiem discusses his exciting third-round victory against two-time Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters champion Novak Djokovic on Thursday. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
