Watch highlights as Pablo Andujar becomes the most successful player in Grand Prix Hassan II history by defeating Kyle Edmund to win his third title at the event. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Photo: Ouarrak Abdessamiaa.
Not every match goes according to plan for the ATP World Tour’s best. And when it doesn’t, you will not be surprised to find out which players rise to the occasion and find a way to win regardless. According to the FedEx ATP Performance Zone, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray, four players who have reached the top spot of the ATP Rankings, lead active players in the rate of matches won after losing the first set. Kei Nishikori, who has climbed as high as World No. 4, is fifth on the list. The common misconception is that the best do not face adversity. Take Federer, for example — the Swiss went 92-5 in a historic 2006...
Mexico City is a metropolis rich in sporting culture. And now, the city’s tennis history has witnessed another chapter written with the arrival of the CDMX Open, a $100,000 ATP Challenger Tour event. If you ask the players and fans, the inaugural edition was a fiesta of success. Organised by the same group that runs the popular ATP World Tour 500 event in Acapulco and sharing the same tournament director, Raul Zurutuza, the tournament received rave reviews from all those competing and those taking in the action at the Centro Deportivo Chapultepec. The singles championship saw qualifier Juan Ignacio Londero claim the trophy, defeating Roberto Quiroz, 6-1, 6-3 in the final. The title was Londero’s first-ever ATP Challenger Tour crown, and...
A LOOK BACK Santaizi Challenger (Taipei City, Taiwan): If there was any doubt that Yuki Bhambri is fully fit and ready to charge up the ATP Rankings, the 25-year-old made an emphatic statement this week in Taipei. The fourth-seeded Indian blasted to the title at the $150,000 ATP Challenger Tour event, defeating countryman Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday. Bhambri celebrated a return to the Top 100 of the ATP Rankings for the first time in two years, marching to a career-high No. 83. Having fallen outside the Top 500 following an elbow injury, he is back with a vengeance, claiming his second Challenger crown in five months. He has also qualified for the Australian Open and ATP World Tour...
Steve Johnson should celebrate his wedding with an extra-wide grin next weekend. The 28-year-old American retained his Houston title during an emotional final on Sunday, beating compatriot Tennys Sandgren 7-6(2), 2-6, 6-4 at the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship. Johnson became the first American to go back-to-back in Houston since Andy Roddick in 2001-02. The California native had to go through his compatriots to pull it off. He beat five Americans – Ernesto Escobedo, Frances Tiafoe, John Isner, Taylor Fritz and Sandgren – to hoist his third ATP World Tour title (2017 Houston, 2016 Nottingham). “It means a lot [to win] here. This is one of the best tournaments of the year. You get the atmosphere...
