As a former junior World No. 1 and going on to stand on the cusp of the Top 30 at age 18, the hype surrounding Borna Coric is to be expected. That career-high in the ATP Rankings, though, was July 2015. His transition since, has hit more than its share of hurdles. But a complete change-up in his team and a realigned attitude to improvement has the 2017 Next Gen ATP Finals qualifier making inroads once more. In six sets played in the desert at the BNP Paribas Open, the Croatian has dropped just nine games, fewer than any player in the top half of the draw. For the second match in succession the 21-year-old trounced a seeded Spaniard –...
Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez knocked out sixth seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau 6-4, 7-6(5) in one hour and 41 minutes on Monday at the BNP Paribas Open. At 5-6 in the second set, Lopez and Lopez saved three match points in recovering from 15/40 before edging a tight tie-break. Rojer, who has 349 match wins, and Tecau won the recent Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title (d. Cerretani/Paes). The Spaniards will now face Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic, who recorded their 20th match win of the season. The third seeds defeated Fabio Fognini and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi 7-5, 6-2 in 75 minutes. From 5-5 in the first set, the duo won five of the next six games. The Austrian-Croatian...
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