Combining power and precision with a burgeoning confidence on the big stages, inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals champion Hyeon Chung is through to the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open for the first time. Experienced Czech 12th seed Tomas Berdych was the 21-year-old’s latest victim on Monday night. Unlike Chung’s previous match – in which he battled for nearly three hours to get past Dusan Lajovic – he cruised past Berdych 6-4, 6-4 in 83 minutes. It is his first victory in three FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings with the Czech and the first time he had even taken a set. Chung had already tasted hard-court success on a big stage this season after he became the first South Korean...
Kevin Anderson put on a serving clinic to edge past Argentine Nicolas Kicker into the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open on Monday. The South African seventh seed sent down 22 aces to his opponent’s one in the 7-6(1), 7-6(3) result. Anderson, the 2017 US Open runner-up, has twice reached the quarter-finals in the Californian desert (2013 and 2014). He will look to extend his perfect 3-0 FedEx ATP Head2Head record against last year’s Indian Wells semi-finalist, No. 11 seed Pablo Carreno Busta (l. Wawrinka). Watch Full Match Replays The South African defeated the Spaniard in last year’s US Open semi-finals. His defeat of Kicker, No. 94 in the ATP Rankings, ended an impressive Indian Wells debut for the...
Their dad may be the most successful tennis player of all time, but that’s no guarantee pocket money comes easy in Roger Federer’s household. With Dad off plying his trade at the BNP Paribas Open, the top-seeded Swiss revealed his four children had become the ultimate budding entrepreneurs with their very own Indian Wells pop-up venture – a lemonade stand. Federer shed light on his family’s home away from home in the desert to Tennis Channel’s Jim Courier and Justin Gimelstob. And it wasn’t all hotels and home-schooling. Hey @RogerFederer, where can we get a glass of that lemonade?! #FedererLemonade 🤣 pic.twitter.com/5kyYx6q5By — Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) March 13, 2018 “So we’ve rented a house since many years now. We like...
Taylor Fritz was inches away from losing in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open. If a whizzing inside-out forehand from best friend Reilly Opelka landed just marginally to the left, Fritz would have been out of the tournament in his opener. Instead, the #NextGenATP American survived. And after two more strong wins — the latest coming in the form of a nail-biting 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(1) victory on Monday evening against an in-form Fernando Verdasco — the 20-year-old is into the Round of 16 at an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event for the first time. "To pull out a match whenever it's close like that can go either way. You're nervous," Fritz admitted. "It just makes the feeling...
