Lucas Pouille reached his third final in four ATP World Tour tournaments with victory on a wet Friday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. The in-form Frenchman, who is now 11-2 since an Australian Open first-round exit (l. to Bemelmans) in January, hit 16 aces to knock out seventh-seeded Serbian Filip Krajinovic 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-6(4) in two hours and 19 minutes. The 24-year-old Pouille now has an opportunity to break into the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings (at No. 10) for the first time. He is currently two spots off his career-high of No. 13 in the ATP Rankings (8 May 2017). Last month, he captured the Open Sud de France title (d. Gasquet) and five days ago...
Second seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau are within one victory of retaining the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title after they defeated third seeds Ivan Dodig and Rajeev Ram 7-5, 6-3 in a rain-interrupted one hour and 46 minutes on Friday. The Dutch-Romanian team has a 16-4 record in finals, including a 5-1 mark in ATP World Tour 500 title matches, and will next face Leander Paes and Jamie Cerretani in Saturday's final. The Indian/American wild card duo defeated Damir Dzumhur and Filip Krajinovic to advance to the final. Paes is just one match win away from 750 victories. Did You Know? If Paes wins the Dubai title this week, he will own 55 tour-level trophies with 15 different partners....
American NextGenATP trio Taylor Fritz, Stefan Kozlov and Reilly Opelka visited the Living Desert Zoo during the ATP Challenger Tour event in Indian Wells.
Watch highlights as Lucas Pouille defeats seventh seed Filip Krajinovic to earn a spot in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships final, in which a victory against third seed Roberto Bautista will earn him a spot in the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings. Photo Credit: Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Canadian Vasek Pospisil, the former World No. 25, is four years removed from achieving his career-high in the ATP Rankings. But the 27-year-old is well on his way to returning to his top form, finding great success on the ATP Challenger Tour in 2018. Pospisil entered this week's Oracle Challenger Series Indian Wells on the heels of impressive runs on the Challenger circuit, winning the Open de Rennes in France and the Hungarian Challenger Open in Budapest to move back inside the Top 100 of the ATP Rankings. He enters Friday's quarter-final encounter with American Christian Harrison with a perfect 12-0 Challenger record this year. “I feel great. I've had a great start of the year. Couldn't be better, to...
