Watch highlights as Joao Sousa becomes the first Portuguese player to win an ATP World Tour title on home soil at the Millennium Estoril Open. Photo and video courtesy of the Millennium Estoril Open.
The all-British team of Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie continued their run of form on Saturday, as they navigated past Leonardo Mayer and home-favourite Joao Sousa 6-2, 7-6(4) at the Millennium Estoril Open. Edmund had faced Sousa just a day earlier in singles, with the Portuguese emerging victorious in three sets. But it was Edmund who came out on top in doubles with Norrie, with both reaching their first tour-level doubles final. In the first semi-final of the day, Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak beat Jonathan Eysseric and Joe Salisbury, 7-5, 6-3. The Dutch-Kiwi duo was unbroken throughout the match and converted both break points on Eysseric/Salisbury’s serve to claim victory in one hour, 11 minutes. Dodig/Ram Blitz Germans At...
Watch highlights as #NextGenATP Frances Tiafoe eliminates defending champion Pablo Carreno Busta to make his second ATP World Tour final, in which he will face home favourite Joao Sousa for the Millennium Estoril Open trophy. Photo and video courtesy of the Millennium Estoril Open.
#NextGenATP American Frances Tiafoe saved three match points in his first-round victory over countryman Tennys Sandgren at the Millennium Estoril Open on Monday. Five days later, the 20-year-old stunned defending champion Pablo Carreno Busta 6-2, 6-3 to reach his second ATP World Tour final. Tiafoe, who won his maiden ATP World Tour title at the Delray Beach Open in February (d. Gojowczyk), won 77 per cent of first-serve points to reach his first tour-level final on clay after just 74 minutes. Carreno Busta was appearing in his third tour-level semi-final of the season, and second in as many weeks, after also reaching the final four at the Miami Open presented by Itaú (l. to Zverev) and the Barcelona Open Banc...
Japan’s Taro Daniel shocked the tennis world at Indian Wells when he ousted Novak Djokovic in the second round. And now, two months later, he is into his maiden ATP World Tour final. Daniel defeated Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 on Saturday at the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open in a gritty two-hour, 33-minute encounter that saw a combined 10 breaks of serve. Daniel got off to an emphatic start to the match, claiming the first set with two breaks of the Chardy serve, which wavered under the constant pressure of Daniel’s returning prowess. The second set was a different story, as Chardy upped his level and began dictating with his heavy forehand groundstrokes to even the contest at...
