I get asked all the time what day-to-day life is like as a player, what I do to prepare for events and what I eat. So now I'm going to answer all those questions that my friends, my fans and journalists have about a regular day on the ATP World Tour. For some background, I'm getting ready to make my eighth consecutive main draw appearance at Roland Garros. My opening round match is just a few days away. (No. 31 seed Ramos-Vinolas faces Mikhail Kukushkin on Monday). 6:30 am: My day begins. I get up and prepare a breakfast with gluten-free products. I'm not a Coeliac (a person with an autoimmune condition that affects the small intestine and must avoid...
Top seed and 2012 finalist Albert Ramos-Vinolas lost just two of his first-service points (20/22) to beat Moroccan wild card Amine Ahouda 6-1, 6-2 in 68 minutes on Tuesday at the Grand Prix Hassan II. Ramos-Vinolas, who has a 1-5 record in ATP World Tour finals, is 112-95 lifetime in clay-court matches according to the FedEx ATP Reliability Index (166-186 overall). "I'm happy with my match today," said Ramos-Vinolas. "I haven't a played a tournament for a month and it feels great to be back. I'm looking forward to the clay court swing and playing a lot of tournaments." He will next play Russian qualifier Alexey Vatutin, who recorded his first tour-level match win in beating Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany...
A year ago this week, Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas was on the doorstep of a second ATP World Tour title. The left-hander led by a set in the final of the Brasil Open before falling just short against Pablo Cuevas. But the 30-year-old is back in Sao Paulo and into another championship charge, beating Brazilian qualifier Guilherme Clezar 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday to advance to his second quarter-final of the season. “I’m happy. I’ve been working a lot on my serve and I didn’t have the results yet,” said Ramos-Vinolas, who hit 14 aces and lost just three points on his first serve. "So today I think is the first day in the season that I can say that I served...
Albert Ramos-Vinolas discusses his three-set win in the first round of the Rio Open presented by Claro, in which he overcame home favourite Rogerio Dutra Silva. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
It will be an all-Spanish final at the Ecuador Open in Quito, with Albert Ramos-Vinolas prevailing over Thiago Monteiro and Roberto Carballes Baena defeating Andrej Martin in their respective semi-finals. No.2 seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas will play for his second ATP World Tour title following a tight 6-4, 6-7(4) 6-4 victory over Monteiro. Ramos-Vinolas’ serve remained unbroken in the high-altitude conditions and he out-maneuvered his tenacious Brazilian opponent in the second semi-final of the day. The all-lefty affair went largely to script in the first set with the higher-ranked Ramos-Vinolas squeezing out the set with a last-minute break. Monteiro, who was playing in his first semi-final at the tour level, kept the encounter close in the second set and capitalised on...
