Second seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas and third seed Pablo Cuevas will complete their rain-delayed Brasil Open final on Monday, with play scheduled to resume at 12:00pm local time in Sao Paulo. The heavens opened as Ramos-Vinolas led the two-time defending champion 7-6(3), 3-3. Both players traded service holds throughout the opening set, but the Spaniard ran away with the tie-break as Cuevas’ steady baseline game betrayed him. The Uruguayan hit four consecutive errors to give Ramos-Vinolas a 6/2 lead and a forehand error from Cuevas on set point gave the Spaniard a commanding advantage. Perhaps aided by a brief rain delay just one point into the second set, the defending champion regrouped by racing to a 3-1 lead, but Ramos-Vinolas fought...
Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas’s hot form on clay is gathering steam with the second seed at the Brasil Open advancing to his fourth straight quarter-final on South American soil on Wednesday. The 29-year-old lefty took down Portugal’s Gastao Elias 6-4, 7-6(5) to book his place in the last eight. The win comes on the back of a semi-final run at the Ecuador Open three weeks ago, a quarter-final at the Argentina Open two weeks ago and a semi-final finish at the Rio Open last week. The result extended the Spaniard’s FedEx ATP Head2Head record against Elias to 2-0, having defeated him in three sets in Sao Paolo three years ago. Ramos-Vinolas – a semi-finalist at Sao Paulo five years ago (l....
Second seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas came out on top in an all-Spanish battle on Friday against qualifier Roberto Carballes Baena, prevailing 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 to move into the semi-finals of the Ecuador Open in Quito. Little separated the two players for most of the match, but Ramos-Vinolas relied on his outstanding stamina to power through the final four games and advance in two hours and 54 minutes. He has now matched his semi-final result from last year in Quito (l. Estrella Burgos). Next up for Ramos-Vinolas is third seed Paolo Lorenzi, who continued his outstanding form by cruising past Rajeev Ram 6-3, 6-4 and matching his semi-final result from last year in Quito. The Italian, who has yet to drop serve...
The question has Albert Ramos-Vinolas stumped. Why, nine years after turned professional, is the 28 year old suddenly playing his best tennis? He didn't switch coaches – Ramos-Vinolas, like Rafael Nadal, still works with his boyhood coach. Ramos-Vinolas didn't drastically change his style of tennis, either. But there's no question his tennis has improved. In 2016, Ramos-Vinolas won his first title at the SkiStar Swedish Open in Bastad. The left-hander also reached his first hard-court final at the Chengdu Open and hiked to a career-high No. 26 in the Emirates ATP Rankings in October. “I don't know why this year I had the better results. I cannot tell you one thing,” Ramos-Vinolas told ATPWorldTour.com last season. “Maybe experience but I...
Albert Ramos-Vinolas – Bastad [Ramos-Vinolas Spotlight] Competing in his first clay court event since reaching his first Grand Slam quarter-final two months earlier at Roland Garros, Ramos-Violas once again showed off his red-clay prowess by capturing his first ATP World Tour title in July in Bastad. After defeating fellow Spaniard David Ferrer for the first time in seven tries in his semi-final win, Ramos-Vinolas prevailed in another all-Spanish encounter by defeating Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 6-4 in the championship match. The win also enabled him to snap a three-match losing streak against Verdasco. “I cannot be more happy after a long time waiting. I have been working very hard,” said Ramos-Vinolas. “Everybody wants to win or dreams of winning a title....
