Pablo Carreno Busta and Rafael Nadal reached the China Open semi-finals as they defeated local wild cards Mao-Xin Gong and Ze Zhang 7-5, 6-3 on Wednesday in Beijing. Carreno Busta is looking to reach his second ATP World Tour doubles final in as many weeks after finishing runner-up in Chengdu on Sunday (w/ Fyrstenberg). The 25 year old also made the US Open final last month (w/ Garcia-Lopez). Nadal, meanwhile, is chasing his second doubles triumph of the season after winning the gold medal with Marc Lopez at the Rio Olympics. Top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan survived a marathon opening round over Roberto Bautista Agut and David Ferrer, 6-1, 3-6, 16-14. They saved two match points at 10/11...
#NextGen star Kyle Edmund reached his third ATP World Tour quarter-final on Wednesday at the China Open as he ousted seventh seed Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in two hours and 11 minutes. The 21-year-old Briton has enjoyed a breakthrough season, with quarter-finals in Doha and The Queen’s Club before beating Richard Gasquet and John Isner en route to the US Open fourth round (l. to Djokovic). Edmund will face top seed Andy Murray in an all-British quarter-final clash. Watch Edmund Uncovered Fifth seed David Ferrer is also through to the quarter-finals after dismissing Fabio Fognini 6-3, 6-4. The Spaniard, who finished runner-up at this ATP World Tour 500 hard-court tournament in 2010 (l. to Djokovic), is bidding to...
#NextGen star Alexander Zverev continued his outstanding 2016 season with an opening round win on Tuesday at the China Open over fourth seed Dominic Thiem, pushing him closer to finishing the year inside the Top 20 of the Emirates ATP Rankings. The 19 year old German rallied from a set down to defeat World No. 10 Thiem 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, extending his ATP World Tour win streak to six matches. He also improved his FedEx ATP Head2Head rivalry against Thiem to 1-3. All three losses against the Austrian came this year on clay courts. Zverev won the final four games of the match to secure his place in the second round. He applied pressure on Thiem’s serve throughout the contest...