Too many cooks in the kitchen? Not when the ATP World Tour stars in Vienna for the Erste Bank Open 500 swapped their tennis gear for chef hats and aprons as they learned to make the perfect Wiener Schnitzel. David Ferrer, Feliciano Lopez, Lucas Pouille, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Philipp Kohlschreiber, Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan took their places behind the stovetops in an exclusive cooking class at the Plachuttas Gasthaus Zur Oper. The pros donned their personalised aprons and hats and each took on a particular role in making the schnitzel: slicing the veal in a rainbow cut, pounding the meat, covering it in flour and seasoning, dipping it in beaten eggs and bread crumbs, then finally deep frying and serving...
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan broke serve four times to top Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nenad Zimonjic 6-4, 7-5 in the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Thursday. The No. 2 seeds will next face countrymen John Isner and Jack Sock, who took out Spain’s Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez. The Bryans, who have 112 team titles, are two wins away from becoming the first doubles team to reach 1,000 match wins. Bryan/Bryan raced to a 3-0 lead in the opening set before Tsonga/Zimonjic broke back in the seventh game. Serving to stay in the set at 4-5, the French/Serbian duo saved three set points before dropping the winner-takes-all deuce point. In the second set, the Bryans failed to serve...
Watch highlights of Bob and Mike Bryan's victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nenad Zimonjic at the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Thursday. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Getty Images photo.
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan advanced to the quarter-finals with clutch serving on Wednesday at the Shanghai Rolex Masters. The Americans saved four of five break points and won 74 per cent of their service points in the 6-1, 7-6(3) victory against Marcin Matkowski and Jean-Julien Rojer. The 38-year-old twins, who won the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in 2014, will meet Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nenad Zimonjic in the quarter-finals. The Frenchman/Serbian pairing denied fifth seeds Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram 6-4, 6-2 in 61 minutes. Before Wednesday's matches, Klaasen/Ram were in sixth place in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London. The South African/American duo has never qualified for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, to be held...
