Bosnian Damir Dzumhur came back from a set down against Belgian Steve Darcis 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 to kick off day one of the inaugural Gazprom Hungarian Open on Monday. Dzumhur will face second-seeded Croatian Ivo Karlovic in round two. Karlovic won their prior FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting in three sets in Vienna last year. [ALSO LIKE] Sixth seed Paolo Lorenzi advanced 6-4, 7-5 against Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan. Lorenzi won 74 per cent of his first-serve points and will meet Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky or German Florian Mayer in the second round. Seventh seed Viktor Troicki swept Russian Evgeny Donskoy, the only man to beat Roger Federer this year, 6-1, 6-2 in 53 minutes. The 31-year-old Serbian faces Serbian qualifier Laslo Djere,...
Clay Circuit Continues in Barcelona, Budapest: The second week of the European clay-court circuit continues with the fifth 500-level tournament of the season in Barcelona and the first ever ATP World Tour tournament in Budapest. World No. 1 Andy Murray took a wild card into Barcelona and is the top seed while Monte-Carlo semi-finalist Lucas Pouille is the top seed in Budapest. Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell (Barcelona): The Top 10 trio of World No. 1 Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem are the top seeds in the 48-player field at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona-1899, the oldest tennis club in Spain. This is the 65th edition of the tournament. Overall 11 of the Top 30 are in the...
Norbert Gombos was already eliminated in last week’s ATP Challenger Tour event in Brest, France, before main draw action even began. But with the help of a withdrawal, the Slovakian made an improbable run from Lucky Loser to tournament champion. When #NextGen star Quentin Halys was unable to take the court, the 26-year-old Gombos took his place in the draw and found his top form. He defeated fellow Slovakian and second seed Lukas Lacko in a third-set tie-break in the quarter-finals, then prevailed over Yannik Reuter of Belgium in the championship match to win the biggest Challenger title of his career. “I was disappointed I couldn’t make it into the main draw there after a good run in Asia, but...