Lucky fans at the Delray Beach Open had some wine and match tickets delivered in person by the likes of the Bryan Brothers, Kyle Edmund and Guillermo Garcia Lopez. Video courtesy Delray Beach Open.
Milos Raonic overcame #NextGenATP threat Borna Coric and a rain-delayed start to reach the Delray Beach Open quarter-finals on Wednesday night. The top-seeded Canadian held off the Croatian 6-3, 7-6(2) to book a showdown with eighth seed Kyle Edmund. Raonic was typically efficient on serve. He sent down 12 aces and won 89 per cent of his first-serve points in the one-hour, 34-minute match. His only wobble came when leading a set and a break up at 1-0 in the second, where he was broken back to love. “He tried to be a bit more aggressive, I got that early break and I had a lop-sided game with a couple of doubles [faults], couple of mistakes, that I’d be disappointed...
It's almost as if Borna Coric has hit the reset button on his young career to start the 2017 ATP World Tour season. The 20-year-old Croatian is working with a new coach. He has changed racquet brands. The right-hander has his health back as well, following surgery on his right knee late last season. It should all add up to an improved year for the Zagreb native, who had to cut short his 2016 campaign because of the knee surgery in early September. Physicians removed two small pieces of bone that had broken off and lodged inside a tendon in his right knee, Coric said. He sat out from tennis for about two months, taking the court again on 10...
Tommy Haas didn't miss that feeling. The 38 year old, who's embarking on his final comeback, led Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili by a set and a break during their first-round match at the Delray Beach Open on Tuesday. But then Haas' lack of recent match experience struck. Leading 4-3 in the second set, Haas was broken and fell in the 18-point tie-break. Basilashvili cruised in the decider, breaking twice to move into the second round 6-7(4), 7-6(8), 6-2 and end Haas' run in south Florida. “Overall it was good,” Haas said. “It just sucks when you're that close to possibly winning a match and you don't win. I haven't had that feeling in a long time... and it's not a good...
Juan Martin del Potro made a tentative, but ultimately successful, 2017 ATP World Tour debut Tuesday night at the Delray Beach Open, posting a 6-4, 6-4 win over Kevin Anderson. In a battle of the former Delray Beach champions, del Potro hit cautiously off his backhand wing and survived a tumble in the first set that left him with a grazed right knee. The former US Open champion, who has endured three left wrist surgeries (in addition to 2010 surgery on his right wrist), struggled to generate pace on his backhand and mixed in a number of one-handed slices. When Anderson approached the net, del Potro elected to either lob or stretch the South African with well-placed, medium-paced backhands. But...
