#NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov doesn't want to leave the Delray Beach Open and its hundreds of Canadian tennis fans just yet. The 18-year-old left-hander advanced to his first quarter-final of the season on Thursday, beating 21-year-old Jared Donaldson 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-4 in two hours and 25 minutes. Shapovalov, the youngest player in the draw, has toughed his way through two tricky matches in Delray Beach. The Canadian prevailed past the big-serving Ivo Karlovic in his opener. “I definitely picked up my serve in the second and third set... It was a really even match. We were both playing extremely well,” Shapovalov said. “I've been in this position before. Last year I was coming up with a lot of 'W's in...
It was a case of the stuck ball. At 7-5, 4-0, Stefan Kozlov and Taylor Fritz were trying to rally their way into their first-round match against Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan at the Delray Beach Open.
Then the ball became stuck. Kozlov had tried to hit the ball back to the Bryans but the ball wedged itself perfectly into the neck of his racquet.
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Instead of getting upset, though, Kozlov had to laugh. He tossed his racquet to Mike Bryan, who tried to loosen the trapped ball and then threw the racquet back before play continued.
The Bryan brothers, four-time Delray Beach Open champions (2009, 2010, 2014, 2015), will next meet compatriots Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow.
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Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, top seeds at Delray Beach Open, advanced past #NextGenATP stars Taylor Fritz and Stefan Kozlov, 7-5, 6-0 on Wednesday. The four-time champions needed one hour, two minutes to book their place in the quarter-finals, where they'll face fellow Americans Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow. In other action, top seeds Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus reached the Open 13 Provence semi-finals after a 6-3, 6-3 win over Florin Mergea and Daniel Nestor. Klaasen and Venus reached their second semi-final of the season (Auckland) with great composure, saving all six break points they faced in the 57-minute contest. Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin needed a Match tie-break to join Klaasen and Venus in the final four. The...
