World No. 1 Andy Murray surged into the quarter-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Wednesday as he defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2, 6-0. Murray raced through in just 73 minutes, surrendering just eight points on serve and converting five of his nine break points. From 4-2 in the first set, he reeled off eight straight games to beat the Spaniard for the third time in four meetings. “It was way better than how I played at the beginning of the year, that's for sure,” stated Murray. “Playing aggressive, feeling more solid, when I'm in position to dictate the points, I'm doing it, moving forward. Watch Full Match Replays “I hit my forehand very well in the last couple...
Former World No. 7 Fernando Verdasco battled to a confidence-boosting win on Wednesday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, edging fellow Spaniard and sixth seed Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals. Since reaching the semi-finals in the first week of the season at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha (l. to Djokovic after holding five match points), the left-hander had won just one match in three tournaments. But he toughed out victory over Bautista Agut in two hours and 26 minutes, breaking in the final game to seal the win. "With him, until the last point you have to have unbelievable focus and fight every point," said Verdasco. "That's what I did, and I'm very...
Seven-time champion Roger Federer finds the line with this backhand winner at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships during his thrilling match against Evgeny Donskoy. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Andy Murray, who won his Dubai opener on Tuesday, wasn't quite sure he had shingles until his mother-in-law got involved. Murray had returned from the Australian Open and had noticed a rash developing on his side. “I had a little bit of a rash basically like on my bum 'round to kind of my stomach, and it wasn't terrible. But then normally if you have a little bit of a rash and you scratch it, it feels better. But with that, it was really, really painful. “I didn't think much of it at the beginning, and then it was actually my wife's mum, we were having dinner, and I was, like, 'This is really irritating'. She was, like, 'Pull your...
