Fabio Fognini extended his dominant FedEx ATP Head2Head over Albert Ramos-Vinolas to 7-0 with a 7-5, 6-3 win on Sunday at the Shanghai Rolex Masters. Fognini's reward? A second round date with top seed and three-time champion Novak Djokovic, who owns a 7-0 mark of his own against the Italian. Fognini prevailed over Ramos-Vinolas in one hour and 33 minutes, converting six of 13 break chances. The 29 year old joins Kevin Anderson, Janko Tipsarevic and Di Wu as first-round winners on Day One of the penultimate ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the year. Anderson will face sixth seed Gael Monfils after routing China's Zhe Li 6-1, 6-3, while Tipsarevic continued his comeback campaign with a 6-2, 6-4...
First-time duo Fabio Fognini and Robert Lindstedt proved to be an unbeatable combination at the Shenzhen Open, winning their first ATP World Tour doubles title together with a 7-6(4), 6-3 victory over second seeds Oliver Marach and Fabrice Martin in the final on Sunday. "We're really, really happy," said Fognini. "I haven't enjoyed myself this much in doubles in a long time. Thanks to Rob for playing with me. It was a great week." "I think we both played really, really well from the first match on," said Lindstedt. "The only set we lost was very tight as well (against the top seeds). We played some really good teams this week and it was really fun to play." Fognini and...
Fabio Fognini recorded his 20th match win of the season on Monday when the seventh seed defeated Dudi Sela 6-4, 6-1 in 78 minutes on his debut at the Shenzhen Open. He’ll next face qualifier Mischa Zverev who struck eight aces and won 96 per cent of his first service points to oust wild card Zhe Li. Zverev leads Fognini 2-1 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series. Andrew Whittington saved four match points in the second set tie-break to force a third set and beat fellow qualifier Luca Vanni 2-6, 7-6(10), 6-2 in two hours and 20 minutes. The 23-year-old Australian, making his ATP World Tour main draw debut, will next face third seed Richard Gasquet in the second round....