Watch highlights as Frances Tiafoe reaches his first ATP World Tour clay-court quarter-final by defeating fourth seed Gilles Muller 6-4, 7-5 at the Millennium Estoril Open on Wednesday. The American will face Simone Bolelli, a 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 winner over Federico Delbonis, for a place in the semi-finals. Video and photo courtesy of Millennium Estoril Open.
Watch highlights as #NextGenATP American Frances Tiafoe escapes a third-set tie-break against compatriot Tennys Sandgren, #NextGenATP Aussie Alex de Minaur earns his first clay-court tour-level win and home favourite Pedro Sousa ousts Gilles Simon. Video and photo courtesy of Millennium Estoril Open.
The ATP World Tour players saw the same devastating photos from Hurricane Harvey in Houston, and they all asked the same question: “How can we help?” Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan, Frances Tiafoe, John Isner, Kevin Anderson and Sam Querrey compete at tournaments around the world, and they all call somewhere else “home” when they're not traveling. Yet they still thought of Houston as Hurricane Harvey dumped about 30 inches of rain and displaced almost 30,000 people in the southeastern Texas city last August. “From the start, 'It was how can we help? How can we make a difference? How do we help get Houston back on its feet?'” said Bronwyn Greer, Tournament Director at the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S....
Tennis fans have heard of their potential for years. #NextGenATP players such as Frances Tiafoe, Taylor Fritz and Andrey Rublev have been touted by coaches and analysts frequently during recent times. But thus far in 2018, fans have also had many opportunities to see the Next Generation in action as the 21-and-under contenders continue to steal headlines on the ATP World Tour. Tiafoe, Fritz and Rublev lead the ATP Race To Milan after the first quarter of the season. The Race will determine seven of the eight 21-and-under players (born 1997 or later) who compete at the 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals, to be held 6-10 November in Milan. The eighth player will be determined by wild card. View The...
Juan Martin del Potro might be the favourite to take home the Miami Open presented by Itau title this weekend. But don't sleep on Kevin Anderson, who's having one of the best starts to 2018 of anyone on the ATP World Tour. The South African improved to 17-4 on Tuesday, beating #NextGenATP American Frances Tiafoe 7-6(3), 6-4 to make his fifth quarter-final of the season. Anderson hit 22 winners and broke the 20-year-old home favourite three times. Watch Full Match Replays Tiafoe was playing, technically, for the third time on Tuesday. His third-round match against Tomas Berdych was suspended because of rain at 2:13 a.m. Tuesday, with Tiafoe leading the 2010 finalist 6-7(2), 6-2, 5-4. They returned to the...
