Twenty-four year-old Roger Federer has nothing on 36-year-old Roger Federer. The No. 1 player in the ATP Rankings matched his best start on Thursday at the BNP Paribas Open, improving to 16-0 in 2018 with a 7-5, 6-1 victory against Hyeon Chung of South Korea. The last time Federer started with such an unbeaten streak was 12 years ago in 2006. “It's a great start. Hopefully I can do one more and beat my best streak on Saturday,” Federer said. Federer's Undefeated Starts Year Record 2018 16 2006 16 2007 12 2004 11 2005, 2011 10 2002, 2017 8 Watch Full Match Replays It was Federer's second win against the 21-year-old Chung this season, and they had a crowd of...
It's helpful to have goals, the right goals, that is. The past two seasons, Borna Coric has followed the much-discussed goal-setting process. He's written them down, focused on them throughout the year and, at the end of the season, tracked how close he came to achieving them. But Coric, who beat Kevin Anderson on Thursday at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, wasn't hitting his marks. For instance, he wanted to climb inside the Top 20 of the ATP Rankings. But to this day, his career-high is No. 33, which he last reached two and a half years ago, on 14 September 2015. “Setting goals is always good. But I didn't have maybe the right goals. If I want...
Juan Martin del Potro’s bid for a maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title is fast gaining momentum. Since No. 2 seed Marin Cilic’s third-round departure, the Argentine sixth seed has emerged a clear favourite to advance to his first Masters 1000 final in four years as the highest-ranked player in the bottom half of the BNP Paribas Open draw. The 29-year-old is riding an eight-match winning streak heading into his quarter-final showdown with No. 31 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber. Del Potro – whose best result at Indian Wells was a runner-up showing in 2013 (l. to Nadal) – carries a 6-2 FedEx ATP Head2Head record into the clash, with Kohlschreiber the first German to reach the last eight in Indian...
Borna Coric was down and it looked as if he'd soon be out. The 21-year-old Croatian, who had never beaten Kevin Anderson before Thursday, double faulted to lose his serve and go down 2-4 in the third set of their BNP Paribas Open quarter-final. Until that point, Anderson had been broken only two times in the tournament, and two more holds would have him in his maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final. But Coric remained solid and immediately broke back, and in the third set tie-break, the rising star kept up a trend that has propelled him to his first Masters 1000 semi-final this week in Indian Wells. Coric won his second third-set tie-break of the tournament to advance...
Watch Hot Shot as Roger Federer scrambles to turn defence into offence against Hyeon Chung in their Indian Wells quarter-final. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
