It is set to be an action packed Saturday in Marrakech, after rain forced organisers at the Grand Prix Hassan II to cancel all matches on Friday. All four singles quarter-final matches and both doubles semi-finals will now be played on Saturday, with winners returning later in the day to compete in the last four of the singles and the doubles championship match. The quarter-final draw is headlined by Kyle Edmund, who will meet Tunisia's Malek Jaziri on Court Central at 11am. Edmund reached his third quarter-final of 2018 in Marrakech on Thursday, after a 6-2, 6-4 win over Radu Albot. The Australian Open semi-finalist needed just 74 minutes to secure his ninth win of the season, winning 83 per...
It is fair to say that many matches on the ATP World Tour are like wild rides with many momentum shifts and plenty of ups and downs. But before the action got started this week at the Grand Prix Hassan II in Marrakech, some of the tournament’s stars got to enjoy a new kind of wild ride. Radu Albot, Pablo Andujar, Kyle Edmund, Robin Haase, Matwe Middelkoop and Gilles Simon ventured just outside of the city Sunday afternoon into the Palmeraie district, where they rode quad bikes. “It’s nice to go out of the city and drive around the Palmeraie. It was good fun,” said Edmund, the second seed in Morocco. “When I go to South Africa we do similar...
Kyle Edmund reflected on an unforgettable 11 days at the Australian Open after his semi-final loss to Marin Cilic in his post-match press conference on Thursday. The Briton went past the round of 16 at a Grand Slam event for the first time and recorded the biggest win of his career, beating World No. 3 Grigor Dimitrov, to reach the semi-finals. Asked about his overriding emotions immediately following his three-set loss to Cilic, Edmund pointed towards the newfound experience the deep run in Melbourne has given him. “[I am] disappointed I lost, but it's been a really good couple of weeks for me,” reflected Edmund. “I got the experience of going deep in a slam for the first time and...
