Squaring off for the first time against a compatriot he has looked up to growing up, the motivation is high for Denis Shapovalov when he meets Milos Raonic at the Mutua Madrid Open on Thursday. And while not typically either player’s strongest surface, the two Canadians have impressed this week on clay in the Spanish capital. View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following matches from the 2018 Mutua Madrid Open & vote for who you think will win! Raonic vs Shapovalov | Nadal vs Schwartzman | Goffin vs Edmund [GROUP POLL]136[/GROUP POLL] #NextGenATP Shapovalov scored his first ATP World Tour clay-court match win in the opening round over Tennys Sandgren before backing it up with a 38-winner display to edge...
After winning his second BMW Open by FWU crown last week, Alexander Zverev continued his fine form at the Mutua Madrid Open on Wednesday night, defeating Russia’s Evgeny Donskoy 6-2, 7-5. The German No.1, who reached the quarter-finals in 2017 (l. to Cuevas), won 85 per cent of points behind his first serve and did not face a single break point en route to the third round. Zverev joins Juan Martin del Potro and Dominic Thiem with an ATP World Tour-leading 22 wins in 2018 (22-7). The 20-year-old has now won nine of 11 matches on clay this season and improves to 9-3 at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events this year. The second seed in the Spanish capital reached...
Miami Open presented by Itaú champion John Isner advanced to the Mutua Madrid Open third round on Wednesday, defeating fellow American Ryan Harrison 7-6(1), 7-6(7). Isner, at a career-high No. 9 ATP Ranking, hit 22 aces in the one-hour, 31-minute encounter en route to victory. Isner improves to 7-3 in his FedEx ATP Head2Head series with Harrison, levelling their 2018 series at 1-1 after Harrison’s success in Acapulco three months ago. In a match which featured no break points, Isner was given a tough test by Harrison as he secured his 10th victory in Madrid. The 33-year-old dominated the opening-set decider, firing his 11th ace of the match to clinch a one-set advantage. The second tie-break proved far more competitive,...
World No. 1 Rafael Nadal recorded his 20th straight clay-court match win and improved to 48 consecutive sets won on the surface Wednesday as he started his quest for a sixth Mutua Madrid Open trophy. The Spanish superstar soon dismantled the game of France’s Gael Monfils, hitting 17 winners in a 6-3, 6-1 second-round victory that lasted 74 minutes. He is now two sets shy of breaking John McEnroe’s record of 49 straight sets won on a single surface (carpet) in 1984, including 10 to win the Madrid Indoor Open. Nadal, who improved to 49-10 at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament, will next meet Argentine No. 13 seed Diego Schwartzman, who beat fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 7-5, 2-6,...
