Denis Shapovalov hopes in a couple of years from now he can start talking “about Top 20, Top 10” in the ATP Rankings. The #NextGenATP Canadian may have to drastically shorten that timeframe if his week at the Mutua Madrid Open is anything to go by. View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following matches & vote for who you think will win! Zverev vs Shapovalov | Thiem vs Anderson [GROUP POLL]138[/GROUP POLL] The 19-year-old’s only prior clay-court victory before Madrid was over World No. 181 Viktor Galovic in a Davis Cup rubber in February this year. After a 7-5, 6-7(6), 6-4 victory against Kyle Edmund on Friday – a match in which he recovered after letting match point slip in...
Alexander Zverev stretched two impressive streaks on Friday at the Mutua Madrid Open, but let's start with the most important one: The 21-year-old German won his seventh consecutive match, beating American John Isner 6-4, 7-5 to reach his third ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final of the season (Miami, Monte-Carlo). [ALSO LIKE] Zverev exacted revenge on Isner, who had won their last FedEx ATP Head2Head matchup in the Miami Open presented by Itau final, Isner's maiden Masters 1000 title. But the 6'6” German was nearly flawless as the two finished a busy day on Caja Magica. “Yeah I returned much better to start with, which is very important against John,” Zverev said. “I found I was very happy with how...
#NextGenATP Denis Shapovalov discusses his thrilling victory against Kyle Edmund in the quarter-finals of the Mutua Madrid Open on Friday. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Most things, win or lose, seem fairly simple to Rafael Nadal. When he wins, he played better, he was confident and he was feeling good on the court. When he loses, it's usually the opposite – his opponent played better than him and perhaps Nadal wasn't full of belief. Such was the case on Friday, Nadal said, when Dominic Thiem snapped the Spaniard's 50-set and 21-match win streaks in the Mutua Madrid Open quarter-finals. [ALSO LIKE] The Spaniard lacked confidence at times, and Thiem lifted his level in the big moments to beat Nadal for the third time in their ninth FedEx ATP Head2Head matchup. View Nadal-Thiem FedEx ATP Head2Head Series “I am playing against one of the best players...
#NextGenATP Denis Shapovalov arrived at the Mutua Madrid Open without a clay-court match win on the ATP World Tour. Yet, five days after taking the court at the Caja Mágica for the first time, the Canadian defeated British No. 1 Kyle Edmund 7-5, 6-7(6), 6-4 to advance to the semi-finals in Madrid, his second appearance in the final four of an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event (also 2017 Montreal). "I'm happy again to be in the semi-finals," Shapovalov said. "I never knew when my next time being in a semis would be. I'm more than thrilled to be there. Hopefully I can go even further." One year ago this week, Shapovalov was the fifth-ranked Canadian, sitting at No. 186...
