Watch Dominic Thiem overcome a barrage of powerful groundstrokes from the racquet of Rafael Nadal before sprinting to a drop shot and placing a backhand down the line for a winner. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Dominic Thiem ended Rafael Nadal's 21-match and 50-sets winning streaks on clay — in addition to his latest six-week reign at No. 1 in the ATP Rankings — on Friday at the Mutua Madrid Open. As a result of Nadal’s quarter-final exit, Roger Federer will return to the summit of men’s professional tennis on Monday for the 309th week of his career. Three weeks on from a humbling loss to Nadal at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, Thiem played with greater discipline and capitalised on a number of errors from the five-time Madrid champion to triumph 7-5, 6-3 for a place in Saturday’s semi-finals. “I had to play an extraordinary match, and that's what I did," said Thiem. "It takes a...
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan have accomplished countless feats throughout their careers. They have won a record 38 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles and lifted 116 tour-level trophies together. But at the Mutua Madrid Open on Friday, the brothers continued their pursuit of even more history. The second seeds battled through a tough quarter-final to oust No. 5 seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 6-4, 6-7(4), 10-7, advancing to the semi-finals in Madrid for the ninth time. But furthermore, they kept alive their hopes of becoming the oldest No. 1-ranked players in the ATP Doubles Rankings on Monday. If the 40-year-old Americans go on to win their third ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title of the year, Bryan/Bryan will...
World No. 8 Kevin Anderson discusses his first quarter-final victory at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 level, defeating Dusan Lajovic at the Mutua Madrid Open. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Kevin Anderson broke new ground on Friday when the determined South African booked a spot in his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final. The sixth seed earned his 20th match win of the year (20-6) with a 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-3 victory over Serbian qualifier Dusan Lajovic, to break an 0-10 mark in Masters 1000 quarter-finals. In striking 15 aces, Anderson has now hit 45 aces in three matches at the Caja Magica. “I must be honest, I think I did a good job then because I didn't really think of it too much [of my 0-10 record in Masters 1000 quarter-finals]," said Anderson. "I had lots of reason to think about it. Indian Wells and Miami, not that long...
