View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following matches from the 2018 Miami Open presented by Itaú & vote for who you think will win! Del Potro vs Raonic | Isner vs Chung [GROUP POLL]123[/GROUP POLL] [5] Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) vs. [20] Milos Raonic (CAN) FedEx ATP Head2Head series tied 2-2 Stadium – Not Before 9 p.m. Just 11 days after beating Milos Raonic 6-2, 6-3 in the BNP Paribas Open semi-finals, Juan Martin Del Potro comes face-to-face with the Canadian once again. If Del Potro is to extend his 14-match winning streak, he’ll have to attempt to break down the serve of Raonic, who, through three matches in Miami, has held all 28 of his service games and...
It is a scary thought for Juan Martin Del Potro’s prospective opponents at the Miami Open presented by Itau – the man riding a 13-match winning streak feels he can play even better yet. The most in-form player on the ATP World Tour right now made the admission after dropping just four games against former No. 4 in the ATP Rankings, Kei Nishikori on Sunday. Seeded fifth, he will meet 26-year-old Serbian Filip Krajinovic for the first time on Tuesday for a place in the quarter-finals. Del Potro was made to work in his opening match of the tournament when he needed three sets to hold off Robin Haase. It came after the Argentine’s dramatic victory over Roger Federer in...
Seeds Nick Kyrgios and Fabio Fognini square off for a place in the Miami Open presented by Itau fourth round on Monday, with Alexander Zverev leading a trio of #NextGenATP stars in action. View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following matches from the 2018 Miami Open presented by Itaú & vote for who you think will win! Zverev vs Ferrer | Kyrgios vs Fognini | Anderson vs Khachanov [GROUP POLL]121[/GROUP POLL] Here are five must-see matches on Monday: 17) Nick Kyrgios vs. 15) Fabio Fognini Sidelined due to an elbow injury since February 4, Aussie Nick Kyrgios made a resounding return to defeat Dusan Lajovic in his opening Miami Open presented by Itau match. “I know my body is not 100 per cent...
Three-time champion Roger Federer opens his Miami Open presented by Itau title defence on Saturday. Seeds Nick Kyrgios, Alexander Zverev and Jack Sock are also in action. Here are five must-see matches on Saturday: 1) Roger Federer vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis Only once before has the No. 1 in the ATP Rankings fallen in their opening match in Miami to a player ranked as low as World No. 175 Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis. That was in 2003 when Spanish qualifier Francisco Clavet (No. 178) sent then-No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt packing in the second round. Roger Federer was a quarter-finalst in Miami that year, while Kokkinikas was just six years old. Three-time champion Federer will open his title defence against the 21-year-old knowing...
Roger Federer remembers well his first professional match at Crandon Park, home to the Miami Open presented by Itau for the last time in 2018. It was 1999, the Swiss star’s first season on the ATP World Tour and he was handed a wild card into the tournament in which he drew Denmark’s Kenneth Carlsen. Federer, then No. 125 in the ATP Rankings, lost that first-round match 7-5, 7-6(4). The Dane would go on to beat Goran Ivanisevic in the next round before Francisco Clavet ended his run. Only a year prior, Federer had won the prestigious Orange Bowl junior championships. He would later claim the 1998 junior Wimbledon title on his way to ending the year as the World...
