The route for a return to No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings is paved for Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer at next week’s Western & Southern Open. Andy Murray will relinquish top spot to one of the two in Cincinnati and if it is the Swiss who goes on to win the Coupe Rogers this week in Montreal, he would clinch World No. 1 with an equal or better finish than the Spaniard next week. It is a tantalising prospect that the No. 1 ranking would come down to the final, should both live up to their seedings. After a bye, top seed Nadal could take on former World No. 7, Richard Gasquet in the second round, with his...
View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the quarter-final matchups of the Coupe Rogers & vote for who you think will win! Federer vs. Bautista Agut | Zverev vs. Anderson | Shapovalov vs. Mannarino [GROUP POLL]60[/GROUP POLL] View Friday Schedule • Either Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal will be ranked No. 1 on August 21 and seeded No. 1 at the US Open. Appearing in his eighth Coupe Rogers quarter-final, Federer controls his own destiny. A third title in Canada would give Federer 7,545 Emirates ATP Rankings points. With Nadal defending 90 of his 7,555 ranking points next week, Federer would clinch No. 1 with the Montreal title and an equal-or-better finish than the Spaniard in Cincinnati, where the Swiss is a seven-time champion. • Federer is...
View FedEx ATP Head2Head for Thursday of the Coupe Rogers & vote for who you think will win! Federer vs. Ferrer | Nadal vs. Shapovalov | Zverev vs. Kyrgios [GROUP POLL]59[/GROUP POLL] View Thursday Schedule • There is a little of everything in the Coupe Rogers third round on Thursday: four #NextGenATP players, four men who’ve saved match points this week, and only six of the tournament’s 16 seeds. All of the above is Alexander Zverev, who meets Nick Kyrgios on Court Central in a showdown of the Emirates ATP Race to Milan leader and the top #NextGenATP player from the 2016 season. • Zverev and Kyrgios, who played doubles together at 2016 Roland Garros, go back to the ITF Juniors Circuit. An 18-year-old Kyrgios...
View FedEx ATP Head2Head for day 3 of the Coupe Rogers & vote for who you think will win! Nadal vs. Coric | Raonic vs. Mannarino | Nishikori vs. Monfils [GROUP POLL]58[/GROUP POLL] View Wednesday Schedule. 1) A star-studded lineup featuring 12 of the Top 20 players in the Emirates ATP Rankings takes the court Wednesday for R32 action at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal. 2) No. 1 seed Rafael Nadal begins his quest to regain the World No. 1 ranking on Wednesday evening as he faces #NextGenATP star Borna Coric, who has taken two of three meetings from the Spaniard on the ATP World Tour. The 20-year-old Croatian defeated Nadal in the QF at Basel in 2014 before Nadal leveled the Head2Head with a...
A four-time ATP World Tour champion already this season, 20-year-old Alexander Zverev is used to hearing the “next big thing” label thrown his way. Fresh from securing the Citi Open trophy in Washington, D.C on Sunday, the #NextGenATP German enters the Coupe Rogers with a top-four seeding at an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event for the first time. He is well on track to qualify for both the Nitto ATP World Tour Finals and the Next Gen ATP Finals. Not that it has come as any real surprise. “I think 'surprised' is the wrong word,” Zverev said. “I know how much I've done in the off-season. I know how much work I’ve put in with my whole team. “Obviously...
