Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau will meet top seeds Henri Kontinen and John Peers after getting their Coupe Rogers campaign off to a winning start on Tuesday. The Dutch-Romanian pair eked out a narrow 7-6(7), 7-5 victory over Mexican Santiago Giraldo and American Donald Young. Rojer and Tecau have split their two FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings with the Finnish-Australian duo. They defeated them in their most recent clash this year, en route to the title in Dubai in March. Spanish compatriots Roberto Bautista Agut and David Ferrer denied home hopefuls Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil 46, 6-4, 10-2. The unseeded pair ended Nestor’s bid to claim an elusive Coupe Rogers doubles crown in Montreal. Twice before Nestor had claimed the...
Dogged Argentine Diego Schwartzman simply does not know how to surrender. The 24 year old saved four match points to pull off a remarkable 4-6, 7-6(7), 7-5 upset of No. 3 seed Dominic Thiem on Tuesday night. “It was a really intense match as we know each other really well, having played three times before – twice on clay courts,” said Schwartzman. “I knew I needed to play really well to beat him and today I played at 100 per cent. I saved this match, I don’t know how I did it. I was a little lucky, but then focused solely on the point – not thinking it was a match point.” After an impressive start in which he found...
Ninth seed David Goffin didn’t have things all his own way on Tuesday at the Coupe Rogers in a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory over Japan’s Yuichi Sugita over one hour and 44 minutes. The Belgian, who is currently No. 13 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, led 4-2 in the first set but then won just five points in the next four games. Although he regrouped to win five straight games in the second set, the decider was a close affair – with Sugita ceding control to Goffin in the penultimate game. It was Goffin’s 20th match win on hard courts this season (34-14 overall), which includes two runner-up finishes at Sofia (l. to Dimitrov) and Rotterdam (l. to Tsonga). Goffin...
Three #NextGenATP players, Hyeon Chung, Borna Coric and Ernesto Escobedo, who are all vying for a place at the Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan later this year, got off to winning starts on Tuesday at the Coupe Rogers. All three players feature in the Top 10 of the Emirates ATP Race To Milan. Chung, 21, withstood 16 aces from 2014 semi-finalist Feliciano Lopez in a 6-1, 4-6, 7-6(3) win over two hours and 15 minutes to set up a second-round encounter against ninth seed David Goffin or Yuichi Sugita. With no breaks of serve in the third set, Chung broke clear at 4/2 in the tie-break to wrap up victory. Listen To ATP Tennis Radio Earlier in the day,...
Juan Martin del Potro needed two breaks of serve, and that's exactly what he made happen against John Isner at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal on Monday. The Argentine broke at 5-5 in both sets and overcame 24 aces from the 14th-seeded American to advance 7-5, 7-5 at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Canada. Del Potro, a 2009 finalist in Montreal (l. to Murray), improves to 11-0 in opening-round matches this season. He never faced a break point and converted just enough of them against Isner (2/7). The Argentine was glad to be back in Montreal after missing the 2015 edition. “It's amazing for me. I missed this tournament a lot. I couldn't play the last editions...
