The sun rises. The tax bill comes due. And Pablo Cuevas wins at the Brasil Open. Such things seem to be guaranteed these days. The Uruguayan stretched his winning streak to 14 matches in Sao Paulo on Wednesday, beating Austrian Sebastian Ofner 6-4, 7-6(4) to make the quarter-finals. “I'm so happy to win today... I feel fantastic. I have very good memories in Sao Paulo,” Cuevas said. [ALSO LIKE] The reigning three-time champion dropped only three first-serve points (32/35) and will next meet fifth seed Leonardo Mayer, who advanced to his third Brasil Open quarter-final (2012, 2015) with a 7-5, 6-4 win against fellow Argentine Carlos Berlocq. Mayer will try to reach his first Sao Paulo semi-final. “I'm very happy...
Former champion Dominic Thiem looked like a hard-court king on Wednesday. The 2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC champion dismissed #NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-2, 6-3 in just 75 minutes. The third seed won 77 per cent of his service points and didn't face a break point. Thiem also benefitted from 20 unforced errors from the left-handed Shapovalov. “I'm very happy because... everybody knows how good he can play and how dangerous he is, but I kept him kind of down from the first point on, and it was really good,” Thiem said. “I was really on from the first point... Today was almost perfect.” [ALSO LIKE] The Austrian has won nine ATP World Tour titles – seven of...
Last week, Lucas Pouille was denied the opportunity to clinch a second title on home soil in three weeks by Karen Khachanov in the Open 13 Provence final in Marseille. On Wednesday, just three days after the loss, the Frenchman found himself on the right side of the score line, beating the 21-year-old 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to book his place in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships quarter-finals. "I knew it would be a tough one," admitted Pouille. "In the final in Marseille, he won just three points more than me. I knew it was very close. I had to play some good tennis... I'm just very happy that I got my revenge today." After letting an early first-set lead...
Defending champions Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau survived a tough opening round at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, beating in-form pairing Marcus Daniell and Dominic Inglot 6-3, 6-7(8), 10/7 on Wednesday. The second seeds held two match points in the second-set tiebreak to advance, but were forced into a decisive Match Tie-break by the Open 13 Provence finalists before eventually sealing the win after 90 minutes. Rojer and Tecau move into the quarter-finals where they will meet the winners of the last match on Court 3, with Divij Sharan and Yuichi Sugita taking on Poland's Marcin Matkowski and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan. Watch Live On TennisTV Watch Full Match Replays Open 13 Provence champions Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus...
A match-up that was tough on paper lived up to expectations at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Tuesday when third seeds Ivan Dodig and Rajeev Ram edged past experienced pair Marcel Granollers and Nedad Zimonjic. The Croatian-American duo advanced to the quarter-finals 6-7(4), 6-2, 10-6. Dodig and Ram held a set point at 5-4 only to lose the opening set in a tie-break before they broke twice to send the contest into a match tie-break. It was then they surged to 5/1 before sealing a quarter-final meeting with Dutchmen Robin Haase and Matwe Middelkoop. Dodig and Ram had reached the semi-finals in Rotterdam in their most recent outing together while it was the Spanish-Serbian pair’s first event together....
