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Nadal, Nishikori Lead Charge Wednesday In Miami QFs

View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following match-ups & vote for the players you think will win!  Nadal vs Sock  |  Nishikori vs Fognini [GROUP POLL]27[/GROUP POLL] View Wednesday's schedule. • DAY 8 PREVIEW: The Miami Open, presented by Itau, quarter-finals in the bottom half of the draw on Wednesday is led by No. 2 seed and last year’s finalist Kei Nishikori, along with four-time runner-up No. 5 seed Rafael Nadal. The other two players making their first Miami Open quarter-final appearance are No. 13 seed Jack Sock and unseeded Fabio Fognini. In the first quarter-final, Nishikori looks for his third win in as many meetings against Fognini, who is the first Italian to reach the quarters in Miami since...

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Zverev Stuns Wawrinka In Miami

#NextGenATP star Alexander Zverev knocked out top seed Stan Wawrinka on Tuesday at the Miami Open presented by Itau to advance to his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 quarter-final. The 19-year-old Zverev came back from a set down and ran away with the fourth-round contest, winning 12 of the final 15 games to claim victory 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 in one hour and 44 minutes. “I had to be aggressive. I felt like he was the one controlling all the points all the time, so I had to change that. It worked out well for me. Happy to be in the quarter-finals now. Hopefully I can play as great as I did today,” Zverev said. The German was nearly untouchable...

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Nadal Reaches Miami Quarters

Four-time finalist Rafael Nadal is now two matches away from again contending for his first title at the Miami Open presented by Itau. The Spaniard advanced to the Miami quarter-finals on Tuesday, advancing past the veteran Nicolas Mahut 6-4, 7-6(4) in what could have been a tricky fourth-round match-up in Key Biscayne. Nadal was unbeatable on his serve though, winning 92 per cent of his first-serve points and never facing a break point in the one-hour and 35-minute contest. Mahut served and volleyed with success, taking 64 per cent of his net points (18/28).  Watch Full Match Replays But the 35-year-old Frenchman lost his only break point and was outdone in the second-set tie-break. Nadal smashed an inside-out forehand winner...

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Federer's Best Tennis Still Ahead, But Are His Clubbing Days Over?

Roger Federer stayed perfect at the Miami Open presented by Itau on Tuesday, persevering through a back-and-forth and gritty fourth-round contest against Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6(5), 7-6(4). The Swiss right-hander needed nearly two hours to improve to 6-0 against the Spaniard in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series, and afterward likened his recovery to going clubbing. "I think coming out of a brutal match and then feeling fit like a fiddle in the morning, it's like when you go clubbing," said the 35-year-old Federer. "Same thing. You know, you don't feel the same when you're older. (Laughter.) It's a good example because everybody knows that feeling. Not that I've ever -- you know?" Federer reaches his second consecutive ATP World Tour...

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