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Vote For Match-Ups In Monte-Carlo Monday Preview

View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following match-ups & vote for the players you think will win! Zverev vs Seppi  |  Carreno Busta vs Fognini  |  Berdych vs Kuznetsov [GROUP POLL]31[/GROUP POLL] View Monday schedule. [ALSO LIKE] DAY 2 PREVIEW: No. 9 seed and 2015 finalist Tomas Berdych is among the six seeds in first-round action on Monday at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. Other seeds on the schedule are: No. 12 Roberto Bautista Agut, No. 13 Pablo Carreno Busta, No. 14 #NextGenATP star Alexander Zverev, No. 15 Albert Ramos-Vinolas and No. 16 Pablo Cuevas. Leading off  on Court Rainier III is Serbian No. 2 Viktor Troicki, who brings a 3-0 FedEx ATP Head2Head record (all on hard courts) against Cuevas....

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Fourteen Years Later, Nadal Reflects On Monte-Carlo Debut

It has been 14 years since Rafael Nadal first set foot on the hallowed grounds of the Monte-Carlo Country Club.  A precocious 16 year old with immense promise, Nadal would notch his first Top 10 win over countryman Albert Costa in 2003, before falling to Guillermo Coria in the third round, but that was just the beginning of a reign that sent shockwaves throughout the ATP World Tour for years to come. The Spaniard would return to the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters two years later and proceeded to exact revenge on Coria in the final - his first of eight consecutive titles in the Principality. Nadal has fond memories from his tenure at the prestigious Masters 1000 event. "Everything was new...

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Top Singles Stars Flood Monte-Carlo Doubles Draw

The doubles field at this week’s Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters is not only stacked with all the top doubles players on the ATP World Tour, but also many of the world’s best singles players. Stan Wawrinka prevailed in his first-round match with Fabio Fognini on Sunday by ousting the veteran team of Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor 6-4, 7-6(2). Their path won’t get any easier as second seeds Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut await in the next round. Two-time Monte-Carlo singles champion Novak Djokovic teams up with fellow Serbian Viktor Troicki and will open against Gilles Muller and Gilles Simon. Djokovic/Troicki ousted Herbert/Mahut en route to a quarter-final finish last month at the BNP Paribas Open. Should they win their first...

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