Fourteen years ago at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, David Ferrer recorded his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 match win when he recovered from a first-set bagel to stun World No. 1 Andre Agassi 0-6, 7-6(3), 6-4. On Tuesday, the 35-year-old Spaniard celebrated another memorable moment in Rome. He defeated Feliciano Lopez to earn his place alongside 12 other players, including Agassi, in the ATP World Tour’s exclusive 700-wins club. Of his victories, a quarter of which have come at the Masters 1000 level (178-111), Ferrer picked his triumph at the 2012 Tennis Paris Masters as the most memorable. That week in Paris-Bercy, he posted back-to-back wins over Stan Wawrinka and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before defeating Jerzy Janowicz for the title....
Albert Ramos-Vinolas makes a celebrated return to ATP World Tour Masters 1000 action on home soil at the Mutua Madrid Open, three weeks after a dream run to the final at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. In Monte-Carlo, the 29 year old posted consecutive wins over a trio of Top 20 players – No. 1 Andy Murray, No. 8 Marin Cilic and No. 17 Lucas Pouille – before finishing runner-up to countryman Rafael Nadal. However, ask the Barcelona native about his biggest Masters 1000 victory, and there’s one result that tops even those. Ramos-Vinolas looks back on that memorable second-round win over Roger Federer at the 2015 Shanghai Rolex Masters and also shares what makes playing in Madrid so special. Which...
Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau have each won two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles, including last year at the Mutua Madrid Open. As they return to clay this week at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, they share their Masters 1000 memories and reveal what makes this particular tournament so special. Which is your favourite Masters 1000 tournament and why? Tecau: There’s a lot of nice ones. I enjoy Monte-Carlo a lot, I enjoy Madrid, but Indian Wells is probably the prettiest, the best surroundings, the best everything, comfortable for the players, good weather. Very good overall. Rojer: I enjoy Monte-Carlo. It’s the first big one on the clay, obviously beautiful place and great weather as well. I enjoy being there...
Dominic Thiem has reached five quarter-finals at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 level, including this week at the Mutua Madrid Open and earlier this season at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. The 23-year-old Austrian talks about his favourite tournament, city and what makes the Masters 1000 titles so difficult to win. Which is your favourite Masters 1000 tournament? Madrid. I beat my first Top 10 guy there (Stan Wawrinka). The food is prepared by an Austrian company. I know the guys there. They treat me really well, so it’s a tournament I look forward to every year. Which is your favourite Masters 1000 host city? Rome is a legendary city and the Italian food is the best in...
Ahead of this year's BNP Paribas Open, Pablo Cuevas shared that his best ATP World Tour Masters 1000 win had come against Andy Roddick at the 2011 Miami Open presented by Itau. The 31-year-old Uruguayan may have a new answer following a terrific start to his Masters 1000 campaign in 2017. He reached his first semi-final at this elite level with victory over #NextGenATP star Alexander Zverev on Friday at the Mutua Madrid Open. "In these last two years, I was pursuing a different calendar to what I'd been doing the previous years, trying to be ready for the Masters 1000s, to be able to sit here in this chair and make it to the semi-finals," said Cuevas. "I'm glad...