Tennis - ATP World Tour – Tagged "NextGen" – Page 33

Jul 16, 2017

Nicola Kuhn Wins First Challenger Title In Braunschweig

Watch interview and the point of the tournament as budding NextGenATP star Nicola Kuhn, aged 17, claimed his maiden Challenger title in Braunschweig, Germany.

Jul 14, 2017

#NextGenATP Ymer Thriving On Home Soil In Bastad

Sweden is hungry for another rising star to crack the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings, and #NextGenATP player Mikael Ymer is showing that he has the tools to achieve this with his run this week at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Bastad. The 18 year old delighted the home crowd on Thursday with a 6-2, 6-4 win over second seed Renzo Olivo of Argentina to reach his first Challenger semi-final of the year. Ymer passed through the qualifying rounds in just one of the six Challenger events he’s played this season, but made full use of a wild card to produce an inspired run. “It feels great. I haven't had the best Challenger year, so I’ve been...

Jul 12, 2017

Ymer Races For Tweener Hot Shot At Bastad Challenger 2017

Mikael Ymer showed off his great agility and court awareness in claiming Hot Shot honours at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Bastad, Sweden.

Jul 06, 2017

#NextGenATP Ofner Enjoying Dream Run At Wimbledon

Sebastian Ofner was just happy to be making his Grand Slam qualifying debut last week at Wimbledon, but the #NextGenATP Austrian’s maiden pro tournament on the grass has turned into a breakthrough run. Ofner survived a pair of marathon matches just to make it into the main draw, prevailing 10-8 in the third set against Kimmer Coppejans of Belgium in the first round, and rallying from two sets down to defeat #NextGenATP Brit Jay Clarke in the final round of qualifying. Buoyed at competing on the lawns of Wimbledon, Ofner dropped a mere seven games in his first-round main draw win on Tuesday over Thomaz Bellucci. But it was his performance on Thursday against 17th seed Jack Sock that truly...

Jul 04, 2017

Zverev Leads #NextGenATP Brigade Into Second Round

Tenth seed Alexander Zverev opened his Wimbledon campaign on Tuesday with a high-quality win against Evgeny Donskoy, not dropping serve to advance with a 6-4, 7-6(3), 6-3 victory. Three other #NextGenATP players joined him in the second round by scoring their first main draw wins at the All England Club, including Russian Andrey Rublev and Americans Frances Tiafoe and Jared Donaldson. A single break of serve in the first and third sets is all Zverev needed to prevail in one hour and 50 minutes. The German finished the day with 31 winners to 20 unforced errors, while Donskoy hit 29 winners to 16 unforced errors. Awaiting Zverev in the next round is an all #NextGenATP matchup with Tiafoe after the...