Say it with us: Mar-co Check-in-aah-toe, Ro-land Gar-ros sem-i-fin-al-ist. The 25-year-old Italian pulled off his biggest win yet on Tuesday, beating 2016 champion Novak Djokovic 6-3, 7-6(4), 1-6, 7-6(11) to reach the semi-finals in Paris. Marco Cecchinato, No 72 in the ATP Rankings, becomes the lowest-ranked Roland Garros semi-finalist since No. 100 Andrei Medvedev in 1999. The Palermo native is also the first Italian man to make a Grand Slam semi-final since Corrado Barazzutti at the 1978 Roland Garros. Cecchinato will next face Austrian Dominic Thiem in their first FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting. The seventh seed beat German Alexander Zverev 6-4, 6-2, 6-1 earlier Tuesday to reach his third consecutive Roland Garros semi-final. Thiem has never made a Grand Slam...
Watch highlights as Novak Djokovic notches his 200th tour-level clay-court win to reach his 12th Roland Garros quarter-final. Video courtesy of Roland Garros. Photo credit: Peter Staples/ATP World Tour
It was a milestone day for Novak Djokovic in Paris. The Serbian defeated Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in the Roland Garros fourth round on Sunday, claiming a few slices of history with the victory. Entering the fortnight in Paris, only two men had appeared in a Grand Slam quarter-final on 40 occasions. Until now. Djokovic joined Roger Federer (52) and Jimmy Connors (41) in the exclusive club, as the 2016 champion fired 21 winners and converted on five of 10 break chances to etch his name in the record books. In addition, the Serbian reached the last eight at Roland Garros for the ninth straight time, equaling Federer’s Open Era record for most consecutive quarter-final appearances on the terre...
A trio of Top 10 seeds, a former champion and Japan's finest lead a blockbuster Day 8 at Roland Garros. ATPWorldTour.com previews Sunday's fourth-round action in Paris... [7] Dominic Thiem (AUT) vs. [19] Kei Nishikori (JPN) Nishikori leads FedEx ATP Head2Head series 2-0 It's the popcorn match of the fourth round. Two of the most in-form players on the ATP World Tour are set to light up Court Philippe Chatrier, as Nishikori and Thiem battle for the first time in two years. Both players are coming off final appearances at clay-court ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events, with Nishikori finishing runner-up in Monte-Carlo and Thiem doing so in Madrid. And they have each dropped just two sets en route to...
