Pablo Cuevas will go for a record third consecutive Brasil Open title on Sunday. The 31-year-old right-hander dismissed top seed Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain 6-3, 7-6(2) on Saturday in Sao Paulo to give himself a chance for a three-peat. The third-seeded Cuevas won 82 per cent of his first-serve points and feasted on Carreno Busta's second serves, taking 70 per cent of those points. Since the first edition of the Brasil Open, in 2001, no player has won back-to-back-to-back titles at the ATP World Tour 250 tournament. Spaniard Nicolas Almagro won back-to-back crowns in 2011-2012 but fell in the quarter-finals to David Nalbandian in 2013. Watch Full Match Replays Cuevas has avoided such slip-ups this week. He'll try to...
Two-time defending champion Pablo Cuevas looked out of it. Argentine Diego Schwartzman led the third seed 7-5, 4-1 during their Brasil Open quarter-final on Friday and was two holds away from handing Cuevas his first loss in Sao Paulo since 2014. But the 31-year-old Cuevas kept his three-peat hopes alive with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 victory that lasted two hours and 13 minutes, finishing after 1 a.m. in Sao Paulo. In Saturday's semi-final, Cuevas will meet top seed Pablo Carreno Busta, who fought off a late comeback from Italian Fabio Fognini to win 6-0, 7-6(1) and continue his stellar stretch on the Brazilian clay. Carreno Busta broke Fognini three times to take the first set in 20 minutes, but the...
Two-time defending Brasil Open champion Pablo Cuevas continued his reign in Sao Paulo on Thursday, storming into the quarter-finals with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Facundo Bagnis. The third seed broke his opponent twice in each set to wrap up a comprehensive victory in 64 minutes. Cuevas improves his FedEx ATP Head2Head over Bagnis to 4-0, with all four wins coming in Brazil. The Uruguayan has defeated Bagnis in the second round of Sao Paulo for three consecutive years and also prevailed last year in the opening round of the Rio Open presented by Claro. Cuevas will play sixth seed Diego Schwartman, who broke serve five times to record an identical 6-2, 6-2 scoreline over Gerald Melzer. Schwartzman has been...
Pablo Carreno Busta wishes every day on the ATP World Tour would be like Saturday in Rio de Janeiro. Hours after completing a stunning comeback to reach the singles final, the Spaniard clinched the Rio Open presented by Claro doubles title with Pablo Cuevas. Carreno Busta and Cuevas edged defending champions Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 6-4, 5-7, 10-8 in one hour and 29 minutes. The Colombian Power looked to be on their way to a comeback of their own after forcing a Match Tie-break from a set and a break down. But the Spanish-Uruguayan duo would have the last laugh, taking the title on their first championship point. “I’m very happy," said Carreno Busta. "It’s always very special...
Pablo Cuevas, an ATP ACES For Charity grant recipient for 2017 in support of the Corazoncitos Foundation, shares a message for mothers-to-be on 14 February, the congenital heart defect day.
