DAY 3 PREVIEW: The No. 1 and 2 players in the Emirates ATP Rankings, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, headline a big Wednesday schedule at the BNP Paribas Masters. Overall, there are eight of the Top 10 seeds in second round action. Four Frenchmen are also on the order of play, including 2008 champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. All eyes will be on reigning three-time (four overall) BNP Paribas Masters champion Djokovic and Murray, who is the hottest player on the ATP World Tour since May. Murray, who lost to Djokovic in last year’s final, has reached the final in 10 of the 11 tournaments he has played in the past six months, winning a career-best seven titles. Now Murray is within...
Frenchmen Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin kept their London hopes alive on Tuesday with a 2-6, 6-0, 10-6 win against Pablo Cuevas and David Marrero at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. Benneteau/Roger-Vasselin are currently in 12th place in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London, 875 points behind Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi, who currently hold the eighth and final qualification spot into the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. But Huey/Mirnyi lost in the first round in Paris, giving Benneteau/Roger-Vasselin an opportunity to make up ground at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament. The Frenchmen will face fifth seeds Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez in the second round. View the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London Frenchmen Lucas...
Jack Sock should have been celebrating his first-round win at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. But after his straight-sets win on Tuesday, the American could only think about the little boy who had been seen by paramedics during the match. Was he OK? Is he still around? Where is he? Sock quizzed others after his win. During the latter part of the second set, Sock had hit a first serve that landed out but bounced into the first row and hit the French boy in the mouth. The boy started crying. Play was stopped. On-site paramedics came and gave the boy an ice pack. Sock worried. “Obviously I couldn't see exactly what happened,” he said. “At first when I...
Richard Gasquet threads the needle with a backhand Hot Shot against Steve Johnson at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Getty Images photo.
Milos Raonic delivered one of his best serving performances of the year on Tuesday to get his indoor season back on track at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. The Canadian hit 17 aces and won 98 per cent of his first-serve points (41/42) to beat Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta 7-6(5), 6-4. The 25 year old didn't face a break point in the one-hour, 14-minute match and took advantage of the only one he saw against Carreno Busta, breaking for 3-2 lead in the second set. The match was also played to Raonic's liking – quickly. About 86 per cent of the points ended before five shots had been hit. The World No. 5 will try to keep the same...
