Rafael Nadal has logged 900 ATP World Tour victories throughout his career, a milestone so significant that only four other players have accomplished the feat in the Open Era (Jimmy Connors, Roger Federer, Ivan Lendl, Guillermo Vilas). [ALSO LIKE] That's a lot of wins, even by Nadal's lofty standards. So many wins, in fact, he lost count. What should have been extra reason to celebrate following his fourth-round victory at Roland Garros on Monday nearly went unnoticed by the 16-time Grand Slam champion. "Today was my 900th win?" Nadal asked after defeating Maximilian Marterer 6-3, 6-2, 7-6(4), one day after his 32nd birthday. "It's hard to choose just one of my favourites, honestly, but if I were to narrow it...
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...
ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot catches up with the stars of Roland Garros, as they make their final preparations ahead of the second Grand Slam of the season.
Carlos Moya, coach of World No. 1 Rafael Nadal, is breaking down the Spaniard's performances at Roland Garros for ATPWorldTour.com. Nadal is pursuing his 11th trophy on the Parisian terre battue. On Monday, the defending champion defeated Germany’s Maximilian Marterer, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6(4) to advance to the quarter-finals, where he'll face 11th seed Diego Schwartzman for a place in the last four. Moya lists five key takeaways from Nadal’s win over Marterer. [ALSO LIKE] Caught Flat-footed ... There was no excuse for Rafa to go down 0-2 at the beginning of the match. We were kind of rushed because the previous match on Court Philippe-Chatrier ended a little earlier than expected. Rafa was grabbing something to eat when we got...
Alexander Zverev will go for personal – and possibly Grand Slam – history when he meets Dominic Thiem in the Roland Garros quarter-finals on Tuesday. Novak Djokovic, meanwhile, a man very familiar with this stage in Paris, will try to stop first-time Grand Slam quarter-finalist Marco Cecchinato of Italy. ATPWorldTour.com previews Tuesday's Roland Garros quarter-finals. [2] Alexander Zverev (GER) vs. [7] Dominic Thiem (AUT) Thiem leads FedEx ATP Head2Head series 4-2 The last time they met, a maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title was on the line for Dominic Thiem. But it was Alexander Zverev, loser of all three of their prior clay-court matches, who came through to win his third Masters 1000 title, and second on clay, at...
