If all Novak Djokovic needed was some confidence to work his way back into form, then he put the rest of the ATP World Tour on notice Thursday evening at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia. The four-time champion in the Italian capital put on an impressive performance to oust 2017 Monte-Carlo finalist Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-1, 7-5, reaching his first ATP World Tour quarter-final of the season. "I'm happy. I haven't had too many matches of this quality of my tennis in the past 12 months," Djokovic said. "I think this was probably one of the three matches that I played this way in the past 12 months. So, it felt good. And it came at the right time in the place...
Seven-time Internazionali BNL d'Italia champion Rafael Nadal reflects on his win against #NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov on Thursday and previews his quarter-final against home favourite Fabio Fognini. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
World No. 5 Marin Cilic discusses his win at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia against Benoit Paire on Thursday, and looks ahead to his quarter-final matchup against Pablo Carreno Busta. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
If Mate Pavic rises to No. 1 in the ATP Doubles Rankings on Monday he will potentially look back on his hard-fought second-round win with Oliver Marach at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia as a critical moment. Pavic and Marach, one of the ATP World Tour’s strongest teams this season, saved three match points in a 30-point Match tie-break to beat Steve Johnson and Dominic Thiem 0-6, 6-3, 16-14 in 79 minutes for a place in the Rome quarter-finals. The duo had won just 14 points in the first set. Johnson and Thiem could not convert three match point chances at 9/8, 11/10 and 13/12 in a tense finale, which saw Pavic and Marach close out their third opportunity to improve...
His service-holds streak was snapped but Alexander Zverev stretched his most important markers on Thursday at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome. The second seed and defending champion advanced to his fourth ATP World Tour Masters 1000 quarter-final of the season, beating top Brit Kyle Edmund 7-5, 7-6(11) in front of a capacity crowd on Court Pietrangeli. Zverev, who has now won 22 consecutive sets and 11 straight matches, improved to 3-0 in his FedEx ATP Head2Head series with Edmund, who had reached his maiden Masters 1000 quarter-final last week at the Mutua Madrid Open on clay and celebrated his debut inside the Top 20 of the ATP Rankings (No. 19). But the German did just enough to return to the...
