World No. 7 Marin Cilic and No. 10-ranked Alexander Zverev both advanced to the Ricoh Open semi-finals on Friday. Top-seeded Croatian Cilic recorded the 50th grass-court match win of his career when he knocked out Vasek Pospisil 6-3, 7-5 in 77 minutes. Cilic recovered from a 2-5 deficit in the second set to keep alive his hopes of reaching a third grass-court final. “I feel better and better, obviously after each day I’m getting used to the grass,” Cilic told ATPWorldTour.com. “I felt today I played a little bit better than yesterday, despite the difficult gusty conditions. I felt I served well in critical situations and I managed to turn the break around in the second set.” Cilic will now...
Follow all the latest off-court action on MyATP! Download the app for iPhone or Android or visit MyATP.com. Mercedes Cup - Stuttgart, Germany From centre court to centre stage, Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan entertained Stuttgart fans with some great music. Roger Federer and Tommy Haas visited Schlossplatz for a bit of mini tennis to kick off the tournament. Philipp Kohlschreiber was on hand for the draw ceremony at Bürgerwiese. The Bryans, Grigor Dimitrov, Haas, Feliciano Lopez, Michael Berrer, Mischa Zverev and Yannick Hanfmann were among those to meet fans at autograph sessions. Andre Begemann and Daniel Altmaier joined young tennis fans for a kids’ day press conference. Ricoh Open - ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Top seed Marin Cilic and #NextGenATP Aussie Thanasi Kokkinakis met fans on site...
Marin Cilic began his 2017 grass-court swing with a hard-fought 6-7(6), 6-2, 6-4 victory over former World No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic on Thursday for a place in the Ricoh Open quarter-finals. Cilic, who hit 17 aces, could not convert three set point opportunities from 6/3 in the first set tie-break. But he regrouped to win four straight games from 2-2 in the second set and then broke Tipsarevic in the third game of the decider in the one-hour and 58-minute encounter. He is competing at the ATP World Tour 250 tournament for the first time since 2006. “It’s never easy, especially the first match on grass,” said Cilic. “Janko has been at the top of the tennis game and is...
Second seed Alexander Zverev opened his quest for the Ricoh Open title on Wednesday with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Adrian Mannarino in 54 minutes. He will next face seventh lucky loser Julien Benneteau in the quarter-finals. “I am happy that my first match on grass was comfortable and it went my way right from the start,” said Zverev. The 20-year-old German has a 28-10 match record on the season, which includes three titles at the Open Sud de France (d. Gasquet), BMW Open by FWU (d. Pella) and the Internazionali BNL d'Italia (d. Djokovic). He is the leader of the Emirates ATP Race To Milan, for a spot at the Next Gen ATP Finals from 7-11 November. His best...
Four #NextGenATP players found their feet early on the grass at the Ricoh Open as they surged into the second round on Tuesday in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Qualifier Daniil Medvedev edged sixth seed and home favourite Robin Haase 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-3 in two hours and 18 minutes, saving 12 of the 13 break points he faced. The 21-year-old Russian, who reached his first ATP World Tour final in Chennai at the start of the year (l. to Bautista Agut), claimed just the second tour-level grass-court win of his career. Medvedev, who uses a Tecnifibre racquet, set a clash with fellow Next Gen ATP Finals hopeful Thanasi Kokkinakis. The Australian, who is working his way back from a lengthy injury layoff, was a...
