The Shanghai Rolex Masters could be the stage on which Rafael Nadal makes a return to the top form he was exhibiting in the spring. After reaching the Indian Wells semi-finals (l. to Djokovic) and clinching back-to-back titles in Monte-Carlo (d. Monfils) and Barcelona (d. Nishikori), the Spaniard looked set to mount a title charge at Roland Garros, when a wrist injury cruelly forced him out of action for two and a half months. Since his return at the Rio Olympics, where he won the doubles gold medal with Marc Lopez, Nadal has been inching his way back to top form and, on the eve of his Shanghai campaign, explained that he is still hoping for a strong finish to...
Shanghai Rolex Masters (Shanghai): The eighth ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament of the season features a star-studded field, including 17 of the Top 20 in the Emirates ATP Race To London. This is the eighth year of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament at the Qizhong Tennis Center, which was the site of the Tennis Masters Cup from 2005-08. World No. 1 and three-time champion (2012-13, 2015) Novak Djokovic and 2010-11 titleholder Andy Murray are the former champions. There are five finalists in the field: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (2015), Gilles Simon (2014), Juan Martin del Potro (2013), David Ferrer (2011) and Rafael Nadal (2009). Murray was also runner-up in 2012. Emirates ATP Race To London: There are valuable Emirates...
Fabio Fognini extended his dominant FedEx ATP Head2Head over Albert Ramos-Vinolas to 7-0 with a 7-5, 6-3 win on Sunday at the Shanghai Rolex Masters. Fognini's reward? A second round date with top seed and three-time champion Novak Djokovic, who owns a 7-0 mark of his own against the Italian. Fognini prevailed over Ramos-Vinolas in one hour and 33 minutes, converting six of 13 break chances. The 29 year old joins Kevin Anderson, Janko Tipsarevic and Di Wu as first-round winners on Day One of the penultimate ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the year. Anderson will face sixth seed Gael Monfils after routing China's Zhe Li 6-1, 6-3, while Tipsarevic continued his comeback campaign with a 6-2, 6-4...
In this Shanghai Classic Moment, Kei Nishikori rallies from a break down in the third set to prevail 6-7(1), 6-4, 6-4 against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the 2011 second round. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.