Tommy Robredo celebrated his 35th birthday with an opening win and an on-court cake presentation on Monday at the Millennium Estoril Open. The Spaniard won 84 per cent of his first-serve points to get past Russian Evgeny Donskoy, the only man to beat Roger Federer this season, 6-3, 6-2. Robredo will next face top seed and countryman Pablo Carreno Busta. South African Kevin Anderson won his third clay-court match of the season, beating Italian qualifier Salvatore Caruso 6-2, 6-3 in 74 minutes. Two home hopefuls also advanced on day one in Estoril. Gastao Elias outlasted Tunisia's Malek Jaziri 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in two hours and 16 minutes. Portuguese wild card Frederico Ferreira Silva advanced past Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 6-2, 6-2...
Watch highlights as Tommy Robredo celebrates a birthday victory, while the Portuguese contingent gets off to a strong start with wins for Gastao Elias and Frederico Ferreira Silva on Monday in Estoril. Video courtesy Millennium Estoril Open
Tommy Robredo stated his intention of another title-winning run in Marrakech on Thursday as he ousted top seed Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals of the Grand Prix Hassan II. The Spaniard has an 11-1 record at this ATP World Tour 250 clay-court tournament, winning the title in 2013 (d. Anderson) and reaching the final in 2011 (l. to Canas) when it was held in Casablanca. His victory over Dimitrov marked his first Top 20 win since beating No. 11 Dimitrov in the third round at Indian Wells in 2015. The 34-year-old Robredo extended his FedEx ATP Head2Head series lead over Dimitrov to 3-1 as he defeated the Bulgarian in one hour and 49 minutes. It was...
[GROUP POLL]16[/GROUP POLL] • DAY 2 PREVIEW: There are 16 first round singles matches in the top half of the Miami Open presented by Itau draw on Thursday’s schedule. Six of the 11 #NextGenATP players in the tournament are in action, leading off with 20-year-old Croat Borna Coric against Spaniard Marcel Granollers in the first men’s match on Stadium. In the next match on, #NextGenATP qualifier Frances Tiafoe plays Konstantin Kravchuk for the second straight week. Tiafoe defeated the Russian 61 64 in the 1R at the Irving, Texas Challenger last week. The 19-year-old Tiafoe was one of five Americans to qualify into the tournament. Kravchuk is looking for his first ATP World Tour match win of the season (0-6)....
Twelve-time ATP World Tour titlist Tommy Robredo makes his return to the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday in his first match at Indian Wells in two years. Having undergone right elbow surgery last season, the former World No. 5 in the Emirates ATP Rankings arrives in the desert on a protected ranking and will meet #NextGen ATP Russian Karen Khachanov first up on Day 1. The pair has never met and will open play on Stadium 1, with Robredo looking to overturn an age gap of 14 years to deny the World No. 52. The Spaniard reached the quarter-finals at the BNP Paribas Open in 2010 and 2011. Watch Live Online #NextGen ATP Americans Frances Tiafoe and Bjorn Fratangelo also...
