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The historic achievements keep coming for Roger Federer, even in areas that might not immediately come to mind when you think about the all-time great. During his first-round match on Tuesday at The Championships, Federer surpassed the 10,000-ace mark against Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov, joining Goran Ivanisevic and Ivo Karlovic as the only three men who have hit more than 10,000 aces since 1991, when the ATP World Tour began tracking the statistic. [ALSO LIKE] The milestone moment came at 4-3, 30/30, as Federer caught Dolgopolov leaning left and went out wide for a sliding ace. “It's surreal,” Federer told ESPN. “It puts me up there with the likes of Ivanisevic and Karlovic, to whom I look up to and think...
Tenth seed Alexander Zverev opened his Wimbledon campaign on Tuesday with a high-quality win against Evgeny Donskoy, not dropping serve to advance with a 6-4, 7-6(3), 6-3 victory. Three other #NextGenATP players joined him in the second round by scoring their first main draw wins at the All England Club, including Russian Andrey Rublev and Americans Frances Tiafoe and Jared Donaldson. A single break of serve in the first and third sets is all Zverev needed to prevail in one hour and 50 minutes. The German finished the day with 31 winners to 20 unforced errors, while Donskoy hit 29 winners to 16 unforced errors. Awaiting Zverev in the next round is an all #NextGenATP matchup with Tiafoe after the...
There was a touching moment in the bowels of the All England Club on Tuesday, seen by only a few. As Yuichi Sugita sat and waited in the corridor for the start of his first press conference as a match winner at a Grand Slam championship, the great champion Roger Federer stopped by to congratulate the Japanese on his recent success. Sugita, who has plied his trade since 2003, was visibly touched. It was a sign of mutual respect between pros, one the winner of an Open Era record 85 matches at The Championships, the other starting to make his mark on the ATP World Tour in 2017. [ALSO LIKE] At 28 years of age, Sugita has been a solid...
