Second seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau completed a near perfect run through the Winston-Salem Open on Friday, beating Julio Peralta and Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 6-4 to capture their third doubles title as a team this season. The Dutchman/Romanian pairing have now won 15 team crowns, and they sprinted through the Winston-Salem draw. Rojer/Tecau dropped only 19 games this week. To make the title even more special, Rojer celebrated his 36th birthday on Friday. [ALSO LIKE] “It's a nice birthday gift of course. But I was not going to let that result determine if I have a good day or not. I was going to enjoy it anyways, and I'm just happier, of course, that we won,” Rojer said. “We...
Top seed Roberto Bautista Agut kept alive his hopes for return trip to the Winston-Salem Open final on Thursday, holding off #NextGenATP American Taylor Fritz 6-2, 7-6(3). Bautista Agut won 80 per cent of his service points and didn't face a break point in the 89-minute quarter-final. The Spaniard fell in last year's final to countryman Pablo Carreno Busta. “I think it was a great match I played very solid... I played very aggressive,” Bautista Agut said. He will next play German Jan-Lennard Struff, who beat #NextGenATP Croatian Borna Coric 6-4, 7-6(2). Bautista Agut will be playing in his fifth semi-final of the season (Chennai, Sofia, Munich, Gstaad). He captured the Aircel Chennai Open title, beating #NextGenATP Russian Daniil Medvedev....
Borna Coric led three #NextGenATP players into the quarter-finals of the Winston-Salem Open Wednesday, in the process handing two-time champion John Isner his first defeat at the event. Coric, who on Monday slipped to fourth in the Emirates ATP Race To Milan behind Jared Donaldson, will move back ahead of the American after reaching his first quarter-final since his strong run to the last eight at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Madrid, where he took out then-World No. 1 Andy Murray. The 20-year-old Croatian claimed three breaks of serve against 6’ 10” Isner, who also dropped serve three times in his opening win Tuesday over Russian Andrey Kuznetsov. World No. 62 Coric will next meet German Jan-Lennard...
Follow all the latest off-court action on MyATP. Download the app for iPhone, Android and visit MyATP.com Winston-Salem Open - Winston-Salem, U.S.A. Julien Benneteau was on hand at the draw ceremony in McCreary Tower on Friday, while home hope Steve Johnson and #NextGenATP pair Hyeon Chung and Andrey Rublev helped to inspire the next generation of fans the following day at kids clinics. Borna Coric posted on Instagram after meeting young fans at an ACEing Autism clinic on Sunday, where he joined the children in a series of activities on the court. More On ACEing Autism Elsewhere, Dominic Inglot, Scott Lipsky, Fabrice Martin, Max Mirnyi, Leander Paes, Alexander Peya, Purav Raja and Andre Sa leant their support to a Doubles...
Two-time champion John Isner claimed his 350th match win at his hometown tournament in Winston-Salem Tuesday night, clinching back-to-back breaks against World No. 70 Russian Andrey Kuznetsov to close out the match 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-3. Isner had dropped serve just three times all summer (Newport, Atlanta, Montreal, Cincinnati) but was broken twice in the opening set and three times overall. But in an encouraging sign, he converted all three break point chances he accrued. The 6’ 11” American came into the tournament having held 146 of his past 149 service games. He was not broken in five matches en route to the semi-finals of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati last week. "After the end of the second set...
