Follow all the latest off-court action on MyATP! Download the app for iPhone or Android or visit MyATP.com. Shanghai Rolex Masters – Shanghai, China Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal participated in a special activity ahead of the tournament, writing postcards and mailing them in the new mailbox at the tournament site. The duo also met with the tournament’s sponsors. Stan Wawrinka and Tomas Berdych participated in “Masters on the Huangpu River”, taking a cruise along The Bund and helping out with a traditional Chinese shadow puppetry demonstration. Taylor Fritz visited the Shanghai United Family Hospital and Clinic. The trip included a tour of the hospital and facilities available, with the NextGen star visiting some young children and handing out signed tennis balls. Fritz, Jamie Murray, Bruno Soares,...
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan broke serve four times to top Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nenad Zimonjic 6-4, 7-5 in the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Thursday. The No. 2 seeds will next face countrymen John Isner and Jack Sock, who took out Spain’s Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez. The Bryans, who have 112 team titles, are two wins away from becoming the first doubles team to reach 1,000 match wins. Bryan/Bryan raced to a 3-0 lead in the opening set before Tsonga/Zimonjic broke back in the seventh game. Serving to stay in the set at 4-5, the French/Serbian duo saved three set points before dropping the winner-takes-all deuce point. In the second set, the Bryans failed to serve...
The formula to becoming the No. 1 ranked player in the world is simple – there isn’t one. The rich diversity of playing styles that our sport produces creates many different pathways to the very top of the tree. Serving and volleying will help get you there. So will being solid as a rock from the back of the court. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of year-end No. 1s from the 1991 season to present day shows remarkable variety in serve and return performance. Serving Pete Sampras finished year-end No. 1 for six straight years, from 1993 to 1998, with his last season in particular highlighting the extremes in how well he dominated with his first and second...
Andy Murray rips a forehand past Lucas Pouille, attacking the net, on Thursday at the Shanghai Rolex Masters. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Getty Images photo.
Watch highlights of Bob and Mike Bryan's victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nenad Zimonjic at the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Thursday. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Getty Images photo.
