Professional Tennis
John Isner continued his strong performance at the Mutua Madrid Open on Thursday, downing young Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-3, 6-7(7), 6-4 to reach the tournament’s semifinals. Isner’s serve was as dominant as ever, firing 20 aces and not conceding a single break point opportunity. As the match went on, Isner was the one who gained…
Defending champion Maria Sharapova edged out fifth-seeded Dane Caroline Wozniacki 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 on Thursday to advance to the Mutua Madrid Open semifinals. After exchanging wins through the first two sets, the matchup of former world number ones would head into a deciding third set. Capitalizing on a few untimely unforced errors from Wozniacki, Sharapova…
In one of the most compelling matches of the 2015 season so far, young Australian Nick Kyrgios dueled with world number two Roger Federer in a thrilling three set affair at the Mutua Madrid Open on Wednesday. Kyrgios saved two match points in a final third-set tiebreaker, edging Federer 6-7(2), 7-6(5), 7-6(12) to reach the…
Caroline Wozniacki cruised into the Mutua Madrid Open quarterfinals on Wednesday, getting past ninth-seeded Pole Agnieszka Radwanska 6-3, 6-2. The fifth-seeded Dane was extremely sharp from the opening serve. In a match that wasn’t dominated by the serve, Wozniacki won 57 percent of the points on Radwanska’s serve, leading to 13 break point opportunities, of…
Defending champion Maria Sharapova cruised into the third round of the Mutua Madrid Open on Tuesday, moving past Colombian Mariana Duque-Marino 6-1, 6-2. “It’s definitely nice to get another win today,” said Sharapova, who beat Timea Bacsinszky 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday. “It’s a little bit of a different opponent and different style of play against…
Gael Monfils got off to a winning start in Madrid, cruising past Serbian Viktor Troicki 6-2, 6-0 to reach the Mutua Madrid Open second-round on Tuesday. Monfils used a dominant serve to get past Troicki, losing just 15 service points in the match, and broke Troicki five times in six chances to advance. The 13th-seeded…
American John Isner was one of three men from the United States to win their opener in the Mutua Madrid Open on Monday, defeating France’s Adrian Mannarino 7-6(2), 6-4 to advance to the second-round. Isner ripped 13 aces and didn’t allow a single break point to ease past the Frenchman. He will play Brazilian Thomaz…
Seventeen-year-old Frances Tiafoe of College Park, Md., will make his Grand Slam main draw debut after earning a main draw wild card into the French Open by winning the 2015 Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge. Tiafoe, who turned pro in early April and is currently ranked a career-high 381st in the world, clinched the wild card…
In his first time playing in the country of Turkey, world number two Roger Federer captured the Istanbul Open trophy, beating third-seeded Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 7-6(11) for his 85th career ATP World Tour title. Federer notched the lone break point of the opening set and went on to take it 6-3. He looked to…
Roger Federer survived a strong test from Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver in the Istanbul Open third-round on Friday, advancing with a 7-6(3), 6-7(5), 6-3 victory. Gimeno-Traver kept himself in the match by saving 10 of the 13 break points he faced, but the world number two from Switzerland was just too tough, breaking while up 4-3…