Kei Nishikori fought off five match points before outlasting Gael Monfils 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(3) in a semifinal thriller at the Miami Open on Thursday. Nishikori withstood 14 aces off the Monfils racket and overcame six double-faults of his own to triumph in two hours and 29 minutes.
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Prior to the start of this month’s BNP Paribas Open, David Goffin had never been past the quarterfinals of a Masters 1000 event. There was no reason to think anything different would transpire when Goffin found himself down match points against Frances Tiafoe in the Indian Wells second round. […]
The record will indicate that Novak Djokovic made relatively routine work of Dominic Thiem in the fourth round Miami Open on Wednesday afternoon. A far more accurate picture, however, is painted by both the statistics and […]
Roger Federer. Rafael Nadal. Stan Wawrinka. David Ferrer. All four of those names could not be found in the Miami Open draw when play began on Monday. The damage continued on both the women’s and men’s sides, including a Grigor Dimitrov upset of Andy Murray. […]
Novak Djokovic’s only real trouble at the Miami Open on Sunday came in the form of a nasty fall during his first set against Joao Sousa. The world No. 1 also dropped serve twice in the opener, but he eventually picked up the pace and cruised to a 6-4, 6-1 victory. […]
Roger Federer had already withdrawn from the Miami Open on Friday. The tournament figured it would not lose another greatest player of all time candidate one day later–not with Rafael Nadal going up against unheralded opponent Damir Dzumhur. […]
Another installment of the Roger Federer vs. Juan Martin Del Potro rivalry will have to wait. Federer and Del Potro were scheduled to face each other for the first time since 2013 at the Miami Open on Friday afternoon. But there was no rematch of the 2009 U.S. Open final, as Federer withdrew. […]
Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco won their opening match at the Miami Open on Thursday evening, beating Simone Bolelli and Andreas Seppi 6-3, 6-4. Nadal and Verdasco needed one hour and nine minutes to set up a showdown against the American duo of John Isner and Nicholas Monroe. […]
It will be Roger Federer vs. Juan Martin Del Potro in the Miami Open second round on Friday afternoon. Del Potro assured that the highly-anticipated battle would come to fruition when he took care of fellow Argentine Guido Pella 6-0, 7-6(3) on the opening day of main-draw action on Wednesday night. […]
Milos Raonic did, of course, have to the tools with which to trouble Novak Djokovic in the Indian Wells final–just as he does against anyone. But the Canadian did not and maybe was not able to use them in a 6-2, 6-0 loss. Djokovic got the job done in just one hour and 17 minutes. […]
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