Given the two protagonists involved, shenanigans were expected in Tuesday’s showdown between Nick Kyrgios at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. Sure enough, Kyrgios started the match in tank-mode before Klizan ended it in laughable fashion. […]
Nick Kyrgios was untouchable against Richard Gasquet during quarterfinal action at the Open 13 on Friday–quite literally, at least in the last game of the match. He capped off his 6-0, 6-4 victory with four consecutive first-serve aces. […]
One week ago, Dustin Brown went behind-the-back to hit a winner at the Bergamo Challenger, albeit in a loss to world No. 212 Aldin Setkic. Brown was up to his usual tricks again on Tuesday at the Wroclaw Challenger, but this time it was in a winning effort. […]
Despite a dreadful loss to Aldin Setkic in round of the Bergamo Challenger on Wednesday, Dustin Brown hit the highlight reel with a behind-the-back winning volley early in the first set. It was downhill from there for Brown it what was eventually a three-set setback. […]
Fast-rising American Taylor Fritz went an usual route to incur a racket-abuse warning during a doubles match at the Maui Challenger on Tuesday. After losing a point at 6-7 during a super-tiebreaker, Fritz kicked his stick–apparently over the fence. […]
Novak Djokovic overcame a break deficit in each set to beat Leonardo Mayer 6-3, 7-5 in the quarterfinals of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open on Thursday. Afterward, Djokovic said a few words in Arabic to the crowd. […]
Nick Kyrgios and Daria Gavrilova got one of Australia’s two teams at the Hopman Cup off to a dominant start on Sunday. The Aussies won both of the singles matches and followed it up with a mixed doubles victory to take care of Germany 3-0. […]
David Ferrer and Alexandr Dolgopolov played one of the best points of the BNP Paribas Masters in their second-round match on Wednesday. John Isner came up with a highlight of his own two days later. […]
Unlike their contentious encounter one week earlier in Basel, Rafael Nadal’s 6-2, 6-2 beatdown of Lukas Rosol in round two of the BNP Paribas Masters on Wednesday offered little drama either inside or outside the lines. But their was still no love lost at the handshake. […]
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal inched closer to highly-anticipated Basel title match, but neither one did it the easy way. A disgruntled Federer even incurred a ball-abuse warning during his loss of the second set to David Goffin. […]