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. […]
Lukas Rosol endured several meltdowns against Rafael Nadal during first-round action at the Swiss Indoors Basel, ultimately leading to a 1-6, 7-5, 7-6(4) victory for the Spaniard. It began with an epic botched volley with the Czech two points from the match. […]
Gael Monfils recovered from a tough first set to overcome Thomaz Bellucci 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4 in round one of the Erste Bank Open on Tuesday. The Frenchman once again covered all ends of the spectrum–awful errors, bizarre antics, and amazing winners. […]
Richard Gasquet saved a match point with a backhand winner that not only went off the net cord but also clipped both the baseline and the sideline during Thursday’s third-round match against Bernard Tomic at the Shanghai Rolex Masters. […]
Rafael Nadal broke Ivo Karlovic to stay alive in the first set of their Shanghai second-round showdown with the 6’11” Croat serving at 5-4. Nadal rifled consecutive return winners at 15-15, 15-30, and 30-40. […]