Roger Federer had to dig deep to overcome Canadian super talent Milos Raonic and book his place in the third round of the Madrid Masters. The no.3 seed Swiss defeated the Canadian in three thrilling sets, winning 4-6 7-5 7-6 (4) in 2 hours and 13 minutes. It was always [...]
Croatian Marin Cilic overcame the big serving 8th seed American John Isner in two narrow sets 7-6 (4) 7-6 (3) and booked a place in the third round of the Madrid Tennis Masters. Neither of the players managed to break each other’s serve throughout the whole match. Cilic was the [...]
Second seed Spaniard Rafael Nadal won his opening match at the Mutua Madrid Open after defeating Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko 6-2 6-2 in 1 hour and 20 minutes. Nadal struck in the third game of the first set and then again in the 5th to go up a double break. Davydenko [...]
Defending champion and top seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia overcame a second round scare at the Mutua Madrid Open as he needed three sets to defeat Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain, winning 6-2 2-6 6-3. Djokovic wasn’t happy with the blue clay used for this year’s tournament and he looked less [...]
Last week’s Estoril Open champion Juan Martin del Potro booked his place in the second round of the Mutua Madrid Open as he eliminated Florian Mayer of Germany 6-4 6-2. After the first set loss, Mayer started to look a bit erratic and too many unforced errors allowed the 10th [...]
Austrian Jurgen Melzer overcame 13th seed Feliciano Lopez of Spain in the first round of the Mutua Madrid Open, beating him 3-6 7-6 (6) 6-4. There were two breaks of serve on each side throughout the whole match that lasted 2 hours and 10 minutes. Melzer’s head to head record [...]
Canadian Milos Raonic set up a second round match against Roger Federer at the Mutua Madrid Open after defeating Argentine David Nalbandian 6-4 6-4. Raonic never really looked under pressure throughout the match. He broke Nalbandian in his opening service game and comfortably served out the first set. The crucial [...]
Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic won his opening match at the Mutua Madrid Open as he overcame Australia’s Bernard Tomic 6-2 7-5 in just under 1 hour and 30 minutes. Tomic was 4-1 up in the second set, but Stepanek fought right back and despite facing two break points when [...]
Wild card holder Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain won his first round match at the Mutua Madrid Open against Marcos Baghdatis with a scoreline of 6-4 3-6 6-4. The Cypriot Baghdatis played at this tournament for the fourth time in his career, but has never been able to reach more than [...]
Italy’s Andreas Seppi captured his second career title after he beat Benoit Paire of France 6-3 6-2 in the Serbia Open final. It was the first tour final for Paire, who started the match with an early break. But Seppi managed to break back right away and the Frenchman’s unforced [...]
German Philipp Kohlschreiber set up a BMW Open final encounter against the 3rd seed Marin Cilic of Croatia after defeating the second seed Feliciano Lopez 6-2 6-7 (4) 6-4 in a battle that lasted more than 2 hours. The 4th seed German managed to hold his serve throughout the whole [...]
Frenchman Benoit Paire reached his first ATP tour final as he beat no.1 seed Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-3 1-6 6-3 in Saturday’s semis at the Serbia Open in Belgrade. Paire got off to a better start, but lost his focus in the second set and Andujar took advantage of [...]
Croatian Marin Cilic moved into the BMW Open final after beating German wild card holder Tommy Haas 6-3 6-4 in just 75 minutes. The 3rd seed Croat broke the 34 year old Haas in the 8th game of the first set to serve it out and take the lead in [...]
Frenchman Richard Gasquet beat the Spanish qualifier Daniel Munoz-de la Nava 7-6 (1) 6-2 to make it to the Estoril Open semifinals. No.2 seed Gasquet will play another Spaniard Albert Ramos in the Saturday’s semis and will try to match his 2007 result, when he lost to Serbia’s Djokovic in [...]
