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Kubot/Melo Show Grass-Court Prowess In Halle

  • Posted: Jun 21, 2017

Kubot/Melo Show Grass-Court Prowess In Halle

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Ricoh Open champions move into the Halle QFs

Top seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo stayed unbeaten on the grass on Wednesday in Halle, moving into the Gerry Weber Open quarter-finals with a 6-4, 4-6, 10-8 victory against Japan’s Kei Nishikori and Spaniard Fernando Verdasco.

Kubot/Melo, champions at the Ricoh Open in s’-Hertogenbosch on Sunday, won 83 per cent of their first-serve points to advance in 83 minutes. They will next play Spaniards Roberto Bautista Agut and David Ferrer.

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German qualifiers Andre Begemann and Tim Puetz dismissed the French team of Richard Gasquet and Lucas Pouille 6-3, 6-4. The Germans dropped only two first-serve points (27/29) and saved all three break points. They will next face second seeds and two-time defending champions Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram.

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At The Queen’s Club, Roland Garros champions Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus started their London campaign with a 6-2, 6-4 win against Spaniards Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez (no relation).

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Tsonga out in another Queen's upset – video highlights & report

  • Posted: Jun 21, 2017
2017 Aegon Championships
Venue: Queen’s Club, London Dates: 19-25 June
Coverage: Comprehensive live coverage on BBC One, BBC Two, Red Button, Connected TV and online daily

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga became the latest seed to lose at the Aegon Championships, beaten in straight sets by Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller.

The Frenchman, seeded fifth, lost 6-4 6-4 in the second round at Queen’s.

Tsonga’s exit follows defeats for Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka and Milos Raonic – the top three seeds – on Tuesday.

Croatia’s fourth seed Marin Cilic and Bulgarian sixth seed Grigor Dimitrov are the leading players left in the draw at the London tournament.

Czech seventh seed Tomas Berdych came through a tight contest against 18-year-old Canadian Denis Shapovalov.

Berdych, 31, earned his first break point of the match after two hours and 14 minutes, converting it to win 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (4-7) 7-5.

“It was a really great match,” said Berdych, who was a beaten Wimbledon finalist in 2010.

“Denis put up some great tennis and made me work really hard.”

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Muller, ranked 26th, is through to the quarter-finals for the third straight year and is now on a six-match winning run on grass.

The 34-year-old, who won the s-Hertogenbosch title in the Netherlands last week, did not face a break point against Tsonga. He will play Australian Jordan Thompson, who beat Murray, or American Sam Querrey in the third round.

“My serve is working great. It’s good at this time of the year on the grass – you need a good serve so I’m happy with that,” said Muller.

Tsonga, runner-up at Queen’s in 2011, said: “He just played good tennis. Sometimes you cannot do anything because the guy in front of you is playing well.

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“It doesn’t affect anything for me. Sometimes you play well; sometimes it’s difficult. It’s part of the game.

“I will stay here playing on grass and try to do better next week.”

Dimitrov, 26, fought back to beat France’s Julien Benneteau 4-6 6-3 6-4 as the temperature exceeded 30C for the third day in a row.

“I like the heat a lot,” said Dimitrov, the 2014 champion. “I love it. The warmer it is, the better it is – I don’t shy away from that.”

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Aegon Classic Birmingham: Petra Kvitova continues comeback with Naomi Broady win

  • Posted: Jun 21, 2017

Petra Kvitova continued her return from a career-threatening hand injury with a 6-2 6-2 win over Briton Naomi Broady in the second round of the Aegon Classic.

The two-time Wimbledon champion, 27, was stabbed by an intruder at her home in December.

Czech Kvitova returned at last month’s French Open before earning the first comeback win in Birmingham on Monday.

British number two Broady, who beat Alize Cornet in the first round, failed to create a break point.

Broady, 27, was overpowered by Kvitova’s trademark serve and booming groundstrokes as the 2011 and 2014 Wimbledon champion wrapped up both sets by winning four consecutive games.

“So far it is working very well. I still have a lot of things to improve but it is good news,” said Kvitova, who will compete at Wimbledon when the tournament starts on 3 July.

“I want to play as many matches as I can. It was a dream come to true to play again and it is great preparation for Wimbledon.”

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Azarenka fights back to win on comeback from having baby

  • Posted: Jun 21, 2017

Former world number one Victoria Azarenka saved three match points before winning on her comeback from a year out after the birth of her son.

The two-time Australian Open champion, who gave birth to Leo in December, won 6-3 4-6 7-6 (9-7) against Japan’s Risa Ozaki at the Mallorca Open.

It was the 27-year-old Belarusian’s first match since losing at the French Open in June 2016.

Azarenka was sixth in the world when she announced her pregnancy last July.

She was a game away from defeat when play was suspended on Tuesday because of fading light.

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But she showed her trademark resilience to twice break 74th-ranked Ozaki’s serve when they returned on Wednesday, then going on to fight back from 5-3 down in the tie-break.

Azarenka was given a wildcard to play in the Mallorca Open, which is scheduled to be her only competitive action before Wimbledon.

The former Wimbledon quarter-finalist has used her protected ranking to play at the All England Club in the tournament which starts on 3 July.

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Novak Djokovic to make rare Eastbourne appearance before Wimbledon

  • Posted: Jun 21, 2017
Eastbourne 2017
Dates: 26 June-1 July
Venue: Devonshire Park, Eastbourne
Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online

Novak Djokovic will play his first pre-Wimbledon event in seven years after accepting a wildcard at Eastbourne.

The three-time Wimbledon champion has not played since losing in the French Open quarter-finals earlier this month.

The 30-year-old Serb has dropped to fourth in the world after a turbulent year in which he has only won one title and split with his coaching team.

“I am looking forward to fine-tuning my grass court game ahead of Wimbledon,” said the 12-time Grand Slam winner.

“This will be my first trip to Eastbourne, I have heard great things about the tournament.”

Djokovic became the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time last year, but now does not hold any after suffering a loss of form.

He suffered early-round exits at last year’s Wimbledon and January’s Australian Open, then lost to Austria’s world number eight Dominic Thiem at Roland Garros.

Defeat against Thiem meant he slipped out of the world’s top two for the first time since 2011.

Eastbourne is the final tour event before Wimbledon starts on Monday, 3 July.

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Willis given Wimbledon qualifying wildcard after last year's exploits

  • Posted: Jun 21, 2017

Britain’s Marcus Willis has been awarded a wildcard into qualifying for Wimbledon after his fairytale run at last year’s tournament.

Willis won six matches to qualify last year, before beating a top-100 player in the first round and losing to Roger Federer on Centre Court in the second.

He will definitely be at Wimbledon again this year as he has received a wildcard for the doubles.

Seven Britons have been given wildcards for the singles main draws.

They are Naomi Broady, Heather Watson, Laura Robson, Katie Boulter in the women’s draw, plus Brydan Klein, Cameron Norrie and James Ward in the men’s competition.

All are ranked inside the world’s top 250 with the exception of Ward, who has spent much of the last year on the sidelines with a knee injury.

Wimbledon runs from Monday, 3 July to Sunday, 16 July.

German Tommy Haas, a Wimbledon semi-finalist in 2009, has also been given a wildcard, along with Canadian Denis Shapovalov in the men’s draw.

Shapovalov, 18, was defaulted in a Davis Cup match against Kyle Edmund in February after hitting a ball in frustration that fractured umpire Arnaud Gabas’s eye socket.

He beat Edmund at the Aegon Championships in London on Monday at Queen’s Club.

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“Willbomb’s on fire .. Federer is terrified” was one of the more unusual chants that could be heard on Centre Court last year as Willis played the seven-time champion in the second round.

Willis had been playing mostly in the French and German leagues and was ranked 772 in the world prior to the Championships. He has played sparingly in the past 12 months, and, now ranked 387, has won just under £3,000 on the Futures circuit so far this year.

Many other British players will have a chance to compete in qualifying – including the 18-year-olds Jay Clarke and Katie Swan and 19-year-old Gabriella Taylor.

Taylor spent four days in intensive care after losing her girls’ quarter-final match last year, and Scotland Yard later investigated claims that she had been poisoned.

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