Radu Albot caused the upset of the day on Wednesday at the Antalya Open, storming into the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over second seed Paolo Lorenzi.

The Moldovan scored the lone break in each set to advance in one hour and 21 minutes and reach his ATP World Tour quarter-final. Lorenzi’s struggles on grass continue, with the Italian recording an 11^th consecutive loss on the surface.

The surprise win adds to an already wild tournament, with top seed Dominic Thiem falling to Indian qualifier Ramkumar Ramanathan in his opening match on Tuesday.

Next up for Albot is Andreas Seppi, who rallied from a set down to defeat Janko Tipsarevic 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. The contest was a rematch of their 2011 Eastbourne final that also saw Seppi prevail when Tipsarevic retired down 3-5 in the final set. The Italian continues to excel on grass, reaching the Eastbourne final in 2012 (l. Roddick) and Halle final in 2015 (l. Federer). He improves his FedEx ATP Head2Head against Tipsarevic to 2-3, with both wins coming on grass.

Seppi won his lone FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting with Albot this March at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Miami.

#NextGenATP German Daniel Altmaier continued his dream run in Antalya with his first ATP World Tour quarter-final, fighting back from the brink of defeat to move past wild card and local favourite Marsel Ilhan 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(5).

Ilhan served for the match at 5-4 in the deciding set, but Altmaier broke and then raced to a 5/1 lead in the tie-break before prevailing in two hours and 28 minutes. The German also needed a final-set tie-break to win his first round against Victor Estrella Burgos.

The 18 year old moved into the main draw as a lucky loser when fellow #NextGenATP player Hyeon Chung withdrew due to a left ankle injury. Altmaier, currently No. 252 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, qualified for his first ATP World Tour main draw last month in Geneva. He also reached the semi-finals of the ATP Challenger Tour event this January in Bangkok.

Awaiting Altmaier in the last eight is either fourth seed David Ferrer or Yuicihi Sugita.

Marach/Pavic Battle Into Semi-finals

In a match with no breaks of serve, second seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic survived a marathon quarter-final with Indian duo Purav Raja and Divij Sharan to advance 7-6(9), 6-7(4), 10-4. Marach/Pavic saved two set points at 6/7 and 8/9 in the first-set tie-break. They continue their grass-court success after reaching the Stuttgart final two weeks ago (l. Murray/Soares).

Awaiting them in the semi-finals are fourth seeds Leander Paes and Adil Shamasdin, who dismissed Carlos Berlocq and Joao Sousa 6-1, 6-2 in 50 minutes.

Top seeds Robert Lindstedt and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi moved into the last four with a 3-6, 7-6(4), 10-7 comeback over Nicholas Monroe and Artem Sitak. Lindstedt/Qureshi will play Jonathan Erlich and Nikola Mektic, who defeated Philipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya 6-3, 7-6(4).

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Novak Djokovic believes that his trip to the south coast of England to compete at the Aegon International will have a positive effect on every aspect of his game.

Speaking after his 25th match win of the year on Wednesday, the Serbian star admitted, “I came to Eastbourne because I wanted to experience match play – mentally, physically and tactically – every way you look at it. Because grass is a different surface from any other, I would like to get as much time on the court as possible.

“The movement is very different from clay or hard courts. You’ve got to be very soft, very gentle, but yet very reactive… I’m trying to get as much of the match situations as possible, hear the chair umpire say 30-all, 4-all. Those kind of intense moments.”

Djokovic, the highest-ranked male player to compete in Eastbourne since Marcelo Rios in 1999, has not competed at a grass-court event prior to Wimbledon since the 2010 Aegon Championships.

Four days into his stay at Devonshire Park, the venue of the ATP World Tour 250 tournament, the 30 year old says the fans have made him feel most welcome.

“It’s a very kind of informal tournament in a good way, where you can go around the grounds and kind of interact with people,” said Djokovic. “Sure, people come up to you, but they respect you if you’re going with a purpose to a certain court to observe a match or something like that. That’s what happened the other day. People are really kind of respectful and giving me space for certain time until I finished with my scouting.

“That’s the nice thing about this tournament. I don’t get to experience that. Usually I am, like most of the top players, in the locker rooms or especially in the areas where the players are going to be around. So it’s nice to go around the outside courts and observe, because that’s what we all used to do. It’s good to do that again for a change.”

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Djokovic has not lifted an ATP World Tour trophy since the first week of the season at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open (d. Murray) in January. With Wimbledon set to begin on 3 July, the Serbian admitted that it’s “good to not be one of the top favourites.”

“I was very fortunate and privileged to have so much success in the past eight, nine years, and kind of enter most of the tournaments as one of the biggest favourites to win it.

“It is ‘liberating’ a bit. It releases a bit of the pressure. It’s always there. I mean, you still feel it. It’s part of who I am, what I do. And what I have achieved so far has added to those expectations from the people around.

“I try to lower those expectations myself, because I really want to be as much as I can, at this stage of my life and career, in the moment and try to focus only on what comes up next. That doesn’t mean that I don’t want to win trophies and so forth. Of course I do, that’s why I’m playing professional tennis. But it’s just that I need to take things a bit slower and try and re-calibrate so I can get to the level where I want to get.

Djokovic, currently No. 4 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, has been named as second seed for The Championships at Wimbledon, where he is a three-time former champion.

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Antalya Open – Antalya, Turkey

Dominic Thiem and Marsel Ilhan visited the Aspendos ampitheatre and played a game of mini tennis.

Borna Coric, David Ferrer, Anil Yuksel and Ilhan were the lucky players to participate in the draw ceremony. 

Fernando Verdasco, Radu Albot and #NextGenATP German Daniel Altmaier tried their hand at jet skiing.

Aegon International – Eastbourne, U.K.

Novak Djokovic, John Isner, Gael Monfils, Kyle Edmund and Steve Johnson took part in Media Day.

Ryan Harrison visited Willingdon Community School to meet with local children.

Novak Djokovic recorded his 25th match win of the season on Wednesday in overcast conditions at the Aegon International in Eastbourne.

Having played only 13 points due to rain on Tuesday, Djokovic returned to Devonshire Park, venue of the ATP World Tour 250 tournament, to complete a 6-4, 6-3 victory over qualifier Vasek Pospisil in 85 minutes.

“I’m glad that I came here to Eastbourne,” said Djokovic. “I have had a great couple of days of training with good players, different styles of game. Yesterday, we obviously started the match and it wasn’t really enjoyable to see the rain falling all day.

“But today we kind of played a full match, so I’m glad for that. I felt good on the court, considering it was my first grass-court match. I played against an opponent that has a really good game for grass. He serves well, comes to the net and has good variety. It was a really, really solid win. I’m happy with it.”

“Fabulous rally!” ???@DjokerNole & @VasekPospisil wow the crowd at the #AegonInternational #Eastbourne pic.twitter.com/CMJRyPnfqC

— British Tennis (@BritishTennis) June 28, 2017

The 30-year-old Djokovic, who is competing at this first grass-court tournament prior to Wimbledon since the 2010 Aegon Championships, will now meet American Donald Young in the quarter-finals.

Young managed to convert three of his 12 break point opportunities in a 6-4, 7-5 win over his #NextGenATP compatriot Jared Donaldson. Djokovic will now meet Young for the first time since the 2006 US Open.

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Five first-round matches and two doubles matches were completed on Wednesday before the heavens opened to further delay play at the Aegon International. Play was suspended at Devonshire Park at 4:55 p.m. local time, with five singles matches on court.

Earlier in the day, #NextGenATP Russian Daniil Medvedev recorded his sixth grass-court match win of the year as he defeated fifth seed Sam Querrey 6-3, 7-5. Medvedev, who is currently No. 5 in the Emirates ATP Race To Milan for a spot at November’s Next Gen ATP Finals, struck nine aces and broke serve on three occasions to beat the 2015 finalist in 74 minutes.

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American Frances Tiafoe, 19, hit 18 aces and came close to beating seventh seed Richard Gasquet, a winner of two grass-court trophies, mid-afternoon. Gasquet fought back from a set and 4-5 deficit to record a 5-7, 7-6(4), 6-3 victory in two hours and 24 minutes.

Sixth seed Mischa Zverev led Ryan Harrison by a set and 4-2, but then had to fight off six set points before recording a 6-4, 7-6(9) victory. Harrison led 6/2 in the tie-break, then held two further set point opportunities at 7/6 and 9/8 before Zverev clinched his 17th match win of the year in 89 minutes.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club committee has announced the 32 singles seeds and 16 doubles seeds for The Championships at Wimbledon, which begins on Monday, 3 July.

Two-time champion Andy Murray, three-time former titlist Novak Djokovic and seven-time winner Roger Federer are among the top singles seeds.

Since 2002, The Championships has employed a unique seeding system, where they take into account previous results over a two-year period on grass courts.

• Take the Emirates ATP Ranking points on 20 June 2016
• Add 100 per cent of the points earned for all grass court tournaments in the past 12 months
• Add 75 per cent of the points earned for the best grass court tournament in the 12 months before that

The singles main draw ceremony takes place on Friday.

Singles Seeds
1 Andy Murray (GBR)
2 Novak Djokovic (SRB)
3 Roger Federer (SUI)
4 Rafael Nadal (ESP)
5 Stan Wawrinka (SUI)
6 Milos Raonic (CAN)
7 Marin Cilic (CRO)
8 Dominic Thiem (AUT)
9 Kei Nishikori (JPN)
10 Alexander Zverev (GER)
11 Tomas Berdych (CZE)
12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)
13 Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)
14 Lucas Pouille (FRA)
15 Gael Monfils (FRA)
16 Gilles Muller (LUX)
17 Jack Sock (USA)
18 Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)
19 Feliciano Lopez (ESP)
20 Nick Kyrgios (AUS)
21 Ivo Karlovic (CRO)
22 Richard Gasquet (FRA)
23 John Isner (USA)
24 Sam Querrey (USA)
25 Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP)
26 Steve Johnson (USA)
27 Pablo Cuevas (URU)
28 Mischa Zverev (GER)
29 Fabio Fognini (ITA)
30 Juan Martin del Potro (ARG)
31 Karen Khachanov (RUS)
32 Paolo Lorenzi (ITA)

Doubles Seeds
1 Henri Kontinen (FIN) / John Peers (AUS)
2 Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) / Nicolas Mahut (FRA)
3 Jamie Murray (GBR) / Bruno Soares (BRA)
4 Lukasz Kubot (POL) / Marcelo Melo (BRA)
5 Bob Bryan (USA) / Mike Bryan (USA)
6 Ivan Dodig (CRO) / Marcel Granollers (ESP)
7 Raven Klaasen (RSA) / Rajeev Ram (USA)
8 Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)
9 Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) / Horia Tecau (ROU)
10 Ryan Harrison (USA) / Michael Venus (NZL)
11 Feliciano Lopez (ESP) / Marc Lopez (ESP)
12 Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL) / Robert Farah (COL)
13 Fabrice Martin (FRA) / Daniel Nestor (CAN)
14 Florin Mergea (ROU) / Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)
15 Julio Peralta (CHI) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG)
16 Oliver Marach (AUT) / Mate Pavic (CRO)