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Nadal, Kyrgios Square Off Thursday In Madrid

  • Posted: May 11, 2017

Nadal, Kyrgios Square Off Thursday In Madrid

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Djokovic confronts Lopez, while Murray meets #NextGenATP’s Coric

View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following match-ups Thursday at the Mutua Madrid Open & vote for who you think will win! 
Nadal v Kyrgios | Djokovic v Lopez | Murray v Coric | Nishikori v Ferrer

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• Five of the Top 6 seeds are in third-round action at the Mutua Madrid Open on Thursday, including past champions Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. Murray meets #NextGenATP player Borna Coric, who could become the first lucky loser ever to reach the Madrid quarter-finals. Djokovic takes an 8-1 head-to-head record into his match with Madrid native Feliciano Lopez.
 
• Nadal, who leads all players with 30 wins in 2017 and four Madrid titles, faces No. 16 seed Nick Kyrgios for the third time. Their FedEx ATP Head2Head rivalry is even at one win each. Kyrgios hit 37 aces to stun then-No. 1 Nadal at 2014 Wimbledon as a 19-year-old wild card ranked 144th. But when they met again on the clay courts of Rome last May, Nadal rallied from a set down for the win.

• Spaniard David Ferrer seeks his 700th win for a second straight day after receiving a walkover from Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Ferrer tries again against 2014 finalist Kei Nishikori, who defeated him at Caja Magica in 2014 and 2015. No. 11 seed Tomas Berdych is nearing a milestone of his own. The 2012 Madrid finalist, two wins shy of 600, meets #NextGenATP player Alexander Zverev.

• No. 5 seed Milos Raonic and No. 9 seed David Goffin will renew their rivalry, which includes the Canadian’s comeback from two sets down en route to the 2016 Wimbledon final. The 26-year-olds are both ranked in the Top 10 after reaching two finals each in 2017. They’ve come a long way from Australian Open qualifying in 2011, when then-No. 152 Raonic defeated then-No. 205 Goffin.

• Another all-seeded showdown pits No. 8 seed Dominic Thiem against No. 12 seed Grigor Dimitrov. Thiem and Dimitrov are among the four remaining players with one-handed backhands, joining Lopez and Pablo Cuevas. The unseeded Uruguayan meets Benoit Paire for a spot in his third ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final of 2017 (0 QFs in 28 prior ATP Masters 1000 appearances).

700-WINS CLUB (ALL PLAYERS)

Rank            Player                         Wins

1            Jimmy Connors                     1,256

2            Roger Federer*                     1,099

3            Ivan Lendl                              1,068

4            Guillermo Vilas                        929

5            John McEnroe                         877

6            Andre Agassi                           870

7            Rafael Nadal*                          836

8            Stefan Edberg                         801

9            Ilie Nastase                             780

 10         Novak Djokovic*                      766

11           Pete Sampras                         762

12           Boris Becker                           713

13            David Ferrer*                         699

* Active Player

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Bryans Reach Madrid Quarter-Finals

  • Posted: May 11, 2017

Bryans Reach Madrid Quarter-Finals

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Five-time champions advance to last eight

Second seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan advanced to the Mutua Madrid Open quarter-finals with a 5-7, 6-2, 10-7 win over Fabrice Martin and Daniel Nestor on Wednesday. The Americans capitalised on both of their break point chances to reach the last eight in Madrid, where they will face Nick Kyrgios and Jack Sock.

Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares, the third seeds, defeated Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 6-3, 7-6(4) in 82 minutes to set a quarter-final clash with sixth seeds Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin. The Frenchmen advanced with a 7-6(6), 7-6(3) win over Robin Haase and Albert Ramos-Vinolas.

Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo needed just 64 minutes to advance 6-3, 6-4 over Brian Baker and Nicholas Monroe. The fourth seeds await the winner of the match between seventh seeds Ivan Dodig/Marcel Granollers and Fabio Fognini/Treat Huey.

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Ouch! Diego Cops It Where It Hurts

  • Posted: May 11, 2017

Ouch! Diego Cops It Where It Hurts

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Schwartzman suffers blooper moment against Nishikori

Diego Schwartzman had a far more eventful warm-up than he would have liked against Kei Nishikori on Wednesday at the Mutua Madrid Open, with a shot from the sixth seed hitting him directly in the groin. 

Both Schwartzman and Nishikori had a laugh at the incident and the crowd even gave Schwartzman a sympathetic round of applause as he briefly collected himself. But the most crushing blow that Nishikori delivered was a backhand winner to wrap up a 1-6, 6-0, 6-4 second-round win in exactly two hours.

Nishikori next plays local favourite David Ferrer in the round of 16 on Thursday.

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Madrid Open 2017: Novak Djokovic & Rafael Nadal into third round

  • Posted: May 10, 2017

World number two Novak Djokovic reached the Madrid Open third round by winning his first match since parting company with his coaching staff on Friday.

The 12-time Grand Slam champion beat Spanish wildcard Nicolas Almagro 6-1 4-6 7-5 and plays Feliciano Lopez next.

Defending champion Djokovic, 29, described Friday’s decision as “shock therapy”, and will be on the tour alone until he appoints a new coach.

Rafael Nadal also went through with victory over Italian Fabio Fognini.

The Spaniard won 7-6 (7-3) 3-6 6-4 in a match that lasted just under three hours to set up a tie with Australia’s Nick Kyrgios.

Britain’s Andy Murray is already through to round three after Tuesday’s straight-set victory over Romanian Marius Copil.

He will play Croatia’s world number 59 Borna Coric, who beat Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France 7-5 6-4 on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Djokovic said he may appoint a new coach before the French Open, which begins on 28 May.

“I’m going to think about who I want in my team and I don’t yet have anyone. But I think by the French Open, or after the French Open, I’m going to have someone,” he said.

“I understand people are trying to speculate and create a list because I was saying I would like to have someone who was kind of in my shoes before.”

Kerber to reclaim number one spot

In the women’s tournament in Madrid, Eugenie Bouchard advanced to the quarter-finals after top seed Angelique Kerber retired from their match through injury.

World number two Kerber was trailing 6-3 5-0 against the Canadian, who beat Maria Sharapova – the woman she called a cheat – on Monday.

Despite the third-round exit, Germany’s Kerber is still guaranteed to overtake American Serena Williams as world number one when the latest WTA rankings are published on Monday.

Bouchard, ranked 60 in the world, goes on to play Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova, the world number nine.

Analysis

BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:

This was a stuttering start to life without the coaching team which had been such a huge part of his career, but Djokovic played very soundly in the deciding set from 3-0 down, as Almagro’s purple patch faded spectacularly.

The world number two was watched by his brother Marko and Pepe Imaz – a former pro, who now promotes a ‘Love and Peace Tennis Experience’ – and has been part of Djokovic’s wider team for a few years.

Fognini, meanwhile, reminded us of his exquisite talent in a mesmerising match with Nadal. He saved one match point with a 90mph forehand onto the baseline, but once again, for the 11th time out of 11 on clay this year, Nadal ran out the winner.

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Strong field could await Sharapova in Birmingham

  • Posted: May 10, 2017

Maria Sharapova will feature alongside eight of the world’s top 10 if she accepts a wildcard for next month’s Aegon Classic in Birmingham.

Britain’s Johanna Konta will play, along with Garbine Muguruza, Karolina Pliskova and Angelique Kerber, who will return to world number one on Monday.

BBC Sport understands Sharapova will be offered a wildcard for Birmingham.

The Russian, who returned from a 15-month doping ban last month, lost to Eugenie Bouchard in Madrid on Monday.

Her involvement in Spain, courtesy of another wildcard, ended in the second round courtesy of a 7-5 2-6 6-4 defeat to the Canadian, who had been critical of the Russian, calling her a “cheat” and saying she should never have been allowed to play again.

She also received a wildcard for Stuttgart in April, where she reached the last four.

The line-up for Birmingham is the strongest ever seen at the grass-court event.

Of the current top 10, only Svetlana Kuznetsova and Serena Williams, who recently announced her pregnancy, are missing.

The event runs from 17-25 June and is one of three tournaments – along with the Aegon Open in Nottingham and the Aegon International in Eastbourne – in the lead up to Wimbledon in July.

Sharapova, who has not played a Wimbledon warm-up event since she reached the final in Birmingham in 2010, remains some way adrift of direct entry into the Wimbledon main draw.

She will need to reach the semi-finals in Rome next week to make sure. A first-round defeat could cost her a place in qualifying unless the All England Club offers her a wildcard.

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