Court No. 2 in Ystad is, for want of a better term, the show court at the venue, but only a couple of spectators availed themselves of the ample seating when Anton Shepp and...
Brian Bozemoj served first when he and Stijn Pel played Anton Shepp and Oliver Johansson in the first round of doubles in Ystad, but Pel’s smash to win the first point was the...
Just because they were an alternate pair didn’t mean that Francisco Cabral and Lucas Miedler wouldn’t provide stiff opposition for Michael Venus and Yuki Bhambri in their first...
The overall quality of the field meant that Erin Routliffe and Gaby Dabrowski had another tough match coming up in the second round in Cincinnati, where they would be facing...
The big thing about slow clay courts is that they’re very conducive to long rallies, and we certainly saw that when Anton Shepp played Swedish left-hander Michael Minasyan in the...
I wrote it in one of last week’s reports, but I have to write it again – the new stadium complex in Nusa Dua appears to be a tremendous set-up, with even the smaller outside...
Vittoria Paganetti may have double faulted to start her first round qualifying match in Kursumlijska Banja, but four consecutive unforced errors from Valentina Ivanov made it...
Lulu Sun and Ekaterina Alexandrova had met twice before they clashed in the second round of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, Sun pushing the Russian hard in a very...
Just because they’re the second seeds doesn’t mean that Erin Routliffe and Gaby Dabrowski are any sort of lock to cruise through to the doubles final in Cincinnati, because this...
By the end of the first game I was beginning to wonder if qualifier Antonia Ruzic was going to last any distance at all in her first round match in Cincinnati against Lulu Sun,...
James Watt ran into a roadblock named Andrew Fenty in the first round of qualifying for the ATP Challenger in Chicago, and they met again in the first round of doubles when Watt...
