Tennis - Grips

Brandon Nakashima has ensured an all-American final at the Truist Atlanta Open after rallying from a set down against Finlands Emil Ruusuvuori to win 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday. The 19-year-old advanced to the second ATP Tour final of his career, and the second in as many weeks after his run last week in Los Cabos. He will face the five-time champion John Isner for a shot at the ATP 250 title. Nakashima, who improved to 8-3 on the season with the victory, is set to rise into the Top 100 in the FedEx ATP Rankings on Monday. Currently World No. 115, he will be the youngest American in the Top 100. To get there, Nakashima had to halt the in-form Ruusuvuori, who toppled the third seed Cameron Norrie and seventh seed Benoit Paire en route to his first ATP Tour semi-final. The American recovered after dropping the opening set, firing 14 aces and breaking serve three times to s...

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Nick Bollettieri never set out to revolutionise the way tennis was coached, let alone become world famous. But over the course of the past six decades, the charismatic former American football player-turned paratrooper, who today celebrates his 90th birthday, never stopped learning about the sport. Be it from his time in Coral Gables and onto Victory Park in North Miami Beach; from Synder Park in Springfield, Ohio, the Port Washington Tennis Academy to the Dorado Beach Resort in Puerto Rico and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; then The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, located in Sarasota, and onto an old tomato field in Bradenton, Florida, his home of the past 40 years. Initially considering tennis a “sissy sport”, Bollettieri translated the discipline and dedication required to jump out of an aeroplane in the 187th Airborne Division of the US Army into leadership as a visionary, id...

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Top seed Casper Ruud became the first player in a decade to complete an ATP Tour hat-trick after defeating Pedro Martinez 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 to win the Generali Open in Kitzbühel – Ruuds third title in as many weeks. The Norwegian extended his winning streak to 12 consecutive matches, having lifted trophies at the Nordea Open (d. Coria) and Swiss Open Gstaad (d. Gaston) in July. The 22-year-old’s strong clay-court form will see him rise to eighth place in the FedEx ATP Race To Turin on Monday. “I am shaking all over my body. It feels amazing,” Ruud said. “I was very nervous at the end, I knew what I was playing for. Three in a row is something special. What a day to play the final, rain on and off all day. “I’m just very excited and happy that these three weeks are over, and that I won all of them.” Ruud’s vict...

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Austrians Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler completed a dream week on home soil on Saturday in Kitzb�hel. The wild cards defeated third seeds Roman Jebavy and Matwe Middelkoop 7-5, 7-6(5) to win their first ATP Tour title at the Generali Open. Erler and Miedler were both making their tour-level debuts and teaming for the first time this week in Kitzb�hel. The Austrians won 68 per cent (32/47) of their first-service points as they claimed victory in 90 minutes. It feels amazing, words cannot describe what happened today, Meidler said. We are happy, and in front of this home crowd, to win a first ATP Tour title together is unbelievable. We played well and the other guys played some good tennis. Our strength this week has been winning tie-breaks. We just focused on every point, we started well in the tie-break. We kept believing. The wild cards upset top seeds Tomislav Brkic and Niko...

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Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta bounced back from his disappointing semi-final defeat by upsetting top-seeded Serbian Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-3 to claim the bronze medal on Saturday at the Tokyo Olympics. The sixth seed, who defeated World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev on the way to the bronze medal match, played aggressively throughout against Djokovic, striking the ball with great power on his groundstrokes. After squandering a match point at 6/5 in the second set tie-break, the 30-year-old raised his level in the third set to record victory in two hours and 49 minutes. I won [the] Davis Cup, and I’ve gone far in other tournaments, but winning an Olympic medal is indescribable,” Carreno Busta told ITFtennis.com . “I’ve felt the support from Spain, my family and people around me, and have received fond messages from those who saw me lose yesterday. I want to share...

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Nearly three hours, almost 50 combined aces and not a break of serve in sight: fifth seed Taylor Fritz battled to the brink against Reilly Opelka to win a 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 7-6(4) epic on Friday and book a place into the Truist Atlanta Open semi-finals. Fritz is into his fourth semi-final of the season, and his second in as many weeks after reaching the last four in Los Cabos. Opelka saved two match points in a nail biting second-set to take them the distance, but Fritz held his nerve to take down the fourth seed. “We had plans to have dinner last night, and we were talking all day this morning before the match,” Fritz said of playing good friend Opelka. “It’s all love… We know we’re going to play each other so many more times. We’re normal before the match too, making jokes going down in the elevator heading down to the courts bef...

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World No. 3 Rafael Nadal has landed in a tricky section of the Citi Open draw as he begins his quest for an 89th tour-level title. The top-seeded Spaniard is set to make his debut in Washington, D.C. and he could meet one of the most in-form players of the season in an early hard-court test. The Spaniard will be contesting his first hard-court tournament since the Australian Open in February, where he reached the quarter-finals before falling to Stefanos Tsitsipas in a five-set battle. Nadal has amassed a 22-4 record on the season after lifting trophies in Barcelona and Rome, but has not competed since reaching the Roland Garros semi-finals (l. to Djokovic) after withdrawing from Wimbledon citing physical and mental fatigue. View full Washington, D.C. draw. Should he reach the quarter-finals, top seed Nadal could get a big test in the form of seventh seed Camero...

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