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Pablo Andujar will play Roger Federer for the first time on Tuesday at the Gonet Geneva Open. Before the match, the Spaniard spoke to ATPTour.com about his life on the road on the ATP Tour. What are two essential non-tennis items you always pack for trips My mobile phone and my wallet. I always try to have a book with me. Actually my wife [gave] my parents the idea to buy me an iPad, to work a little bit on the iPad and watch some films. I recently read a book called The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz. I like a typical novel [to help me] to [not] think so much about tennis and try to open a little bit my mind. Do you enjoy travelling the world or consider it just something that needs to be done to be a pro tennis player If you do enjoy it, what do you enjoy about travelling I enjoy more right now than before. I think I try to enjoy life a little bit more than I used to and it...

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Pablo Andujar has played Novak Djokovic twice (0-2) and Rafael Nadal four times (0-4). On Tuesday, the Spaniard will get his first crack at Roger Federer in the second round of the Gonet Geneva Open. “[I am] really, really excited. It was something that I wanted, to have a match against Roger, just to tell my kids and my grandkids when I get older that I played him,” Andujar said. “This is something that for a long time I was looking for. I played Rafa, I played Novak, and I had to close that gap. I knew I was not going to have as many opportunities because years go on. I’m really excited and really happy to play Roger, and in Switzerland as well.” The 35-year-old has won four ATP Tour titles and climbed as high as No. 32 in the FedEx ATP Rankings. Andujar has competed in big matches against the worlds best players, and he still gets excited for opportuni...

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Hugo Gaston, a breakout star at last years Roland Garros, is among seven French players awarded wild cards for this years clay-court major. In 2020, Gaston reached the fourth round as a wild card with an upset of 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka. He would push Dominic Thiem to five sets and finish the season inside of the Top 200 for the first time. Seven of the wild cards are being awarded to French players with the eighth yet to be announced. It will go to an Australian player as part of the reciprocal agreement between the two Grand Slams. French teenager Arthur Cazaux will make his Grand Slam debut. This week at the Gonet Geneva Open, Cazaux picked up his first tour-level victory by defeating Adrian Mannarino in three sets. He’s currently ranked No. 517 in the FedEx ATP Rankings and Geneva marks his fourth tour-level event. Gregoire Barrere will also appear in the main...

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WTA superstar Serena Williams won her first-round match at the Emilia-Romagna Open in Parma, and afterwards she had plenty of praise for former World No. 1 Roger Federer, who will play his second tournament of the year this week at the Gonet Geneva Open. “I think two words sum it up: Roger Federer, Williams said of Federer’s legacy. “He’s just a synopsis of greatness and class and amazing and really changed the game. You see players playing like him, moving like him, doing his techniques. The guy is [a] genius.” Williams has accomplished everything there is to achieve in professional tennis, and even she admitted she is a Federer “superfan”. “I just feel like he is really the greatest player. Just look at him, Williams said. “You can’t not like the guy, that’s how I feel. His game is so fantastic. If I could only pla...

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Sebastian Korda outlasted rainy skies and a tough Pierre-Hugues Herbert to advance 7-6(5), 6-4 at the Open Parc Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Lyon on Monday. In the second round, he awaits the winner of seventh seed Felix Auger-Aliassime and Lorenzo Musetti. Rain stopped the match at 5-4 in the second set, and Korda returned to the court to capatalise on his first match point, breaking Herbert for the third time. With the win, Korda snapped a four-match losing streak dating back to his quarter-final run at the Miami Open presented by Itau. At World No. 65, the #NextGenATP star is just three spots shy of his career-high FedEx ATP Ranking. In other main-draw matches, Cameron Norrie defeated Corentin Moutet to set up a second-round clash with top seed Dominic Thiem. Thiem won their only ATP Head2Head meeting three years ago in Acapulco. Aljaz Bedene beat Gilles Simon and takes on fourth seed...

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Arthur Cazaux made his ATP Tour debut in style in more ways than one on Monday at the Gonet Geneva Open. The 18-year-old Frenchman not only defeated Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-3 for his first tour-level, but he also hit a jaw-dropping tweener for a winner that might stand up as shot of the month at 5-6 in the second set. “When I hit the shot, I didn’t think about nothing. I had my back to the net and I just hit the shot. I didn’t ask any questions in my head,” Cazaux told ATPTour.com. “It was a big shot. I’m so happy I hit this shot.” This was the teen’s first tour-level match, but he also made a splash earlier this month by upsetting #NextGenATP star Sebastian Korda in the first round of Mutua Madrid Open qualifying. The Frenchman will next play Rome semi-finalist Reilly Opelka or Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas. “It’s some...

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The 2021 season is already a milestone for Kei Nishikori as he announced that he is going to become a new father. The 31-year-old shared the news on his app, saying Mai and I are excited to announce that later this year we will add a little minion. Mai and I are excited to announce that later this year we will add a little minion?????? ???????????? ???????????????????????????????? pic.twitter.com/bbhnpCx3xD — Kei Nishikori (@keinishikori) May 17, 2021 Nishikori married his longtime girlfriend Mai Yamauchi in December. This will be their first child together. Currently ranked World No 48 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, Nishikori reached the third round in Rome last week, challenging Alexander Zverev in a three-set loss. A former World No. 4, Nishikori became the first Asian male to contest a Grand Slam final when he reached the 2014 US Open final. ...

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