Cincinnati Masters: Rafael Nadal, Karolina Pliskova advance on day of upsets
August 17, 2017 10:48 ISTRafael Nadal sat out an hour-long rain delay and beat Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-4 on Wednesday night, finishing it off with two of his eight aces.
Rafael Nadal sat out an hour-long rain delay and beat Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-4 on Wednesday night, finishing it off with two of his eight aces.
Apart from doing pretty well on-court, the elder Williams is doing some online shopping off the court these days for Serena's baby.
The former world number admitted that she has set her sights on title defence in Melbourne next year in January.
Maria Sharapova, former World No.1, has not entered a major tournament since the Australian Open in January 2016, when she tested positive for the newly banned drug meldonium.
Leander Paes and Alexander Zverev fought hard before losing 6-2, 6(2)-7, 6-10 to their Spanish rivals in a closely-fought contest.
After going down in the first set, Ramkumar Ramanathan rebounded strongly to register a 6-7 (5-7), 6-1, 6-4 win over Christopher Eubanks .
Roger Federer, a 19-time major champion, said in a statement he "tweaked" his back last week at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, where he lost Sunday's final to Alexander Zverev.
It was Svitolina's fourth victory over a top-10 opponent this week and third win in two days.
With this win, Zverev avenged a loss to Federer at Halle on June 25 and evened their career head-to-head record at two wins apiece.
Both Bhambri, who recently beat world number 22 Gael Monfils, and Saketh Myneni had missed the Uzbekistan tie due to their respective injuries.
Caroline Wozniacki, the No. 6 seed from Denmark, will play fifth-seeded Elina Svitolina in Sunday's final.
Roger Federer used a 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory over unseeded Robin Haase of the Netherlands on Saturday to reach his sixth final of the year.
Federer broke serve for a 5-4 lead in the first set and broke again for 2-1 in the second en route to the victory in a little more than an hour.
In the second career meeting between the two players, Svitolina was in a strong position from the beginning as she took a 5-0 lead over Williams in the opening set and never returned.
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal lost to 18-year-old Denis Shapovalov 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4) in third round.
Roger Nadal breezed past Borna Coric of Croatia 6-1, 6-2 to advance to the third round, while Roger Federer routed Canadian Peter Polansky, 6-2, 6-1 in 53 minutes.
Eugenie Bouchard has now failed to make it past the second round in six straight tournaments.
The former World No.1 was also scheduled to play at the Rogers Cup in Toronto this week but withdrew because of injury.
Italian Sara Errani has blamed contamination from her mother's breast cancer medication.
The title was Zverev's first of his career on an outdoor hard court and gives him momentum heading into the U.S. Open, which starts Aug. 28.
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