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Novak Djokovic: Wimbledon champion beats Adrian Mannarino in Cincinnati

  • Posted: Aug 15, 2018

Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic came from a set down to beat Adrian Mannarino and move into the third round in Cincinnati.

The 13-time Grand Slam winner defeated his French opponent, the world number 25, 4-6 6-2 6-1.

Serbia’s Djokovic, ranked 10 in the world, will next play Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov or German Mischa Zverev.

Earlier on Wednesday, Croatia’s Marin Cilic beat Marius Copil of Romania 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 6-4.

And Robin Haase of the Netherlands beat Germany’s Alexander Zverev 5-7 6-4 7-5.

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Kyle Edmund beaten by Denis Shapovalov in Cincinnati

  • Posted: Aug 15, 2018

British number one Kyle Edmund lost 6-4 7-5 to Canadian Denis Shapovalov in the second round in Cincinnati.

Edmund, 23, had his serve broken in the final game of a tight first set and, after seeing off five previous match points, finally succumbed to lose in an hour and 53 minutes.

World number 16 Edmund will continue his US Open preparation at the Winston-Salem Open, which begins on Saturday.

His best Flushing Meadows campaign was a run to the last 16 in 2016.

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World number two Roger Federer, who turned 37 last week, overcame Germany’s Peter Gojowczyk 6-4 6-4 and said the victory helped consign his Wimbledon quarter-final defeat by Kevin Anderson to history.

Federer, who plays a limited schedule to prolong his career, has not played since a loss that marked his earliest exit at the All England Club since 2013.

“It’s nice to have played so that my last match was not the Anderson match. You’ve kind of turned the page. It’s a good thing,” he said.

“The goal is now to recover from this match, take the positives with me. Of course the big goal is the US Open.”

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The Swiss will play Argentina’s world number 50 Leonardo Mayer in the next round.

Australian world number 18 Nick Kyrgios had to send a tournament official to retrieve his shoes from the locker room after he forgot to bring them to the court for his first-round meeting with American qualifier Denis Kudla.

The 15th seed endured some nervy moments, producing a second-serve ace when match point down before eventually prevailing 6-7 (2-7) 7-5 7-6 (9-7).

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Serena Williams loses to Petra Kvitova at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Open

  • Posted: Aug 15, 2018

Former world number one Serena Williams says she is at the start of a “long comeback” after losing 6-3 2-6 6-3 to Czech Petra Kvitova in Cincinnati.

The second-round loss comes on the back of her heaviest career defeat, a 6-1 6-0 loss to Britain’s Johanna Konta in the Silicon Valley Classic first round.

“I’m still at the very beginning,” said the 23-time Grand Slam champion.

“I’m just going to continue to work hard, and hopefully I’ll start winning more matches.”

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Following the thumping by Konta, the 36-year-old American, runner-up at this year’s Wimbledon, withdrew from last week’s Rogers Cup in Canada for “personal reasons”. She later clarified that she had been struggling with post-natal emotions.

The two-time Cincinnati champion, who only returned to the women’s tour earlier this year after giving birth, looked impressive in her opening match at the Western & Southern Open as she fired down eight aces en route to a 6-1 6-2 win over Australian world number 23 Daria Gavrilova.

And after losing the first set to two-time Wimbledon champion Kvitova, Williams showed similar form as she levelled the match. Both players broke serve at the start of the third set, before the eighth seed broke again at 4-2 and then held serve to progress to the third round.

“It was a pleasure to share the court with Serena, she’s such a champion,” said Kvitova. “We are both coming back – from injury, from motherhood – so it’s something really special to play her.”

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Day 3 Preview: Del Potro, Djokovic, Wawrinka Return On Wednesday

  • Posted: Aug 15, 2018

Day 3 Preview: Del Potro, Djokovic, Wawrinka Return On Wednesday

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New World No. 3 to contest first match since Wimbledon against Chung

Juan Martin del Potro’s goals upon returning to competition in early 2016 were understandably modest. After a string of wrist surgeries, the Argentine entered the Delray Beach Open ranked No. 1042 in the ATP Rankings.

That return went better than expected with a run to the semi-finals. Two and a half years later, the Tower from Tandil has risen to a career-high of No. 3 in the ATP Rankings. It is a return the Argentine could not have imagined, hitting the practice courts ahead of his Delray Beach return in 2016. 

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Del Potro skipped last week’s Rogers Cup in Toronto to rest a sore left wrist so the new ATP Ranking is more cause for cautious optimism than outright celebration. He makes his return to the Western & Southern Open on Wednesday when he faces the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals champion Hyeon Chung in the second round. 

Chung handed Jack Sock his eighth straight first-round defeat on Tuesday to set the clash. He and del Potro have never played. The winner will face 2017 Western & Southern Open runner-up, Nick Kyrgios, or Croat Borna Coric in the third round.

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Tenth seed Novak Djokovic has won all ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events except the Western & Southern Open and on Tuesday, took the first steps towards adding a trophy from Cincinnati to his collection with a straight-sets triumph over American Steve Johnson. The 31-year-old has not looked as sharp on the North American hard courts since winning his fourth Wimbledon title. 

After a surprise third-round defeat to #NextGenATP Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas at the Rogers Cup last week, the Serb conceded he was “not really satisfied” with his opening-round victory – a match in which he needed nine match points to close out. 

“Obviously it takes a little bit of time now to get used to the hard courts and get to that top level of performance,” Djokovic said. “I don’t think I’m there yet, but hopefully I can get as many matches this week as possible. This has been the tournament that I have never won out of all the Masters events, and I have been trying (smiling). I have another shot. We’ll see.”

Djokovic will have the chance to build that momentum when he meets Adrian Mannarino on Wednesday. The Frenchman defeated Djokovic’s Roland-Garros conqueror Marco Cecchinato in the first round. Djokovic leads the pair’s FedEx ATP Head2Head series 3-0.

Former World No. 3 Stan Wawrinka knows there are no easy matches when your ranking has plummeted after two knee surgeries. But the Swiss is finally showing signs he is well on his way back in the second half of 2018.

After a narrow three-set triumph over Nick Kyrgios and a match-points-saving epic against Marton Fucsovics at the Rogers Cup last week, Wawrinka fell to eventual champion Rafael Nadal in two tight sets. He carried his form to Cincinnati, where on Monday, he defeated No. 12 seed Diego Schwartzman to set a second-round clash with a fellow former Top 10 player, Kei Nishikori.

The pair has split eight FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings, with seven of those matches coming on hard courts. Nishikori scored a solid win over #NextGenATP Russian Andrey Rublev in the first round.

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