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Soares/Murray Edge Into Cincinnati Quarter-finals

  • Posted: Aug 16, 2018

Soares/Murray Edge Into Cincinnati Quarter-finals

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Cabal/Farah through in straight sets

Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares were made to work hard for a place in the Western & Southern Open quarter-finals, beating Ryan Harrison and Nicholas Monroe 6-4, 7-6(9) on Wednesday.

After failing to convert match point when serving at 6-5 (40/40), Murray and Soares were forced to save two set points in the second-set tie-break before eventually booking their place in the last eight on their fourth match point. The 2017 finalists, who recently captured their second title of the season at the Citi Open, dropped just one point behind their first serves in the first set and now own a 5-2 team record in Cincinnati.

Murray and Soares will meet fifth seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo or Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus for a place in the semi-finals.

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Seventh-seeded Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah did not face a break point in their second-round match, defeating Ben McLachlan and Matwe Middelkoop 7-5, 6-3 in 78 minutes.

Cabal and Farah won 90 per cent of first-serve points to set a quarter-final meeting against top seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic or Nikola Mektic and Alexander Peya. The Colombian duo is making its first appearance in Cincinnati since their debut in 2015, when they fell in the Round of 16 to Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.

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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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