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Ball Boys On A Rescue Mission For Gretzky

  • Posted: Aug 12, 2017

Ball Boys On A Rescue Mission For Gretzky

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Ice hockey great drops phone under stands on Court Central

There is no denying ‘The Great One’ Wayne Gretzky’s control of the puck on a hockey rink in his heyday. Not so great it would seem when it comes to controlling his phone. 

The retired four-time Stanley Cup champion was taking in Thursday night’s Coupe Rogers match between Canadian Denis Shapovalov and Rafael Nadal when he managed to drop his phone under the stands in the front row of Court Central. Fortunately, a trio of ball boys came to the rescue and after a considerable search the wayward phone was located.

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Rogers Cup: Caroline Wozniacki upsets number one Karolina Pliskova in Toronto

  • Posted: Aug 12, 2017

Sixth seed Caroline Wozniacki beat Karolina Pliskova 7-5 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 in a rain-hit match at the Rogers Cup for her first win over a world number one.

Wozniacki was 5-1 down in the first set and 4-2 down in the third but recovered to beat the Czech after three hours.

The Dane, 27, will play either American Sloane Stephens or Czech Lucie Safarova in the semi-finals in Toronto.

Simona Halep faces Caroline Garcia and Garbine Muguruza plays Elina Svitolina in the remaining quarter-final matches.

“Almost every tournament I’ve played this year there has been a rain delay, so at this point I just have to laugh because I feel like it is following me,” said Wozniacki.

“Every time this year when it has been raining I’ve had a great tournament, so I thought this must be luck.”

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Rogers Cup: Roger Federer beats Roberto Bautista Agut in Montreal

  • Posted: Aug 11, 2017

Roger Federer extended his winning streak to 15 matches as he beat Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut to reach the Rogers Cup semi-finals in Montreal.

The 36-year-old Swiss won 6-4 6-4 in 68 minutes to set up a meeting with unseeded Dutchman Robin Haase.

Federer is aiming for the third Rogers Cup win of his career and sixth title of a remarkable 2017 season.

Denis Shapovalov plays Adrian Mannarino and Alexander Zverev faces Kevin Anderson in the other quarter-finals.

Federer secured the decisive first break at 4-4 in the opening set, then got the better of three consecutive breaks early in the second.

The 19-time Grand Slam champion has now won all 16 sets in his seven matches against Bautista Agut.

Haase, ranked 52nd in the world, fought back to beat Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman 4-6 6-3 6-3.

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Klaasen/Ram Reach Second Masters 1000 SF

  • Posted: Aug 11, 2017

Klaasen/Ram Reach Second Masters 1000 SF

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Herbert/Mahut also advance to last four

Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram advanced to their second ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final of the season on Friday, beating Frenchmen Fabrice Martin and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 5-7, 7-5, 10-8 at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal.

The South African and American pairing hit 10 aces and claimed 87 per cent of their first-serve points to move into the last four. They also reached the semi-finals of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, where they won their first Masters 1000 title (d. Kubot/Melo).

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The sixth seeds will next face Indian Rohan Bopanna and Croatian Ivan Dodig, who beat another French team in Gael Monfils and Benoit Paire 6-2, 7-5. Bopanna/Dodig saved three of four break points to advance in 74 minutes.

Fifth seeds Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut escaped two tight sets against fourth seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan 7-6(5), 7-6(11) to reach their third Masters 1000 semi-final of the season. The Frenchmen fell in the semi-finals at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters (l. to Lopez/Lopez) and won the Internazionali BNL d’Italia title in Rome (d. Dodig/Granollers).

They will face top seeds Henri Kontinen and John Peers or Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic in the last four.

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Haase Breaks New Ground In Montreal

  • Posted: Aug 11, 2017

Haase Breaks New Ground In Montreal

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World No. 52 making deep run in Canada

Robin Haase dared to dream and delivered on Friday when he booked a spot in the Coupe Rogers semi-finals, his first at an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament.

Haase extended his perfect record to 5-0 against Argentinean Diego Schwartzman in a hard-fought 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 quarter-final victory over two hours and four minutes.

The Dutchman, competing at his 35th tournament at the Masters 1000 level, will next face Swiss second seed and two-time former champion Roger Federer or No. 12 seed Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain. Haase’s previous best result had been one quarter-final exit at the 2012 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters (l. to Djokovic).

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Schwartzman played aggressively from the outset, pouncing on any half chance in the opener, but lapses in concentration coupled with tiredness – after three straight three-setters – let Haase back into the match. While Haase tightened up and let slip a 3-0 lead in the decider, from 3-3 he lost only six points for his 24th match win of the year.

“The week for me was very good, but I am now disappointed as I don’t think I played well in the second and third sets,” Schwartzman told ATPWorldTour.com. “I didn’t play too well from the baseline, but Haase served better to get back into the match.”

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Azarenka out of Cincinnati Open because of 'family matter'

  • Posted: Aug 11, 2017

Former world number one Victoria Azarenka has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open next week because of “a family matter”.

The 28-year-old from Belarus only returned to tennis in June after giving birth to her son, Leo, in December.

Azarenka reached the fourth round of Wimbledon before withdrawing from last month’s WTA event in Stanford, California, with a viral illness.

Defending champion Marin Cilic is also out of the Cincinnati Open.

The Croat has pulled out with the adductor injury which has sidelined him since Wimbledon, where he lost to Roger Federer in the final.

“I still don’t feel at 100% to compete at the top level and to defend my title,” said Cilic, who beat Andy Murray to win the Cincinnati title last year.

The US Open – the final Grand Slam tournament of the year – gets under way in New York on 28 August.

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Cilic Withdraws From Cincinnati

  • Posted: Aug 11, 2017

Cilic Withdraws From Cincinnati

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Croatian star aiming for quick return

World No. 6 Marin Cilic announced on Friday that he has been forced to withdraw from the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, where he is the defending champion, due to an abductor injury.

“I was really eager to play in Cincinnati, where I won my first-career ATP World Tour Masters 1000 singles title last year and where I’ve had some of the best performances during my career, but I still don’t feel at 100 per cent to compete at the top level and to defend my title there,” said Cilic.

“I had already started with my preparation and the progress is going well, but there isn’t enough time for me to prepare for Cincinnati and to be completely ready to play there. I feel very confident that I will be back in action very soon.”

The 28-year-old Cilic suffered the injury last month at Wimbledon, where he lost to Roger Federer in the final on 16 July.

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Nadal in shock defeat at Rogers Cup as Federer goes through

  • Posted: Aug 11, 2017

Rafael Nadal fell to a shock defeat by 18-year-old Canadian Denis Shapovalov at the Rogers Cup in Montreal.

Wildcard Shapovalov came from a set down to beat top seed Nadal 3-6 6-4 7-6 (6-4) and become the youngest player to reach a Masters 1000 quarter-final.

Nadal’s loss means Andy Murray remains world number one, but only until next week’s Cincinnati Masters, where Nadal or Roger Federer will replace him.

Federer also progressed to the last eight, with victory over David Ferrer.

  • Unseded Stephens beats Kerber in Toronto

The Swiss world number three, 36, came from a set behind to beat the Spaniard 4-6 6-4 6-2 and next faces Roberto Bautista Agut, also of Spain, who defeated Frenchman Gael Monfils 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (6-2).

World number 143 Shapovalov, the 2016 Wimbledon junior champion, plays 29-year-old Frenchman Adrian Mannarino.

In the other quarter-finals, Germany’s Alexander Zverev, who beat Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-4 6-3, will play South African Kevin Anderson, who saw off American Sam Querrey 6-4 6-1 in the last 16.

And Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman will face Robin Haase of the Netherlands. Haase beat Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 (6-3) 4-6 6-1, while Schwartzman defeated American Jared Donaldson 0-6 7-5 7-5.

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