Nadal Nishikori Sock Win In Miami 2017 Sunday Highlights
Nadal Nishikori Sock Win In Miami 2017 Sunday Highlights
Mar272017
American defeats Vesely on Sunday in Miami
Jack Sock recorded yet another win this season on Sunday at the Miami Open presented by Itau, fighting hard under the lights to defeat Jiri Vesely 6-3, 7-6(0) and reach the round of 16.
A single break of serve was all the 13th seed needed to take the opening set. Vesely raced to a 5-3 lead in the second set, but Sock fought back to level the match and was dominant throughout the tie-break. A volley winner on his first match point wrapped up the contest after one hour and 39 minutes. Sock improves his FedEx ATP Head2Head record against Vesely to 2-0.
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The American moves to 9-2 in tie-breaks this season. He also boosts his win-loss record to 17-3, tying Grigor Dimitrov, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Dominic Thiem for most match wins this season.
Next up for Sock is #NextGenATP American Jared Donaldson, who moved into the fourth round when third seed Milos Raonic withdrew before taking the court due to a hamstring injury.
Bryan brothers advance on Sunday
Fourth seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares sailed into the quarter-finals on Sunday at the Miami Open presented by Itau, recording a dominant 6-0, 6-3 win over Paolo Lorenzi and Joao Sousa.
Murray/Soares have dropped just 10 games in their first two matches this tournament. Next up for them are either sixth seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo or Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.
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Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan moved closer to their fifth title in Miami with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Australian wildcards Nick Kyrgios and Matt Reid. The third seeds didn’t face a break point en route to claiming victory in 52 minutes. They’ll next play Croatians Marin Cilic and Nikola Mektic, who defeated Americans John Isner and Steve Johnson 7-5, 6-3.
Seventh seeds Ivan Dodig and Marcel Granollers prevailed in a hard-fought second-round tussle over Gilles Muller and Sam Querrey 6-4, 6-7(5), 10-6. Awaiting them in the last eight will be top seeds Henri Kontinen and John Peers or Americans Nicholas Monroe and Jack Sock.
Philipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya also reached the quarter-finals by rallying to defeat Alexander Zverev and Mischa Zverev 4-6, 6-4, 10-8. They’ll play either second seeds and defending champions Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut or the new combination of Brian Baker and Daniel Nestor.
Revisit the week that was on the ATP Challenger Tour as we applaud the achievements of those on the rise and look ahead to who’s in action in the week to come
A LOOK BACK
Jalisco Open (Guadalajara, Mexico): Mirza Basic of Bosnia & Herzegovina captured his first ATP Challenger Tour title since July 2015 (Recanati, Italy) by defeating #NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-4, 6-4. The 25 year old weathered a difficult draw to prevail, taking out top seed Victor Estrella Burgos of the Dominican Republic in the quarter-finals and fourth seed Jason Jung of Taipei in the semi-finals.
The 17-year-old Shapovalov came into the final on a nine-match winning streak in Challengers, having won his maiden title last week on home soil in Drummondville. He also had a difficult path to the championship match, defeating good friend and fellow Canadian Vasek Pospisil in the second-round and former Top 15 player Jerzy Janowicz in the semi-finals.
Quanzhou Open (Quanzhou, China): Sixth seed Thomas Fabbiano continued his love affair with China by defeating qualifier and fellow Italian Matteo Berrettini 7-6(5), 7-6(7) in the championship match. Fabbiano also finished runner-up this month in Zhuhai, where he won the tournament last year.
The 20-year-old Berrettini drops to 0-2 in Challenger finals after finishing runner-up last November on home soil in Andria. He stood at No. 883 in the Emirates ATP Rankings this past October, but is projected to move well inside the Top 300 on the following Monday.
WHAT THE PLAYERS SAID
Basic: “The last title I had was in July 2015, so I’m very happy to be back and making some wins. I really enjoyed my time here. I knew it was going to be a tough match because Denis is young and up-and-coming, but I think I was solid and more patient than him today.”
A LOOK AHEAD
There are two Challengers on the schedule this week, with the $75,000 event in Leon, Mexico, taking top billing as it returns for the for the 15th straight year. Estrella Burgos is the top seed once again and could face Shapovalov in the second-round. #NextGenATP Americans Ernesto Escobedo and Stefan Kozlov are the second and fourth seeds, respectively, while Pospisil is the third seed. Basic is in the draw and looks for another big week in Mexico.
The $50,000 tournament in St. Brieuc, France, is back for the 14th consecutive year. Gerald Melzer of Austria is the top seed and Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine is the second seed. #NextGenATP player and local favourite Quentin Halys also competes this week as the fifth seed.
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Britain’s Johanna Konta rediscovered her best form as she thrashed Pauline Parmentier of France in straight sets to reach round four at the Miami Open.
Konta, seeded 10th, took charge from midway through the first set to win 6-4 6-0 in 63 minutes.
She next faces American eighth seed Madison Keys or Lara Arruabarrena of Spain for a place in the last eight.
In the men’s doubles, Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares beat Paolo Lorenzi and Joao Sousa 6-0 6-3 in round two.
Angelique Kerber, Venus Williams and Rafael Nadal are among those in action later on Sunday.
Men’s third seed Milos Raonic of Canada withdrew ahead of his match against Jared Donaldson with a recurrence of a hamstring injury, saying: “It was not possible to compete today without putting myself at significant risk.”
Konta, 25, had struggled for form since reaching the Australian Open quarter-finals in January, and had needed two hours and 40 minutes to beat qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich in her opening match in Miami.
In less windy conditions on Sunday, the British number one found the rhythm on both serve and return that has seen her rise dramatically up the rankings in the last two years.
The first six games went with serve as Parmentier’s big serve kept her in touch, but when Konta converted her third break point for a 4-3 lead it sparked a brilliant burst of form from the Briton.
Konta dropped just five points in the second set, and only seven points on serve in the entire match, as she powered through.
She is now one win from at least matching last year’s run to the quarter-finals, where she lost to Victoria Azarenka.