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Author: Onyekachi Chimezie

Barcelona Open: Nadal wins first match on clay in 22 months
  • April 16, 2024
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Barcelona Open: Nadal wins first match on clay in 22 months

Rafael Nadal made a winning return on Tuesday at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, where the 12-time champion on defeated Italian Flavio Cobolli 6-2, 6-3 to reach second round The 37-year-old Spaniard who is playing just his second tournament of the year and first since January, when he made the quarter-finals of the ATP 250

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Barcelona Open: Bautista Agut edge closer to 400th career win after first-round victory
  • April 16, 2024
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Barcelona Open: Bautista Agut edge closer to 400th career win after first-round victory

Roberto Bautista Agut beats Roman Safiullin 6-3, 7-6(8) on Monday at the clay-court ATP 500 for the 399th tour-level triumph of his career. Bautista Agut saved a set point in the second-set tie-break before wrapping a one-hour, 59-minute first-round victory. The spanish player and former World No.9’s reward for levelling his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with

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Tsitsipas defeats Ruud to win third Monte Carlo Masters title
  • April 14, 2024
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Tsitsipas defeats Ruud to win third Monte Carlo Masters title

Stefanos Tsitsipas capped another standout week at the Monte Carlo Masters on Sunday when he dispatched Casper Ruud -1, 6-4 to win his third title in four years in the Principality. The Greek has produced his best tennis in Monte-Carlo in the past and once again rose to the occasion against Ruud in front of

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Monte Carlo: Ruud upset Djokovic to reach final
  • April 13, 2024
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Monte Carlo: Ruud upset Djokovic to reach final

Casper Ruud captured the biggest win of his career by PIF ATP Ranking on Saturday at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters when he upset World No. 1 Novak Djokovic 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 to reach his second ATP Masters 1000 final and first since 2022. The Norwegian had never won a set off Djokovic in the pair’s

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Sinner goes past Rune to reach last four in Monte Carlo
  • April 12, 2024
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Sinner goes past Rune to reach last four in Monte Carlo

Jannik Sinner kept his cool to reach his second consecutive semi-final at the ATP Masters 1000 event with a 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-3 triumph against Holger Rune. The second-seeded Italian let slip six break points and two match points in the second set before prevailing in a hard-fought quarter-final clash in Monaco. “It took a lot

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