MOVER OF THE WEEK Mover of the week honors go to Irina-Camelia Begu. She won an ITF tournament in Egypt over the weekend to give her some much-needed ranking points and more important, re-confirm her belief in her ability to win. When you have been losing more than winning, doubts creep in and you have…
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Argentina Open Buenos Aires, Argentina ATP Final: [45] Casper Ruud (NOR) vs. [145] Pedro Sousa (POR) Sousa was hoping for a different outcome in today’s final. He has been a professional since 2007 and at age thirty-one, today was his first time getting to an ATP Tour singles final. Thus, this was a big occasion…
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ATP TENNIS: ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament [10] David Goffin (BEL) vs. [79] Jannik Sinner (ITA) The eighteen-year-old Italian, with the interesting last name, continues to impress in the 2020 season. The youngest male player in the top hundred, who won his biggest title last year at the Next Gen Finals got off to a…
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ATP TENNIS: ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament Rotterdam, Netherlands [5] Daniil Medvedev (RUS) vs. [104] Vasek Pospisil (CAN) Medvedev won their only prior meeting in straight sets, but it was not that straightforward a victory. The Canadian pushed him in the first set to a tiebreaker and 7-5 in the second set; thus, Medvedev knew…
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Mover Of The Week: Vesely Jiri Vesely once ranked as high as 35 (2015) has had to fight many battles with injuries, which has caused his ranking to suffer like so many other players. The impact that injury has on a player in multifactorial; it injures the body and damages the confidence. Sadly, as a…
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Open Sud de France, Montpellier Monfils’ 4th Montpellier Final [9] Gael Monfils (FRA) will face [132] Vasek Pospisil (CAN) in the final. It will be the thirtieth singles final for the Frenchman and the second for the Canadian. Monfils seems to have rediscovered his interest in playing consistently quality tennis. He had a two-year drought…
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