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CINCINNATI MASTERS:BARTY VS TIECHMANN

World number one Ash Barty became the first Aussie to win the title in Cincinnati for 48 years with an impressive straight sets victory over Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann. Barty ended the week without dropping a set on the way to a memorable victory, her fifth title of the year. The first six games of the match was pretty close and competitive, you could have sworn we were going to have a long…

Rublev has won lots of ATP 500 tournaments especially in 2020 but so far hasn’t quite managed to make that step up to the 1000s and beyond. Well he will get another chance at it in Cinci after a hard won victory over Daniil Medvedev his countryman. After the first set looked as though Medvedev will breeze through with Andrey not quite finding his range with his shots. Watching 3-1(40-30) his mind…

CINCINNATI MASTERS:BARTY VS KREJCIKOVA

These two met in Wimbledon just over a month ago with Barbora on a high after winning the French Open coming unstuck here as she was in London. In Cinci Barty has so far needed only two sets in a game which is a welcome development, she tends to win matches the hard way often dropping a set. As she showed in Paris at the start of the summer, Krejcikova is one of the best players on Tour at…

CINCINNATI MASTERS:AUGER ALIASSIME VS BERRETTINI

Two players who had a good grass court season but have so far failed to translate that form into the hard court. Felix A.A and Matteo Berrettini met at Wimbledon in the Quarter finals with the Italian coming up trumps then but not this time. Felix going through to the last 8 in Cincinnati. Felix’s all round game has improved this season which proves that his number 17 ranking is justified.…

WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OPEN:OSAKA VS GAUFF

Naomi Osaka made a triumphant return to the WTA Tour with a second round win over Coco Gauff in Cincinnati. Although the American was unseeded for this tournament, she posed a potential banana skin for the second seeded Japanese. Coco actually was better in the first set, even though Osaka had a confident start to the match showing that she has put the FRENCH OPEN well behind her. Coco looking…

CINCINATTI MASTERS:MONFILS VS LAJOVIC

One thing you rarely see in tennis is an almost perfect tie breaker. Monfils was full value for it in the first set against Dusan Lajovic of Serbia in their first round match in Cinci. To say Gael was perfect in that set will be a lie, Dusan was very competitive. If you are like me I couldn’t wait for Monfils to come to court, was vindicated with shots like this one. Check out 6-5 deuce, to…

CINCINATTI MASTERS:MURRAY VS GASQUET

No country has played host to more ATP Tournaments than the USA and for good reason too. The tournaments there are so well organized and almost always produce quality tennis The next stop after Toronto is Cincinnatti, Ohio for the Western and Southern Open. Two of the old timers in the game Britain’s Andy Murray clashed with Frenchmen Richard Gasquet in the first round on Monday. Andy showed he…

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer through in Rogers Cup Montreal ##AndyMurray ##RafaelNadal ##RogerFederer

Rafael Nadal, 31 won his opening match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal and Wimbledon champion Roger Federer is also through to third round

Also, Rafael Nadal will claim the world number one spot from Andy Murray if he reaches the semi-finals in Canada, beat Borna Coric 6-1 6-2.

Scottish Andy Murray pulled out of the competition with a hip injury, which has also ruled him out of the Cincinnati…