The South American swing of clay court events came to and end in Rio de Janeiro with Argentina’s Sebastian Baez claiming the Rio Open title in dominant style by defeating his countryman Mariano Navone in 89-minutes and dropping just three games. Amazing, amazing, but I want more for sure. Sebastian Baez For the 23-year-old Baez,…
An all-Argentine final line up for the Rio Open championship in Rio de Janeiro pitching the qualifier, Mariano Navone against his more experienced countryman Sebastain Baez, the fifth seed at the ATP 500 level event. It’s hard but I always try to be focussed on the next point, on the next game, every time thinking…
Cameron Norrie poised to make tournament history (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images) Britain’s No.1, Cameron Norrie, at this year’s Rio Open, became the third defending champion in the tournament’s history, to reach consecutive semi-finals of the ATP 500 level event behind Rafa Nadal (2014-15) and Carlos Alcaraz (2022-23) and hopes to become the first ever…
The inclement weather relented allowing the draw at this year’s Rio Open to reach the quarter final stage with the defending champion, Cameron Norrie, Britain’s No1, storming past Chile’s Tomas Barrios Vera 61 6-1 in just 61-minutes. Last night with the rain there was a lot of waiting around but I managed to come out…
More problems for the organisers of the Rio Open with rain disrupting play allowing only three matches to be played which included the last of the opening round encounters and two of the second-round clashes. And it was that final opening round result which caught the public’s imagination attention as 17-year-old Juan Fonseca, a Brazilian…
Disaster for the Rio Open organisers as their top star, the world No,2 Carlos Alcaraz was forced to retire after just two games in his opening match against local boy, the wildcarded Thiago Monteiro. Just 18-minutes into the match, the Spanish 20-year-old, last year’s finalist, had to retire having shared the first two games with…
February is a marathon not a sprint, and yet another week with three tournaments on the schedule has arrived with the beginning of tournaments in Doha, Los Cabos, and Rio de Janeiro. Among the players in action are Andrey Rublev, Alexander Zverev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Carlos Alcaraz. Let’s break down the upcoming busy week on the…
