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Thursday at the ATP Metz Open will feature all the remaining second-round matches. Top-seeded Hubert Hurkacz starts his campaign against Lucas Pouille, while Philipp Kohlschreiber and Gael Monfils will revisit a thirteen-year-old rivalry. But who will advance? ATP Metz Day 2 Predictions Alex de Minaur vs Marcos Giron Head-to-head: de Minaur 1-1 Giron Alex de […] READ MORE
Thirteen top 100 players competed in this week’s ATP Challenger Tour events. Benjamin Bonzi stole the show by tying the record of most titles in a single season, while Zdenek Kolar won his biggest title to date at Szczecin. Read back on this week’s action: Szczecin Embed from Getty Images No Pole had ever reached […] READ MORE
Santiago Gonzalez and Andres Molteni defeated Andre Goransson and Nathaniel Lammons 2-6 6-2 15-13 to win the 2021 Pekao Szczecin Open doubles title. The Mexican-Argentinian pairing is playing together since the US Open, where they managed to reach the third round. “I asked this guy to play. I broke up with my old partner, Marcelo […] READ MORE
Szczecin, Poland– Kamil Majchrzak advanced to the final four of the 2021 Pekao Szczecin Open with a 7-6 6-1 victory over Holger Rune. “I’m happy to be in the semifinals, which is further than I got seven years ago. I hope that won’t be the end of the road. I’m playing well, I have the […] READ MORE
–Szczecin Former junior world #1 Holger Rune is improving at an astonishing pace. On Thursday at the Pekao Szczecin Open, he was able to take out then second seed Pablo Andujar 6-1 6-1. “I didn’t expect it to be, I cannot say easy, but the score 6-1 6-1, but I think I played a very […] READ MORE
Szczecin, Poland– Spain has a great generation of 1997-born players like Jaume Munar, Carlos Taberner, Pedro Martinez, and Bernabe Zapata Miralles. Before these four and the prospects that are coming to the main tour now like Carlos Alcaraz, for a while it seemed like the future of Spanish tennis would be in the hands of […] READ MORE
Plenty of interesting storylines happened in five events across Europe. Tulln was host to the shortest final of the season so far, while Benjamin Bonzi and Juan Manuel Cerundolo just couldn’t stop winning. Here’s a look back at last week’s action: ATP Challenger Tour Weekly Recap Tulln Runner-up in Rome and Iasi earlier in the […] READ MORE
Szczecin, Poland– Pawel Cias hadn’t played a Challenger event since the 2019 Pekao Szczecin Open, where he managed to reach the third round by upsetting Peter Torebko and Alessandro Giannessi. Cias has been playing this event since 2010, scoring three main draw wins. Besides the aforementioned two, he also beat the odds to defeat Andrea […] READ MORE
While some of the regular Challenger Tour contenders made big runs at the US Open, others contested two hard-court and one clay-court event in Europe. At St. Tropez, Benjamin Bonzi took the lone lead in titles won on the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. Juan Manuel Cerundolo claimed a second trophy this year, while Lukas Lacko […] READ MORE
Four men’s singles qualifiers are already into the third round of the 2021 US Open. This is just the fourth time this has happened in the Open Era, but Maxime Cressy and Oscar Otte will have a chance to even improve that result on Thursday. The current record of qualifiers at that stage of the […] READ MORE