Kyrgios swipes back at Coric – do you have rocks in your head?
Borna Coric’s dig at Nick Kyrgios has brought a typically withering reply from the Australian.
Borna Coric’s dig at Nick Kyrgios has brought a typically withering reply from the Australian.
Fernando Verdasco is getting back into shape, and also finding his footing quickly with the UTS rules.
All four players in Group B at UTS2 have 1-1 records following the first weekend of action thanks to Fernando Verdasco’s victory over Benoit Paire.
Frenchman Corentin Moutet, The Tornado, produced an inspirational recovery – thanks to an underarm serve – to clinch victory over Fernando Verdasco in the last match of the opening day of UTS2.
Feliciano Lopez gained revenge over Alexei Popyrin as UTS2 began in dramatic style with a 3-1 win for El Torero over The Sniper on Saturday.
UTS2 begins this weekend with four mouthwatering matches in the men’s event on each day, including the debuts of Grigor Dimitrov and Fernando Verdasco, who join six of the stars from UTS1.
Danielle Collins has yet to be heard from after she was banned from World TeamTennis for a breach of the league’s health and safety protocols. But others are speaking about her mysterious disappearance.
“The Virtuoso” Richard Gasquet continued his love affair with UTS as he cruised to a 3-1 win over Alexei Popyrin, “The Sniper”, on Saturday to maintain his hopes of reaching the Final 4.
With two weekends left in the inaugural Ultimate Tennis Showdown, the race to the semi-finals is very much in flux. These four players – Feliciano Lopez, David Goffin, Alexei Popyrin and Corentin Moutet – all have a chance to shake up the status quo before its over. Last episode with the Tornado Moutet.
After three weeks of competition, some UTS players have shown that they match the nickname given to them perfectly. Others still have everything to prove.
Australian Nick Kyrgios blasted Alexander Zverev, who was apparently spotted partying.
Stefanos Tsitsipas channelled his inner Justin Timberlake, in fact One Republic, during a change of ends in UTS as he cruised past Alexei Popyrin 17-12, 20-9, 19-8, 15-16.
Alexei Popyrin produced some of his best tennis of Ultimate Tennis Showdown to steamroll an out of sorts Benoit Paire and record his third victory of the entertaining new format (19-10, 17-13, 22-11, 18-16).
Follow Saturday’s Ultimate Tennis Showdown day session live! Matches begin at 4:00 PM CET. Enjoy the show!
The fall-out from the cancelled Adria Tour took another twist on Friday when Goran Ivanisevic, the coach of Novak Djokovic and the director of the exhibition event, revealed that he had tested positive for Covid-19, just like Djokovic himself, Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki.
Tennis tournaments across the world face an uncertain future, and the reigning Wimbledon champion, Novak Djokovic, has had coronavirus.
World No 1 Novak Djokovic was under fire on Monday after Borna Coric followed Grigor Dimitrov in testing positive for Covid-19 and three more top players went into self-isolation after playing in the Serb’s Adria Tour exhibition event in Croatia.
Follow Saturday’s Ultimate Tennis Showdown day session live! Matches begin at 4:00 PM CET. Enjoy the show!
Relive all action from Saturday’s Ultimate Tennis Showdown day session!
3 matches during the day session, 2 matches in night session: here is the UTS1’s Day 3 full schedule. Dominic Thiem will make his UTS debut against Richard Gasquet and UTS leader Matteo Berrettini will be challenged by veteran Feliciano Lopez.
With Europe, in particular, beginning to relax Covid-19 restrictions and many countries coming out of lockdown, many top players are signing up for a number of invitational events in June and July, before the Tours return in August.