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34 year old veteran Grigor Dimitrov returned for his first match since retiring with a torn muscle at Wimbledon, when he was up 2 lets to love vs Jannik Sinner, the eventual champion.
Grigor won 7-6(5), 6-1 over home favorite Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.
Also through in R64, Khachanov ends a long drought over SoCal's Ethan Quinn.
Rublev over Fearnley
Altmaier over Giron
Zixou Bergs over Alex Michelsen
WC Cazaux over Luciano DarderiLast edited by jimlosaltos; 10-27-2025, 02:26 PM. -
Fonseca up 5-2 over Shapovolov in 2nd set, after losing 1st set. Last week, they played, it went to a 3rd set, Shapovolov was down 4-1 in 3rd, and Shapovolov quit, not impressing the crowd as he seemed to just lose interest in continuing.Comment
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Valentin Vacherot over Arthur Rinderknech...again. That's all. I spelled both correctly without cheating.
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Carlos Alcaraz's improbable loss to local Cam Norrie 4-6 6-3 6-4 in the second round of the Paris Masters opens the door for Jannik Sinner to return to number one in the world before the Tour Finals in Turin with a title in Paris. Alcaraz's concise comment: 'I don't know what happened here’. Alcaraz has never done well on Paris' indoor courts and said in Riyadh that was an environment that troubles him. Highlight vid Alcraz vs Norrie Tennis TV YT 4:10 min; if nothing else watch his first passing shot from behind the concession stand with the hot dog cook, approximately.
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As for Cam, after peaking with a Masters shield at Indian Wells years ago, he slid to a lower plateau and stuck there for some time. Cam said he'd "Take it to him." and apparently being aggressive worked. That's a tactical change for a player that at his peak was known as a "lung buster" . If Carlos doesn't know which or what bothered him, far from me to guess.Comment
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After that great win in his first match back, Grigor had to withdraw.Originally posted by jimlosaltos View Post
Hope it's not serious. His injury is the type you expect NFL linemen to get, not tennis players.Comment
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"He wanted to send me home? I punished him": Bublik blunt after his victory over Moutet at the Rolex https://en.tennistemple.com/r/news_ifDK
I posted this in wrong thread. Bublik takes out Moutet, and really enjoyed doing so, as they had a bit of history of not getting along.Comment
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Tough out there, this does not happen a lot, but Norrie's metrics looked better than Vacherot, but Vacherot won in 2.Comment
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Vacherot can't stop winning. It's like the cork was pulled and the wins keep flowing out of the genie's bottle.
Valentin Vacherot - Ranking ATP
29/09/2025 - follow through of the serve
30/10/2025 - Going up the back of the ball (live)
Vacherot won nine () straight matches in Shanghai, including wins over Rune (11) Djoko (5).
Lost to Fritz (4) in Basil { must have been jet lagged from China ) then started over in Paris.
Beats
Norrie
Rinderknech
Lehecka (14)
Think that's normal? It's not: There've been 16 first-time M1000 champions in 2020s.
First 12 of them (Hurkacz, Tsitsipas, Norrie, Fritz, Alcaraz, PCB, Coric, Rune, Rublev, Sinner, Popyrin, Draper) lost before QF @ the next M1000 they played.
4 most recent ones (Mensik, Ruud, Shelton, Vacherot) all reached QF.
Now this stat, from journo Bastien Fachan, amuses
Highest Masters 1000 win percentages of all time, minimum 10 matches:
82% - Rafael Nadal
81.48% -Novak Djokovic
78.57% - Valentin Vacherot
77.91% - Roger FedererLast edited by jimlosaltos; Today, 09:09 AM.Comment
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Meanwhile, Lorenzo Sonego is having a nice run. After having not won a top 10 match in 881 days, he plays someone in Medvedev who went 882 days without winning a title, per journo Oleg S.
Serving just started ...Comment
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