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August 11th, 2019

Nadal Crushes Medvedev For 5th Canadian Title

Rafael Nadal finally defended a title off of clay.

Posted by Special @ 8:58 pm in Canadian Open, Montreal | Comments Off on Nadal Crushes Medvedev For 5th Canadian Title

August 11th, 2019

Nadal Gets Pass To Canadian Open Montreal Final Against Medvedev

Nadal will try to defend his first title off of clay Sunday in Montreal against Daniil Medvedev.

Posted by Staff @ 12:06 am in Canadian Open, Montreal | 6 Comments »

August 10th, 2019

Nadal Knocks Out Fognini In Montreal; Russians Medvedev, Khachanov To Meet In SF

Rafael Nadal is closing in on his first non-clay title defense.

Posted by Staff @ 12:19 am in Canadian Open, Montreal | 16 Comments »

August 8th, 2019

Nadal Rolls Into Canadian QFs, Khachanov Spoils Auger-Aliassime’s Birthday

Led by Rafael Nadal, seven of the Top 10 seed made the quarterfinals at the Canadian Open in Montreal.

Posted by Staff @ 11:28 pm in Canadian Open, Montreal | 6 Comments »

August 8th, 2019

Nadal Gets Past Evans, Tsitsipas Out In Montreal; Raonic Retires To Auger-Aliassime

Milos Raonic’s body broke down again.

Posted by Staff @ 12:06 am in Canadian Open, Montreal | 4 Comments »

August 6th, 2019

Big Men Cilic, Isner, Zverev Advance In Montreal, Kyrgios Goes Down; Raonic v Auger-Aliassime Wed.

Rafael Nadal opens hard court play Wednesday against Dan Evans.

Posted by Staff @ 11:43 pm in Canadian Open, Montreal | Comments Off on Big Men Cilic, Isner, Zverev Advance In Montreal, Kyrgios Goes Down; Raonic v Auger-Aliassime Wed.

August 6th, 2019

Raonic, Shapovalov Monday Montreal Winners; Zverev, Cilic , Kyrgios Tues.

Grigor Dimitrov was ranked No. 5 a year ago, he’ll now drop out of the Top 70 thanks to Stan Wawrinka.

Posted by Staff @ 1:22 am in Canadian Open, Montreal | 15 Comments »

August 7th, 2018

Venus Wins, Karatantcheva Works on ‘Ass Kicking’ at WTA Rogers Cup Montreal

That year the 15-year-old Bulgarian beat Venus Williams at the French Open, but ended up ‘doing everything,’ in the new few years — piercing her tongue, getting an abortion, and receiving a two-year ban from the tour for taking anabolic steroids. Now the 28-year-old No. 228-ranked Bulgarian is in her first WTA draw since 2017.

Posted by Jeremy Davis @ 8:38 am in Montreal, Tennis, WTA | 2 Comments »

August 5th, 2018

Preview: Serena Drops Out, Insane Men’s Openers at Rogers Cup Tennis

The outrageous number of opening-round seeds vs. floaters match-ups includes (16) Kyrgios vs. (WC) Wawrinka, (11) Schwartzman vs. Edmund, (6) Cilic vs. Coric, (3) Del Potro vs. Nishikori, (14) Fognini vs. Johnson (winner to meet Shapovalov), (5) Dimitrov vs. Verdasco, (10) Goffin vs. Raonic, (4) Anderson vs. Rublev, (7) Thiem vs. the fast-rising Tsitsipas, (9) Djokovic vs. Chung, and (2) Zverev vs. Ferrer…

Posted by Staff @ 11:31 am in Canadian Open, Montreal, Tennis, Toronto | 1 Comment »