ANTALYA OPEN
ANTALYA, Turkey; surface: grass

Seeds: Dominic Thiem, Paolo Lorenzi, Fernando Verdasco, David Ferrer, Karen Khachanov, Viktor Troicki, Borna Coric, Martin Klizan

Floaters: Carlos Berlocq, Adrian Mannarino

Notes: Grasscourt tennis in Turkey? Why not at this the inaugural edition of the 250 event in Belek…

Top 10er Dominic Thiem the only Top 30 player in the field…

Potential tough openers for (6) Troicki vs. Berlocq and (7) Coric vs. Mannarino…

Wildcards went to Ferrer and Turkey’s …

The Aegon International Eastbourne returns to a men’s and women’s combined event the week before Wimbledon, where eight of the Top 10 turn out for a stellar women’s field.

Six former champions are in the field, including world No. 1 Angie Kerber, and former Wimbledon winner and comebacker Petra Kvitova. The dense field includes a number of opening-round challenges for seeds, including Kerber, Pliskova, Radwanska, Muguruza, Wozniacki and Ostapenko.

On the men’s …

Former champion Marin Cilic is back in the Queen’s Club final seeking a second title at the Wimbledon tune-up in London. On Saturday in the semifinals, Cilic got through the rain and a tough Gilles Muller 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 to reach his third final at the event.

“It’s just amazing to get to the final,” said Cilic who won the title in 2012 and finished runner-up in 2013. “Also considering that …

The dream final was set in Halle Saturday as Roger Federer and local wunderkind Alexander Zverev advanced to a tasty title match tomorrow.

Federer eased past Russian Karen Khachanov 6-4, 7-6(5) in his first meeting with the powerful 21-year-old.

“I thought it was extremely close, especially that second set,” Federer said. “I’m still just very happy how I was able to close it out in the tiebreaker.”

Federer was broken early and again …

Two former champions advanced to the semifinal round at Queen’s on Friday. 2012 winner Marin Cilic cruised past Donald Young 6-4, 7-5 while 2014 champ Grigor Dimitrov had to fight off the big Russian Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

Cilic now faces the red-hot Gilles Muller who won his seventh straight match on the grass in beating American Sam Querrey 6-4, 7-6(5).

“[He] is going to be the first guy that I’m …

Roger Federer rolled into his 13th Halle semifinal with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over defending champion Florian Mayer on Friday.

“It was important to be aggressive off the baseline and make him feel my variation and the power I can bring to the court,” Federer said. “And then having good footwork, to see the short ball, the floater, where I can come in and knock it off with a volley. I …

The ITF announced today that Dan Evans was found to have cocaine in his system on April 24th test during the Barcelona event.

Per the ITF, the “sample was analyzed by a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited laboratory in Montreal, Canada, and was found to contain cocaine and its metabolite. Cocaine is a Non-Specified substance prohibited under category S6 of the 2017 WADA Prohibited List (stimulants), and therefore is also prohibited …

World No. 5 and Race No. 3 Elina Svitolina might skip Wimbledon to recover from an Achilles injury, the Ukrainian star said today.

Svitolina had just lost in the second round to Italian qualifier Camila Giorgi 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 in Birmingham when after she revealed the issue.

“I was not 100 percent today. I still have this issue with my leg. And yeah, I’m not even like disappointed — of course, disappointed …

Being big was the theme today at Queen’s with three players 6-foot-6 all advancing to the quarterfinal round.

In a decimated draw, the highest remaining seed, Marin Cilic, rolled American qualifier Stefan Kozlov 6-0, 6-4. Cilic, who won the Queen’s title in 2012, lost just one point on first serve in the match.

“Consistency-wise, maybe I’m feeling my best ever,” Cilic said. “I served extremely good today. Controlled most of the rallies.”

Another …

Eight-time champion Roger Federer rolled in the Halle quarterfinals Thursday with tight win over Mischa Zverev 7-6(4), 6-4.

Federer, who beat the German last year 6-0, 6-0, pulled ahead at 5-4 in the first set breaker, then got the only break of the match at 4-all in the second.

“He started serving great, which put me under pressure as I wasn’t getting many looks,” Federer said. “It was important to stay calm …

For the first time in seven years, Novak Djokovic will play a Wimbledon lead-up event. The former No. 1 has accepted a wildcard into next week’s Eastbourne event.

“This will be my first trip to Eastbourne, I have heard great things about the tournament,” Djokovic said. “I am looking forward to fine tuning my grass court game there ahead of Wimbledon.”

Now ranked No. 4, Djokovic has just one title on the …

Following his opening round win Tuesday in Halle, Roger Federer collected his 1,100th career ATP victory. The Swiss is one of just three players to ever cross the 1,000 win mark, and only behind Jimmy Connors’s 1,256.

“I’m very excited about it,” Federer said of the mark. “I didn’t know about it to be honest, I forgot about it because they mentioned something to me in Stuttgart before that I could …

Tommy Haas’s wish for a Wimbledon wildcard came true today. The 39-year-old Haas who is in his last season was among the recipients of wildcards for the grass which begins in 10 days.

“I’m hoping for a Wild Card in Wimbledon which I think I have a good chance at,” Haas said yesterday in Halle.

Haas will make his 16th appearance at the club. He reached the semifinals in 2009.

Brits Laura …

After a shocking loss last week in his grass opener in Stuttgart to Tommy Haas, Roger Federer got back on track in Halle by trouncing lucky loser Yuichi Sugita 6-3, 6-1 in his opener.

Federer lost just three points all match on his first serve, and only faced one break points, which he saved, in the 52-minute rout.

“I played some good tennis, some nice points. I played the way I …

After a nice rebound at the French Open from an otherwise lackluster clay season, Andy Murray’s return to form took a big hit Tuesday as the defending champion was stunned in his Queen’s opener by lucky loser Jordan Thompson 7-6(4), 6-2.

Thompson only gained a late entry when Brit Aljaz Bedene withdraw. And the 23-year-old Aussie had never even won a grass match before.

“He played better than me,” said Murray who …