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By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday, April 27, 2023Prior to 2022, Jessica Pegula was 11-12 lifetime on clay with only one quarterfinal (2021 Rome) to her identify. Since then the American has blossomed in each approach – even on clay.Pegula is 14-5 on clay because the begin of 2022, that variety of course bolstered by her grand breakout in Madrid final 12 months, the place she reached her first 1000 stage ultimate. That she did it on clay doesn't go unnoticed in Pegula’s thoughts.“That was my first 1000 final, definitely was a big step for me, let alone being on clay, I think was kind of a little bit of a surprise, to myself and other people,” she informed the media on the Madrid Open this week. “It gave me a lot of confidence I think, starting the whole clay swing going into the ...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday, April 29, 2023Doesn’t matter the floor, or the venue: Ben Shelton merely has that shotmaking swagger about him.Tennis followers in Madrid got a glimpse of the American’s eye-catching recreation on Saturday once they witnessed him make a bid for shot of the week on the Madrid Open.Or, as Tennis TV tweeted… shot of the yr?However you rank it, this attractive, sliding, behind-the-back winner was the stuff of desires. SHOT OF THE YEAR CONTENDER 🤑@BenShelton goes behind-the-back!!!#MMOpen pic.twitter.com/BXQVp8mzLC — Tennis TV (@TennisTV) April 29, 2023 Unfortunately for Shelton it wasn’t a dream end – the American fell to Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff in three units, 4-6, 7-6(4), 7-5. That first predominant draw win at Madrid must wait… !funct...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday, April 29, 2023When Bianca Andreescu was carted off the court docket in a wheelchair in Miami, worry was the dominant emotion. It was a ugly scene. The Canadian’s cries of anguish echoing across the grounds as she needed to finish her spherical of 16 with Ekaterina Alexandrova in a retirement.But Andreescu’s speedy restoration has eased fears and supplied hope. One month later she has made a swift return to the court docket, and though she got here up brief in a three-set battle with China’s Wang Xiyu on Friday in Madrid, the Canadian continues to progress and is focusing on one hundred pc health in a number of weeks, when the Internazionali BNL d’Italia will get underway in Rome on May 9. "Honestly, until two days ago I didn't feel as confiden...

MADRID — Second-seeded Daniil Medvedev superior to the third spherical of the Madrid Open after beating qualifier Andrea Vavassori 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday within the Russian’s first match of the match. The third-ranked Medvedev leads the boys’s circuit with 4 titles received this season, all on exhausting cou...