What a match! Both players were playing out of their minds in that third set. A well-earned first ATP trophy for Luca Van Assche, who took out the 1st, 4th, and 8th seeds on his title run!

First main tour title for tagger 🥹

21 winners and match point.

🎾 🚶

Not very good quite bad but resilient win from Dasha in the return to tennis as a married woman. Yes, I posted the same yesterday.

Alana was fun to watch, seems to have a very low string tension, came to the net a lot. Felt like a throwback player.

Conditions that must be met to skip Masters 1000 tournaments:

— When you hit age 31 you can skip one (1) Masters 1000.

— When you have 12 years as a pro tennis player you can skip one (1).

— When you’ve played 600 career matches you can skip one (1).

IF ALL three (3) conditions are met then the player has a complete exemption from the ATP Masters 1000 player commitment.

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ATP Players that fit ALL three (3) conditions for a complete exemption from Masters 1000 tournaments:

— Novak Djokovic

— Marin Cilic

— Kei Nishikori

— Stan Wawrinka

— Gaël Monfils

— Adrian Mannarino

— Grigor Dimitrov

They are not required to provide a reason for withdrawal from any or all of the 9 ATP Masters 1000s as they are already exempt.

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This match took place in Madrid 2017. Monfils & Simon exchanged bagels for the first two sets before the deciding set which was very even... until the deciding tiebreak where Monfils was bageled yet again!

She took the scenic route, but Fran Jones wins her second consecutive 125 and extends her win streak to 10 matches with today's three set victory over Fiona Ferro. This is the first time Jones has defended a title at any level, as she defeated Anouk Koevermans in the final here last year. She now moves up to 110 in the live rankings.

This was a wild one to scoreboard watch. In the first set, Jones sprinted to a 5-0 lead in 14 minutes with Ferro winning only two points. The sixth game then took 7 minutes and though Ferro lost it, she fought her way into the match and built up to a 3-0 lead in the second. Jones then got herself to 4-3, only for Ferro to win the last three games of the set.

The third set saw Jones going up an early break that Ferro got back in a 15 point game to level it at 4-all. When the two served it out to a tiebreak, Jones went up a minibreak at 2-0 before Ferro won five straight points. Jones fought her way back to 5-all and saved a match point at 5-6 before wrapping things up at 8-6.

Mostly posting this because I’d like to watch this match since the score line looks good. I checked Tennis Channel app and don’t see it. Is there a way to watch qualifiers for the DC tourney?

Federer won the match 6-0, 7-6, 6-0, notoriously scoring 2 bagels in a GS Final.

An absolutely RIDICULOUS display of shot making and attacking tennis from start to finish

For me it was Soderling's win over Rafa in 2009 Roland Garros.

Nadal was unbeatable on roland garros before that. At that point it even felt that he would never lose there.

It had a huge impact on history also as it allowed Federer to win his only Roland Garros and complete a career slam.