Medvedev beats Tsitsipas to enter Vienna final
Daniil Medvedev earned a personal-best 64th tour-level win of the season when he defeated long-term rival Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 7-6(6) to reach the Vienna Open final for the second consecutive year.
Daniil Medvedev earned a personal-best 64th tour-level win of the season when he defeated long-term rival Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 7-6(6) to reach the Vienna Open final for the second consecutive year.
Playing his first ATP Tour match in more than three months, World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz made a winning return to competition at the Argentina Open. beating Laslo Diere in a Round of 16 match.
One year after lifting his first ATP Tour trophy in Adelaide, Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis made a winning start in another campaign at the Adelaide International 2 ATP Tour event here on Monday.
The Italian missed the clay season after undergoing a minor operation on his right hand in late March but has played like he has never been away in Stuttgart, improving to 28-6 on grass.
The Serbian Grand Slam champion Djokovic has gone on and played two consecutive three set thrillers in the Serbia Open and managed to complete a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory against Miomir to go through to the semi-finals.
The second semi-final tees up Novak Djokovic against young German star Alexander Zverev, just the second time they will have met.
"Obviously, I'm going to try to do everything I can to get to number one," said Djokovic.
Djokovic said that he is backing the rival ATP World Team Cup, set to take place weeks after the Davis Cup finals, at the start of the 2020 season.
This year's US Open introduced a 25-second serve clock for all matches, an innovation which will also be used at the Australian Open in January.
Top seed and holder Federer starts his campaign on Wednesday against Russia's Daniil Medvedev.