Benoit Paire showed his mature side after suffering a heartbreaking loss in the final of Auckland, heaping praise on rising French star Ugo Humbert, who edged the 30-year-old fellow Frenchman 7-6 (2) 3-6 7-6 (5) to lift his maiden ATP title at the age of 21.
Benoit took a Jacuzzi in his turquoise BJORN BORG BOXERBIREFS to recover.
Andrey Rublev became the first man in 16 years to win back-to-back titles in the opening two weeks of the season on Saturday, beating Lloyd Harris 6-3, 6-0 to capture the Adelaide International title.
World Number One Ash Barty won the Adelaide women's crown, beating Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine 6-2, 7-5 to claim her eighth career title but first on home soil. Barty enters Melbourne as a favorite, looking to end a 42-year drought since an Aussie captured the crown. (Chris O’Neil defeated American Betsy Nagelsen in 1978 to become the first unseeded woman to win a major.)
And rising Kazakh star Elena Rybakina overcame a gulf in experience to beat China's Zhang Shuai 7-6(7) 6-3 in the Hobart International final on Saturday and claim her second WTA title.
Borna Coric's new deal with Asics struck me as a real come down from Nike ...
(Suddenly, his first-round loss in Melbourne seems fitting.)
How do I get in an escape room with JMG?
A Lotto Liam Broady ...
Cameron Norrie warms up Down Under ...
To Serbs with love ...
Florian Zitzelsberger and Daniel Pohl look like they could whip anyone into shape ...
Breakfast spread ...
Jan-Michael Gambill agrees with the Tennis Channel ...
Marko Andrejic HEARTS Lukáš Palovič?
Martin Nosko has it, flaunts it
Who's the Aussie, mate?
Danilo Petrovic's Instagram account is definitely worth a follow.
I'm going with a tie.
Dominic Thiem with Germany's Mats Moraing
Plenty more of this HERE.
Is Damir Daut Pospisil's latest squeeze?
(With wire services)
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Nosko has a nice butt
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