Lots of Olympics action out of Roland Garros, plus titles for Cerundolo, Nishioka, Berrettini, Linette and Andreeva in this week's tennis roundup BELOW.
Battling back from behind for much of the match, Francisco Cerundolo earned his third ATP Tour title by fending off constant pressure from Lorenzo Musetti in Saturday's Croatia Open Umag final. In a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6(5) victory, the Argentine stopped his opponent from serving out the match at 5-4 in the third set and then roared back from 1/3 in the decisive tiebreak, winning five straight points to take command of the match for the first time.
Although he came up short in the final, the Italian was still a winner in the Looks Department
Yoshihito Nishioka overcame Jordan Thompson and more than five hours worth of rain delays to win the Atlanta Open. The 28-year-old rallied past the fourth seed 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-2, securing his first tour-level title since 2022 at 12:37 a.m. local time Monday. As Andreas Seppi once said of the Peachtree city's weather, which rotates between oppressively hot/humid and rain: "What a place."
Matteo Berrettini beat sexy shorty Frenchman Hugo Gaston 7-5, 6-3 to win the Generali Open in Kitzbuhel, Austria, on Saturday. The victory gave the Italian stallion back-to-back titles, having also won in Gstaad, and his third of 2024. Berrettini will return to the world’s top 40 as a result, working his way back after a couple of years beset by injury issues.
French kiss
In Umag doubles: Guido Andreozzi and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela defeated Manuel Guinard and Grégoire Jacq, 6–4, 6–2
In Kitzbuhel doubles: Home favorite Alexander Erler and German Andreas Mies enjoyed a perfect week as first-time partners at the Generali Open. But it was far from easy. The duo needed a match tiebreak in all four of its matches, including a second-round win against top seeds Jamie Murray and Adam Pavlasek.
On Saturday, the sixth seeds earned a final 6-3, 3-6, 10-6 victory against fifth seeds Constantin Frantzen and Hendrik Jebens to win the clay ATP 250.
Magda Linette won her first title in four years when she beat sixth seed and fellow Polish player Magdalena Frech 6-2, 6-1 to win the Prague Open on Friday.
Mirra Andreeva captured the first WTA Tour title of her career on Friday at the Iasi Open in Romania when fifth seed Elina Avanesyan retired in the third set of the championship match. The pair, both contesting their first tour-level final, split 7-5 sets -- Andreev was a game away from losing when she served to stay in the match down 7-5, 5-4 -- before Avanesyan retired with the 17-year-old top seed ahead 5-7, 7-5, 4-0.
Matt Ebden’s reaction to finally getting a game against Novak Djokovic at the Olympics. Narrator: It was the only one he'd get.
In what could perhaps be their last match, Novak Djokovic led Rafael Nadal 6-1, 4-0 before the King of Clay briefly found his form to win four straight games before lack of play and the steely Serb finally finished him off.
Andy Murray's career was as close to being over as possible Sunday evening, but then came one of the early moments of magic of the Paris Olympics. The former No. 1 player and Daniel Evans of Great Britain saved five consecutive match points from 4/9 in the match tiebreak before defeating Japan's Taro Daniel and Kei Nishikori 2-6, 7-6(5), 11-9. Next up: The Belgian team of Joran Vliegen and Sander Gille.
Angie Kerber, playing in her final event, isn't done yet.
Manspread Monday: Fabien Reboul
The French Connection
Nikola Mektic puts it all out there
Marton Fucsovics has a little Argentine in him
Lloyd Glasspool and Jathan Malik in Washington
Where the Eye-talians are
Vasek Pospisil and friends
I'd sure like to play with him
Why do both of these men have private accounts with few public details?
Mr. Harris goes to Washington
Marcelo Arevalo sure knows how to meet and "greet" people
This Ofner-Gaston height differential is getting me going
Fuzzy Cam Norrie had to pull out of representing Great Britain in the Olympics
But the Johannesburg-born, New Zealand-representing, Texas Christian University playing, Monaco resident sure seemed to enjoy learning about his "home" country(!)
Fur the love of God, has this person ever been to the U.K.?!!!
Kiss me, Guido
Andrew Harris and Christian Harrison were the hottest couple at the Luke Combs(!) concert
Lovers rock
The Serb doth protest too much, me thinks
This would be incredibly hot ...
If it involved virtually any other male player(!)
Lorenzo changes a child's life forever
... which is to say nothing of mine
Andy's latest find is also quite the looker
Everything's coming up Mensik
Box lunch
Well hello, Florian Zitzelsberger!
Christopher Eubanks dresses Tommy Paul up
American exceptionalism
Team USA
What were the odds that Andrea Vavassori would have a hot friend?
Team France
Pretty boys on top
Something tells me he wants us to vote "sí"
Nole knows he needs a little help from upstairs if he's ever going to win a gold
Hady Habib was proud to represent Lebanon
Doubles troubles
Hungary man dinner
Sasha Solonin doing his thing
Filip Krajinovic is still the ATP player most likely to swallow
Luciano Darderi's got baggage
Vava-vroom
Jack Draper quenches our thirst
A Dutchman and a Norwegian walk into a bar ...
Woof: Roberto Carballes Baena
Liam Broady never disappoints
J.J. Wolf looks to find his footing in Washington
Albano's a Mama's boy
Pablo Carreno Busta only has eyes for Carlitos
Oh, Daddy!
Mirror man: Kevin Krawietz
Hot stuff
German engineering: Constantin Frantzen and Hendrik Jebens
(With wire services)
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