Lots of Davis Cup action over the weekend as Auger Aliassime, Alexandrova and Mertens won tour titles. Full report plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW.
Hate to do this again, but I'm swamped at my day job so will have to flesh this out later.
Barely more than a month of the season down, and Felix Auger-Aliassime is a two-time champion for 2025. The Canadian on Sunday pulled through a stern championship-match test from Aleksandar Kovacevic to claim the trophy at the Open Occitanie in Montpellier. Auger-Aliassime let slip two championship points in the second-set tie-break but held firm for a 6-2, 6-7(7), 7-6(2) triumph.
The 26-year-old American hottie of Serbian descent -- who curiously cites seeing at age 6 Novak Djokovic playing at the U.S. Open on TV as the reason he got into tennis yet has a one-handed backhand to be like his idol, Roger Federer -- had to play qualifying after his father and coach forgot to enter him into the tournament by the deadline. Despite this, after the match he dubbed it "the most fun I've ever had on a tennis court in my life."
A Netherlands-centric doubles showpiece did not disappoint on Sunday afternoon in Montpellier. Robin Haase and Botic van de Zandschulp ultimately prevailed 6-7(7), 6-3, 10-5 against Tallon Griekspoor and Bart Stevens to claim their first ATP Tour crown together.
Griekspoor and Stevens
Ekaterina Alexandrova, ranked 30th in the world, claimed her fifth WTA Tour title with a hard-fought 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 victory over Dayana Yastremska in the Linz final on Sunday.
No. 2 seed Elise Mertens of Belgium eased to her ninth career WTA singles title on Sunday, defeating unseeded American Ann Li 6-1, 6-4 in the Singapore Tennis Open final.
Although the biggest headline out of the weekend's Davis Cup ties was the incident between Zizou Bergs of Belgium and Cristian Garin of Chile, here's where things stand overall:
The 13 winners of this week’s ties progress to September’s second round of qualifiers with 2024 finalists Netherlands receiving the one bye. From there, seven teams will qualify for the 2025 Davis Cup Finals, joining defending champions Italy in the battle for the title in November.
The second round ties will be:
Netherlands vs. Argentina
Australia vs. Belgium
Hungary vs. Austria
Germany vs. Japan
USA vs. Czechia
Denmark vs. Spain
Croatia vs. France
Czech mates: It sure seems like Jakub Mensik is tired of Tomas Machac getting all the attention!
When he too has so much to offer ...
More HERE.
Team Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nerman Fatic
Bart Stevens
Team Musetti
Luciano Darderi
The goodies
Lucky girl
Lucky kid
Team Darderi
Vasek Pospisil begins the long goodbye
Carlos Alcaraz gives the foot fetishists what they want
Grigor Dimitrov
Team Austria
Reminder of why 37. Jurgen Melzner made my list of the 100 hottest ATP players of all time
Tallon Griekspoor
Team Ireland
Tallon and Bart
Andrea Vavassori
Perfect view
Karen Khachanov
Team Great Britain: Here's the beef
Team USA welcomes Marcos Giron
Hot matchups: Team Austria's Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler vs. Finland's Patrick Kaukovalta and Patrik Niklas-Salminen
Flavio Cobolli
Congrats to Monica Puig for catching this guy's load -- even more impressive than the Olympic gold medal!
Aleksandar Vukic smoldering during Davis Cup
Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury
Jonny O'Mara is an official daddy
Marton Fucsovics
Hamad Medjedovic
Cold, Marcos?
Your periodic reminder how f**kable Thiago Seyboth Wild is
Another reason to root for Tomas Etcheverry
His biggest fan?
J.J. Wolf
Who's the big one in the middle with the Lock brothers?
Tobias Simon
Mikhail Youzhny
Nico Jarry
Jacob Fearnley
Billy Harris
Daniel Masur
Team Spain
Max Marterer
Team Argentina
More HERE
Cam Norrie
Andrey Rublev gives Marcos Borderias something to flex about
Horia Tecău
Nico and the boys before Chile's bizarre dismissal
Best men
The only way this could have been better is if the ginger admitting to borrowing Marcus's Budgie Smuggler
Pedro Martinez
Lucky friend
My other Latin love
Johnny Millman with Cruz Hewitt
Quentin Halys: My French husband
Tommy Haas and a thiccc-looking Pat Rafter
Nikolas Sanchez
From HERE
Eero Vasa of Finland
Otto Virtanen of Finland
Richard Gasquet
Albano Olivetti looks like he needs a hand
Close your eyes and you can picture Constant Lestienne's knee-highs
Fran Cerundolo helps Diego Schwartzman ready for his farewell event
Santiago Franchini and friend
Zizou Bergs was shooting for the villain look before the scandal even happened!
Joe Salisbury
Neal Skupski
Billy Harris
Jacob Fearnley
Dani Vallverdú
Joe and Dani
Billy
Jacob
More Andrea
If it's good enough for Elmar Ejupovic
Big daddy Mitchell Krueger
Read about Petra Kvitova's return after giving birth HERE.
I think this shot of Stan Wawrinka is old, although it never gets old ... proof HERE.
(With wire services)
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