Tennis

[tiger_one]

Alex De minaur climbs 5 spots to become world number 8 after winning the DC Citi Open

 

[tiger_one]

Popyrin stays alive in title defence.

Just before 1am Friday morning,

Alexei Popyrin (18) pulls through to take down Daniil Medvedev (10) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to book a spot in the R16 - ATP Masters 1000 Toronto

 

[tiger_one]

Frances Tiafoe (7) books his spot in the 4th round of Toronto

taking down

Aleksandar Vukic 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to set up a clash with

Alex de Minaur (9)

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Aussie finals watch tomorrow:

Bernard Tomic is into the Lexington semi finals as he works his way back into the top 200 rankings.

Matt Dellavadova is into the Bali final

 

[tiger_one]

And there are no signs of slowing down for Australia's

Maya Joint in 2025 after taking out local fan favourite

Leylah Fernandez in Montreal in straight sets: 6-4, 6-1.

 

[tiger_one]

Popyrin Powers into Toronto QF’s

Defending champion

Alexei Popyrin (18) from a set down wins through to the last eight def

Holger Rune (5) - ATP Masters 1000 - Toronto

R16

9 straight wins on Canadian soil

 

[upthetigers]

Aussie finals watch tomorrow:

Bernard Tomic is into the Lexington semi finals as he works his way back into the top 200 rankings.

Matt Dellavadova is into the Bali final

Tomic had so much talent what a wasted career

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Tomic lost in 3 sets in the Lexington Final, he showed some fight in this tournament more so than others. Maybe he will go for one last push on Hard courts to play at the Aussie Open next year.

Dellavadova Also lost his finals match yesterday

Popyrin and Deminator move through to the quarterfinals in Toronto.

 

[tiger_one]

Alex de Minaur (9) advances to his fourth Masters 1000 QF defeating

Frances Tiafoe 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.

Both QF’s in Toronto

7 match win streak

Goes up two spots to sixth in the ATP Live Race to Turin

Leads Tiafoe 3-1 H2H

 

[tiger_one]

Tomic denied an ATP Challenger title.
After a hot start,

Bernard Tomic has been defeated in the ATP Challenger - Lexington

final by

Zac Svajda (6) 6-2, 3-6, 2-6.

+27 rankings spots to 184 live gained.

 

[tiger_one]

Alexei Popyrin’s Canadian title defence is extinguished by

Alexander Zverev (1) 7-6(

, 4-6, 3-6 - Toronto

1000 QF.

Set to leave the top 30

 

[tiger_one]

First Aussie winner in Cincy

19 year old

Maya Joint opens her WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open

campaign with a 6-2, 6-3 win over

Greet Minnen.

3rd WTA 1000 MD win in 2025

Moves to 40-19 record this year

 

[tiger_one]

Kimberly Birrell snaps a three match first round losing streak at WTA 1000 level with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Anna Blinkova to kick off her Cincinnati

campaign

Also,

Ajla Tomljanovic with a first up win 7-6(0) 6-4 win over

Anna Bondar

in the day session

 

[tiger_one]

Not to be denied

Thriving in the Cincy heat, on the verge of a straight sets defeat,

Adam Walton digs in to score a first round Masters 1000 win over

Mariano Navona (LL) 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-1.

Improves his 1000 W/L to 5-3 2025

+6 ranking’s spots to 79 live

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Maya Joint continues her progress getting another top 30 scalp this time in world #21 Beatriz Haddad Maia in 3 sets.

Maya’s next opponent is world #16 Ekaterina Alexandrova


Other Aussie Tennis watch:

Sweeny v Pham in the Brisbane male final

Aulia v Guillen (17yr old 1st pro final) in the Tweed Heads final

 

[tiger_one]

Maya Joint continues her progress getting another top 30 scalp this time in world #21 Beatriz Haddad Maia in 3 sets.

Maya’s next opponent is world #16 Ekaterina Alexandrova


Other Aussie Tennis watch:

Sweeny v Pham in the Brisbane male final

Aulia v Guillen (17yr old 1st pro final) in the Tweed Heads final

Milestone made

19 year old rising

star Maya Joint for the first time in her career wins back to back WTA 1000 matches.

Just shy of three hours on the

taking down 18th seed

Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in Cincinnati.

 

[tiger_one]

Reilly Opelka has beaten

Alex de Minaur for the first time in six meetings with an all out assault to send the Aussie packing from Cincinnati 7-6(6), 6-4 - R64

14 Aces

76% FS points won

36-6 winners

De Minaur 0-7 break points

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Walton gets his biggest win with another fighting match coming from a set down against Medvedev

 

[tiger_one]

Walton gets his biggest win with another fighting match coming from a set down against Medvedev

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Adam Walton takes the big scalp of the 13th seed and former world number one Daniil Medvedev 6-7(0), 6-4, 6-1 to move into the third round of the Cincinnati Open.

Coming in was 0-11 W/L and 0-24 sets vs Top 50.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Young 17yr Aussie Giselle Isabella Guillen just won her 1st Professional ITF title today at Tweed Heads.