Fabio Fognini

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Fognini Fights Back In Los Cabos Opener

Fabio Fognini has never successfully defended an ATP Tour title, but he moved closer to doing just that at the Abierto de Tenis Mifel presentado por Cinemex in Los Cabos. The top seed shook off a slow start on Wednesday to win his opening match over Spaniard Marcel Granollers 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Fognini dropped the first four games against Granollers before he began to dial in from the baseline. The top seed broke twice in each of the last two sets to advance in two hours and nine minutes. Fognini, who improved his FedEx ATP Head2Head against Granollers to 4-4, currently sits at a career-high ATP Ranking of No. 9.

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Fabio Fognini took time out to celebrate his grandmother's 88th birthday

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In other action, seventh seed Fabio Fognini saved three set points in the opening set against American Tommy Paul and advanced 7-6(3), 6-3. The Italian, who won his maiden Masters 1000 title at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters in April, will next face Adrian Mannarino.

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The Spaniard will next meet Italy's Fabio Fognini, who beat Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 6-2, 7-5. Nadal leads his FedEx ATP Head2Head series with Fognini 11-4, although Fognini beat him in straight sets earlier this year at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters. Nadal needs to reach the final to keep Roger Federer from

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Toronto19: 6. ćwierćfinał M-1000.

[7] Fabio Fognini d. Adrian Mannarino 6-2 7-5

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[11] Fabio Fognini: On 10 June, became oldest player (32) to break into Top 10 for 1st time in ATP Rankings history.

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Sixth seed Fabio Fognini, winner of his first ATP Masters 1000 crown at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters in April, came through a nail-biting win over Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan in two-and-a-half hours. Fognini led 6/1 in the deciding set tie-break before closing out a 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(6) victory on his sixth match point. He will now prepare to challenge Russian Andrey Rublev, who denied Grigor Dimitrov the 300th match win of his career on Monday.

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Fabio Fognini, who's still in Nitto ATP Finals contention, improved to 5-1 in his FedEx ATP Head2Head series against Russian Andrey Rublev with a 6-3, 6-4 victory. Fognini saved 10 of 12 break points faced.

The Italian is trying to make his debut at the season-ending championships. The 32-year-old is currently in 13th place (2,055 points) in the ATP Race To London, only 130 points behind countryman Matteo Berrettini (2,185 points), who currently holds the eighth and final qualification spot.

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Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters winner Fabio Fognini recorded his second FedEx ATP Head2Head win in as many matches against Sam Querrey to advance to the second round. The Italian, who is currently 13th in the 2019 ATP Race To London, did not face a break point en route to a 6-4, 6-2 triumph. He will next face three-time Shanghai titlist Andy Murray or Juan Ignacio Londero of Argentina.

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Fognini Edges Murray In Tense Three-Set Win In Shanghai

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Murray twice serves for the match in the deciding set

Fabio Fognini knuckled down on Tuesday and kept alive his hopes of qualifying for the Nitto ATP Finals with a hard-fought victory over former World No. 1 Andy Murray, a three-time former champion at the Rolex Shanghai Masters.

Murray twice served for the match at 5-4 and 6-5 in the deciding set, but Fognini dug deep to record a 7-6(4), 2-6, 7-6(2) victory over three hours and nine minutes for a place in the third round.

Fognini, who is currently 13th in the 2019 ATP Race To London, remains 110 points behind Alexander Zverev, who sits in the eighth and final qualification spot for the season finale, to be held at The O2 in London from 10-17 November. Fognini will next play seventh-seeded Russian Karen Khachanov or Taylor Fritz of the United States in the third round on Thursday.

Murray, who was riding a six-match winning streak at the Qi Zhong Stadium, dating back to his 2016 title run (d. Bautista Agut), was attempting to record the biggest win of his comeback from right hip surgery in January. At World No. 289, the Briton was also bidding to become the lowest-ranked player to reach the round of 16 at an ATP Masters 1000 tournament since No. 467-ranked American Taylor Dent in March 2009 at the Miami Open presented by Itau.

“There is a lot of things that I need to get better at, and I can do much better,” said Murray. “I will go away and I'll work on those things and be in a better position next time I play against him.

“I served for the match twice and lost after three hours, so, I want to say that's the first time ever in my career that that's happened,” said Murray. “I don't know. But I think it's the first time I served for a match twice and not won. So I'm disappointed about that.


Although Murray’s serve was broken in the third game of the first set, the 32-year-old Briton worked his way back to a 4-2 advantage before 10th seed Fognini staged a comeback.

Fognini saved two break points in a 22-point opening game to the second set, but Murray grew in confidence and from 1-2 down he won the next five games.

Fognini momentarily wobbled at 3-3 in the decider, when, having led on serve at 40/0, Murray won four straight points for a break-point opportunity – only to see Fognini strike a forehand winner.

Murray first served for the match at 5-4 in the deciding set after Fognini was deemed not to have picked up a drop shot, but the Italian immediately bounced back after a Murray forehand error.

Then, in a tense finale, Murray set himself on a path to a seventh straight victory in Shanghai with a forehand crosscourt winner to break for a 6-5 advantage. The Scot served for a second time to close out his sixth victory over an injury-protracted season, which saw him miss five months, but Fognini’s groundstroke consistency and net play helped him to the tie-break.

Murray underwent his second right hip surgery on 28 January. Last week, he advanced at the China Open to his first ATP Tour quarter-final for 12 months (2018 Shenzhen).

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The 23-year-old, who has advanced to five finals in as many events, will next play No. 10 seed Fabio Fognini, who is bidding to qualify for the season finale for the first time. The Italian rose up to 11th position in the 2019 ATP Race To London, on 2,235 points, after he knocked out seventh-seeded Russian Karen Khachanov 6-3, 7-5 in one hour and 47 minutes. Khachanov has beaten Fognini 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 at last week's China Open in Beijing.
Medvedev is level at 1-1 in hard-court meetings against Fognini, the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters titlist, in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series.
Fognini broke Khachanov for a 3-1 lead in the first set, then bounced back from 0-2 down in the second set and is now 28-19 on the season.
"I'm happy because I lost to him last week," said Fognini. "I was playing really good also. But I did some mistake at the beginning of the second set, and after he was serving really good and he was pushing the ball really hard. Also today. But, I think, today, I was managing everything better than last week, so I'm really happy about my performance."

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Fognini, who avenged last week’s China Open loss to Karen Khachanov with a 6-3, 7-5 victory, is now up to 11th position in the 2019 ATP Race To London (2,235 points). The Italian is 110 points behind Zverev.

“It's a dream,” said Fognini on Thursday. “Of course, I’m still there. But it’s the only thing that I'm happy [about], because I find timing in my game. I'm not thinking about it, mostly. I think if I play well, [then] I still have chance.”

Three singles spots remains up for grabs at the season finale, to be held at The O2 in London from 10-17 November, with less than five weeks to go in the regular ATP Tour season. Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, who also reached the Shanghai quarter-finals on Thursday, is next in line to qualify on 3,550 points.

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