Andriej Rubliow

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Elsewhere, in-form Russian Andrey Rublev extended his perfect start to the season to 9-0 after the No. 17 seed knocked out World No. 115 and Australian wild card Christopher O'Connell 6-3, 0-6, 6-4, 7-6(5) in two hours and 15 minutes. He now faces Japan’s Yuichi Sugita, a 6-2, 6-0, 6-3 victor over qualifier Elliot Benchetrit of France.

Rublev came into the tournament on the back of winning two ATP Tour titles at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open (d. Moutet) and at the Adelaide International (d. Harris), the first player to win two titles in the opening two weeks of the season since Dominik Hrbaty in 2004.

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Wygrany mecz z O'Connellem był 100. wygranym spotkaniem Andrieja na szczeblu ATP. Dziś Rosjanin dorzucił 101.

Rubliow jest 10-0 w 2020.

[Damian]

Rublev Is A Perfect 10

Spoiler:

Russian will now face Goffin or Herbert

Andrey Rublev extended his perfect record in 2020 to 10 matches on Wednesday evening with a place in the third round at the Australian Open.

The Russian was solid on serve and at the net — winning 38 of his 42 first-service points (90%) and 8/10 net points respectively — in a 6-2, 6-3, 7-6(5) over Yuichi Sugita of Japan in one hour and 53 minutes.

Rublev, who is starting to feel better after a brief illness, admitted, “There is not many secrets basically. I was a little bit lucky. It's not going to happen often that I'm going to always win. Even a top player will have to lose this week. So we'll see. For the moment, I don't know, it happens. But, for sure, I'm going to lose so many more matches, and I'm going to win also."

Rublev, the No. 17 seed, who also reached the 2018 third round (l. to Dimitrov), will next look to beat Belgian No. 11 seed David Goffin or Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France on Saturday. He beat Goffin at the 2017 US Open and Herbert in the recent Qatar ExxonMobil Open quarter-finals.

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The 22-year-old Rublev has lost just three sets in 10 matches this season, which includes back-to-back ATP Tour titles in the first two weeks at Doha (d. Moutet) and the Adelaide International (d. Harris).

Slovakian Dominik Hrbaty was the last man to capture two trophies in as many weeks to open a season in 2004. Former World No. 12 Hrbaty won his first 11 matches that year, including title runs in Adelaide (d. Llodra) and the ASB Classic in Auckland (d. Nadal), before falling to Sebastien Grosjean in the 2004 Australian Open third round.

Rublev, who overcame back and wrist injuries in 2019, said, “The back one was really tough. Even when I already start to play, I was feeling that I was still not there. Mentally, I was somewhere else. I was not on the court, not on the practises, I was somewhere else. Even when I came back after the back injury, it took me four, five months to start again to feel I'm here, I'm playing tennis again. I started telling to myself, ‘Try to enjoy, you're back on court.’

“Then, when the wrist injury happened, at the beginning it was even worse. But then, finally, when I play my first tournament, and actually I lost my first match, it was in Halle, I was 7-6 in the third [against Mats Moraing]. Inside I was feeling that even though I lost, I was a little bit happy that finally I'm here, I'm playing, I'm enjoying it. From that time, I started to play better and better every week.”

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[Damian]

Rublev Upsets Goffin, Extends Winning Streak

Spoiler:

Moscow native is now 11-0 on 2020 season
Fast-rising Russian Andrey Rublev rallied from a set and a break down to upset 11th seed David Goffin and reach the fourth round of the Australian Open, his second consecutive appearance in the second week of a major.

Champion in Doha and Adelaide in the first two weeks of the season, Rublev extended his winning streak with a 2-6, 7-6(3), 6-4, 7-6(5) win over the Belgian.

Goffin looked destined for an early afternoon leading 6-2, 3-1, stepping in to take the ball early but also hitting heavy himself when deeper behind the baseline. Surprisingly, the match didn’t turn on Rublev’s ability to hit more winners; he actually hit two fewer (42 to 44).

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Perhaps feeling pressure to take the fight to Rublev by being more aggressive from the baseline, Goffin made 27 unforced errors to Rublev's 13 in the final two sets.

Rublev attributed his comeback win to more than just his hot form. “Everything is great with the confidence, but sometimes it's not about confidence. Today I wasn’t serving as well as I did in the second round and it became more about the mental side. How you accept this, how you still be positive instead of being negative. Mental is the main important thing in tennis.

"I was giving him so many free points on his serve in the first two sets. Then I say to myself, 'Okay, if the day is like this, this is what I have today, this is how he is today, looks like he's much better than me today'.

" I can't accept this, don't show emotions, try to keep fighting, try to be positive just to see if in an important moment somehow I will get lucky and have one breakpoint or something like that."

At a career-high No. 16 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, Rublev improved to 11-0 on the season and 15-0 dating back to the first of four match wins in last year’s Davis Cup Finals. Including his home title run in Moscow last October, the 22-year-old has won three of his past five tournaments.

Rublev, who reached the fourth round of the US Open last year and the quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows in 2017, next meets 2018 Nitto ATP Finals champion Alexander Zverev, who beat Spanish veteran Fernando Verdasco 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. Zvere has beaten Rublev all three times they've played.

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[Damian]

03.02.2020

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 15

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[Barty]

Rublev: 'I Have No Patience, That's Why I Need To Learn'

Spoiler:

Russian is hitting back after injury setbacks

A loss in the first round of qualifying may not be a memorable experience for many players on the ATP Tour, but it was for Andrey Rublev in June 2019. After his lower back stress fracture, and soon after a right wrist injury, the feeling of competing far outweighed his deciding-set tie-break setback at the Noventi Open.

“You’ll come back stronger, don’t worry,” the Russian was told after his Halle experience. “You have to understand you haven’t played for a long time, you’ve been out of competition.”

Rublev gave the goodwill messages short shrift. He didn’t realise coming back to top form was a long process, until recently when he finished 2019 strong and compiled a 15-match winning streak that ended at the hands of Alexander Zverev at the Australian Open last month.

“I appreciated everything I had after the second injury,” Rublev told ATPTour.com at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament. “I didn’t play for a while and I played my first match back in Halle. I lost in the first round of qualifying, a dramatic match 7-6 in the third set [to then World No. 223 Mats Moraing]. I was up with a break. I was playing so badly. I remember after that match I was a little bit disappointed, but not as much as before.

“But I said, ‘Finally, I’m playing’. Even though I was playing badly, I enjoyed that moment. Even playing like that, I wanted to play. After that I appreciated what I had, I won one round at Wimbledon and took steps forward. Little by little. I finished the season well.

“Because I had had that moment, I realised that I was playing better than before. I did not think that at that moment, rather ‘Let’s do my best and enjoy it’. It’s only recently that I realised.”

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Rublev the person is energetic, occasionally moody, but also very kind and loyal. He struggles with patience, but he is learning to take his calm exterior off the court onto a tennis court. It helped last month with back-to-back ATP Tour titles at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha and at the ASB Classic in Auckland.

“I have no patience, that’s why I need to learn,” says Rublev, who has risen from No. 81 in mid-June 2019 to his current career-high of No. 15 in the FedEx ATP Rankings. “These kind of things always take a lot of patience and you have to accept that even if you don’t like it, you need to start all over again and try your best.

“You’re not going to come back stronger. Maybe it will help you later, if you get back to the same level, and maybe you can take some experience from it. But until the moment you arrive at the same level, you’re not going to be stronger. It’s a long process.”

Central to his tennis development has been Fernando Vicente, the former World No. 29 and Rublev’s coach since 2016, who, alongside Galo Blanco and Jairo Velasco, taught the 22-year-old how to be a professional. “The way I see things is the way they see things and we’re on the same wavelength,” says Rublev.

“With Fernando, it’s amazing, because I never had a coach like that before. I’m so close with everyone from my team, especially Fernando as he was with me from the beginning. It’s so tough to be with one person for 24 hours. Imagine if you spend 24 hours for three years with some of your friends, you’ll get tired. But with one or two, you’ll say, ‘He or she is so good.’

“We’ve been together almost four years and there hasn’t been one moment when I’ve been a little bit stressed, mad or tired with him. I feel that I can spend every day with him.”

Rublev realises that his 11-match winning streak at the start of 2020 was “unreal”, but it’s about how he performs and improves throughout the season that matters the most. He had dinner with his team last week, prior to flying to Rotterdam, to discuss his recent experiences, but he freely admits that his goals haven’t shifted because of one great month. It’s just shown him how mentally tough he has to be in the future.

“I want to be strong mentally every day, always positive and accept that if things aren’t going well, I still need to be positive and still do my best,” says Rublev. “If I can do this every day, then it will be my goal for the year. I may still get mad when I’m not hitting the ball as well, but if I want to improve to the next level, I have to cast the doubts aside.

“In life, it’s tough to make me mad. I’m energetic, but inside I’m calmer. On court, I’m completely different and can start to get mad or upset. When I need to compete, I show a different mad, a negative side. I need what I have in normal life, on the court. Everyone understands you need to be calm and positive to do your best, but in the end you have to be strong and smart enough.”

Rublev takes an 11-1 record on the season into his first-round Rotterdam match against Nikoloz Basilashvili on Tuesday.

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[Kamileki]

[arti]

Rotterdam R2:

13 Diego Schwartzman 2220
14 Andriej Rubliow 2174
15 Denis Shapovalov 2075

[arti]

Andrey Rublev recorded his 12th win in 13 matches this year, racing past Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-2, 6-3. The four-time ATP Tour titlist needed just 55 minutes to advance to the second round, dropping only two points behind his first serve (20/22). Rublev levels his ATP Head2Head series against Basilashvili at 2-2, adding to his previous victory against the Georgian at last year’s Western & Southern Open.

Rublev is bidding to capture his maiden ATP 500 trophy this week. The 22-year-old, competing at a career-high No. 15 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, has already lifted trophies at ATP 250-level in Doha and Adelaide this year. Rublev currently sits in fifth position in the ATP Race To London, only trailing the four men to reach this year’s Australian Open semi-finals: Novak Djokovic, Dominic Thiem, Roger Federer and Alexander Zverev.

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[arti]

Elsewhere, Andrey Rublev extended his excellent start to the 2020 ATP Tour season by recording his 13th win in 14 matches. The seventh-seeded Russian improved to 3-0 in his ATP Head2Head against Alexander Bublik with a 7-5, 6-3 win over 80 minutes, which included winning five straight games from 4-5 in the first set to a 2-0 lead in the second set.

Last month, Rublev won back-to-back ATP Tour titles at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open (d. Moutet) and at the Adelaide International (d. Harris). He awaits the winner of Vasek Pospisil, victor over top seed Daniil Medvedev on Wednesday, or Filip Krajinovic.

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[Damian]

17.02.2020

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 14

[Del Fed]

Rublev Earns First Dubai Victory

Spoiler:

Russian owns 14-2 record this year

Andrey Rublev began his bid for a third title of 2020 at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Monday, defeating Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-4 in 82 minutes.

The sixth seed won 84 per cent of first-serve points (26/31) to earn his 14th victory in 16 matches this season. Rublev is making his main-draw debut in Dubai this year, with his only previous appearance ending in the first round of qualifying in 2017.

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The 22-year-old made an impressive start to the season with title runs in Doha and Adelaide, becoming the first man since Dominik Hrbaty in 2004 to open the year with two ATP Tour trophies in as many weeks. Since the start of the year, Rublev has risen nine positions to a career-high No. 14 in the FedEx ATP Rankings.

The four-time ATP Tour titlist will meet Joao Sousa or Filip Krajinovic for a place in the quarter-finals. Rublev has reached the quarter-finals or better in three of his four tournament appearances this year.

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Two-time semi-finalist Richard Gasquet also advanced on Monday. The 33-year-old withstood 13 aces to beat Lloyd Harris 7-6(5), 6-4. Gasquet will face countryman Benoit Paire or former World No. 3 Marin Cilic in the second round.

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[arti]

Andrey Rublev began his own bid for a third title of 2020 with a 6-4, 6-4 victory against Lorenzo Musetti. The sixth seed won 84 per cent of first-serve points (26/31) to earn his 14th victory in 16 matches this season.

The 22-year-old made an impressive start to the season with title runs in Doha and Adelaide, becoming the first man since Dominik Hrbaty in 2004 to open the year with two ATP Tour trophies in as many weeks. Since the start of the year, Rublev has risen nine positions to a career-high No. 14 in the FedEx ATP Rankings.

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[Damian]

Tsitsipas, Rublev Reach Dubai Quarter-finals; Evans Saves 3 M.P.

Spoiler:

Rublev improves to 15-2 on the season
Stefanos Tsitsipas overcame a familiar foe on Wednesday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. Five days on from beating Alexander Bublik en route to a successful title defence at the Open 13 Provence, second seed Tsitsipas defeated the Kazakhstani 7-6(1), 6-4 in one hour and 36 minutes for a place in the quarter-finals.
The 21-year-old Greek, who finished runner-up to Roger Federer in last year’s Dubai final, is now 9-4 on the 2020 season. He will next challenge Jan-Lennard Struff, who swept past Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-1, 6-0 in just 39 minutes.
“Things were going quite well, although we reached the tie-break in the first set,” said Tsitsipas. “I knew I needed to serve well and takes risks, which gave me confidence. I experimented a little bit with other things in the second set. I’m trying to save as much energy as I can on court. I’ve had two two-sets wins this week and I need to keep the right attitude on the court.”
Bublik recovered from 15/40 at 5-6 in the first set, saving the first set point with a gutsy serve-volley play, and then an unreturned serve. But Tsitsipas was aggressive in a near-perfect tie-break to take the 54-minute set.
Tsitsipas dug deep at 3-4 in the second set, saving four break points, then gained a break to love in the next game when Bublik overhit a forehand. Tsitsipas completed his ninth match win of the year with a backhand slice winner.
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Rublev
Andrey Rublev needed to fight hard on Wednesday afternoon at the Aviation Club. The sixth-seeded Russian, who improved to 15-2 on the season, avenged his recent ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament quarter-final loss to Filip Krajinovic in a 7-6(3), 6-0 victory over one hour and 41 minutes.
Rublev recovered from 1-4 down in the first set, prior to saving one set point with Krajinovic serving at 5-3, 40/30. The Serbian hit a backhand approach only to see Rublev strike a forehand passing shot. Rublev closed out the tie-break with his fifth ace and dominated the second set, with Krajinovic winning only 10 points.
“He had so many chances, two breaks and serving with one set point,” said Rublev, who hit 32 winners in their fourth ATP Head2Head meeting. “There was no key, I was just lucky and broke back. It wasn’t in these conditions. I knew it wasn’t going to be easy as I lost to him two weeks ago in Rotterdam.”
Rublev will next play Briton’s Daniel Evans, who saved three match points in the deciding set tie-break of a 7-5, 3-6, 7-6(7) victory over Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France in two hours and 47 minutes. Herbert, who struck 17 aces, failed to convert match points at 6/4 and 7/6. Evans closed out with a forehand winner.

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