Borna Ćorić

[Damian]

Miami19: 6. ćwierćfinał M-1000.

[11] Borna Corić d. [27] Nick Kyrgios 4-6 6-3 6-2

[arti]

Auger-Aliassime's next opponent, Coric, defeated Acapulco champion Nick Kyrgios 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 56 minutes.

It is Coric's second consecutive trip to the Miami quarter-finals. The North American Masters 1000 events have treated Coric well over the past 13 months. The Croat advanced to the semi-finals in Indian Wells last year.

Coric withstood 18 Kyrgios aces under the Florida sun, upping his aggression from the baseline over the final two sets to move past the flashy Aussie and even their FedEx ATP Head2Head series at 2-2. Kyrgios hit some incredible hot shots in the three-set clash, including a crosscourt tweener winner in the first set and a 106 mph forehand return winner in the decider, but Coric's solid play was too much.

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[Barty]

[Damian]

Borna Coric earned his 10th tour-level victory of 2019, which is just his second win in four appearances at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament. In a rain-delayed encounter, the 22-year-old overcame BNP Paribas Open quarter-finalist Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 5-7, 7-5 in two hours and 52 minutes.

Coric needed two attempts to serve out the match after dropping serve at 5-4 in the decider, but recovered quickly to book his place in the second round. The ninth seed will face Jaume Munar or Lucas Catarina of Monaco for a spot in the third round.

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[arti]

[Damian]

[arti]

The World No. 18 will meet ninth seed Borna Coric in the quarter-finals. Fognini defeated Coric in their only previous FedEx ATP Head2Head clash at the 2014 Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag.

"Coric is a really good fighter. He fights a lot. He won so many matches last year," Fognini said. "I have to be happy for sure and enjoy my match from tonight, recover well, that's the most important thing and try my best."

The Croatian advanced to his second straight Masters 1000 quarter-final after one hour and 41 minutes, saving all three break points he faced to beat Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France 6-4, 6-2. Coric also reached the last eight at the Miami Open presented by Itau last month, beating Nick Kyrgios in three sets before a straight-sets loss to #NextGenATP Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime.

"I was making the right decisions at the right time," Coric said. "I was also serving great, so that gave me some confidence when he served that I could be more relaxed."

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[Damian]

Monte Carlo 2019: 7. ćwierćfinał M-1000.

[9] Borna Corić d. Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-4 6-2

[arti]

Second seed Borna Coric survived a tricky encounter with Dutchman Robin Haase to advance 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. The Croatian has reached at least the quarter-finals in four of his past five tournaments. He’ll play Filip Krajinovic for a place in the last four after the Serbian qualifier defeated eighth seed Radu Albot of Moldova 7-5, 6-4.

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[Żilu]

[arti]

Borna Coric, the No. 13 seed, was made to work hard on Monday at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome for his 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-4 win over #NextGenATP Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime. With his first victory at the Foro Italico, the Croatian will now play British qualifier Cameron Norrie, who ousted Aussie John Millman 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, in the second round.

Coric led his 18-year-old opponent 4-2 in the first set, but was made to pay for a slow start in the tie-break. He won the first three games of the second set and broke in the opening game of the decider en route to victory in two hours and 30 minutes.

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[Razing]

[arti]

For Coric, Who Could Face Federer In Rome, Less Is More

Spoiler:

Two years ago, it didn't matter how well – or how badly – Borna Coric was playing. He always had one answer for what he should do next: Play more.
The Croatian was on a three-match winning streak? He should play another tournament, he might win three more matches. He had lost two straight? He should play another tournament, he could end his losing streak.
“I thought that was normal. I needed to play a lot of tournaments also to feel more comfortable,” Coric told ATPTour.com. “It didn't matter if I felt bad or if I felt good, just the answer was to play tournaments.”
For three years, Coric played nearly as many events as he could physically handle – and then some – and far exceeded the Top 20 average. His most egregious example came in 2017, when Coric competed in 28 events, or 25 per cent more than the Top 20 averaged, at 21.
But before 2018, Coric changed his coaching team and brought on Riccardo Piatti, former coach of Ivan Ljubicic, Novak Djokovic and Milos Raonic, among others, as his main coach. Piatti's first item of business: changing Coric's schedule.
The Croatian was spending too much time playing, Piatti said, and not enough time practising and improving. They needed to spend a minimum of 15 weeks practising.
Coric played only 20 events in 2018, two fewer than the Top 20 average, and after three years of ending the season with a year-end ATP Ranking in the 40s, Coric finished in the Top 15 for the first time.
For Coric, less was truly more. “For the two years I was just not improving,” he said. “I forgot about improving, and about my level of the game.”
Most encouraging for the team was that he produced his best tennis when it mattered most – at Grand Slams and ATP Masters 1000 events. He made his first Grand Slam fourth round at the US Open (l. to Del Potro), a feat he backed up in January in Australia.
At the Masters 1000 level, Coric reached his first semi-final at the 2018 BNP Paribas Open and his first final at last year's Rolex Shanghai Masters, where he beat Roger Federer for the second time in 2018 after winning the Halle final on grass.

Peaking at the biggest events was one of Piatti's goals for the team. They also wanted Coric to stay healthy. He had to end his 2017 season six weeks early because of right knee surgery, but has been relatively injury-free since.
“It was really too much,” Coric said of his former schedules. “With my kind of style of the game, I cannot do it.”
The 22-year-old could have another chance to upset Federer if the two meet in the third round at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome.
Coric avenged his Miami quarter-final loss against #NextGenATP Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in three sets on Monday, and he dismissed Brit Cameron Norrie 6-2, 6-2 on Tuesday evening, playing the type of aggressive tennis he has worked on with Piatti. Coric finished with 20 winners to 10 unforced errors, and won 10 of his 13 trips to the net (77%).
“He needs to produce, not just wait for it to happen. I want him to attack the game,” Piatti told ATPTour.com. “I'm quite happy about the way he's going to play now.”
Federer will face Portugal's Joao Sousa on Thursday in a match that was postponed from Wednesday because of rain. Federer and Coric would be facing off for the second time this year, after Federer won their Dubai semi-final in February en route to his 100th tour-level title.
View Federer-Coric FedEx ATP Head2Head Series
But Coric is feeling positive about another potential matchup with the four-time Rome finalist. The Croatian never had to get over the “Roger factor”, the awestruck feeling some players have when they stare across the net at one of their idols and one of the greatest of all-time. To the contrary, the Croatian has relished the opportunities and has played some of his best tennis against the Swiss.
“I always enjoyed playing against top guys. I always liked that occasion, I would say... I still do, when I go on the court with him, I get a little bit nervous, and it's some different feeling, for sure, but it's not like I get stressed or scared,” Coric said.
“When you play against those kinds of players, you need to bring something else to the court. You just feel a little bit more excited, a little bit more pumped up... It gives you even more focus, it gives you more confidence to go for the balls more, and then if it's your day, you can play very good.”

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[Żilu]

[Damian]

Croatian No. 13 seed Borna Coric, who has reached the third round on three occasions (2015-16 and 2018), worked his way past Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia 6-1, 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-4 in two hours and 51 minutes. The 22-year-old, who saved five match points against Philipp Kohlschreiber to win the 2017 Grand Prix Hassan II clay-court title, now plays South African Lloyd Harris, who knocked out Lukas Rosol, a Czech lucky loser, 6-1, 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2.

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/herbert ... 019-monday

[arti]

Croatian No. 13 seed Borna Coric knocked out South African Lloyd Harris 6-2, 6-3, 7-6(2) in two hours and five minutes. Coric first held match points at 5-4 in the third set, with Harris serving at 15/40.

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[Damian]

[arti]

Coric’s Year: Borna Coric is the No. 2 seed after taking a wild card. The Croatian has been ranked between No. 12 and No. 15 all season and is aiming to reach his first final of the year. In 2018, Coric lifted the NOVENTI OPEN title and reached his first Masters 1000 final in Shanghai (l. to Djokovic).

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[arti]

Second seed Borna Coric started his grass-court season with a comeback win on Wednesday at the Libema Open in 's-Hertogenbosch. The reigning NOVENTI OPEN champion in Halle (d. Federer) beat American Taylor Fritz 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 to make the quarter-finals of the ATP 250 event.

Coric, who fell in the third round at Roland Garros (l. to Struff), eventually made inroads on Fritz's serve after the American won all 12 of his first-service points in the opening set. In the final two sets, Coric, who didn't earn a break point in the opener, converted all three break points he saw. The 22-year-old will next meet seventh seed Cristian Garin or home favourite Robin Haase.

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[Damian]

Coric Comes Back In 's-Hertogenbosch

Spoiler:

De Minaur, Thompson also advance
Second seed Borna Coric started his grass-court season with a comeback win on Wednesday at the Libema Open in 's-Hertogenbosch. The reigning NOVENTI OPEN champion in Halle (d. Federer) beat American Taylor Fritz 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 to make the quarter-finals of the ATP 250 event.

Coric, who fell in the third round at Roland Garros (l. to Struff), eventually made inroads on Fritz's serve after the American won all 12 of his first-service points in the opening set. In the final two sets, Coric, who didn't earn a break point in the opener, converted all three break points he saw. The 22-year-old will next meet seventh seed Cristian Garin or home favourite Robin Haase. Their second-round match was postponed until Thursday because of rain with Garin leading 7-5, 2-3.

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Third seed Alex de Minaur won his second match in the past four months, beating Italian Andreas Seppi 7-5, 6-3. De Minaur has struggled with a hip injury and is 2-5 since March.

The 2019 Next Gen ATP Finals runner-up will next meet countryman Jordan Thompson, who upset sixth-seeded #NextGenATP American Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 6-2. Thompson was 1-11 at tour-level in 2018, but is already 16-11 this season and is into his fourth tour-level quarter-final of the year.

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