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6th WEEK
It was a very good week for the sensations of this year’s Australian Open – Milos Raonic & Alexandr Dolgopolov – both young players reached their first ATP finals… In the biggest tournament of the week (Rotterdam), Robin Soderling [4] defended his title for the first time in career, becoming also the first player of the season who won a title being one point away from defeat, and the first one to win two titles. In the second round match Soderling with a forehand winner saved a match point against
Milos Raonic [84] capturing his first career title in San Jose, becomes the first Canadian to win an ATP title since Greg Rusedski in 1995, and the first title winner born in the 90’s (before the start of the tournament, Raonic met with his idol Pete Sampras, who had won the first major title a couple months before Raonic was born). Sampras lost an exhibition match to Gael Monfils (6-7, 4-6), Monfils withdrew from the semifinal against Raonic with a left wrist injury, and the 20-year-old Canadian agreed to play an exhibition match with Ivo Karlovic, which lost in two tie-breaks, so he played five consecutive tie-breaks in three days (won 6-4, 7-6 his quarterfinal against Richard Berankis). In the final, the defending champion Fernando Verdasco [9] led *6:2 in the first tie-
Rotterdam (500)
San Jose (250)
Costa do Sauipe (250)
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As you said, Milos is the first player that won ATP title born in 1990s. I made list with player from every generation since 1970. that won first ATP crown in that group (correct me if I made some mistakes)
1970 : Andre Agassi (Itaparica 1987)
1971 : Pete Sampras (Philadelphia 1990)
1972 : Michael Chang (San Francisco 1988)
1973 : Greg Rusedski (Newport 1993)
1974 : Andrei Medvedev (Genova 1992)
1975 : Marcelo Rios (Bologna 1995)
1976 : Nicolas Lapentti (Bogota 1995)
1977 : Nicolas Kiefer (Toulouse 1997)
1978 : Dominik Hrbaty (San Marino 1998)
1979 : Arnaud Di Pasquale (Palermo 1999)
1980 : Marat Safin (Boston 1999)
1981 : Lleyton Hewitt (Adelaide 1998)
1982 : Guillermo Coia (Vina del Mar 2001)
1983 : Fernando Verdasco (Valencia 2004)
1984 : Robin Soderling (Lyon 2004)
1985 : Tomas Berdych (Palermo 2004)
1986 : Rafael Nadal (Sopot 2004)
1987 : Andy Murray (San Jose 2006)
1988 : Juan Martin Del Potro (Stuttgart 2008)
1989 : Kei Nishikori (Delray Beach 2008)
1990 : Milos Raonic (San Jose 2011)
Thanks for the stats Joca 🙂 I think I’d use it in the new edition of my ebook.
Very stupid and ridiculous yelling spectator !