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Davis Cup team for next month's finals, leaving Alex de Minaur to lead the nation's charge in Germany. Kyrgios has skipped the team event since 2019 but would have been a strong addition given his career-best form in recent weeks which included a run to a maiden Grand Slam final at Wimbledon.
MELBOURNE: Nick Kyrgios has again opted out of Australia's Davis Cup team for next month's finals, leaving Alex de Minaur to lead the nation's charge in Germany.
Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis won the Atlanta Open on Sunday night after winning two matches on the same day. The Wimbledon singles finalist took to the court to apologise to the crowd when he withdrew before the first round of the singles in Georgia last week. Ad/> But alongside Kokkinakis, the «special Ks» won their doubles semi-final and final in the space of seven hours on Sunday.
Cressy, chasing his first ATP crown, reached his third final of the year by defeating compatriot John Isner 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 while Bublik, who won his first ATP title in February at Montpellier, eliminated Australia's Jason Kubler 6-3, 6-2. "I just had to focus on what I could control, my serve," Cressy said. "He definitely played a big level starting in the second set." Bublik, ranked 42nd, and Cressy, ranked a career-best 41st, will meet for the first time in Sunday's final. Cressy, a French-born 25-year-old who competed for his homeland until becoming an American in 2018, blasted 22 aces to dispatch four-time Hall of Fame champion Isner.
Andy Murray was knocked out of the ATP Hall of Fame Open, falling to Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik 7-5, 6-4 in a Friday quarter-final. World number 42 Bublik fired 12 aces against five double faults and won 80% of his first serve points to eliminate the 35-year-old Scotsman in the grass-court event and line up a semi-final clash with Australian Jason Kubler. "It's great to be in the semi-finals again," Bublik said.
Andy Murray has been beaten by Alexander Bublik 7-5 6-4 in the quarter-finals of the Hall of Fame Open. The last-eight encounter was the fourth time the pair had met this year; Murray led the 2022 head-to-head record 2-1, having picked up wins at Rotterdam and Stuttgart but lost in the round of 64 at Indian Wells. Ad/> A tight first set threw up just one break point — in the 11th game — and Bublik duly took it to put himself within a service game of a one-set lead.
Maxime Cressy and John Isner earned victories Thursday to set up a meeting in the semifinals of the Infosys Hall of Fame Open at Newport, R.I.
Rafael Nadal will take on 11th seed Taylor Fritz in the Wimbledon quarterfinals clash at Wimbledon on Wednesday. The two-time champions produced some of his finest tennis to advance in straight sets against 21st seed Dutch Botic van de Zandschulp 6-4, 6-2, 7-6(6). His opponent, Fritz, too has been in fine form so far, and overcame Australian Jason Kubler in straight sets (6-3, 6-1, 6-4). He has had an incredible run in the tournament and is yet to drop a set. Both Nadal and Fritz have faced each other twice, with one win apiece.