Juan Monaco News

Second-seeded Gilles Simon of France and third-seeded Sam Querrey of the United States were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Open de Nice on Thursday.

Between them, Nadal and Williams have won a combined 39 straight matches, including each of the last two tournaments in Rome and Madrid.

Top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic lost in the second round of the Power Horse Cup on Wednesday, falling 7-6 , 6-1 to Argentine qualifier Guido Pella.

Tournament seed Kei Nishikori is through to the second round at the Masters 1000 Rome after taking out veteran Paolo Lorenzi late Monday.

World No. 36 Benoit Paire made a winning debut at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia on Monday in Rome, defeating Argentine Juan Monaco 7-6 , 1-6, 6-4 in just under two hours.

Our Andy Schooler is siding with a 200/1 outsider at this week's Rome Masters event on the ATP World Tour.

The Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna entered the quarter-finals of the men's doubles event while Leander Paes and Sania Mirza made exit with their respective partners at the Madrid Open, yesterday.

World No. 6 Tomas Berdych is through to the third round at the Mutua Madrid Open, having rallied to upend Poland's Jerzy Janowicz.

Number one seed Novak Djokovic was knocked out of the last 23 of the Madrid Masters late on Tuesday night after a 7-6 , 6-7 , 6-3 defeat to Bulgarian, Grigor Dimitrov in a match lasting three hours and five minutes.

Roger Federer made a winning return after a two-month absence from the court as he cruised to 6-3, 6-3 win over Radek Stepanek to move into the third round of the Madrid Open on Tuesday.

ATP Barcelona, Seven-time champion Rafael Nadal pulled double duty on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell.

Nicolas Almagro made relatively quick work of Argentine Juan Monaco as the Barcelona Open squeezed in all of the quarterfinal matches on Friday.

The University of Maine men's hockey team will participate in Frozen Fenway 2014, a two-week series of hockey and ice skating events that will include two Division I hockey doubleheaders.

Nicolas Almagro will face Juan Monaco in the Barcelona Open quarterfinals after both won third-round matches in straight sets on Thursday.

BARCELONA: Argentine Juan Monaco has bundled Australian Bernard Tomic out of the Barcelona Open, while Russia's Dmitry Tursunov knocked out top seed David Ferrer.