Rio Olympics: Del Potro advances to 3rd round

German second seed and Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber recovered from a 4-1 first set deficit to defeat Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard, 6-4, 6-2.

Juan Martin del Potro blasted fans who engaged in an Olympics punch-up as tensions between Brazil and Argentina followers boiled over on Monday. We’re happy to see him back, and we’re happy to see that Olympic tennis is still (inexplicably) awesome.

For the other, a stunning loss that leaves him waiting four more long years for a chance at an Olympic singles gold medal.

“Last night I went to bed at 4:30 in the morning”, he said after defeating Joao Sousa in three sets to reach the round of 16 at Rio.

“After all the effort I’ve put in to get back to playing tennis, I’ve defeated the number one”.

With trademark determination, he was already thinking ahead to Tokyo, at which he’ll be 33, where he hopes to ‘have another shot at the medal’. “We played bad and that basically showed”, she said.

Nadal, gold medallist in the men’s singles at Beijing 2008, beat Andreas Seppi 6-3 6-3 in the second round.

Del Potro did not face a break point in his opening win over Djokovic.

On a day of upsets, the Murray brothers and Williams sisters also crashed out in the doubles.

After winning a second set tiebreak 7 (7)-6 (4), the Keys-Mladenovic match is going to a third set.

Juan Martin Del Potro and Taro Daniel meet in the third round of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.

French Open champion Garbine Muguruza romped to a 6-2, 6-2 win over Romania’s Andreea Mutu who was a late replacement for Jelena Jankovic who withdrew with a shoulder injury.

The 2009 US Open victor Del Potro has dropped to 145th in the rankings after several wrist operations but was considered the most risky floater in the field and the toughest draw Djokovic could have had.