is Nagal's favourite surface and he would reach the semi-finals in five of seven Challengers since early May. His most recent event was at the ATP 500 stop in Hamburg, where he qualified for a tour-level tournament for the first time. In fact, he had not played a hard-court match since March and admits that the original plan was to skip the US Open and grind on the dirt for the rest of the year.

"It's just about being happy on court. Whenever you're happy and looking forward to competing, it helps with everything. It's events like these that make it all worth it on the Challenger Tour. Every time you beat someone good, you get confidence. And it's a game where confidence does matter."[LANGUAGE WARNING]

An Iowa woman live streamed herself on Facebook earlier this month berating police officers at a cafe just days after two Des Moines officers were shot and killed while sitting in their squad cars, WHOTV reports.

The woman, Melyssa Jo Kelly, was in Cedar Rapids’ Brewhemia cafe mocking the female officer standing in front of her for wearing a black band around her badge to honor the two recently fallen officers, saying the officer did not care about the man shot by her “vicious thug brothers in blue.”

“She doesn’t give a s**t about the man who is in critical care at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics with a bullet in his neck from one of the wonderful and vicious thug brothers in blue,” said Kelly on