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Posted by WTM on March 15, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Indian Wells (First Week)
Carla Suarez Navarro beat top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4 4-6 6-1
Elena Baltacha beat seventh-seeded Li Na 7-6 (6) 2-6 7-6 (7)
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez beat ninth-seeded Marin Cilic 7-6 (1) 6-0
Zheng Jie beat 10th-seeded Maria Sharapova 6-3 2-6 6-3
Gisela Dulko beat Justine Henin 6-2 1-6 6-4
Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal beat third-seeded Lukas Dlouhy and [...]
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Posted by WTM on March 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Randy Walker
How would you feel – and how would the tennis world be better or worse – if the finals of the Australian Open were played today? Well that was the case 39 years ago when the men’s and women’s singles finals at the 1971 Australian Open were played in Sydney. [...]
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Posted by WTM on March 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Daniela Hantuchova 1-6 6-1 6-0 to win the Monterrey Open in Monterrey, Mexico
DAVIS CUP
World Group
(First Round)
Spain beat. Switzerland 4-1 at Logrono, Spain
France beat. Germany 4-1 at Toulon, France
Russia beat. India 3-2 at Moscow, Russia
Argentina beat Sweden 3-2 at Stockholm, Sweden
Croatia beat Ecuador 5-0 at Varazdin, Croatia
Serbia beat United States 3-2 at Belgrade, [...]
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Posted by WTM on March 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Randy Walker
John Isner fought valiantly Sunday, playing in his debut Davis Cup series against the No. 2 player in the world, on foreign soil, on an uncomfortable clay court, with over 10,000 Serbian fans cheering against him.
But it was not enough.
The six-foot-nine inch Isner came up just short against Novak Djokovic, falling 7-5, 3-6, [...]
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Posted by WTM on March 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
On March 7, Ivan Lendl will celebrate being on this earth for a half-century. A half-century was how long it felt that this towering Czech dominated tennis, reaching eight straight U.S. Open finals from 1982-1989, holding the No. 1 ranking for 269 weeks and winning 94 singles titles.
The following profile on Lendl is featured in [...]
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Posted by WTM on March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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Novak Djokovic beat Mikhail Youzhny 7-5 5-7 6-3 to win the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
David Ferrer won the Abierto Mexicano Telcel men’s singles in Acapulco, Mexico, beating Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-3 3-6 6-1
Ernests Gulbis beat Ivo Karlovic 6-2 6-3 to win the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships in Delray Beach, [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 22, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Venus Williams beat Victoria Azarenka 6-3 7-5 to win the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sam Querrey beat John Isner 6-4 6-3 to win the men’s singles at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Michael Llodra beat Julien Benneteau 6-3 6-4 to win the Open 13 in Marseille, France
Juan Carlos [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 15, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Robin Soderling won the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, when Mikhail Youzhny retired while trailing 6-4 2-0
Elena Dementieva beat Lucie Safarova 6-7 (5) 6-1 6-4 to win the Open GDF SUEZ in Paris, France
Fernando Verdasco beat Andy Roddick 3-6 6-4 6-4 to win the SAP Open in San Jose, California, USA
Juan [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 1, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Australian Open
Men’s singles: Roger Federer beat Andy Murray 6-3 6-4 7-6
Women’s singles: Serena Williams beat Justine Henin 6-4 3-6 6-2
Men’s doubles: Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan beat Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic 6-3 6-7 (5) 6-3
Women’s doubles: Venus Williams and Serena Williams beat Cara Black and Liezel Huber 6-4 6-3
Mixed doubles: Cara Black and Leander [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
On the current career resume of Roger Federer, the Australian Open stands as his most elusive major. The Swiss maestro has gone three years without winning Australia’s Grand Slam tournament, an eternity by the standards of Federer, the reigning French and Wimbledon champion who last won the U.S. Open in 2008. Federer last won in [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 25, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Australian Open – First Week
Maria Kirilenko beat second-seeded Dinara Safina 5-4, retired
Nadia Petrova beat third-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3 3-6 6-1
Marin Cilic beat fourth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 5-7 6-4 7-5 5-7 6-3
Li Na beat fourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3
Justine Henin beat fifth-seeded Elena Dementieva 7-5 7-6 (6)
Alona Bondarenko beat eighth-seeded Jelena Jankovic 6-2 6-3
Marcel Granollers [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 24, 2010 · 1 Comment
By Bud Collins
Bud Collins, the world’s most famous tennis journalist and author of the definitive tennis history book THE BUD COLLINS HISTORY OF TENNIS, profiles matches Sunday featuring giants Ivo Karlovic and John Isner against Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray respectively at the Australian Open. The following story – and other musings from Down Under [...]
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