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Posted by WTM on February 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Dubai, UAE, February 26th, 2010 - Defending Champion Novak Djokovic rose to the occasion in front of a lively capacity crowd at the Dubai Tennis Stadium on Friday, taking an energy-sapping two hours 55-minutes to overcome charismatic Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 6-7 6-3 6-4 and advance to Saturday’s final.
Djokovic, who claimed victory in front of large [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Dubai, UAE, February 23rd, 2010 – Croatia’s Marin Cilic continued his winning ways this year by defeating Arnaud Clement of France 6-2 6-4 to reach the second round of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday.
The number six seed has now won 16 matches this year, claiming titles in Chennai and Zagreb, with his only [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
DUBAI, UAE – Defending champion Novak Djokovic defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-4 6-4 and Australian Open finalist Andy Murray overcame a spirited challenge from Russian qualifier Igor Kunitsyn to win 6-2 6-3 to progress to the second round of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships on Monday. But there was drama in both of their straight-set victories.
Djokovic [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
SAN JOSE, Calif. —Andy Roddick was outplayed for most of the night by Sam Querrey. But when the match got to the tiebreakers, Roddick took charge.
The top-seeded Roddick beat the seventh-seeded Querrey, 2-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(4), on Saturday night in a protracted semifinal at the SAP Open that featured a combined 53 aces.
Roddick reached the final [...]
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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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Posted by WTM on November 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Juan Martin Del Potro beat Roger Federer in a three-set thriller Thursday to scrape into the ATP World Tour Finals semis with Federer by the tightest of margins.
The Argentine beat the Swiss world number one 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 in two hours and six minutes at London’s O2 Arena, and only just earned himself a [...]
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Posted by WTM on November 24, 2009 · 1 Comment
Roger Federer is playing in the ATP World Tour’s season-ending championship for an eighth time in 2009 at the O2 Arena in London. It was in 2002 when Federer first qualified for the ATP World Tour finale as a xx-year-old. Rene Stauffer, the respected Swiss tennis writer, chronicles Federer’s first appearance at the ATP World [...]
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Posted by WTM on November 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The top-ranked Federer was broken only once—in the opening game of the Group A match after double-faulting on the first point—but he never looked dominating until late in the second set when he converted his first break point to even the score at one set apiece.
In the third set at the O2 Arena, Federer was [...]
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Posted by WTM on October 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
SURPRISE, Ariz., Oct. 11, 2009 – Todd Martin defeated Andre Agassi 6-3, 7-5 Sunday to win the singles title at the $150,000 Cancer Treatment Centers of America Tennis Championships at Surprise. Martin earned $60,000 for the tournament victory, his first title in 2009 and his fourth career title on the Outback [...]
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Posted by WTM on October 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
SURPRISE, Ariz., Oct. 9, 2009 – Andre Agassi made a triumphant debut on the Outback Champions Series tennis circuit Friday night, defeating Mikael Pernfors of Sweden 6-2, 7-5 in the opening round of the $150,000 Cancer Treatment Centers of America Tennis Championships at Surprise. Todd Martin also won his opening round [...]
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Posted by WTM on September 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Rushing from Flushing, 15 days at the Billie were quite enough. But there were plenty of indelible memories of a very good Open…
Amazing how the USTA stretches a tournament that used to take 10 days in a time before floodlights and tie-breakers. Obviously more days mean more money, but slimmer second week programs. Yet Wimbledon gets [...]
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Posted by WTM on September 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
NEW YORK – This little kid is still running around a meadow in Flushing making her elders look bad. Isn’t anybody going to discipline Melanie Oudin, teach her some manners, spank her with a tennis racket?
Hasn’t happened yet. And maybe it won’t. As the female field in the US Open [...]
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Federer’s First Season-Ending Championship
Posted by WTM on November 24, 2009 · 1 Comment
Roger Federer is playing in the ATP World Tour’s season-ending championship for an eighth time in 2009 at the O2 Arena in London. It was in 2002 when Federer first qualified for the ATP World Tour finale as a xx-year-old. Rene Stauffer, the respected Swiss tennis writer, chronicles Federer’s first appearance at the ATP World [...]
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