VENUS WILLIAMS WINS BNP PARIBAS SHOWDOWN AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

NEW YORK – Venus Williams won the title at the BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean King Cup exhibition tennis series Monday at Madison Square Garden, defeating Kim Cljisters 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in the final.
Williams won $400,000 for winning the one-night, four-player event that featured players who won the previous year’s major titles or [...]

STEPANEK UPSET, RODDICK WINS AT SAP OPEN

By Chris Kane
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Tour veteran Xavier Malisse produced some inspired tennis in ousting No. 3 seed and defending champion Radek Stepanek 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the SAP Open.
Stepanek, ranked no. 14 in the world, was never able to find a rhythm in the surprisingly one-sided affair that lasted only [...]

THE SECOND-OLDEST U.S. TOURNAMENT, THE SAP OPEN, HAS STRONG FIELD FOR 2010

By Chris Kane
On Monday, February 8, the second oldest American tournament, the SAP Open, gets underway at the HP Pavilion in San Jose with three-time winner Andy Roddick headlining the bill in the singles and world No. 1 and Australian Open champs, the Bryan Brothers, set to compete in the doubles.
Pete Sampras, a two time [...]

IS MURRAY POISED TO BREAK THROUGH DOWN UNDER?

Is Andy Murray headed for destiny Down Under?
The great British hope is looking to become the first British man to win a major singles title since Fred Perry won the last of his eight majors at the 1936 U.S. Championships. His abbreviated 6-3, 7-6, 3-0, ret., victory over No. 2 seed and defending champion Rafael [...]

RODDICK NEARLY PULLS OFF EPIC COMEBACK OVER CILIC

Andy Roddick nearly pulled off a Jimmy Connors-like comeback Tuesday in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open against Marin Cilic, fighting back from a two-sets-to-love deficit with a bum right shoulder, only to fall short in a 7-6 (4), 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3 marathon.
Roddick took a medical treat timeout for a pain in his right [...]

ANDY RODDICK TAKES BRISBANE

Top-seeded Andy Roddick survived a second-set collapse Sunday to win the Brisbane International title, beating defending champion Radek Stepanek after the Czech player double-faulted on match point.
The American’s 7-6 (2), 7-6 (7) victory in the final capped his first tournament in nearly three months due to a 2009 season-ending knee injury.
Roddick nearly let the match [...]

HENIN AND CLIJSTERS IN BRISBANE FINAL

Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters will meet in a battle of the comeback queens at the Brisbane International event.
Both are former world number ones and Henin, playing her first event since May 2008, crushed Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic 6-3 6-2 in a little more than an hour. Here is match point -
Clijsters, who made her own [...]

WHAT’S NEXT FOR FEDERER?

Now that Roger Federer has won his 15th major singles title, breaking the all-time men’s record of 14 set by Pete Sampras, what is his next goal?
All champions are goal-setters and when one goal is achieved, there is the immediate focus on what the next goal is. The other major goal for Federer was to [...]

1985: Martina Wins Third Aussie Open Title

It is a full six weeks before the start of the 2010 Grand Slam tennis season with the start of the Australian Open in mid-January. Many may have forgotten that the Australian Open used to be played in December, sometimes over the Christmas holidays that keep away many of the world’s best players. This week, [...]

2007: A Fourth For Federer

There are only four more days until the start of the Barclay’s ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London. As part on of the countdown, WorldTennisMagazine.com is presenting a special look at some of the best moments in the history of the season-ending ATP championships, courtesy of the book ON THIS DAY [...]

The Safin Retroprospective

The mercurial career of Marat Safin came to a close Wednesday in Paris as the hulking Russian played the final match in the final tournament of his final year of ATP tennis, losing to reigning US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in the second round of the BNP Paribas [...]

Clijsters Wins US Open Yet Again

NEW YORK – In a strange way, the US Open women’s singles champion was no surprise. After all, Kim Clijsters was the defending champion.
Yes, she shows up in New York City only every few years, but when she does she walks away with some of the top hardware.
Sunday night, Clijsters defeated Caroline Wozniacki 7-5 6-3 [...]

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