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Venus Williams reaches Luxembourg Open quarters, Goerges out
Venus Williams, now 32 and on the professional tour since 1994, has had a rough time of late with injuries and illness keeping her out of tournaments. Not having played since the US Open (where she lost in the second round), her ranking has dropped to 48. On Thursday afternoon [...] -
Petkovic beats Jankovic to reach Luxembourg QFs, Hantuchova also wins
Kirsten Flipkens’ great run for the last week and a half came to an end on Thursday afternoon when Daniela Hantuchova defeated her in the BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open second round. Hantuchova, ranked at number 5 at the height of her career in 2003, is now ranked at number [...] -
Almagro, Hewitt and Youzhny enter QFs in Stockholm, Mayer out
Nicolas Almagro, Lleyton Hewitt, and Mikhail Youzhny are through to the quarterfinals at 2012 Stockholm Open, whilst fourth and eights seeds Mayer and Nieminen bid farewell. As expected, 178th-ranked Marius Copil of Romania fell short to third seed Almagro. This year’s Sao Paulo and Nice conqueror Spaniard remained untroubled during [...] -
Del Potro overcomes scare in 2nd round in Vienna, Muller beats Melzer
Juan Martin Del Potro needed three sets to defeat an inspired Daniel Brands, taking 3 hours and 5 minutes for a 6-7 (5) 7-6 (4) 7-6 (6) victory. Brands was a semi finalist here last year and clearly enjoys playing in Vienna so it was much tougher than many had anticipated. [...] -
Karlovic reaches 2nd round in Moscow, Troicki and Istomin out
Ivo Karlovic reaches second round, Lukas Rosol and Malek Jaziri dismissed seeded players to play in Moscow 2012 quarterfinals. Karlovic delivered a four games run to move 4-1 up in the opening set against Italian Simone Bolelli. The Croat failed to confirm his second break, but his serve was not [...] -
Hantuchova and Petkovic reach second round at Luxembourg Open
In the first match on centre court at the BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open on Wednesday afternoon, Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia took on Arantxa Rus of The Netherlands. The 29 year old Slovak, a veteran of thirteen years on the WTA tour, is now ranked 38, while Rus is twenty [...] -
Kirilenko advances in Moscow, Bartoli out
In the first women’s match on centre court in the Olympic Stadium in the Kremlin Cup tournament on Wednesday, two Russians faced each other – their number 3, 16th ranked and 7th seed Maria Kirilenko; and wild card holder Elena Vesnina, their number 8, ranked at 65. The first set [...] -
Hewitt reaches 2nd round of Stockholm, defending champ Monfils out
Hewitt wins a three-setter in the first round of Stockholm Open 2012, while outsider Rosenholm smashes out defending champ Monfils. Former number one Australian Lleyton Hewitt produced a confident first set against higher ranked Kevin Anderson of South Africa. He held all of his service games, broke Anderson in the [...] -
Petrova out of Moscow, Cibulkova and Shvedova through to 2nd round
Dominka Cibulkova of Slovakia, ranked at number 14 and seeded 5th at the Kremlin Cup tournament being played in Moscow this week, started off proceedings on centre court in the massive but almost empty Olympic Stadium on Tuesday against Moscow’s Ekaterina Makarova, now ranked at a career high 20. The [...] -
David Nalbandian Backhand Analysis and Slow Motion
David Nalbandian has one of the most elite two handed backhands in the game of tennis. Even though we haven’t seen his dominance in the world of pro tennis lately as we have for players like Djokovic, Nadal and Murray – David Nalbandian’s backhand is still worth a closer study. [...] -
Levine and Pospisil advance to second round in Vienna
It was a good day in Vienna for the North American contingent with Vasek Pospisil and Jesse Levine picking up victories in Vienna . Pospisil served 11 aces in a three set victory against home favourite Andreas Haider-Maurer, coming back from a set down for a 3-6 7-6(3) 6-1 victory. Despite having four [...] -
Lopez and Baghdatis reach second round at Stockholm Open
Seeded players Feliciano Lopez and Marcos Baghdatis advanced into the second round of Stockholm Open 2012, so did Ricardas Berankis. Fiftth-seeded Spaniard Lopez had a long day at the office meeting Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu in first round. The first set serving was close to perfect from both sides and nothing [...] -
Venus Williams advances in Luxembourg, Goerges and Vinci also win
Venus Williams made a welcome return to the WTA tour on Tuesday in the evening session at the BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open, after being sidelined with illness and injuries and has not played since the US Open. Now ranked at 41, she faced the 15 year old wild card [...]
