Archive for category: Tennis News
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Nadal says good bye to Queen’s for tax reasons
World no.2 Rafael Nadal, who won the Queen’s Club Championship in 2008, announced that he won’t be coming back next year because of tax reasons. He had to pull out of Queen’s only once in 2009 due to a knee injury. The Spaniard opted for the grasscourts in Halle in [...] -
Nishikori to become the highest ranked Japanese player ever
Japanese Kei Nishikori, who has pulled off a superb performance at the Shanghai Masters, is set to become the highest ranked Japanese player in history. Nishikori’s current ranking is 47, but held the 46th position in May. It was the previous record holder Shuzo Matsuoka’s maximum. The 21 year old [...] -
Pavlyuchenkova, Goerges and Lisicky out of Linz
Sorana Cirstea of Romania surprisingly defeated fourth seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 in the second round of the Generali Ladies Linz tennis tournament in Austria. Pavlyuchenkova couldn’t find her serve as she made 11 double faults. Cirstea will play either Lucie Safarova or Alberta Brianti next. This [...] -
Kerber and Cetkovska move into Japan Open QFs
German Angelique Kerber got through to the Japan Open quarterfinals as she defeated Olga Govortsova of Belarusia 6-1, 6-3. Kerber will now meet the defending champion Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand in the quarters. Petra Cetkovska of Czech Republic secured herself the quarterfinal spot by beating the qualifier Eirka Sema of Japan 6-0, [...] -
Ferrero and Ferrer victorious at Shanghai Masters, Melzer out
Former world no.1 Juan Carlos Ferrero beat fellow countryman Fernando Verdasco in the second round of the Shanghai Masters 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and will meet David Ferrer of Spain in round three. David Ferrer, who is on a good way to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals (currently [...] -
Serena Williams to play at Brisbane
Former world no.1 Serena Williams is set to play at the Brisbane International that will take place from Jan 1-8th 2012. This tournament is considered amongst players as a good warm up for the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year. Besides the US Open finalist Williams, there [...] -
Zimonjic wins 500th doubles match of career
Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia won his 500th career doubles match as he and his partner Michael Llodra of France beat the Italians Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini 5-7, 6-3, 10-6 in the second round of the Shanghai Masters. Zimonjic has a 500-253 lifetime doubles record and he managed to win [...] -
Bryan Brothers reach Shanghai QFs
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan reached the quarterfinals at the Shanghai Masters after they eliminated the Spanish-Serb duo Marcel Granollers and Victor Troicki 6-1, 6-4. The Americans had a bye in the first round and they will now play the Poles Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski, who received a walkover in [...] -
Pavlyuchenkova and Safarova through to 2nd round in Linz
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia dismissed Anabel Medina Garrigues in three sets 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 in the first round of the Generali Ladies Linz. After losing the second set, the fourth seed Pavlyuchenkova took a 5-0 lead in the third, but only managed to convert her 4th matchpoint to seal the [...] -
Murray against the players strike
British no.1 Andy Murray is against the players strike over the busy schedule tennis calendar. Today, he said: “When I said it was a possibility, I didn’t expect that to be such a massive issue. It’s so far away from being at that level.” Although the trio Murray, Nadal and [...] -
Roddick and Tomic into third round at Shanghai Masters
American Andy Roddick eliminated the youngster Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 7-6 (3), 7-5 and moved into the third round at the Shanghai Rolex Masters. The second set was much more interesting with five breaks of serve alltogether. Roddick saved a setpoint with Dimitrov serving for the set at 5-4 and [...] -
Nadal-Lopez lose against Kas-Peya in Shanghai
Christopher Kas and Alexander Peya upset the world no.2 Rafael Nadal and his fellow Spaniard Marc Lopez in the first round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters, beating them 4-6, 6-4, 10-8. Other results: Thomaz Bellucci/Ivan Dodig (BRA/CRO) – Feliciano Lopez/Fernando Verdasco (ESP/ESP) – 6-7 (6), 6-3, 11-9 Eric Butorac/Jean-Julien Rojer [...] -
Kvitova, Jankovic and Goerges win in Linz
Top seed Petra Kvitova advanced at the Generali Ladies Linz in Austria, after beating the Canadian Rebecca Marino 6-2, 6-2. The 2011 Wimbledon Champion will play either Patricia Mayr-Achleitner or Stephanie Foretz Gacon in the second round. In other matches, Julia Goerges of Germany beat Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia in [...]
