World no.3 Roger Federer withdrew from his semifinal match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Qatar Open due to a back injury. Defending champion Federer said: “I’ve just been trying to manage the situation really. Back spasms happen and sometimes you can contain them with massage and painkillers,” “I don’t want [...]
Eight times Grand Slam Champion Ivan Lendl will become Andy Murray’s new full-time coach. Murray is still looking for a Grand Slam title and he will hope that the co-operation with Lendl will bring some positive results. Lendl lost his first four Grand Slam finals, before winning eight and become [...]
Gael Monfils of France had to fight hard for his quarterfinal spot at the Stockholm Open. The 18 year old Australian Bernard Tomic took him to three long sets with the Frenchman clinching the match 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4. Tomic had his chances as he was up a break in [...]
The US Open could become the first Grand Slam tournament with a permanent finish on Monday. At the moment it is the only major tournament where the players don’t have a day off between the semifinal and the final matches. They are played on two consecutive days, Saturday and Sunday. The [...]
Youngster Bernard Tomic of Australia won his first round match at the Stockholm Open after defeating qualifier Jurgen Zopp of Estonia 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-0. 18 year old Tomic is currently ranked 44 and he is the youngest ever player in the ATP Top 50. The Australian set up a second round encounter [...]
Samantha Stosur of Australia and Marion Bartoli of France set up a final encounter at the Japan Open. The US Open champion Stosur had to fight hard for her victory in the semis as she defeated China’s Zheng Jie 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3. The Australian will be aiming to win [...]
US Open champion Samantha Stosur moved into the Japan Open semifinals as she overcame Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa 6-2, 6-3. The Australian Stosur will now face either Petra Cetkovska or Jie Zheng. In the other quarterfinal, the second seed Marion Bartoli of France comfortably beat Ayumi Morita of Japan [...]
David Ferrer of Spain became the fifth player to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. He joins Djokovic, Nadal, Federer and Murray, who have already secured their final spots. The world no.5 won two titles this year – in Auckland and Acapulco. He also got to the Australian [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
World no.2 Rafael Nadal secured his place in Japan Open’s semifinals as he beat Santiago Giraldo of Colombia 7-6 (6), 6-3. In the first set, both players held their serve and the more experienced Nadal sealed it with winning the tie-break 7-5. There were three breaks in the second set, [...]
American Mardy Fish set up a semifinal encounter against Rafael Nadal at the Japan Open when he outsted the Australian Bernard Tomic in the quarterfinal, beating him 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-1. The breaking point in the match was the 9th game in the second set, when Fish broke Tomic’s serve, [...]
Australian Open 2012 will witness the highest prize money ever paid out to the players in history of tennis. It will be a total of A$26 million (US$25 million) and both men’s and women’s champions will be awarded a record A$2.3 million (US$ 2.18 million) each. In comparison, this year’s [...]
American Mardy Fish and Czech Radek Stepanek are both through into the second round at the Japan Open Tennis Championships. No.4 seed Fish overcame a scare when beating fellow American Ryan Harrison 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. The 19 year old Harrison had to qualify for the main draw and he put [...]
