Archive for January, 2010
Australian Open Results
Tennis newsResults Tuesday from the $22,14 million Australian Open at Melbourne Park. Singles Men First Round Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, def. Nick Lindahl, Australia, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4. Tomas Berdych (21), Czech Republic, def. Robin Haase, Netherlands, 6-0, 6-3, 6-3. Evgeny Korolev, Kazakhstan, def. Daniel Brands, Germany, 6-2, 7-5, 7-5. Igor Kunitsyn, Russia, def. Jose Acasuso, Argentina, 6-1, [...]
Davydenko, Verdasco Move Into Second Round
Tennis newsSixth seed Nikolay Davydenko is showing no signs of losing the form that took him to year-end glory at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in November or to the Qatar ExxonMobil Open title two weeks ago. The 28-year-old Russian proved too good for German qualifier Dieter Kindlmann at the Australian Open on Tuesday, wining [...]
Sharapova out; Safina wins at Australian Open
Tennis newsMaria Sharapova tumbled out of the Australian Open on Monday in her worst performance at a Grand Slam event since 2003, falling 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-4 to Maria Kirilenko in the first round. The 14th-seeded Sharapova was unable to defend her 2008 Australian Open championship while sidelined 10 months because of right shoulder surgery. She [...]
Australian Open Results
Tennis newsResults Monday from the $22,14 million Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses). Singles Men First Round Ivan Ljubicic (24), Croatia, def. Jason Kubler, Australia, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Fernando Gonzalez (11), Chile, def. Olivier Rochus, Belgium, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1. Florian Mayer, Germany, def. Philipp Petzschner, Germany, 0-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. Andy Roddick [...]
Djokovic gets up close, personal with competition
Tennis newsNovak Djokovic got a closer look at how the competition stacks up at the Australian Open when he mixed it with Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters on Sunday. Roger Federer and Lleyton Hewitt had already teamed up against Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick to get the Haiti earthquake relief exhibition match started on Rod Laver [...]
Federer and Co. stage fundraiser for Haiti victims
Tennis newsRoger Federer and other leading tennis players devoted the eve of the Australian Open to a fundraiser for Haiti earthquake victims in an exhibition match Sunday that offered a rare glimpse at the camaraderie behind their on-court rivalries. The event dubbed Hit for Haiti raised more than AU$200,000 ($185,000), an amount that organizers expected would [...]
Australian Open Qualifying Results
Tennis newsWednesday At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia. Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men First Round Stefan Koubek (15), Austria, def. Ryler DeHeart, United States, 7-5, 6-4. Noam Okun, Israel, def. Paul Capdeville (20), Chile, 6-4, 6-7 (8), 6-4. Alex Bogomolov Jr., United States, def. Pavol Cervenak, Slovakia, 7-5, 6-3. Jan Minar, Czech Republic, def. Yuki Bhambri, India, 3-6, [...]
Heineken Open results
Tennis newsResults Tuesday at the Heineken Open, an ATP tournament played on Supreme hardcourts. Singles First Round Juan Monaco (7), Argentina, def. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 6-3, 6-0. Albert Montanes (8), Spain, def. James Lemke, Australia, 6-1, 7-5. Michael Lammer, Switzerland, def. Daniel Evans, Britain, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4. John Isner, United States, def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, 4-6, [...]
Serena Williams, Safina into Sydney quarterfinals
Tennis newsTop-ranked Serena Williams opened her season with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez on Tuesday, reaching the quarterfinals at a Sydney International where other leading players have struggled. No. 3 Svetlana Kuznetsova lost 7-5, 6-2 to Slovakias Dominika Cibulkova later Tuesday, joining fourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki, No. 7 Jelena Jankovic and No. 8 [...]
Chennai Open Results
Tennis newsResults Sunday from the Chennai Open, a $400,000 ATP World Tour event on outdoor hard courts. Singles Final Marin Cilic (2), Croatia, def. Stanislas Wawrinka (3), Switzerland, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3). Doubles Final Marcel Granollers and Santiago Ventura (2), Spain, def. Yen-Hsun Lu, Taiwan, and Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, 7-5, 6-2.
