Professional Tennis
Top-seeded Bob & Mike Bryan were upset on Thursday by Paul Hanley & Jonathan Marray in Paris at the 2012 BNP Paribas Masters The Australian/British duo fired 17 aces and converted one of their four break points to edge the Bryans 6-4, 6-7(2), 10-5 to advance to the quarterfinals. Marray teamed with Denmark’s Frederik Nielsen to win…
Olympic Gold medalist and 2012 U.S. Open winner Andy Murray defeated wild card Paul-Henri Mathieu 7-5, 6-3 in the second round of the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris on Wednesday. Murray fired 12 aces to win his opening match, his first event since falling to Novak Djokovic in the Shanghai Rolex Masters final. He is…
Caroline Wozniacki has advanced to the semifinals of the Qatar Airways Tournaments of Champions in Sofia, Bulgaria after her 6-3, 6-1 win over Italy’s Roberta Vinci at the Quatar Airways Tournament of Champions. Wozniacki will play her final round-robin match of the week on Thursday against seventh-seeded Slovakian veteran Daniela Hantuchova. The Tournament of Champions is…
Janko Tipsarevic kept alive his bid to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday when he advanced to the BNP Paribas Masters third round. Eighth seed Tipsarevic defeated Dutch qualifier Igor Sijsling 6-4, 7-6(0) for his 30th hard-court match win of the season (56-24 overall record). Fellow London hopeful Nicolas Almagro also remained…
American Sam Querrey recorded the biggest match win of his career on Wednesday when he defeated world number two-ranked Novak Djokovic 0-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 at the BNP Paribas Masters. Having won just 10 points in the 20-minute first set, Querrey bounced back to record his first win over a Top 10 player in 12 months and…
On Friday, both Maria Sharapova and Agnieszka Radwanska survived tough matches in Istanbul to both remain alive at the 2012 TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Sharapova outlasted Sam Stosur in straight sets, 6-0, 6-3, to not only remain undefeated in her group, but also keep her hopes alive of capturing the year-end world number one spot atop…
Juan Martin del Potro defeated South Africa’s Kevin Anderson 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-2 to advance to the semifinals of the Swiss Indoors Basel. del Potro’s trip to the semis comes just one day after qualifying for the 2012 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, to be held at The O2 in London in November. Following Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal from…
Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris and the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London due to his lingering left knee injury. Nadal has not played since June 28th at Wimbledon when he was upset by Czech Lukas Rosol 6-7(9), 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in the second round. "It’s disappointing for…
Serena Williams scored a straight-sets victory over Victoria Azarenka, 6-4, 6-4 at the 2012 TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday. Coming into the match against the world number one-ranked Azarenka, Serena had 15 straight wins against top five players, 10 straight wins against top players and five straight wins against world number one-ranked players….
Top-seeded Roger Federer advanced to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors Basel on Wednesday, with a 6-3, 6-7(6), 7-5 win over Thomaz Bellucci. Federer won 77 percent of his service points and converted a late break in the deciding set for the win in just over two hours. Federer is seeking his seventh tour-level trophy of…