Professional Tennis
Bob & Mike Bryan, the American twins, will finish the year as number one on the ATP doubles tour for the seventh time. The two were only outranked in 2004 and again in 2008 since attaining their first in 2003. They won two Grand Slams this year along with five other titles. The Bryan Brothers…
Switzerland has chosen to host the United States on an indoor clay court at Fribourg in the 2012 Davis Cup. The Swiss tennis federation says the first-round series will be played Feb. 10-12 at the 7,200-capacity Forum Fribourg arena. Switzerland’s biggest indoor arenas in Geneva and Zurich were unavailable to stage the match. The Swiss team did…
The injuries continue to mount as the year winds down at the Swiss Indoors event in Switzerland, as the number two seed, Great Britain’s Andy Murray and the number six seed, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic, have left the event due to injury. Murray withdrew from the event before his scheduled first round match with Robin Haase of the…
Mardy Fish retired from his first-round match at the Swiss Indoors against fellow American James Blake on Tuesday after just one game because of a hamstring injury. Fish, who entered the tournament as the fifth seed, held serve in the opening game and lost the first point of the next game when he decided he…
Novak Djokovic says time is needed to gain back his form after a year of three major wins ended early with a back injury that left him sidelined for six weeks. The top-ranked Serbian has resumed play this week at the Swiss Indoors event after retiring from his last match over a month ago on…
Roger Federer has won the first round of his hometown Swiss Indoors event after a six-week break from action. He defeated Italy’s Potito Starace, 7-6, 6-4, to advance. Federer got off to a slow start, but was able to find himself in the tie-breaker in the first to take the lead one set to none….
Roger Federer has won the first round of his hometown Swiss Indoors event after a six-week break from action. He defeated Italy’s Potito Starace, 7-6, 6-4, to advance. Federer got off to a slow start, but was able to find himself in the tie-breaker in the first to take the lead one set to none….
Petra Kvitova from the Czech Republic, a former Wimbledon champion, has won her first WTA Championships title on Sunday by defeating Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 in the finals of the Istanbul Open in Turkey to put her second in world rankings. Kvitova took a 5-0 lead in the first, however, fell down a bit…
Petra Kvitova from the Czech Republic, a former Wimbledon champion, has won her first WTA Championships title on Sunday by defeating Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 in the finals of the Istanbul Open in Turkey to put her second in world rankings. Kvitova took a 5-0 lead in the first, however, fell down a bit…
France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has claimed the Erste Bank Open tournament in Vienna, Austria to claim his second title of the year with a 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 win over Spain’s Juan Martin Del Potro in the finals. Tsonga will now move past American Mardy Fish to become the number seven-ranked player in the 2011 tour for the year….