Albert Montanes improves to a 4-6 record in Costa do Sauipe. Second seed Albert Montanes of Spain began his 2010 clay-court campaign by defeating German Simon Greul 6-2, 7-6 on Monday at the Brasil Open , an ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament in Costa do Sauipe.
James Ward, Dan Evans and Jamie Baker will compete for the two singles spots as Great Britain’s Davis Cup team begin life without Andy Murray against Lithuania next month.
Basel, Switzerland- Ana Ivanovic may have gone 0-3 in weekend Fed Cup play as Serbia lost to 3-2 to Russia, but the one- time French Open champion proved she’s still a star with sponsors after signing a lifetime deal to stay with adidas clothing.
It was not what you might have expected in a job interview, especially if you were the one doing the recruiting.
Seven years after his last professional tournament, Pete Sampras doesn’t harbor any secret hopes of making a comeback.
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David Felgate, former coach of Tim Henman and former Lawn Tennis Association Performance Director, assesses Andy Murray’s chances in the Australian Open.
Spain’s Feliciano Lopez, who gave Andy Roddick a real fight in the Australian Open last month, yesterday became the new South African Open tennis champion.
Patrick Rost Patrick Rost is convinced that the fountain of youth can be found in exercise, and not in a doctor’s office or a pharmacy.
Santiago finalists Starace and Zeballos are playing together for the first time.
Jurgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner capped a dream week by winning their first ATP World Tour title together with a hard-fought 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 victory over French-Belgian pairing Arnaud Clement and Olivier Rochus in the final of the PBZ Zagreb Indoors , an ATP World Tour 250 indoor hard-court tennis tournament.
Cash for access faces an overhaul, write Adele Ferguson and Eric Johnston. As accounting firms have beefed up lobbying efforts, they are also ramping up political donations, often on behalf of clients seeking access or to influence politicians or to silence the opposition, an investigation has found.
Fed Cup first-round matches begin this weekend, and the USA goes on the road with a young, unheralded team without its two biggest stars, Venus and Serena Williams .
Thursday, February 04, 2010 at 3:03 p.m. Read more: Dow Corning Tennis Classic , Midland Community Tennis Center , USTA , Local Pro When the USTA named Midland Americaa s Best Tennis Town and selected the Dow Corning Tennis Classic as the only $100,000 event the Tour, it wasna t surprising to Mike Woody, tournament director, that the competition, …
As recently as late last week, SAP Open tournament director Bill Rapp was getting health updates on his No.
As recently as late last week, SAP Open tournament director Bill Rapp was getting health updates on his No.
Andy Murray missed out on the chance of joining the ranks of the world’s richest sportsmen when he lost to Roger Federer in the final of the Australian Open tennis championships on Sunday.
Tennis star Andy Murray will bounce back from his Australian Open final disappointment to win a Grand Slam title, fans in his hometown have insisted.
Czech Lucie Safarova will meet German Anna-Lena Groenefeld in Saturday’s opening singles rubber in a Fed Cup quarterfinal in Brno.
Top-seeded Fernando Gonzalez and second- seeded Juan Monaco each won their respective quarterfinal matches on Friday to move into the semifinals at the $450,000 Movistar Open tennis event.
San Jose would work just fine. As he checks the draw for the SAP Open at HP Pavilion, which begins Monday, he can’t help but imagine a soul-satisfying tournament.
SARAH Borwell and Elena Baltacha produced a magnificent fightback to beat Olga Govortsova and Tatiana Poutchek 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 and help Great Britain defeat Belarus 2-1 in their Europe/Africa Group 1 Fed Cup tie in Lisbon.
Can Andy Murray become the first Britain since Fred Perry 74 years ago to win a major tennis tournament? Scott Murray will be here from 8.30am with the action.
Benjamin Becker rallied past qualifier Andreas Vincuguerra 1-6, 6-1, 7-6 Tuesday to advance to the second round of the Zagreb Indoors.
Friday, February 5, 2010 1:58 AM Murray’s Aussie defeat emphasizes his weaknesses Tom Tebbutt A bout six days after Roger Federer defeated Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 to win the Australian Open, here are a few thoughts on the final.
Nine years ago, on February 4, 2001, Roger Federer finally broke through and won his first ATP singles title.
While Andrew Murray was stealing the headlines in a pulsating, emotional match at Melbourne Park, in a far-flung corner of the tennis complex, Peter Norfolk, Britain’s world No 1 quadriplegic wheelchair tennis player, known as ‘The Quadfather’, clinched his third successive Australian Open quad singles title, and his fourth Down Under since 2004.
Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States will play Alize Cornet of France in opening singles of the Fed Cup quarterfinals on Saturday.
Devizes tennis ace William Bissett has set his sights on emulating British hero Andy Murray after being marked out as a star of the future by the Lawn Tennis Association.
Sue Barker had introduced the men’s final of the Australian Open Tennis Championship with “Today history beckons for Andy Murray” but, every so often, there was an announcement that The Andrew Marr Show had been moved to BBC Two.
