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James Ward, Dan Evans and Jamie Baker will compete for the two singles spots for Great Britain’s Davis Cup match in Lithuania in Vilnius on 5-7 March.

Andre Agassi, the master of all he surveyed last year after becoming only the fifth man to complete a set of the four Grand Slam singles titles at the French Open, was left with a bleak vista yesterday, even though the sun paid a visit to Stade Roland Garros.

Despite comparing his service action to a car in urgent need of an MOT, Greg Rusedski managed to drive safely, if shakily and in low gear, into the third round of the MastersSeries tournament here witha 6-4 7-5 win over Andrei Medvedev.

Lleyton Hewitt won his first Grand Slam title at the US Open in 2001. After missing last year’s US Open due to injury, past champion Lleyton Hewitt made a resounding return Monday, opening with a 6-0, 6-3, 6-4 win over Brazilian Thiago Alves to earn his 40th match win at Flushing Meadows.

There are many things to like about the ‘Zone’ series, both in terms of execution, and education.

Though by no means his best season, Lleyton Hewitt had put up a decent 2007 campaign.

Five-time champion Roger Federer overcame an early hiccup to book a place in the second round at Wimbledon with a 7-5 6-3 6-2 win over Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun. Swiss Federer, accorded the honour of opening proceedings on Centre Court in the absence of champion Rafael Nadal through injury, went an early break down against the […]

Caroline Wozniacki may be one of the new kids on the block, but she probably did not expect to be taking on an opponent who made her Wimbledon debut before the ninth seed was born.

ROGER Federer is strangely reluctant to reveal the due date of his first child, although watching his heavily pregnant wife, Mirka, make her understandably awkward way through the crowded Wimbledon players lounge, the arrival of Feds jnr can’t be far away.

The five-times Wimbledon champion Roger Federer serves on his way to a 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 second-round victory over Guillermo Garcia-Lopez enlarge Perhaps Roger Federer wanted to check that all was well with his heavily pregnant wife, Mirka, who was feeling under the weather and had decided not to go on court for his second-round match […]

Roger Federer’s bid for a record 15th Grand Slam title got underway in familiar fashion as the five-times champion settled into Wimbledon’s new-look centre court with a straight sets demolition of Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun. Federer, the men’s favourite in the absence of injured champion Rafael Nadal, recovered from going a break down early in the […]

AN UNENVIABLE TASK:: Taiwan s Lu Yen-hsun starts up against the five-time Wimbledon champion, a player who has collected a total of 14 Grand Slam titles By Tony Phillips STAFF REPORTER Monday, Jun 22, 2009, Page 20 Taiwan s Lu Yen-hsun returns to Lleyton Hewitt of Australia during their men s singles match on the […]

Three hours into the 2009 French Open, Taiwan was without any players in the grand slam tennis tournament’s main singles draws.

Taiwan s Lu Yen-hsun celebrates winning a game against Argentina s Eduardo Schwank during their first-round match at the Sony Ericsson Open on Key Biscayne, Florida, on March 26.

Sharapova wins again in WarsawMaria Sharapova routed Darya Kustova 6-2, 6-0 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Warsaw Open in her first singles tournament since returning from surgery for a torn rotator cuff.

Jurgen Melzer of Austria reached his first quarterfinal of the season with a 6-4, 7-5 victory Wednesday over Agustin Calleri in the second round of the Austrian Open.

KITZBUEHEL, Austria - Second-seeded Jurgen Melzer of Austria won 11 straight games Tuesday to beat Frederico Gil of Portugal 6-3, 6-0 in the first round of the Austrian Open.

Third-seeded Romanian Victor Hanescu and seventh-seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny were among Monday’s first-round winners at the clay-court Austrian Open, a final French Open tune-up. Hanescu came from behind to beat qualifier Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador 6-7 , 6-3, 7-5, while Youzhny held off Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-2, 7-6 on Day 2 here.

Results Tuesday from the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships, a $500,000 ATP Tour event on clay at River Oaks Country Club : Singles First Round Sergio Roitman, Argentina, def.

Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis and former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt were among Wednesday’s first-round winners at the $4.5 million Sony Ericsson Open, the second Masters 1000 tournament of the year.

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Tennis Federation said on Wednesday it had called up world number 50 Martin Vassallo Arguello to replace 14th-ranked David Nalbandian, who has been ruled out of the Davis Cup …

Two-time Acapulco champion Juan Ignacio Chela survived a scare Monday at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, overcoming Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 to reach the second round at the ATP World Tour 500 tennis …

Results Monday from the $600,000 ATP Telmex Cup, played on clay courts at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club : Singles First Round Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentina, def.

RELEGATION BATTLE: Taiwan lost 3-0 to the Australians and today face a must-win match against India, with the loser dropping down to Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Group II AP, PERTH, AUSTRALIA Saturday, Feb 07, 2009, …

Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak led the four seeded teams in quarter-final action Thursday at the Movistar Open in Vina del Mar, as they advanced with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Agustin Calleri and Potitio …

Sebastian Decoud of Argentina upset seventh-seeded Agustin Calleri 7-6 , 7-5 Thursday at the Movistar Open to reach his first ATP quarterfinals.

Argentine Agustin Calleri topped Nicolas Massu and advanced to the second round at the $496,750 Movistar Open, the first South American stop on the 2009 ATP World Tour.

The Argentine-Italian duo of Agustin Calleri and Potito Starace opened doubles action at the Movistar Open with a 6-3, 3-6, 10-7 win over Maximo Gonzalez and Nicolas Lapentti on Monday in Vina del Mar.

Second seeds Bob and Mike Bryan began their bid to reclaim the Australian Open title by defeating the Chilean-Argentine duo of Fernando Gonzalez and Mariano Hood 7-5, 6-3 in 70 minutes on Wednesday in …

TENNIS Modesto Vazquez, the former head coach of the tennis academy at the University of Bath, has recently been appointed to lead Argentina’s Davis Cup challenge.