Tennis News

Andy Roddick lines up a smash during his fourth round match at the Australian Open, Jan.

Rochester Mayo will be conducting a cancer awareness fundraiser in association with the Minnesota Boys Basketball Association when it hosts Rochester John Marshall in a boys basketball game on Friday.

Romania’s Horia Tecau and New Zealand’s Marcus Daniell have won their first ATP title after defeating Brazil’s Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in the doubles event of the Heineken Open , score 7-5, 6-4, Hotnews.ro informs.

DOUBLE DIPPING: Marcus Daniell’s win yesterday boosted his world ranking from 690th to around 220 but cost him a chance of going to the Big Day Out music festival.

John Lloyd: The public are being misled by hype and propaganda as the cracks in the system are papered over again Interview by Ronald Atkin The newspapers, television screens and airwaves have been full these past few days of the heroics of Barry Cowan.

Hitchin’s Arvind Parmar hammed it up by falling backwards to the ground after what was in every sense a staggering success over the Brazilian Andre Sa yesterday evening.

The Bryan brothers are three-time former winners in Basel. Second seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan edged closer to a fourth final at the Davidoff Swiss Indoors Basel after edging Johan Brunstrom and Jean-Julien Rojer 7-6 , 7-6 Friday in the quarter-finals of the ATP World Tour 500 tennis tournament.

Kas and Kohlschreiber squandered one match point at 9-8 in the Match tie-break, but managed to secure their eighth win in 13 matches together this year.

SI Yew Meng has only seen his partner Joachim Johansson of Sweden in action on television.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Si Yew Ming has yet to meet his partner, Joachim Johansson of Sweden.

It wasn’t that long ago, a mere seven years, but it seems like ages. It was the 2002 Wimbledon, a time when women players still weren’t making as much as the men at the crusty old venue, and it seemed like a crime.

Nenad Zimonjic and Daniel Nestor are chasing their second Grand Slam championship of the year.

New York: Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy advanced to the third round of the men’s doubles at the U.S. Open with relative ease beating the Spanish combine of Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo and Nicolas Almagro 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday.

The worry over the effects of Tropical Storm Danny started right after Jose Acasuso’s straight-set victory over Florent Serra Thursday night.

Never has there been a greater assemblage of pro talent on the courts at the Palisades Tennis Center than there was Sunday afternoon.

CARA Black and Kevin Ullyett a ‘ the two Zimbabweans playing at Wimbledon a ‘ had mixed fortunes yesterday in the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles.

JAMIE Murray failed to provide some consolation for younger brother Andy’s failure to reach the Wimbledon men’s final when he and partner Liezel Huber were beaten in the semi-finals of the mixed doubles, writes Eve Fodens .

LONDON: India’s Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe defeated Brazil’s Andre Sa and Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-3, 6-3 to storm into the semi-finals of Wimbledon mixed doubles here Thursday.

Former LSU tennis player Ken Skupski capped his run at Wimbledon on Saturday with doubles partner Katie O’Brien in the second round of mixed doubles at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

Chris Eaton and Alexander Slabinsky and James Auckland and Elena Baltacha failed to make progress in their respective doubles competitionis.

BROXBURN tennis ace Colin Fleming and partner Ken Skupski marched into the second round of the AEGON International in Eastbourne after a tense finale.

His singles world ranking might have plummeted to an unfashionable 1 060, but former South African number one Wesley Moodie is currently the hottest property on the international tennis doubles circuit as he bids to regain the Wimbledon title he won in 2005.

Linlithgow’s Colin Fleming and Englishman Ken Skupski picked up where they left off last week at Queen’s Club with another superb win in the AEGON International in Eastbourne last night.

Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber completed a German clean sweep at the Gerry Weber Open with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over wild cards Andreas Beck and Marco Chiudinelli on Sunday in the final of the ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament in Halle.

Brazilian No. 6 seeds Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa reached the AEGON Championships final for the second straight year after edging seventh seeds Jeff Coetzee of South Africa and Australian Jordan Kerr 7-5, 4-6, 10-3 on Saturday at the ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament at the Queen’s Club in London.

The Brazilian duo of Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa , who reached last year’s final, moved one step closer to another title match, as they outlasted Simon Aspelin and Paul Hanley 7-6 , 4-6, 11-9 at the AEGON Championships in London on Friday.

Simon Aspelin and Paul Hanley knocked out top seeds and defending champions Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic 6-4, 3-6, 10-8 on Thursday at the Queen’s Club in London to book their quarter-final spot in the AEGON Championships, an ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament.

Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Murray saved one match point to defeat Americans Rajeev Ram and Andy Roddick 3-6, 6-3, 12-10 in a marquee first-round match between two new teams at the AEGON Championships, an ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament contested on grass at the Queen’s Club in London.

Japan’s Ai Sugiyama and Brazilian partner Andre Sa lost in a 10-point tiebreaker in the decisive third set against top-seeded Americans Liezel Huber and Bob Bryan in the quarterfinals of the French Open on Monday.

Top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan opened their title defence at the Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell by defeating Travis Parrott and Filip Polasek 6-3, 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the quarter-finals at the ATP World Tour 500 tennis tournament.