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Roger Federer made hard work of beating Victor Hanescu at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, on Sunday but eventually made it through to join Andy Murray in the third round.

Andy Murray reached the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on Tuesday despite looking far from his best.

Andy Murray eased into the third round of the BNP Parisbas Masters with a straightforward 6-4, 6-4 win over Andreas Seppi, of Italy, on Sunday night.

Andy Murray came through the second round of the BNP Paribas Open with a comfortable 6-4 6-4 win over Italy’s Andreas Seppi in Indian Wells.

Andy Murray opens his campaign against Andreas Seppi. Federer, who won the title from 2004-06, is playing his first match since capturing his 16th career Grand Slam crown at the Australian Open on Jan.

ELENA Baltacha provided some much-needed good news for British tennis by qualifying for the main draw of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.

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DUBAI // Janko Tipsarevic will face the No 2 seed Andy Murray in the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships after battling to overcome the Italian Andreas Seppi at the Aviation Club yesterday.

Andy Murray returns to Igor Kunitsyn. World number four Andy Murray has overcome a gutsy display from Russian Igor Kunitsyn to win 6-2, 6-3 in a floodlit first-round encounter at the Dubai tennis championships.

Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters Andy Murray will face Janko Tipsarevic tomorrow in the second round of ATP Dubai Championships.

ANDY Murray will be back on court for the first time since the Australian Open Final when he takes on Russia’s Igor Kunitsyn today in the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships.

Marseille, France, Feb 18 : Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopana and his South African partner Jeff Coetzee registered a straight sets victory in the first round to enter the quarterfinals of 512,750 euros Open 13 tennis tournament here.

Top seed Robin Soderling advanced to the quarterfinals at the Open 13 with a 6-7 , 6-3, 6-4 win Thursday over Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine.

French favorite Gilles Simon was a first-round loser Tuesday at the $700,000 Open 13 tennis event.

Sweden’s Robin Soderling posted a comeback win Monday in the opening round of the World Tennis Tournament in the Netherlands.

The Swede enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2009 but, suffering from elbow tendinitis, crashed out in the first round of the Chennai Open and the Australian Open last month.

Swedish tennis star Robin Soderling showed no signs of the elbow complaint which knocked him out of the Australian Open as he earned a straight sets win over Frenchman Florent Serra on Monday in the Rotterdam Open.

Richard Evans has been covering tennis since the 1960s and has reported on more than 150 Grand Slams.

Andy Murray produced a magnificent all-round performance to outclass John Isner and reach the Australian Open quarter-finals for the first time.

Finland’s tennis No.1 Jarkko Nieminen went out in the second round of the Australian Open in Melbourne, losing last week to Florent Serra of France in five sets.

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Richard Evans has been covering tennis since the 1960s and has reported on more than 150 Grand Slams.

Big-serving American John Isner received two major boosts to his rapidly-progressing tennis career yesterday.

Russian star Nikolay Davydenko won his second straight stunning match, beating former top-ranked stalwart Rafael Nadal for the title at the 2010 season-opening Qatar Open, an Australian Open tune-up. The third-seeded world No.

Four-time champion and former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt reached the quarterfinals in Sydney on Wednesday, dismantling Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-0, 6-2. Hewitt, who needed only 55 minutes to breeze into the final eight, utilized his return of serve to break Seppi on six occasions.

Lleyton Hewitt opened his bid for a fifth Sydney International title with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Andreas Seppi.

No. 2-seeded Tomas Berdych raced out to a strong lead but faltered and was ousted Wednesday from the Medibank International tournament in Australia.

KEN Rosewall is a quiet and decent man. He steers clear of controversy as keenly as Roger Federer avoids first-round defeats, but one of the most respected figures in Australian tennis has dipped a toe into the murky waters of Lleyton Hewitt’s feud with Bernard Tomic, calling for the warring parties to smoke the peace […]

Top-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils withdrew from the Medibank International tennis event, a final Australian Open tune-up. Monfils cited a shoulder injury for his withdrawal.

Andreas Seppi is confident of staging another upset of Lleyton Hewitt. Andreas Seppi says he has no fears about facing Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt in the second round of the Sydney International on Wednesday.