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Tripp Phillips, an assistant coach at North Carolina and former ATP doubles star, will be back with the St.

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.

The old campaigner: Michael Chang The old campaigner: Michael Chang This is the American’s 14th visit to Wimbledon, yet he is still only 30.

Robin Soderling’s abject surrender to Robby Ginepri in the opening round may have been a huge blow for the organisers, but it kept the reputation of the tournament intact.

Andy Murray went into the US Open with the modest ambition of living up to his No 17 seeding.

The skill, determination and bravery of the 18-year-old Andy Murray has ensured that Britain march into tomor-row’s US Open with that comparative luxury, a trio of repres- entatives.

How hard is Steffi’s forehand these days?” your correspondent asked Andre Agassi after the world’s No 1 tennis player had spent 20 minutes practising with Steffi Graf on the Centre Court at the Schleyer Halle in Stuttgart.

For many years, British No. 1 Tim Henman was viewed by the British public as nearly the man of men’s tennis.

Andre Agassi arrives at the 14th annual Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation’s Grand Slam for Children benefit concert at the Wynn Las Vegas September 26, 2009 in Las Vegas Getty Images Andre Agassi talks to the media during the 1990 U.S. Open held in September 1990 at Flushing Meadows, in New York AP Andre Agassi is […]

Andrei Pavel and Gabriel Trifu captured the 1998 Bucharest title. Andrei Pavel , a former doubles World No.

Former Romanian tennis stars Ilie Nastase and Ion Tiriac attend a match between UruguayA’s Pablo Cuevas and RomaniaA’s Andrei Pavel at the BCR Tennis Open tournament in Bucharest, yesterday.

Romanian Andrei Pavel reached a singles career-high of No. 13 on 25 October 2004.

The consistent career of Andrei Pavel ended today with the 35-year-old losing in the first round of the BCR Open to Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 7-6 . The one hour and 20 minute affair featured a nostalgic crowd witnessing their hero for the final time.

Fifth-seeded Albert Montanes defeated Marcel Granollers 6-1, 6-3 in an all-Spanish match Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the BCR Open Romania.

Peter Luczak progressed to the second round of the BCR Open Monday with a 7-5, 7-6 victory over Karol Beck.

World No 2 Andy Murray reached the third round of the US Open on Friday as he beat Chilean Paul Capdeville 6-2, 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 on Arthur Ashe Stadium.

World number two Andy Murray vowed to make sure his preparations are right for his third-round match in the U.S .Open, after seeing off Chile’s Paul Capdeville on Friday.

BBC Sport Mole: “How remiss of me - so spellbound by Bahrami/Leconte - that I have made no mention of the Royal Box today.

Nenad Zimonjic and Daniel Nestor are looking to reach their second straight Wimbledon final.

The top-seeded team of Mike Bryan and Bob Bryan rolled into the third round of the men’s doubles doubles’ tournament at Wimbledon with a 6-0, 6-2, 6-4 victory over the team of Johan Brunstrom and Jean-Julien Roier at the All-England Club.

BROXBURN tennis ace Colin Fleming has set his sights on a giant-killing after booking his place in the second round of the AEGON Championships at the Queen’s Club.

Editor’s Note: This Biofile of Thomas Johansson was orginally published in 2006 and is republished here as a tribute to the 34-year-old Swede who announced his retirement from professional tennis today.

Four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt and tall American Sam Querrey were among Monday’s opening-round winners at the $1 million Aegon Championships, a grass-court Wimbledon tune-up. The 15th-seeded former world No.

BROXBURN tennis ace Colin Fleming admits he is relishing the chance to test himself against the very best at the AEGON Championships this week after narrowly missing out on victory in Nottingham.

No.7 seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny attempts to reach his 10th ATP World Tour final when he takes on Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the first semi-final of the Interwetten Austrian Open on Friday.

An action-packed schedule on the second day of the inaugural Serbia Open 2009 features four Serbians in first round singles action along with a wild card doubles team.

Spain celebrates its 3-1 Davis Cup win. Nadal’s win gave Spain an insurmountable lead and a place in the quarterfinals, before David Ferrer beat Viktor Troicki 6-0, 6-3 in the meaningless last singles match to …

Romania needed to go for broke against heavily favored Russia today. But the Russians refused to cooperate.

SIBIU, Romania : Debutant Marius Copil and Horia Tecau upset Russia’s Marat Safin and Dimitry Tusunov in a tightly contested five-set doubles match Saturday, trimming Russia’s lead in their Davis Cup …

SIBIU, Romania : Victor Crivoi will face Marat Safin in the opening singles match of Romania’s Davis Cup series against Russia.