Roger Federer lost the first set of his career against Victor Hanescu before recovering for a 6-3, 6-7 , 6-1 win Sunday into the third round of the Indian Wells Masters, his first event since winning January’s Australian Open.
Indiaa s No. 1 Somdev Devvarman pulled off a stunning 6-4, 7-5 victory over a top-100 player Swiss Marco Chiudinelli and moved into the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships here Tuesday.
Fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko overcame an early fright to beat France’s Florent Serra 6-7 6-4 6-1 on Tuesday in an error-strewn first-round battle at the Dubai Championships.
Dubai, Feb 25: India’s Leander Paes and Czech Lukas Dlouhy Thursday cruised into the doubles semifinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships while Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna bowed out with their partners.
Second seeds Paes and Dlouhy overcame the Polish pair of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 7-6 , 6-3 in their opening round of the USD 1,619,500 hard court event.
Sixth seed Marin Cilic thrived in sweltering conditions to power past Frenchman Arnaud Clement 6-2 6-4 in the first round of the Dubai tennis championships on Tuesday.
Bopanna and Coetzee lost 4-6, 6-0, 6-10 here Friday. Knowle and Lindstedt next play the winner of the match between Frenchmen Arnaud Clement and Nicolas Mahut and compatriots Julien Benneteau amd Michael Llodra.
French favorite Gilles Simon was a first-round loser Tuesday at the $700,000 Open 13 tennis event.
Andy Murray’s hopes of a second ATP Tour title vanished when he was beaten in the Legg Mason Classic final in Washington last night by 11th seed Arnaud Clement, of France.
With six players in the top-fifty of the ATP rankings system, France is certainly well represented in the upper echelon of the men’s game.
Santiago finalists Starace and Zeballos are playing together for the first time.
Robin Soderling secured a quarterfinal berth, while Nikolay Davydenko and Gael Monfils won their opening-round matches at the ABN Amro indoor hard-court tournament on Wednesday.
Two Austrians won tennis double titles yesterday . Jurgen Melzer and German Phillip Petzschner beat French-Belgian pairing Arnaud Clement / Olivier Rochus in the final of an ATP Tour event in Zagreb, Croatia 3-6, 6-3, 10-8. This victory came just a day after Melzer lost to Marin Cilic, the tournament’s number one seed, in the […]
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.
Nine years ago, on February 4, 2001, Roger Federer finally broke through and won his first ATP singles title.
Defending champion Marin Cilic beat Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-2 in a first-round match at the Zagreb Indoors on Wednesday.
Israel’s delegates to the Australian Open bowed out of competition yesterday at the first Grand Slam tournament of the year.
Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and partner Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia were first on court in Rod Laver Arena Thursday morning, and needed barely an hour to beat unseeded Ivo Karlovic of Croatia and Dusan Vemic of Serbia 6-4, 6-4 to reach the Australian Open men’s doubles final.
After spending the past three weeks down under in New Zealand and Australia, “Long John” Isner is back in the United States at his training base in Tampa, Fla.
Serena Williams saved some family pride Wednesday at the Australian Open - just.
Canadian Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic advanced to the semifinals at the Australian Open with a 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 victory over France’s Arnaud Clement and Jonathan Erlich of Israel on Wednesday.
For this American, watching John Isner play is frustrating on a pair of levels. First, there’s the wariness of knowing that a young American player has a chance of notching an important win but hasn’t exactly proven himself to be Pete Sampras or even Andy Roddick in clutch situations.
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American John Isner has won his first ever ATP tour title at the Heineken tennis Open in Auckland.
While top seed Tommy Robredo was larking about on centre court in a post-match target shoot with a fan yesterday, John Isner was out on court six lining up Juan Monaco’s disintegrating serve.
Friday, 15 January 2010, 7:15pm Source: TV3 Arnaud Clement of France will play American John Isner in the Heineken Open tennis final tomorrow.
American John Isner won his first ATP Tour title by beating Arnaud Clement 6-3 5-7 7-6 at the Auckland Open.
FINAL COUNTDOWN: American John Isner will meet Frenchman Arnaud Clement in the Heineken Open final, just his second ATP Tour final and first since 2007.
Arnaud Clement of France will play American John Isner in the Heineken Open tennis final tomorrow.
Frenchman Arnaud Clement became the third semifinalist at the Heineken Open tennis.
