Roquebrune, France: Having beaten Roger Federer's Switzerland and France on the road, the US Davis Cup team now awaits a more daunting obstacle " defending champions Spain in the semi-finals. John Isner sent the Americans into the next round by winning Sunday's opening singles match " a 6-3, 7-6 (4) 5-7, 6-3 victory over sixth-ranked Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France. The US are in the last-four of the Davis Cup for...
10:03 AM, Apr 09, 2012
Namangan, Uzbekistan: India salvaged some pride by winning the two inconsequential reverse singles to reduce their margin of defeat against Uzbekistan to 2-3 in the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I second-round tie on Sunday. Young Yuki Bhambri stunned Uzbek number one Denis Istomin in the first reverse singles of the day before Rohan Bopanna gave India their second win by beating Sarvar Ikramov. 20-year-old Bhambri and Bopanna showed a lot...
09:32 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Defending champion Spain blew a chance to reach the Davis Cup semi-finals when they lost the doubles to Austria on Saturday, while the Czech Republic and Serbia continued to fall out over handshakes. Austrian second-time pair Alexander Peya and Oliver Marach took advantage of a rain delay in Castellon to regather and overcome Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (12) to cut Spain's lead to 2-1. That...
08:49 AM, Apr 08, 2012
Madrid: Holders Spain raced into a 2-0 lead over Austria in the opening singles when Nicolas Almagro and David Ferrer outplayed Juergen Melzer and Andreas Haider-Maurer respectively in Friday's Davis Cup quarter-finals. As the four World Group ties got underway, including France taking on the US, Czech Republic versus Serbia and Argentina against Croatia, Almagro thumped Melzer 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 and Ferrer thrashed Haider-Maurer 6-1, 6-3, 6-1. Those performances put...
09:21 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Roquebrune: France captain Guy Forget picked injured Gilles Simon to play singles against John Isner of the United States in the Davis Cup quarter-final. Although the 13th-ranked Simon is nursing a sore back and had little practice, Forget selected him on Thursday ahead of lower-ranked Julien Benneteau and Michael Llodra. Sixth-ranked Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will open on clay against 19-year-old American Ryan Harrison at the Monte Carlo Country Club on Friday....
06:27 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Namangan (Uzbekistan): India got off to a worst possible start in their Asia Ocenia Group I Davis Cup tie, losing both the singles matches against Uzbekistan, who took a 2-0 lead here on Friday. Rookies Sanam Singh, 24, and the 20-year-old Yuki Bhambri lost their singles matches in straight sets against Denis Istomin and Farrukh Dustov respectively in what turned out to be lop-sided contests. To stay alive in the...
05:09 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Hours after losing his most recent match, Mardy Fish woke up in the middle of the night feeling ill and immediately went to be checked by a doctor. He saw another doctor the next day, too, and the diagnosis was fatigue. Told he needed to rest, and citing what the US Tennis Association called a "minor health scare," the No 9-ranked Fish pulled out of this week's Davis Cup quarter-final...
10:27 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Top doubles player Mahesh Bhupathi has opted out of India's Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan next month to allow tour partner Rohan Bopanna pair with Leander Paes, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) announced on Tuesday. India takes on Uzbekistan in the Asia/Oceania Group I zone tie next month. AITA said that since Davis Cup captain SP Misra wanted two singles players, the selection committee was to choose...
06:22 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Rotterdam, Netherlands: Roger Federer says he was misunderstood and he did not blame Switzerland teammate Stanislas Wawrinka for their Davis Cup loss to the United States. In comments translated from French, Federer appeared to criticize Wawrinka's performances in the 5-0 first-round whitewash at the weekend. But speaking at a pre-tournament news conference on Monday at the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Federer said there was no rift with...
04:34 PM, Feb 14, 2012
London: Serbia did just fine without Novak Djovokic in the Davis Cup, while Russia's shorthanded team was surprisingly eliminated by Austria on Sunday. Serbia swept the reverse singles against Sweden to complete a 4-1 victory at home and set up a quarter-final against the Czech Republic, with Janko Tipsarevic clinching the win by beating Michael Ryderstedt of Sweden 6-2, 7-6 (5), 7-5. Dusan Lajovic then defeated Sweden's Filip Prpic 6-4,...
10:07 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Madrid: Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise doping test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was at the center of jokes made by a French TV programme about his country's alleged ties to doping. Nadal wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday: "8:30 in the morning!!!Just finished passing a surprise antidoping test...it was expected after everything...but I'm happy it's like this!" The Spanish sports ministry...
06:04 PM, Feb 12, 2012
London: Roger Federer suffered defeat for the second day in succession as United States completed a surprisingly comfortable victory over Switzerland in the Davis Cup World Group first round in Fribourg on Saturday. Former world number one Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka needed to win the doubles to keep the tie alive after Friday's two singles went to the US, but after a good start the Swiss pair lost 4-6, 6-3,...
11:50 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Madrid: John Isner shocked Roger Federer in four sets to secure a 2-0 lead for the United States away to Switzerland in Davis Cup World Group action on Friday while holders Spain carved out the same advantage over Kazakhstan in their first-round tie. Big-serving Isner beat Federer 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-2 to end his opponent's 15-match unbeaten run in Davis Cup singles rubbers and described it as the greatest win...
08:45 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Belgrade: Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic will not play in Serbia's Davis Cup tie against Sweden this month. Serbia captain Bogdan Obradovic said he decided to let the top-ranked Djokovic rest after he beat Rafael Nadal in a gruelling five-set final in Melbourne. Obradovic told The Associated Press that "we want to spare Djokovic to help him remain the world's No 1 player and win gold at the Olympic Games...
12:55 PM, Feb 02, 2012
London: Australian Open quarterfinalist Tomas Berdych and doubles winner Radek Stepanek will lead the Czech Republic against Italy in next week's first round of the Davis Cup in Ostrava. Berdych lost to Rafael Nadal in the quarters while Stepanek won his maiden Grand Slam title when he teamed with Leander Paes of India to beat Bob and Mike Bryan of the U.S. in the doubles final. Lukas Rosol and doubles...
12:53 PM, Feb 01, 2012
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