Perth: Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and Tomas Berdych had straight-set singles victories over France on Saturday to give the Czech Republic its second Hopman Cup title. Kvitova won the last three games of the first set and went on to beat Marion Bartoli 7-5, 6-1 while Berdych was perfect in a first-set tiebreaker and beat Richard Gasquet 7-6 (0), 6-4. The Czech pair were unbeaten in singles through three matches...
04:34 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Perth: Second-ranked Petra Kvitova beat No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-4 and Tomas Berdych defeated Frederik Nielsen 6-1, 6-3 Friday as the Czech Republic advanced to face France in the Hopman Cup final. The Wimbledon champion held off Wozniacki before Berdych breezed past Nielsen to clinch the top spot in Group A with the 2-0 victory over Denmark. Kvitova and Berdych will play the French team of Marion...
07:05 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Perth: France qualified for the Hopman Cup final when Richard Gasquet finished off a 6-2, 6-4 win over Fernando Verdasco on his fifth match point Thursday to secure a 2-0 victory over Spain. Marion Bartoli gave the French a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three match when she beat Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-2, 6-4 in the women's singles and Gasquet ensured France would finish atop Group B when he fended off...
04:59 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Perth: Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and teammate Tomas Berdych won their singles matches in straight sets on Wednesday to lead the Czech Republic to a 3-0 win over the United States at the Hopman Cup. Kvitova opened with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Berdych beat Mardy Fish 6-3, 6-3. Berdych saved four break points while serving for the match before converting his first match point to ensure...
08:54 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Perth: Marion Bartoli left her opponent in tears on Tuesday after a 6-0, 6-0 rout in the Hopman Cup put France on the way to victory over Australia. Bartoli needed only 50 minutes to beat Jarmila Gajdosova, finishing off the match with her 12th ace. "I'm sorry I beat her that way but I was just focusing on my own game and not looking at the scoreboard," Bartoli said. "She's...
08:59 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Perth: The United States lost to Denmark 2-1 at the Hopman Cup on Monday, with late-arriving Caroline Wozniacki and Frederik Nielsen beating Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Mardy Fish 7-5, 6-3 in the deciding mixed doubles match. Fish gave the US an opening victory in this Australian Open tune-up, defeating Nielsen 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4. The top-ranked Wozniacki made it to the tournament only four hours earlier on a flight from Thailand....
03:55 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Perth: Fernando Verdasco and Anabel Medina Garrigues beat Lleyton Hewitt and Jarmila Gajdosova in a mixed doubles third set tiebreaker to give Spain a 2-1 victory over Australia in their Hopman Cup encounter on Sunday at the Burswood Dome. According to Hopman Cup rules, the mixed doubles is decided by a tiebreaker if sides win a set apiece. The first pair to reach 10 points with at least a two-point...
11:42 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Perth: Marion Bartoli and Richard Gasquet beat Li Na and Wu Di 6-1, 6-1 in mixed doubles on Saturday to give France a 2-1 victory over China in the opening match at the eight-country Hopman Cup. French Open champion Li had beaten Bartoli 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the first singles match at the Burswood Dome, and Gasquet tied it up topping Wu 6-1, 6-3. Bartoli broke Li's serve in the...
02:55 PM, Dec 31, 2011
Perth: Bethanie Mattek-Sands beat Britain's Laura Robson 6-4, 6-2 on Friday to secure the win the United States needed to reach Saturday's Hopman Cup final. The US team of Mattek-Sands and John Isner will meet Belgium, which advanced after Serbia had to withdraw from the tournament because of an injury to Ana Ivanovic. Mattek-Sands' power and consistency proved too much for the 16-year-old Robson, who received treatment for tightness in...
04:28 PM, Jan 07, 2011
Perth: Lleyton Hewitt produced his best performance of the Hopman Cup on Thursday, beating Andrey Golubev 6-3, 6-3 to help Australia beat Kazakhstan in the mixed team competition. Hewitt won his first singles match of the team tournament against Ruben Bemelmans of Belgium but lost the second to Novak Djokovic. On Thursday, Hewitt said he played aggressive when he needed to. "I played him at the French Open a couple...
05:59 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Perth: Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic maintained the buoyant mood in Serbian tennis when they overpowered Australia 3-0 to move closer to a place in the final of the Hopman Cup mixed team event on Tuesday. Playing what he described as some of his best tennis "for a year and half" world number three Djokovic brushed aside Lleyton Hewitt 6-2 6-4 and Ivanovic eased to a 6-4 6-0 win over...
11:23 AM, Jan 05, 2011
Perth: Former world number one Justine Henin continued her comeback from a six-month injury absence as she inspired Belgium to victory over Kazakhstan at the Hopman Cup mixed team event on Tuesday. Henin saw off stand-in Sesil Karatantcheva 6-4, 6-3 to put Belgium ahead and then watched as Ruben Bemelmans upset the much higher-ranked Andrey Golubev 6-4, 6-4 to give them an unassailable lead going into the mixed doubles. The...
12:15 PM, Jan 04, 2011
Perth: No marathon tennis match this time. John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut 6-3, 7-6 (5) on Monday at the Hopman Cup in the first re-match since their 11-hour epic at Wimbledon. Isner overcame Mahut in 90 minutes to give the US an insurmountable 2-0 lead over France. The match lasted 161 games less than their previous record-breaking encounter. The Wimbledon match, the longest in professional tennis history, stretched over three...
08:42 AM, Jan 04, 2011
Perth: A jet-lagged Andy Murray won his opening match of the year on Monday but it was not enough to prevent Britain from losing 2-1 to Italy in their opening match of the Hopman Cup mixed team event in Perth. The world number four, who only arrived on Saturday, levelled the match by beating Potito Starace 7-5 6-1 after French Open champion Francesca Schiavone had beaten Laura Robson 7-5 6-3....
05:10 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Perth: Novak Djokovic kick-started his 2011 campaign with a well-earned victory on Sunday as top seeds Serbia took an unbeatable 2-0 lead over Kazakhstan in their opening match at the Hopman Cup mixed team event. The world number three dropped the first set to the hard-hitting Andrey Golubev but slowly wore down the 23-year-old to clinch a 4-6 6-3 6-1 victory. Former world number one Ana Ivanovic had earlier put...
08:32 PM, Jan 02, 2011
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