Oeiras: Stanislas Wawrinka won the Portugal Open by beating top-seeded David Ferrer 6-1, 6-4 in Sunday's final.
The second-seeded Wawrinka, who is from Switzerland, broke Ferrer's serve three times while not giving up one break point to finish the lopsided match in 1 hour, 5 minutes.
It was Wawrinka's fourth career title and first this year.
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10:53 PM, May 05, 2013
Oeiras: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Spain's Carla Suarez 7-5, 6-2 to win the Portugal Open on Saturday. The 21-year-old Russian saved six of seven break points and overcame five double faults to win her fifth career title and second of the year. Later Saturday, top-seeded David Ferrer plays Andreas Seppi in the semifinals, while Stanislas Wawrinka faces Pablo Carreno-Busta. ...
08:15 PM, May 04, 2013
Oeiras, Portugal: David Ferrer led the top three seeded players into the Portugal Open semi-finals on Friday, beating Victor Hanescu of Romania 6-4, 7-6 (2). Second-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka knocked out local favourite Gastao Elias 6-4, 6-4, and No. 3 Andreas Seppi beat No. 8 Tommy Robredo 6-4, 6-3. Pablo Carreno-Busta rallied past fourth-seeded Fabio Fognini 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to complete the final four. In the women's event, third-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova...
09:24 AM, May 04, 2013
Oeiras: Second-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland rallied past Albert Ramos of Spain 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday to move into the Portugal Open quarter-finals. Eighth-seeded Tommy Robredo also advanced on the Spaniard's 31st birthday, defeating Robin Haase 6-4, 6-4. On the women's side, fourth-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain is into the semifinals with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Monica Puig of Puerto Rico. Romina Oprandi also advanced with a...
08:59 AM, May 03, 2013
Lisbon: Top-seeded David Ferrer outlasted France's Edouard Roger-Vasselin for a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 win in the second round of the Portugal Open on Wednesday. The fourth-ranked Ferrer, who had been given a bye in the first round, edged his unseeded opponent by four breaks to three to finish the match in 1 hour, 49 minutes. Ferrer will next play Victor Hanescu after the Romanian defeated sixth-seeded Benoit Paire 7-6 (2),...
08:59 PM, May 01, 2013
Rio de Janeiro: Midfielder Deco has tested positive for a banned diuretic in Brazil and says he will appeal the result, saying it likely stemmed from contaminated vitamins. Football officials in Rio de Janeiro say the former Chelsea and Portugal playmaker tested positive for furosemide, a diuretic which can help hide performance enhancing substances. The test came after Fluminense's 2-0 win over Boavista on March 30. The player's lawyers told...
04:51 PM, May 01, 2013
Lisbon: Pablo Carreno-Busta of Spain upset fifth-seeded Julien Benneteau in the first round of the Portugal Open on Tuesday, defeating the Frenchman 6-3, 6-4. In the women's event, top-seeded Marion Bartoli also exited the tournament. After a poor start in her first-round match, the Frenchwoman fought back against Peng Shuai to win the second set before losing the match 6-0, 1-6, 6-4. Third-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia went through with...
10:41 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Oeiras: Sixth-seeded Benoit Paire of France beat Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Monday in the opening round of the Portugal Open. The top three men's seeded players, led by David Ferrer, have first-round byes in the clay-court tournament. In the women's event, fourth-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain overcame New Zealand's Marina Erakovic 6-3, 6-0. Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia came from behind to beat sixth-seeded Varvara...
09:41 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Spain and Portugal were held to draws on Friday night that hurt their chances of qualifying automatically for next year's World Cup, while England routed San Marino 8-0 for their biggest victory margin in 26 years. ...
02:03 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Croatia beat Serbia 2-0 whereas Germany, playing without any recognised strikers, triumphed 3-0 in Kazakhstan. ...
05:33 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Portugal came back from 1-3 down to snatch a draw in stoppage time in their World Cup qualifying Group F match. ...
03:42 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Sweden's IKEA stopped nearly all sales of meatballs at its furniture store cafeterias across Europe after tests in the Czech Republic on Monday showed some contained horsemeat. ...
06:21 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo is confident he will take part in Wednesday's friendly against Ecuador despite feeling a certain 'overload'. ...
05:28 PM, Feb 05, 2013
A red-faced Wikipedia has removed an article from its site detailing the 17th century 'Bicholim Conflict' - a clash between Portugal and India's Maratha Empire - after it emerged that such a war never occurred, and the piece and references included were entirely fictional. ...
03:57 AM, Jan 07, 2013
The CBI is likely to seek from the Supreme Court withdrawal of charges of organised crime against 1993 Mumbai blast accused Abu Salem after receiving legal opinion on the issue. ...
10:01 AM, Dec 02, 2012
They were picked from a list of 23 candidates for this year's Ballon d'Or. ...
07:21 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Moscow: Russia moved into the top-10-ranked football nations this month, FIFA announced on Wednesday. Fabio Capello's team rose three places from 12th to ninth on the back of 1-0 victories over Portugal and Azerbaijan in last month's World Cup qualifiers. World and European champions Spain remain cemented to first place, followed by Germany in second and Argentina, who moved to third following wins over Uruguay and Chile. Portugal were edged...
05:28 PM, Nov 07, 2012
Porto: A late equalizer by Helder Postiga earned Portugal a 1-1 draw against Northern Ireland in a World Cup qualifying game on Tuesday, sparing the home team's blushes as Cristiano Ronaldo racked up his 100th international appearance. Postiga rescued his team with his 23rd international goal in the 79th minute, tapping in from short range just as the Portuguese were poised to record their second defeat in a row following...
08:58 AM, Oct 17, 2012
Paris: Hit by injuries and reeling from a surprise 1-0 loss to Japan, with their strikers struggling to score and a patched-up defense looking far from secure, France have enough to worry about without even thinking about Spain's quality ahead of their World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. Both teams won their opening two qualifiers to share the lead in Group I. But while Spain cruised into top gear with a...
07:11 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Lisbon: When Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo picks up his 100th cap against Northern Ireland on Tuesday, he will reflect on a career which started in central defence and was marked by early shyness before an explosion of attacking flair made him one of soccer's greatest players. "It was on August 20th, 2003, against Kazakhstan, that I put on our national shirt for the first time. It was one of the most...
06:25 PM, Oct 15, 2012
