Paris: Turning in his finest performance yet at this year's French Open, seven-time champion Rafael Nadal reached the semi-finals with a 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 victory over ninth-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka on Wednesday.
Novak Djokovic too advanced to the semi-finals of the only Grand Slam tournament he is yet to win, beating Tommy Haas 6-3, 7-6 (5), 7-5.
The No. 1-ranked Djokovic's opponent on Friday will be seven-time champion Nadal.
After dropping the first set in each of the first two rounds, Nadal has won 12 sets in a row, looking better and better at Roland Garros, where he now is 57-1. ...
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10:08 PM, Jun 05, 2013
Paris: Stanislas Wawrinka will draw on the advice and experience of the man who coached the only person to beat Rafa Nadal at Roland Garros when he meets the seven-times French Open champion in the quarter-finals on Wednesday. The Swiss ninth seed, who has never taken a set off Nadal in nine encounters, is now coached by Magnus Norman who was in charge of Swede Robin Soderling when he upset...
08:39 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Paris: Stanislas Wawrinka seemed on his way out of the French Open, down two sets and playing Frenchman Richard Gasquet. Then, in the next set, it seemed to get even worse. Wawrinka was fuming. He ranted at the umpire several times, demanding that the line judge be changed. Somehow, Wawrinka managed to put the anger aside Monday and won 6-7 (5), 4-6, 6-4, 7-5, 8-6 to reach the quarterfinals at...
10:05 AM, Jun 04, 2013
Paris: For the third time in three matches at this year's French Open, Rafael Nadal hardly looked himself for a set. Unlike in the first two rounds, Nadal won his opening set on Saturday, albeit barely. The takeaway, even after another victory, was the same: The owner of a record seven titles at Roland Garros is not the dominant force he usually is at the clay-court tournament. "If I want...
08:48 AM, Jun 02, 2013
Madrid: Rafael Nadal won his fifth title since returning from a knee injury by beating Stanislas Wawrinka 6-2, 6-4 on Sunday for the Madrid Open championship. Cheered on by the home crowd at the Caja Magica, the fifth-ranked Nadal cruised to his 55th career title and extended his head-to-head record with the Swiss to 9-0. Nadal grabbed the first set in just over half an hour and closed out the...
09:40 PM, May 12, 2013
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. ...
10:53 PM, May 05, 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
Monaco: Sixth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Stanislas Wawrinka 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the Monte Carlo Masters to set up a potential semi-final clash with eight-time defending champion Rafael Nadal. Wawrinka made short work of beating second-seeded Andy Murray on Thursday and looked well on the way to another clinical win as he held to love to win the first set, clinching it with an ace on second serve. But Tsonga raced...
04:42 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Monte Carlo: A string of errors put world number two Andy Murray out of the Monte Carlo Masters on Thursday when he lost 6-1 6-2 to Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka in the third round. Fourth seed Tomas Berdych and Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro, seeded five, were also beaten at the first big claycourt event of the season, while Rafael Nadal calmly continued his bid for a ninth consecutive crown with...
11:38 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Monaco : Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria beat eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic 7-6 (3), 6-1 in the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday Dimitrov had seven aces and broke Tipsarevic's serve four times. Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland, Marinko Matosevic of Australia and qualifier Albert Ramos of Spain advanced to the second round. Wawrinka won 6-3, 7-5 against Denis Istomin, breaking the Uzbek's serve five times; Matosevic beat Fernando Verdasco...
06:10 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer stayed on track for a mouth-watering quarter-final showdown at the BNP Paribas Open after they both advanced to the last 16. ...
12:14 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Tomas Berdych defeated Kevin Anderson of South Africa 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (13) to advance to Australian Open quarter-final. ...
02:55 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Benoit Paire and Stanislas Wawrinka won the doubles title defeating Andre Begemann and Martin Emmerich 6-2, 6-1. ...
09:12 PM, Jan 06, 2013
Benoit Paire handed two-time champion and third seed Cilic a 6-4 1-6 7-5 defeat in the quarter-final. ...
09:25 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Bopanna and Rajeev Ram progressed with ease into the doubles event quarterfinals of the Aircel Chennai Open. ...
11:58 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Defending champion Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland has confirmed her participation in the Aircel Chennai Open. ...
04:16 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Chennai: Two-time former singles champion and world No.15 Marin Cilic and Stanislas Wawrinka are set to take part in the 18th Aircel Chennai Open, to be held here from December 31 to January 6. The confirmation from these two top-20 players along with participation from World No.6 Tomas Berdych and World No.9 Janko Tipsarevic have ensured that the tournament will have one of the strongest fields in its history. Cilic,...
05:19 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Tokyo: Defending champion and top-seeded Andy Murray moved into the semi-finals of the Japan Open with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 win over seventh-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland on Friday. The US Open champion and Olympic gold medallist will play sixth-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada in the semi-finals on Saturday. Raonic outlasted third-seeded Janko Tipsarevic 6-7 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (7) in a match that took nearly 2 hours and 45 minutes....
01:49 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New York: His match, and his retirement, put off for at least another day, Andy Roddick stepped out of Arthur Ashe Stadium and into the drizzly night, a black jacket's hood pulled overhead, a bag of ice soothing his right shoulder. He'll try to prolong his US Open " and his professional tennis career " on Wednesday. Roddick's fourth-round showdown against another past champion at Flushing Meadows, Juan Martin del...
09:09 AM, Sep 05, 2012
