Cincinnati: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna had to be content with a runners-up finish at the ATP Cincinnati Masters as they lost the summit clash in straight sets to Sweden's Robert Lindstedt and Romania's Horia Tecau, here.
The sixth seed Indian pair lost 4-6 4-6 to the fourth seeded rival team in the summit clash of the USD 2,825,280 hard court event, last night.
Bhupathi and Bopanna were playing their second final of the season. They had won a title in a Dubai ATP event in February.
India's Leander Paes and Czech Radek Stepanek had bowed out in the second round....
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03:05 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Cincinnati: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna have earned a chance to win their second title of the season by reaching the summit clash of the ATP Cincinnati Masters with a straight sets win over Croatia's Ivan Dodig and Brazil's Marcelo Melo. The sixth seed Indian pair recorded a 6-4 6-3 win over their rivals in the semi-finals of the USD 2,825,280 hard court event. They will now fight it out...
06:36 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Ohio: Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, the top two players in the world, set up a showdown for the Cincinnati Masters title after cruising to semi-finals victories on Saturday. The gap between the leading four, which also contains Rafa Nadal and Andy Murray, and the chasing pack was again evident as Djokovic beat Argentine Juan Martin del Potro 6-3 6-2 before Federer saw off fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka 7-6 6-3....
09:06 AM, Aug 19, 2012
Cincinnati: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna, who were on Saturday omitted from India's Davis Cup team, have reached the semi-finals of the ATP Cincinnati Masters with a hard-earned win over third seeds Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski. The sixth seed Indian pair recorded a 6-4, 3-6, 10-8 win over the Polish pair in the quarter-finals of the USD 2,825,280 hard court event. They are up against Croatia's Ivan Dodig and...
08:47 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Cincinnati: Seeded third in the tournament, India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have advanced to the second round of the ATP Western and Southern Open here after getting a bye in the opening round. The India duo will take on the winner of the match between Serbs Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki and the Spanish combo of Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal. Another Indian advancing to the second round is...
05:27 PM, Aug 16, 2011
Mason: Mashesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi suffered their third defeat in an ATP Masters series final this season, losing the summit clash of the Cincinnati event 3-6 4-6 to second seeds Mike and Bob Bryan here. The defeat means that Bhupathi and Belarusian Mirnyi will have to wait for their first title together since Rome event in 2004. Bhupathi and Mirnyi had lost the Mimai Masters final to Leander Paes...
12:06 PM, Aug 23, 2010
Cincinnati: Roger Federer collected a fourth Cincinnati Masters title on Sunday as the world number two thrust himself front and centre as a repeat US Open threat with a 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-1), 6-4 comeback defeat of Mardy Fish. The victory came as the Swiss world number two played for the second consecutive week in a final after losing in Toronto to Andy Murray seven days ago. "It's nice knowing...
08:41 AM, Aug 23, 2010
Cincinnati: Fourth seeds India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus defeated fifth seeds Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach 6-3, 6-4 to enter the doubles final of the $ 2,430,000 Western and Southern Financial Group Masters tennis. The Indian-Belarusian pair on Saturday saved four of the five break points and broke thrice in their 73-minute victory. In the final, they now face second seeds American Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan...
05:53 PM, Aug 22, 2010
Cincinnati: Roger Federer crushed Marcos Baghdatis 6-4, 6-3 in a clinical display on Saturday to set up a final at the Cincinnati Masters with US player Mardy Fish. The 36th-ranked Fish reached his fourth title match in just over two months, turning the tide after a rain delay to overcome good friend Andy Roddick 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-1. Federer, losing finalist a week ago in Toronto against Andy Murray, is...
09:14 AM, Aug 22, 2010
Mason: Masheh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi booked a semifinal berth in the ATP Cincinnati Masters after sailing past Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in straight sets here. The fourth seeds scored a comfortable 6-3, 6-2 win over the eight seeded Polish pair in the quarterfinals of the USD 24,30,000 hard court event. They will next take on fifth seeds Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Oliver Marach of Austria. Bhupathi remains...
03:59 PM, Aug 21, 2010
Mason: Spraying balls all over the place, an erratic Rafael Nadal was beaten by unseeded Marcos Baghdatis 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the Cincinnati Masters on Friday. The top-ranked and top-seeded Nadal committed 30 unforced errors in the first two sets and double-faulted on break point in the ninth game of the third set, allowing the 20th-ranked Cypriot to serve for the match. He clinched his first win...
09:15 AM, Aug 21, 2010
Mason: Leander Paes and Czech Lukas Dlouhy yet again stumbled at the second round, crashing out of the Cincinnati Masters following a straight-set defeat against Mardy Fish and Mark Knowles. Paes-Dlouhy - seeded third - lost 3-6, 2-6 to the unseeded American-Bahamas pair. This is the third time in a row that Paes and Dlouhy have not gone beyond second round on the tour. Last week, they lost at the...
03:53 PM, Aug 20, 2010
Mason: World number one Rafael Nadal battled back to defeat Frenchman Julien Benneteau 5-7, 7-6, 6-2 at the Cincinnati Masters on Thursday and Britain's Andy Murray needed a final set tiebreak to beat Latvia's Ernests Gulbis. Third seed Roger Federer, coming off a runner-up finish in Toronto last week, enjoyed a free pass into the quarter-finals after his opponent pulled out of their match with an injury. Nadal, who struggled...
08:47 AM, Aug 20, 2010
Mason: Top-ranked Rafael Nadal defeated American Taylor Dent 6-2, 7-5 on Wednesday in his opening match at the Cincinnati Masters, taking control by dominating the first four games to set up his 35th victory in his last 37 matches. No. 2 Roger Federer, No. 3 Novak Djokovic, No. 4 Andy Murray and No. 13 Andy Roddick — the top-ranked American — also advanced. Nadal had his serve broken only once...
09:21 AM, Aug 19, 2010
Ohio: Journeyman American Taylor Dent pulled off a surprise win over Spaniard Feliciano Lopez at the Cincinnati Masters on Monday to set up a second-round clash with world number one Rafa Nadal. The 29-year-old Dent, who last won an ATP tournament in 2003, ran out 6-3 6-2 in perfect conditions on centre court. Dent, who spent two years out of the game with a back injury that threatened his career,...
10:39 PM, Aug 17, 2010
Mason, Ohio: Andy Roddick recovered after losing his temper and the second set in a tiebreaker to reach the second round of the Cincinnati Masters with a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 win over the 46th-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky on Monday. With wife and supermodel Brooklyn Decker watching from the stands, Roddick threw his racket to the ground in frustration after blowing a 5-2 lead in the tiebreaker and committing an unforced...
12:27 PM, Aug 17, 2010
World No. 1 Roger Federer defeated fourth seed Novak Djokovic 6-1, 7-5. ...
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