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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...
03:05 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Cincinnati: China's Li Na was finishing lunch when the men's final at the Western & Southern Open ended with Roger Federer posing for photos and raising the pottery trophy for the fifth time. She tried to imagine how it would feel. "I was thinking, 'OK, I really want to do the same,'" she said. A few hours later, she did it all, and more. Li overcame an awful first set...
10:26 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Mason, Ohio: Top-ranked Roger Federer won a record fifth Cincinnati title on Sunday, dominating second-ranked Novak Djokovic from the outset of a 6-0, 7-6 (7) win for the Western & Southern Open championship. It was the first time in the tournament's history that the top two played for the title. From the start, it was no match. Federer improved to 5-0 in Cincinnati finals and tied Rafael Nadal for the...
01:25 AM, 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: Sixth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna moved into the men's doubles quarter-final here at the Cincinnati Masters tennis after receiving a walkover. Dutch Robin Haase and Juan Monaco of Argentina did not take the court giving the win to the Indian pair on Thursday. They will next take on Poland's Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski, who are seeded third, for a place in the last four. The Polish...
12:04 AM, Aug 18, 2012
Mason, Ohio: Serena and Venus Williams moved into the quarter-finals of the Western & Southern Open by handling the afternoon heat, humidity and wind. The conditions were too much for Andy Murray. Murray's off-day turned into the biggest upset of the tournament, a straight-sets loss on Thursday that left him with hardly any hard-court time heading into the US Open. Murray lost 6-4, 6-4 to France's Jeremy Chardy, an opponent...
08:42 AM, Aug 17, 2012
Mason, Ohio: Venus Williams fought back from a set down to beat South Africa's Chanelle Scheepers 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 as the top seeds advanced with little trouble at the Cincinnati Open on Wednesday. Williams will now meet Italian Sara Errani for a quarter-final berth following the seventh seed's 6-4, 6-4 win over Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova. For the second successive day, Williams needed three sets but she was glad with the...
09:13 AM, Aug 16, 2012
Mason, Ohio: Top three seeds Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray moved into the third round of the Cincinnati Open with relatively comfortable straight-set victories on Wednesday. World number two Djokovic beat Italian Andreas Seppi 7-6, 6-2 while Olympic gold medallist Murray strolled past American Sam Querrey 6-2, 6-4. Federer crushed Russian-American journeyman Alex Bogomolov Jr 6-3, 6-2. Serb Djokovic, who won the ATP Masters tournament at Toronto last...
09:06 AM, Aug 16, 2012
Cincinnati: Rafael Nadal has dropped out of the Western & Southern Open because of a knee problem that forced him to miss the Olympics. Nadal pulled out of the London Games because of a sore left knee, missing the chance to defend his title and be Spain's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. He won the French Open for a record seventh time earlier this year but has been bothered...
02:15 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Cincinnati: Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi won their third title of the season and first at Cincinnati after 10 years, following a hard-fought win over Michael Llodra and Nenad Zimonjic in the summit clash of the Western and Southern Open here. The third seeds edged past the fourth seeded French-Serbian combination 7-6(4), 7-6(2) after battling for one hour and 41 minutes. "If you had asked me 10 years ago if...
12:11 PM, Aug 22, 2011
Ohio: Russia's Maria Sharapova beat Serbia's Jelena Jankovic 4-6, 7-6, 6-3 to win the Cincinnati Open on Sunday and install herself as one of the favorites for the US Open. There were 16 breaks of serve in a topsy-turvy final but Sharapova emerged strongest in the end to claim her second title of the season and the 24th of her career in the lead up to the final grand slam...
11:30 AM, Aug 22, 2011
Ohio: Andy Murray won his seventh Masters series final with victory over world number one Novak Djokovic on Sunday and his prospects of winning a grand slam have never looked better. Djokovic was forced to retire with a shoulder injury when trailing 6-4 3-0 in the Cincinnati Open final and while the world number one was confident of playing at the US Open, Murray could again be the main beneficiary....
10:09 AM, Aug 22, 2011
Cincinnati: Third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes staged a brilliant comeback to shock top seeds and defending champions Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan and reach the final of the Western and Southern Open here. The Indian Express was down by a set and break in the second set but went on to record a 1-6 7-6(2) 10-7 win in the semi-finals. This was Paes and Bhupathi's first win in...
05:34 PM, Aug 21, 2011
Mason, Ohio: Russia's Maria Sharapova will face Serbian Jelena Jankovic in the Cincinnati Open final after the pair enjoyed solid victories in their semi-finals on Saturday. Sharapova recovered from a poor start to beat fellow Russian and world number two Vera Zvonareva 2-6 6-3 6-3 to reach her fourth final of the season while Jankovic beat Germany's Andrea Petkovic 7-6 6-1. "It is going to be a tough match, she...
10:36 AM, Aug 21, 2011
Mason, Ohio: Andy Murray survived enough break points to beat Mardy Fish and set up a final against Novak Djokovic at the Western & Southern Open on Saturday. The Scot overcame a pair of break points late in the second set, then another in the tiebreaker, beating Fish 6-3, 7-6 (8). He'll play Djokovic, who advanced when Tomas Berdych withdrew from their semifinal because of a shoulder injury. Murray will...
09:20 AM, Aug 21, 2011
Ohio: The once dominant top two in men's tennis, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, head into the US Open with much more than the formidable year of world number one Novak Djokovic to concern them. Both Federer and Nadal exited the Cincinnati Open at the quarter-final stage on Friday after suffering defeats to Czech Tomas Berdych and American Mardy Fish respectively. Whilst neither of those losses can be considered massive...
08:29 PM, Aug 20, 2011
Mason, Ohio: Maria Sharapova marched into the semi-finals of the Cincinnati Open after crushing Australian Samantha Stosur 6-3 6-2 on Friday to set up a last four meeting with fellow Russian Vera Zvonareva. Germany's Andrea Petkovic will face Serbian Jelena Jankovic in the other semi-final - China's Peng Shuai withdrew from her clash with Jankovic due to injury. Sharapova dominated from the start of the 72-minute match against world number...
09:27 AM, Aug 20, 2011
