Shanghai: Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek beat the all Indian pairing of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna to lift the Shanghai Masters men's doubles title here on Sunday. After losing the hard fought first set 6-7, Paes and Stepanek came back strong to win the next two.
It was a hard fought victory for the Indo-Czech duo as they lost the first set in a tie-breaker 6-7. They fought back immediately and were back in the match as thet won the second set 6-3.
And in the deciding set, Leander and Stepanek won it 10-5 and with it won the title.
It was a kind of a grudge match for Paes as both Bhupathi and Bopanna had refused to play with him at the London Olympics. They rebelled and forced AITA to pair them together at the marquee event....
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02:12 PM, Oct 14, 2012
Shanghai: Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna has set up a summit clash with Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek after both the pairs won their respective semifinal matches in the Shanghai Masters here Saturday. The seventh seeded Indian combo reached its second ATP World Tour Masters final of the season after beating British pair of Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins 6-7 (4) 6-3 10-8 in...
06:53 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Shanghai: Novak Djokovic moved into his 10th final of the season Saturday after beating fourth-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-4 in the semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters. Djokovic is looking for his fifth title of the year and second straight after winning in Beijing last week. He will play the winner of the match between top-ranked Roger Federer and No. 3 Andy Murray. Djokovic hit 25 winners and converted all three...
05:23 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Shanghai: For the first time in the four-year existence of the Shanghai Masters, the top four seeds have reached the semi-finals. Top-seeded Roger Federer, No. 2 Novak Djokovic, No. 3 Andy Murray, and No. 4 Tomas Berdych succeeded in meeting the expectations of their seedings on Friday. The top four men's seeds have also reached the semi-finals at four other tournaments this year: Australian Open; Doha, Qatar; Estoril, Portugal; and...
09:08 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Shanghai: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna may meet Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek in the summit clash of the Shanghai Masters, after reaching the semi-finals of the elite ATP tournament, here on Friday. Bhupathi and Bopanna, seeded seventh, shocked second seeds Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor 7-6(7), 6-4 in one hour 23 minutes in the quarter-finals of the $3,531,600 hard court event. Later in the day, fourth seeded Paes and...
06:24 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Shanghai: Two-time defending champion Andy Murray reached the Shanghai Masters semi-finals with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 win over Radek Stepanek on Friday. Murray, who improved to 11-0 in Shanghai, will next play either top-seeded Roger Federer or Marin Cilic. "I just managed to turn it around in time," Murray said. "I played actually very well I thought the last 10, 15 minutes of the match." Novak Djokovic also advanced, beating...
05:02 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Shanghai: Roger Federer assured himself the No. 1 ranking for the 300th week of his career by beating Davis Cup teammate Stanislas Wawrinka 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-0 on Thursday in the third round of the Shanghai Masters. "It's obviously an amazing number and I never thought of anything like this when I was a little kid," Federer said. "I just thought one day my dream would come true to play...
10:32 AM, Oct 12, 2012
Shanghai: Britain's Andy Murray ousted Ukraine's Alexander Dolgopolov in their third-round match at the Shanghai Masters on Thursday. It was the first game of the tournament for the defending champion and third seed who got a bye in the first round and saw second-round opponent Florian Mayer pull out through injury. Dolgopolov, likely top seed for next week's Kremlin Cup in Moscow, made 34 unforced errors to help the US...
07:21 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Shanghai: Novak Djokovic reached the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters here Thursday after beating Spain's Feliciano Lopez in straight sets. The players spent a little over an hour on the court before the World No.2 sealed a 6-3, 6-3 win. The Serbian next faces either compatriot Janko Tipsarevic, seeded six, or German veteran Tommy Haas. Meanwhile, fourth seed Tomas Berdych had to dig deep to defeat World No.22 Sam Querrey...
04:05 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Shanghai: Indian doubles tennis players advanced to the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters here Thursday. Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna and Indo-Czech pairing of Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek registered straight set victories to advance in the penultimate ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the year. Bhupathi and Bopanna, seeded seventh, defeated American-British unseeded pair of Treat Huey and Jonathan Marray 7-6(9), 6-4 in one hour...
02:10 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Shanghai: Roger Federer ignored recent death threats from a Chinese internet blogger and won his opening match at the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday, beating qualifier Lu Yen-Hsun of Taiwan 6-3, 7-5 in the second round. Federer said he was aware that the blogger had recently issued an apology. The 17-time Grand Slam champion has had heavy security surrounding him at all times since arriving in Shanghai. "I felt fine" Federer...
08:53 AM, Oct 11, 2012
Shanghai: US Open champion Andy Murray received a walkover into the third round at the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday following the withdrawal of Florian Mayer of Germany because of a rib injury. The Briton will play either 15th-seeded Gilles Simon of France or Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine. Murray is the two-time defending champion at the tournament with a 9-0 record after winning finals against David Ferrer last year and Roger...
03:52 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Shanghai: Eighth-seeded John Isner reached the third round of the Shanghai Masters by beating Kevin Anderson of South Africa 7-6 (3), 6-7 (8), 7-6 (7) Tuesday. Neither player was able to break serve in the match, the first at the tournament to go to three tiebreakers. Isner saved three break points and Anderson saved four. Isner finished the match with 24 aces and Anderson had 21. In the first round,...
03:37 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Shanghai: Tenth-seeded Marin Cilic of Croatia moved into the second round of the Shanghai Masters on Monday with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Lukasz Kubot of Poland. Cilic hit eight aces and broke Kubot four times to wrap up the win in 1 hour, 33 minutes. American Sam Querrey also advanced with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Chinese wild-card entry Li Zhe. The 22nd-ranked Querrey jumped out to a quick...
04:07 PM, Oct 08, 2012
London: A new tournament at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Lake Malaren Golf Club in Shanghai later this year will offer a sizeable prize fund of $7 million, the European Tour said on Monday. The BMW Masters is to be staged from October 25-28 and represents the third European Tour event this year on mainland China. The event joins last week's China Open in Tianjin on the calendar and will be played...
04:01 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Shanghai: US Open champion Rory McIlroy won $2 million in the Shanghai Masters on Sunday, beating Anthony Kim with a par on the first hole of a playoff. McIlroy holed a 2-foot putt for the victory after Kim missed a 3-footer. McIlroy had a chance to win in regulation, but the 22-year-old star from Northern Ireland missed an 8-foot birdie putt. He closed with an even-par 72 to match Kim...
06:08 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Shanghai: London risks losing the showcase end-of-season ATP World Tour Finals because of the high rate of British tax, world number one Rafael Nadal said. The Spaniard believes the 50 percent tax on players' appearance fees, winnings and a proportion of their worldwide endorsement earnings could see the glamour event featuring the top eight men being staged elsewhere unless the law is changed. "It is really tough what is happening...
09:23 PM, Oct 16, 2011
Shanghai: Defending champion Andy Murray defeated David Ferrer 7-5, 6-4 to win the Shanghai Masters on Sunday, ensuring he'll vault past Roger Federer to No. 3 in the ATP rankings. The Scot, currently ranked fourth, had made finishing the season at No. 3 one of his main goals of the year. It will be the first time Federer has fallen out of the top three since June 2003 " just...
05:03 PM, Oct 16, 2011
Shanghai: Andy Murray overpowered Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-0 in under an hour on Saturday to set up a Shanghai Masters final against David Ferrer. Ferrer struggled to beat fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, the third straight match the fifth-ranked player has come back to win after losing the first set. The fourth-ranked Murray has now won 24 of his last 25 matches and is vying for...
07:35 PM, Oct 15, 2011
