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
Shanghai: Fourth seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi lost in straight sets to second seeds Daniel Nestor and Max Mirnyi to bow out of the ATP Shanghai Masters, here on Saturday. The Indian Express fought back in the second set before going down 1-6, 4-6 in just 52 minutes against the Canadian-Belarussian combination. Paes and Bhupathi could not convert any of the two break chances they got in the opening...
02:24 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Shanghai: Andy Murray eased into the semifinals of the Shanghai Masters with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Australian qualifier Matthew Ebden on Friday. The second-seeded Scot has won 23 of his last 24 matches since mid-August, with the only loss coming to Rafael Nadal in the semifinals of the U.S. Open. He's attempting to win his third title in as many weeks. David Ferrer had a far tougher time in...
10:19 PM, Oct 14, 2011
Shanghai: Andy Roddick lost to David Ferrer 6-7 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (2) on Friday in the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters. Ferrer had a string of errors to drop the first-set tie-breaker in the match, but he cleaned up his game in the second set, striking winners off the forehand and backhand side to break Roddick twice. The 15th-ranked American had an opportunity to go up early in the third,...
07:40 PM, Oct 14, 2011
Shanghai: Andy Murray rowed back on suggestions that players could strike over the crowded tennis calendar, saying that he and his rivals had been unfairly portrayed as spoilt. "Me, and not any of the players I know, want to strike," the world number four said at the Shanghai Masters. Murray, who is defending his title in Shanghai, said his suggestion last month that players would consider striking had been blown...
11:50 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Shanghai: Tennis players risked injury because of the constant change of ball designs at tournaments, world number two Rafael Nadal said on Wednesday. Nadal echoed Shanghai Masters defending champion Andy Murray in complaining that commercial pressure from tournament sponsors had resulted in three ball changes over the last three events in Asia. "You play in Bangkok with one ball, in Tokyo with another ball, here with another ball. That's too...
11:45 PM, Oct 13, 2011
London: Spain's David Ferrer claimed the fifth of the eight spots at the year-ending ATP World Tour Finals on Thursday by reaching the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters. The world number five saved three match points on his way to a 1-6, 7-5, 6-2 victory over compatriot Juan Carlos Ferrero, guaranteeing a third appearance at the prestigious event at London's O2 Arena next month. "It's very important, I am very...
11:37 PM, Oct 13, 2011
London: Novak Djokovic will finish the year as the top-ranked player in the world. The ATP says the Serb clinched the year-end top spot after No. 2 Rafael Nadal lost in the third round at the Shanghai Masters on Thursday. Nadal's loss to Florian Mayer ensured that Djokovic cannot be overtaken before the end of the year. The 24-year-old Djokovic becomes the first player other than Roger Federer or Nadal...
11:25 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Shanghai: Andy Roddick rolled into the Shanghai Masters quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Spain's Nicolas Almagro on Thursday. The 10th-seeded American hit 11 aces and 23 winners against the seventh-seeded Spaniard, who has won three titles this year to Roddick's one. "I feel like today was significantly better than the first two rounds as far as putting it all together," Roddick said. Almagro needed to win to boost...
08:54 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Shanghai: Rafael Nadal was upset by Florian Mayer 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Thursday at the Shanghai Masters, the second consecutive year he's failed to reach the quarter-finals at the tournament. Andy Roddick advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Spain's Nicolas Almagro. Roddick had 11 aces and 23 winners to beat the seventh-seeded Almagro. Roddick will play third-seeded David Ferrer, who saved three match points against Juan Carlos Ferrero in...
08:44 PM, Oct 13, 2011
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