Luxembourg: Venus Williams won her first WTA tournament in more than two years, beating Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-2, 6-3 to take the Luxembourg Open title on Sunday.
Slowed by injuries and illness for two seasons, Williams showed she still had the winning touch and played steady tennis while Niculescu proved error-prone as she sought her first career title.
At 32, Williams won her 44th singles title in a career that includes seven Grand Slams.
The 70th-ranked Niculescu lost in the Luxembourg Open final for the second straight year....
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11:35 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Stockholm: Tomas Berdych won his second ATP title this year by rallying to beat top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the Stockholm Open final on Sunday. The sixth-ranked Czech saved seven of nine breakpoint chances in the hard-fought match to improve to 3-1 against Tsonga and add to his win in February in Montpellier, France. Berdych now has eight career titles. For the first time in his...
11:31 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Stockholm: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Tomas Berdych will contest the Stockholm Open final after contrasting semi-final wins on Saturday. Top-seeded Tsonga advanced after 2009 champion Marcos Baghdatis retired with a left groin strain in the deciding set, with Tsonga leading 6-4, 4-6, 5-2. Second-seeded Berdych recorded a comfortable 6-3, 6-2 win over third-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain. Baghdatis picked up his injury at 4-2 in the decider, when he attempted to...
07:49 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Stockholm: Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and Russia's Mikhail Youzhny advanced to the second round of the Stockholm Open on Monday with straight-set wins. Nieminen, who lost last year's final to Gael Monfils of France, was down 4-2 in the second set but recovered to win the match 6-3, 6-4. Niemenen says "I lost focus and made some simple mistakes but then I woke up and started playing more aggressive. I'm...
11:45 AM, Oct 16, 2012
Stockholm: Top-seeded Gael Monfils won his first title of the year on Sunday after defeating Jarkko Nieminen 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 in the Stockholm Open final. The win is 25-year-old Monfils' fourth title on the ATP tour and he said he was surprised to win his first tournament since picking up a knee injury. "After Bangkok I haven't practiced that much, mostly been in rehab for my knee," he told local...
02:14 AM, Oct 24, 2011
Stockholm: Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi won the Stockholm Open men's doubles title after comprehensively outplaying Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in the summit clash on Sunday, enhancing their chances of qualifying for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals. The top-seeded Indo-Pak pair lived up to its top billing, downing their fourth-seeded Brazilian opponents 6-1, 6-4 in just 57 minutes in the 600,00-Euros hard court event. Bopanna and Qureshi swiftly...
06:09 PM, Oct 23, 2011
Stockholm: Top-seeded Gael Monfils defeated Milos Raonic 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday to set up a Stockholm Open final against Jarkko Nieminen. The 10th-ranked Monfils converted three of nine break points against the hard-serving Canadian. He is looking for his first title of the year. Nieminen beat American player James Blake 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-2 to reach his third Stockholm Open final. Blake, who beat 15th-ranked Juan Martin Del...
11:32 PM, Oct 22, 2011
Stockholm: Top-seeded Gael Monfils beat South Africa's Kevin Anderson 7-5, 7-5 on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Stockholm Open. The 10th-ranked Frenchman made heavy weather of the win, though, allowing his fifth-seeded opponent to break service twice to draw level after racing into a 5-1 lead in the second set. Monfils will now play the sixth-seeded Milos Raonic for a place in the final after the big-serving...
08:24 AM, Oct 22, 2011
Stockholm: India's Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan staged a commendable fightback to defeat Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis and Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina and enter the final of the 600,000 Euros Stockholm Open on Friday. The top-seeded India-Pakistan pair won 2-6, 6-2, 10-8, in a match that lasted 68 minutes. In total, they fired 8 aces and saved six of the eight break points they faced. Bopanna and...
05:31 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Stockholm: Gael Monfils of France was the only seeded player to advance during a day of upsets in the second round of the Stockholm Open on Thursday. The top-seeded Monfils beat Bernard Tomic of Australia 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4 and will next face fifth-seeded South African Kevin Anderson in the quarterfinals. Unseeded Argentine David Nalbandian took the most emphatic victory of the day, beating seventh-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-1,...
09:04 AM, Oct 21, 2011
Stockholm: James Blake of the United States upset second-seeded Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the quarter-finals of the Swedish Open. South Africa's Kevin Anderson and Milos Raonic of Canada also advanced in the Royal Tennis Hall. Anderson needed three sets to beat 33-year-old Tommy Haas of Germany 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4 while Raonic easily defeated Philipp Petzschner of Germany 6-3, 6-3. In other...
01:27 PM, Oct 20, 2011
Stockholm: India's Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi advanced to the men's doubles quarter-finals of the 600,000 Euros Stockholm Open. The top-seeded India-Pakistan pair defeated Julian Knowle of Austria and Poland's Lukasz Kubot 6-4, 6-4 in the first round in Sweden on Tuesday. They now await the winner of the opening-round match between Germany's Michael Kohlmann and Alexander Waske and the wildcard pair of Martin Emmrich of Germany...
04:48 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Stockholm: David Nalbandian dropped the first set before going on to beat Xavier Malisse of Belgium 4-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3) in the first round of the Stockholm Open on Tuesday. The Argentine will next face Ivan Dodig of Croatia, who beat Adrian Mannarino of France 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5). South Africa's Kevin Anderson also needed tiebreakers to win against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4), and will face German...
01:07 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Stockholm: Veteran Tommy Haas of Germany advanced to the second round of the Stockholm Open on Monday by beating Somdev Devvarman of India 7-6 (4), 6-4. Haas, ranked 290th in the world and playing on a wild card after coming back from injury, will now play either Kevin Anderson or Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the second round. Phillip Petzschner of Germany also advanced with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Lukasz Kubot...
12:18 PM, Oct 18, 2011
Stockholm: Roger Federer beat Germany's Florian Mayer 6-4, 6-3 to win the Stockholm Open on Sunday, matching Pete Sampras' total of 64 career titles. Federer didn't have it all his own way in claiming his third title of the year at the Royal Tennis Hall against the 47th-ranked Mayer. The unorthodox German broke Federer in the seventh game, before Federer started spraying some trademark winners to come back and take...
08:43 PM, Oct 24, 2010
Stockholm: Roger Federer could tie another mark by Pete Sampras after reaching the Stockholm Open final by overcoming fourth-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 7-6 (5), 6-2 on Saturday. Federer will play Florian Mayer of Germany in Sunday's final after he saved a match point in beating Jarkko Nieminen of Finland 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3). A third title of the year for Federer will earn him the 64th of his career,...
09:57 PM, Oct 23, 2010
Stockholm: Roger Federer recovered from a set and 2-0 down to beat fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Friday and reach the Stockholm Open semifinals. Wawrinka was in superb form in the first set, breaking in the first and fifth games to take it, as Federer made some uncharacteristic errors. Trailing 2-0 in the second set, Federer dug deep and came up with some trademark winners to break...
01:26 PM, Oct 23, 2010
Stockholm: Roger Federer cruised into the Stockholm Open quarterfinals on Thursday in his 900th match on the ATP Tour, beating Taylor Dent of the United States 6-1, 6-2 in 51 minutes. Federer outclassed Dent to record his 727th tour win, in his first match in the Swedish capital for a decade. "When I look back in 98, I played my first one, 900 matches later it's quite crazy but I've...
08:47 AM, Oct 22, 2010
It was the ninth career win for Argentine David Nalbandian. ...
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