Munich: Tommy Haas won the BMW Open for the first time in his 10th attempt. The third-seeded Haas beat defending champion Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 7-6 (3) on Sunday to win the first all-German final in Munich in 48 years. The 35-year-old Haas capped an impressive week by beating Kohlschreiber in 83 minutes for his 14th ATP Tour title and his fourth on home soil. He is the first 35-year-old to...
11:08 PM, May 05, 2013
Munich: Tommy Haas will play defending champion Philipp Kohlschreiber in an all-German final at the BMW Open on Sunday. The third-seeded Haas defeated Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday, while Kohlschreiber edged compatriot Daniel Brands 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (5) to set up the first all-German title match in Munich in 48 years. The 35-year-old Haas, who reached the 2000 final and hopes to win the title for...
11:10 PM, May 04, 2013
Munich:L Daniel Brands beat top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 on Friday at the BMW Open to set up an all-German semi-final with defending champion Philipp Kohlschreiber. Kohlschreiber defeated Viktor Troicki of Serbia 6-3, 7-6 (3). He is bidding for his third Munich title after also winning in 2007. Ivan Dodig of Croatia continued his upset streak by ousting fifth-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine 6-4, 6-4 to reach the final...
09:35 AM, May 04, 2013
Monte Carlo: A string of errors put world number two Andy Murray out of the Monte Carlo Masters on Thursday when he lost 6-1 6-2 to Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka in the third round. Fourth seed Tomas Berdych and Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro, seeded five, were also beaten at the first big claycourt event of the season, while Rafael Nadal calmly continued his bid for a ninth consecutive crown with...
11:38 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Monaco: Second-seeded Andy Murray was thrashed 6-1, 6-2 by Stanislas Wawrinka in the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Thursday. The Brit dropped serve five times and made a number of sloppy unforced errors, lasting less than an hour against the 13th-seeded Wawrinka, who had won their two only previous meetings on clay. Murray was jeered off the court. Earlier, eight-time defending champion Rafael Nadal extended his Monte...
07:19 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Monte Carlo: Rafael Nadal calmly continued his bid for a ninth consecutive crown at the Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-2 6-4 third-round victory over Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany on Thursday The Spanish world number five recorded his 44th win in a row in the first big claycourt event of the season to set up a quarter-final encounter with 34th-ranked Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria. The 21st-ranked Kolschreiber did not pose...
06:12 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Monaco: Sixteenth-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany, Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine and Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria all won in straight sets in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Sunday. Kohlschreiber broke Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci's serve five times in a 6-4, 6-2 win; Dolgopolov saved all three break points he faced in a 6-2, 6-4 win against Bernard Tomic; and Dimitrov broke Xavier Malisse twice in each set on...
11:04 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Ferrer beat second-seeded Kohlschreiber 7-6 (5), 6-1 on Saturday to win the Heineken Open title. ...
09:22 AM, Jan 12, 2013
Ferrer underlined his Australian Open threat by thrashing Gael Monfils 6-1, 6-2 to reach the final. ...
12:37 PM, Jan 11, 2013
New York: His match, and his retirement, put off for at least another day, Andy Roddick stepped out of Arthur Ashe Stadium and into the drizzly night, a black jacket's hood pulled overhead, a bag of ice soothing his right shoulder. He'll try to prolong his US Open " and his professional tennis career " on Wednesday. Roddick's fourth-round showdown against another past champion at Flushing Meadows, Juan Martin del...
09:09 AM, Sep 05, 2012
London: Two days after his hard-to-believe win over Rafael Nadal, Lukas Rosol was back facing reality. Gone was the Centre Court crowd, the massive TV audience and the unique atmosphere of playing on tennis' biggest stage. Gone, also, was the level of tennis that turned the previously little-known Rosol into an overnight sensation. The 26-year-old Czech player, who looked like a star in the making when he overpowered Nadal in...
09:07 AM, Jul 01, 2012
London: Recent French Open champions Ana Ivanovic and Francesca Schiavone reached the fourth round at Wimbledon with victories on Saturday. Ivanovic had a much tougher time. The 14th-seeded Ivanovic, whose only Grand Slam title came in Paris in 2008, came back from a set down to beat 22nd-seeded Julia Goerges 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Defending champion Petra Kvitova wasn't challenged a bit, getting to the fourth round with a 6-1, 6-0...
08:16 PM, Jun 30, 2012
London: French Open champion Rafael Nadal was philosophical about his shock second-round defeat to 100th-ranked Czech Lukas Rosol at the Wimbledon. The Spanish second seed looked to have fought his way back into the match, cruising to the fourth set after taking the first and surprisingly dropping the next two. But Rosol rallied and won a dramatic decider to record a 6-7 (11), 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 victory. Nadal, a...
05:43 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Sixth seeded German falls to compatriot Florian Mayer in straight sets. ...
11:37 AM, Jul 14, 2010
Nadal appeared fresh and was able to dictate play with his usual combination of heavy topspin. ...
10:46 PM, Apr 28, 2010
