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All your tennis in one place: www.TennisNow.com In a meeting of massive serves and heavy hitters, American Andy Roddick held off the new kid on the block—barely—to take the title at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis. The eighth-ranked Roddick held off 20-year-old Canadian Milos Raonic, 7-6(7), 6-7(11), 7-5 in a match which featured 52 aces and saw both...
Published: February 17, 2011
Milos Raonic shows his run through Fernando Verdasco to the SAP Open title was no fluke after he did it again on Wednesday beating him, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(5), at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships first round. Raonic shows that he can use the concept of smart tennis against his opponents, and said, “Fernando is a player who likes rhythm, especially early in a match, and...
Published: February 16, 2011
At Wednesday’s Dubai Championships, World No. 51 Anna Chakvetadze collapsed on court while playing first seed Caroline Wozniacki and was forced to retire in the second to last match of the day. The match ended at 6-1, 3-5 when Chakvetadze had broken Wozniacki and began to sway then faint. It has been reported that she had previously suffered from stomach issues before the...
Published: February 16, 2011
Americans reigned at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis on Tuesday. Andy Roddick, Mike Russell, Sam Querrey, Mardy Fish, Robert Kendrick and James Blake came through with flying colors. The only Americans missing out of the lineup are the No. 6 seed John Isner, who faces wild card Juan Martin Del Potro tonight, and Ryan Sweeting, who lost to...
Published: February 16, 2011
Justine Henin officially retired for the second time after her loss to Svetlana Kuznetsova at the Australian Open after incurring an elbow injury at Wimbledon that kept her out for the rest of the 2010 season. She had announced her retirement stating her injury as the main reason for leaving, and on Valentine’s Day, she further clarified during a press conference that, “For me, it’s...
Published: February 15, 2011
Da Bears: www.TennisNow.com As predicted, Kim Clijsters took over as the new World No. 1 on Monday, surpassing Caroline Wozniacki by 180 points. Wozniacki can reclaim the top spot with a strong performance in Dubai this week while Clijsters is idle. In failing to defend her title at Pattaya City, Vera Zvonareva fell further behind the top two players in the world. With 7,255...
Published: February 15, 2011
The French Open is staying put in Paris. The French Tennis Federation has voted to keep the French Open at its traditional Roland Garros venue in Paris. This decision won a 70.13 percent of votes over the alternatives after three different voting sessions. Three other venues, including Versailles, Marne-la-Vallee and Gonesse, were bidding to host the French Open, but the Federation voted...
Published: February 11, 2011
Former top 10 player Jelena Dokic of Australia scored one of her biggest wins in a long time on Thursday, shocking Nadia Petrova 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the second round of the GDF Suez Open in Paris. Having fallen to 120th in the rankings, Dokic defeated the 20th-ranked Petrova to advance to the quarterfinals for a date with Kim Clijsters. If Clijsters wins, she’ll officially...
Published: February 11, 2011
The best and greatest (ALL IN ONE PLACE): www.TennisNow.com Upsets took a holiday on Thursday at the three ATP tournaments underway. Only three seeded players across three tournaments went down in defeat as the SAP Open and the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament reached the round of 16 and the Brasil Open started its quarterfinals. In the ABN AMRO at Rotterdam, top seeded Robin Soderling had to...
Published: February 11, 2011
The ladies are in a WTA Premier event in Paris this week, and so far, all of the seeds stayed true to their rankings, including first seed Kim Clijsters, second seed Maria Sharapova, third seed Kaia Kanepi, fourth seed Petra Kvitova, fifth seed Nadia Petrova, sixth seed Andrea Petkovic, seventh seed Yanina Wickmayer and eighth seed Dominika Cibulkova. Except for world No. 60, Alize Cornet,...