This week in tennis featured the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington D.C. This men’s tournament was joined by the two women’s tournaments of the Mercury Insurance Open (San Diego, California) and the e-Boks Sony Ericsson Open (Copenhagen, Denmark). The Men’s Legg Mason Tennis Classic featured plenty of big names, including Andy Roddick, Tomas Berdych, [...]

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This week is tennis featured four different tournaments, two each for the men and women. The men competed in The MercedesCup (clay court) and the SkiStar Swedish Open (clay court). The women found themselves at the XXIII Internazionali Femminili Di Palermo SNAI Open and the ECM Prague Open, both on clay courts. The SkiStar Swedish [...]

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The big news in tennis this week is the start of the French Open. The first week has come to an end, with big stars rising and falling at the clay courts of Roland Garros. The top 8 Men’s Seeds for the French Open are as follows: [1] Roger Federer, [2] Rafael Nadal, [3] Novak [...]

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This past week in tennis gave players one more chance to tune-up their match skills before the French Open. Tennis starts like Fernando Verdasco, Robin Soderling, Caroline Wozniacki, Elena Dementieva, and Maria Sharapova saw action in the ATP Open de Nice Cote d’ Azur in Nice, the WTA Polsat Warsaw Open in Warsaw, and the [...]

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Rafael Nadal hasn’t been a winner for almost a year. But he won the Monte Carlo Masters on Sunday and become the only player to win a single event 6 times in a row since tennis became a professional sport over 40 years ago in 1968. That’s quite a comeback win. He had to defeat [...]

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Fernando Verdasco beat Andy Roddick to take the win in San Jose, California, at the SAP Open on Sunday. This makes Verdasco’s 4th career title and his first win against any of the top 10 players after 15 straight losses to tennis’ best. Verdasco lost to Nikolay Davydenko in round 4 of the Australian Open [...]

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At the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Andy Roddick defeated Fernando Gonzales on Sunday to secure his spot in the Australian Open quarter-finals.  They battled for over three-and-a-half hours until Gonzalez double-faulted around 1 a.m. The match saw Roddick struggling at times, and again clashing with a chair umpire. This is the second time during [...]

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The ATP World Tour Finals in London set 2 tennis records, with 17,467 in the audience, making it the largest crowd to ever watch a match in Britain–2,500 more than can watch a match at Wimbledon’s Centre Court.  This also ranks as the biggest indoor tennis tournament in tennis history, with 260,000 ticket sales for [...]

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The top seed, Rafael Nadal, lit up the second day of the Madrid Masters on the second day by overcoming Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis with 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, allowing him to move on to the third round. With a total of eight titles so far this season, including Wimbledon, Paris and the Olympics, Nadal gave a [...]

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