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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In the first day of the Australian Open in Melbourne, Andy Roddick, who recently won the Brisbane International and took the first major win of the season, defeated the Netherlands’ Thiemo de Bakker 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. A rain delay interrupted Roddick’s match during the second set as the Hisense Arena’s roof had to be closed [...]

Continue reading → First Day of the Australian Open

On Thursday, Serena Williams ended up knocked out of the China Open tournament, having lost a match to Nadia Petrovia, who hails from Russia, with a final score of 6 – 4, 3 – 6, 7 – 6 (5), and this comes only a few days after she managed to regain her once-held World No. [...]

Continue reading → At Beijing, Serena Loses; Nadal Moves on to Quarterfinals

The number two world player, Roger Federer, beat Tommy Haas and got into the quarter finals in the French Open last week. This Swiss player was aiming right for the only grand slam win that he has not reached in his career. Serena Williams beat Aleksandra Wozniak to further her streak to eighteen matches with [...]

Continue reading → The Latest in Pro Tennis

The former World No. 1 tennis player Maria Sharapova plans to be 100 percent healthy by the upcoming tennis season, and assures fans that she will be poised to defend her Australian Open title as soon as January rolls around. According to Maria Sharapova’s agent, Max Eisenbud, Sharapova has a set timeline for her recovery, [...]

Continue reading → Sharapova Nears Return, Plans to Defend Australian Open Crown