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Tue Sep 9 16:23:39 2008 |
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Bucharest, Romania (Sports Network) - Top seeds Richard Gasquet and Gilles
Simon of France were among Tuesday's first-round winners at the $525,000 BCR
Open Romania.
Gasquet came from behind to beat Spain's Oscar Hernandez 3-6, 6-4, 6
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Tue Sep 9 10:50:00 2008 |
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Madrid, Spain (Sports Network) - Wimbledon, four-time French Open and Olympic
champion Rafael Nadal will lead Spain against the visiting and defending
champion United States in their Davis Cup semifinal next week.
In addition to the
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Tue Sep 9 10:29:11 2008 |
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Bali, Indonesia (Sports Network) - U.S. Open quarterfinalist Flavia
Pennetta and fourth-seeded Russian Nadia Petrova were among Tuesday's opening-
round winners at the $225,000 Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic.
The third-seeded
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Mon Sep 8 19:24:33 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Swiss superstar Roger Federer
defeated Scotland's Andy Murray in Monday's men's final at the U.S. Open to
become the first man in the Open Era to capture the event five straight years.
The second-see
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Mon Sep 8 11:20:40 2008 |
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Bucharest, Romania (Sports Network) - Italy's Potito Starace upset seventh-
seeded Spaniard Marcel Granollers in Monday's first-round action at the
$525,000 BCR Open Romania.
Starace stifled Granollers in 6-2, 6-4 fashion on
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Mon Sep 8 10:59:41 2008 |
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Bali, Indonesia (Sports Network) - Fifth-seeded Italian Francesca Schiavone
and ninth-seeded Chinese Shuai Peng were among Monday's first-round winners at
the $225,000 Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic.
Schiavone drilled Indonesian quali
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Mon Sep 8 00:00:49 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Serena Williams outlasted Jelena
Jankovic to capture the U.S. Open title for the first time in six years.
Williams, the fourth seed, easily won the first set, but had to come from
behind to
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Sun Sep 7 18:56:58 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Sixth-seeded Andy Murray advanced to
his first ever Grand Slam final with a 6-2, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-4 victory over
top-ranked Rafael Nadal on Sunday at the U.S. Open.
The match was suspended on Satu
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Sun Sep 7 15:07:53 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - The top-seeded tandem of Cara Black
and Liezel Huber won their fourth career major championship with a straight-
set victory Sunday at the 2008 U.S. Open.
Zimbabwe's Black and the American Hube
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Sat Sep 6 16:57:42 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Roger Federer continued his dominance
at the U.S. Open Saturday, as he outlasted Novak Djokovic and kept alive his
chances for a fifth straight title hours before Tropical Storm Hanna hit the
area a
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Sat Sep 6 16:31:15 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Tropical Storm Hanna wreaked havoc
on the schedule for the U.S. Open on Saturday, suspending play during one
men's semifinal while forcing the postponement of the women's final.
American Sere
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Sat Sep 6 14:23:30 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Roger Federer continued his dominance
at the U.S. Open Saturday, as he outlasted Novak Djokovic and kept alive his
chances for a fifth straight title.
The second-seeded and reigning four-time cha
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Fri Sep 5 20:02:44 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - U.S. Open officials made contingency
plans due to the expected arrival of Tropical Storm Hanna this weekend, and it
could push the women's final to Sunday night and the men's championship match
to late
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Fri Sep 5 18:43:56 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - American Serena Williams and Serbian
Jelena Jankovic will square off in Saturday night's final at the 2008 U.S.
Open.
The fourth-seeded two-time champion Williams reached her fourth U.S. Ope
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Fri Sep 5 16:56:50 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Former world No. 1 Serb Jelena
Jankovic secured a berth in Saturday night's U.S. Open final.
The second-seeded Jankovic handled fifth-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva 6-4,
6-4 in Friday's first women'
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Fri Sep 5 15:25:38 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - The top-seeded tandem of Cara Black
and Liezel Huber posted a semifinal victory Friday at the 2008 U.S. Open.
Zimbabwe's Black and the American Huber will face the 10th-seeded team of
American
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Fri Sep 5 14:41:35 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - The American twin Bryan brothers,
Bob and Mike, won Friday's men's doubles final at the 2008 U.S. Open.
The second-seeded Bryans defeated a seventh-seeded tandem of Czech Lukas
Dlouhy and I
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Fri Sep 5 12:33:20 2008 |
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - The USTA and captain Patrick McEnroe
announced that the defending champions named world No. 8 Andy Roddick, No. 9
James Blake and the doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan to represent the U.S.
in the 2008 Davis C
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Fri Sep 5 12:17:04 2008 |
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - The men's semifinals are scheduled
to be staged Saturday at the U.S. Open, where top-ranked Rafael Nadal will
take on sixth-seeded Andy Murray and second-seeded and reigning four-time
champion Roger Fe
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Fri Sep 5 11:47:38 2008 |
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St. Petersburg, FL (Sports Network) - Former Top-10 player Alicia Molik has
announced her retirement from professional tennis.
The 27-year-old Aussie had her career derailed by an inner ear infection in
the spring of 2005. The probl
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