seeded Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Daniel Nestor of Canada won a second consecutive French Open doubles title by beating American twins Bob and Mike Bryan 6-4, 6-4 Saturday. “Beating the best team, probably, of all time in the final is a good (...)
ranked Lee Chong Wei led Malaysia to a comfortable 5-0 victory over South Africa while England was knocked out of the Thomas Cup after losing 4-1 against Indonesia Monday.
Malaysia will next play Denmark, with the winner of that contest deciding (...)
ranked Novak Djokovic won his third Sony Ericsson Open title Sunday, holding every service game to beat Andy Murray 6-1, 7-6 (5).
Djokovic also won in 2007 and last year. Only six-time champion Pete Sampras won more men's titles.
The lone break (...)
ranked Novak Djokovic defeated Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 6-4, winning the final three games of the match to reach the BNP Paribas Open semifinals Thursday.
Djokovic, the defending champion, improved to 16-1 against Spanish opponents since the start of (...)
seeded Samantha Stosur reached the Japan Open semifinals with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over seventh-seeded Chanelle Scheepers on Saturday.
US Open champion Stosur hit six aces and saved all four break points she faced while converting three break points (...)
ranked Novak Djokovic advanced to the Rogers Cup final when Jo-Wilfried Tsonga retired from their semifinal match Saturday night because of an apparent right arm injury.
Djokovic, who led 6-4, 3-0 when the Frenchman retired, will face sixth-seeded (...)
seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy breezed through to the second round of the Swedish Open Tuesday with a straight-sets victory over Anna Brazhnikova.
Pennetta secured a 6-2, 6-0 win against the Swedish wild card. Fourth-seeded Gisela Dulko of (...)
seeded Roger Federer survived another tense early-round match at Wimbledon when he overcame the tricky Serbian qualifier Ilija Bozoljac 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (5) Wednesday.
Six-time champion Federer, who escaped from a two-set deficit in his (...)
ranked Serena Williams was knocked out of the Madrid Masters Wednesday, falling 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 to Nadia Petrova of Russia in the third round.
Petrova, who has won 19 doubles titles, frustrated Williams into making 41 errors by hitting accurately (...)
Thiago Motta scored twice Saturday as Inter Milan beat Bologna 3-0 to stay top of the Serie A by one point.
Mario Balotelli also hit the target for Inter, which leads the standings with 66 points. AS Roma remained second after winning 1-0 at Bari (...)
ranked Roger Federer wasted three match points and then lost to Marcos Baghdatis 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (4) Tuesday night in a third-round upset at the BNP Paribas Open.
A joyous Baghdatis bent down and kissed the court after his first win over Federer in (...)
seeded Jelena Jankovic of Serbia was bundled out in the first round of the Monterrey Open in an upset 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 loss to Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova Tuesday.
Two other seeded players had better luck in the Mexican hard-court (...)
ranked Roger Federer was drawn Wednesday to play both US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro and Andy Murray in the round-robin phase of the ATP World Tour Finals.
Federer, who lost to Del Potro in the US Open final, will also face Fernando (...)
seeded Russians Nikolay Davydenko and Svetlana Kuznetsova booked their quarterfinal berths Wednesday at the Pilot Pen hardcourt tournament, last tune-up for the US Open.
Davydenko, who heads the men's field, defeated France's Fabrice Santoro 7-5, (...)
seeded Nikolay Davydenko withstood a dozen aces from American Robert Kendrick to win 7-6 (10), 6-3 in the second round of the Pilot Pen on Tuesday.
Davydenko struggled with Kendrick's serves, which occasionally topped 130mph (209kph). But he used a (...)
ranked Dinara Safina committed 17 double faults in losing to Aravane Rezai of France 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the second round of the Rogers Cup Wednesday.
Maria Sharapova also made 17 double faults but beat Austria's Sybille Bammer 6-3, 7-6 (5).
Safina, (...)
seeded Lee Chong Wei and defending champion Lin Dan secured easy victories Monday to advance to the second round of the Badminton World Championships.
Top-ranked Lee of Malaysia overcame a slow start to prevail 21-14, 21-10 over Germany's Dieter (...)
seeded Andy Murray lost just five points on his serve in beating Mardy Fish 7-5, 6-3 Friday to reach the semifinals of the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club.
Murray never faced a break point against the American, and broke for a 6-5 lead in the (...)
ranked Rafael Nadal in a final for the first time in two years on Sunday to claim the Madrid Open title 6-4, 6-4.
Second-ranked Federer broke a sluggish Nadal once in both sets before firing his sixth ace of the match to claim his 15th Masters (...)
Wilfried Tsonga marched into the Johannesburg Open semifinals with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Belgian Kristof Vliegen on Friday.
The Frenchman next plays unseeded Portuguese Frederico Gil, who put out Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6, 6-3.
There (...)
ranked Rafael Nadal outlasted fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (2), 6-7 (1), 6-4 Friday to reach the Australian Open final after the longest match in the tournament's history.
The fans were riveted as the left-handed Davis Cup (...)
ranked Rafael Nadal put together a dominating performance Tuesday, routing Belgium's Christophe Rochus 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 in the first round at the Australian Open.
Showing no sign of the knee problems that sidelined him at the end of last year, Nadal (...)
seeded Russia held off the United States in the 38th Chess Olympiad in round eight of open division play Friday, but the Armenian team crushed France and stayed in first place.
In women's division, the US team dealt a severe blow to the medal hopes (...)
ranked teams at the 38th Chess Olympiad advanced in the second round in both the open and women's section.
But the US men, ranked 10th, gave up a draw to Greece in the open division while the Israeli women upset the Americans.
Top-seed Russia (...)
ranked Rafael Nadal, the man he usurped as world number one, Roger Federer, and pretender Andy Murray all marched into the last 16 at the Paris Masters on Wednesday with straight sets wins.
Nadal swept past unseeded Frenchman Florent Serra 6-2, (...)
