India’s Sania Mirza and Leander Paes advanced with their respective partners in the while Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj were shown the door in the doubles at the Australian Open tennis at Melbourne Park here Friday.
The 10th-seeded pair of Sania and Spaniard Virginia Ruano Pascual battled past Swiss Timea Bacsinszky and Italian Tathiana Garbin 7-6(3), [...]
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Australian Open: Sania, Paes move on, Somdev-Prakash out
January 22nd, 2010 |
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Federer plays mind games to overcome Andreev in Melbourne
January 19th, 2010 |
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Roger Federer’s famed mental strength rescued the top seed from potential danger as the world number one began his Australian Open campaign Tuesday with a turnaround 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(2), 6-0 defeat of Russian Igor Andreev.
The Swiss said he was glad he was playing on the Grand Slam stage with its longer, more demanding match format.
“I [...]
Isner upsets No. 7 seed Becker at L.A. Tennis Open
July 29th, 2009 |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Isner upset No. 7 seed Benjamin Becker 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3), in the first round of the L.A. Tennis Open at UCLA on Tuesday.
The 6-foot-9 Isner, who had mononucleosis and was absent from the ATP Tour for three months, returned to action last week at Indianapolis, where he lost to [...]