Professional Tennis
Tennis Channel will provide exclusive coverage of Russia and the Czech Republic’s championship competition in Moscow this weekend, with comprehensive telecasts Saturday, Nov. 5, and Sunday, Nov. 6. Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova will lead the Czech Republic into its first Fed Cup final as an independent nation with a chance to win the 2011 crown….
Switzerland has chosen to host the United States on an indoor clay court at Fribourg in the 2012 Davis Cup. The Swiss tennis federation says the first-round series will be played Feb. 10-12 at the 7,200-capacity Forum Fribourg arena. Switzerland’s biggest indoor arenas in Geneva and Zurich were unavailable to stage the match. The Swiss…
The injuries continue to mount as the year winds down at the Swiss Indoors event in Switzerland, as the number two seed, Great Britain’s Andy Murray and the number six seed, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic, have left the event due to injury. Murray withdrew from the event before his scheduled first round match with Robin Haase…
Mardy Fish retired from his first-round match at the Swiss Indoors against fellow American James Blake on Tuesday after just one game because of a hamstring injury. Fish, who entered the tournament as the fifth seed, held serve in the opening game and lost the first point of the next game when he decided he couldn’t…
Novak Djokovic says time is needed to gain back his form after a year of three major wins ended early with a back injury that left him sidelined for six weeks. The top-ranked Serbian has resumed play this week at the Swiss Indoors event after retiring from his last match over a month ago on Sept….
Roger Federer has won the first round of his hometown Swiss Indoors event after a six-week break from action. He defeated Italy’s Potito Starace, 7-6, 6-4, to advance. Federer got off to a slow start, but was able to find himself in the tie-breaker in the first to take the lead one set to none….
Petra Kvitova from the Czech Republic, a former Wimbledon champion, has won her first WTA Championships title on Sunday by defeating Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 in the finals of the Istanbul Open in Turkey to put her second in world rankings. Kvitova took a 5-0 lead in the first, however, fell down a bit to…
France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has claimed the Erste Bank Open tournament in Vienna, Austria to claim his second title of the year with a 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 win over Spain’s Juan Martin Del Potro in the finals. Tsonga will now move past American Mardy Fish to become the number seven-ranked player in the 2011 tour for…
Russian Maria Sharapova’s withdrawal from the season-ending WTA Championships, has ensured that Caroline Wozniacki would end the year as world number one. Wozniacki lost her match yesterday at the WTA Championships in three sets 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to Russian Vera Zvonareva. But with world number two Sharapova out of the tournament, the loss in her second round-robin…
After losing her second straight match, Maria Sharapova of Russia has pulled out of the WTA Championships with a sore ankle Wednesday. Sharapova entered the tournament after sitting out since withdrawing in the quarterfinals in Tokyo last month due to an ankle injury. After losing 7-6(4), 6-4 to Li Na of China in her second…