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Top-ranked Roger Federer will play Russia's Dmitry Tursunov in the first round of the Beijing Olympics tennis tournament, while rival Rafael Nadal could face a difficult second-round matchup in the draw announced Thursday. Nadal, who will replace Federer atop the rankings the week after the Olympic tournament, drew Italy's Potito Starace in the first round.
Florent Serra defeated Fernando Verdasco and Denis Gremelmayr beat Feliciano Lopez on an afternoon of upsets Wednesday at the Countrywide Classic. Serra ousted the second-seeded Verdasco, hampered by a sore ankle, 6-2, 7-6 (4). Gremelmayr took a 7-5, 7-5 victory over No. 4 seed Lopez. Sixth-seeded Mardy Fish came back strong after losing the first set to take a 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-0 win over Vince...
A long season of grueling duels against Roger Federer seem to have taken their toll on Wimbledon and French Open champion Rafael Nadal. "I feel good considering the calendar this year, which was terrorizing," Nadal said Wednesday, two days before the opening of the Beijing Olympics. "It's been a good year, but a difficult one." So good a year that on Aug.
Croatia's Mario Ancic withdrew from the U.S. Open on Tuesday with a recurrence of mononucleosis, the second straight year the 25th-ranked player was forced to miss the tournament. Ancic, a former Wimbledon semifinalist, was slowed throughout the 2007 season because of mononucleosis. He pulled out of the Open last August because of an injured right shoulder.
A federal jury on Tuesday cleared the way for the ATP Tour's planned tournament restructuring next year, rejecting antitrust claims in a lawsuit filed by the German Tennis Federation. Jurors in U.S. District Court in Wilmington deliberated about nine hours before upholding the Association of Tennis Professionals' tournament restructuring, which would move the Hamburg clay court event from May to...
The U.S. Tennis Association reached an agreement to buy a majority interest in the Cincinnati Masters ATP hard-court tournament and hopes to turn it into a combined event for men and women. The deal is pending ATP approval. "This tournament has elevated the sport of tennis in the country's heartland, while providing significant contributions to community causes.
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