Patty Schnyder defeated Kim Clijsters to reach Luxembourg Open quarterfinals on Thursday. The former Swiss star earned 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (6) victory over the Belgian.
 
Clijsters made 11 double faults in the two-hour match .This was the first defeat of the Belgian since she won the U.S. Open ...

The two American greats Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras will face each other in the southern Chinese gambling enclave Macau on Sunday.
 
Sampras on Thursday said,"It's going to be competitive tennis - obviously not quite as cutthroat as it once was - but I still feel we can both play ...

Top-seeded Robin Soderling breezed past Giovanni Lapentti of Ecuador to make it into the second round of Stockholm Open. The Swede registered a 6-3, 6-0 straight set win over Lapentti.
 
The Swede took 3-1 lead in the opening set breaking Lapentti’s serve at the Royal Tennis Hall. ...

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez advanced into the quarter-finals of Stockholm Open with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Simon Greul of Germany on Wednesday. The Spaniard has not lost a set in his two matches on the Royal Tennis Hall's hard courts.
 
In other first round encounter Tommy Haas, a two-time ...

Third seed Agnieszka Radwanska hopes to qualify for Doha tournament ended with her defeat in Kremlin cup. Russia's Maria Kirilenko outclassed Radwanskain in straight sets by 6-3, 6-3.
 
Poland's Radwanska was battling with Russia's Vera Zvonareva and Serbia's Jelena Jankovic for the last ...

Marat Safin knocked out top seed Nikolay Davydenko in the first-round tie between the two Russians at the Kremlin Cup. Safin, who has announced his retirement, defeated Davydenko by 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
 
In-form Davydenko, who earned number six spot in the world with last week's Shanghai Masters ...

Jelena Jankovic defeated Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova in the first round of Kremlin Cup on Tuesday. She outclassed the Kazak by 6-4, 5-7, 6-1
 
The Russian-born Kazakh Shvedova  had crushed  the former world number one in the second round of the US Open last month .The ...

The seven-time Grand Slam winner Justine Henin will make a comeback at Australia’s 2010 Brisbane International to be played in January. The world number one Belgian said in a statement, “After a 15-month absence I am pleased to begin my second tennis career at the Brisbane ...

Prakash Amritraj advanced into the pre-quarterfinals of ATP Challenger event in US.Prakash made it through as his opponent pulled out mid-way in the first round of the $50,000 event.
 
Prakash had earned a wild card entry into the main draw. He was leading by 6-3, 3-2 when Serbian Llija ...

Mats Wilander has resigned from the post of Sweden's Davis Cup coach. The country's tennis federation made the announcement on Tuesday.
 
Wilander said,"I will not continue. It's private reasons behind the decision. I want to be home more, spend more time with the kids. It was a ...

Andy Roddick has qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals to be played next month. He grabbed the sixth spot in the eight-man London Finals field on Tuesday.
 
Roddick had pulled out of last week's Shanghai Masters due to his knee injury- an event where nine men retired fearful of a knee ...

The fourth seeded Indo-US pair of Prakash Amritraj and Alex Kuznetsov made it into the doubles quarterfinals of US Challenger event.
 
The Indian-American pair defeated local duo of Rylan Rizza and Kaes Van't Hof by 6-7 (1), 6-2, 10-8 in the first round of the USD 50,000 ATP Challenger event ...

The world number 30 Mikhail Youzhny eased into the second round of the Kremlin Cup. The third seed Youzhny defeated Argentina's Horacio Zeballos by 6-1, 7-6.
 
The Russian claimed seven consecutive games to win the first set in 26 minutes .He took a 1-0 lead in the second before Zeballos put ...

Simon Greul advanced into the second round of the Stockholm Open tennis on Monday. He defeated sixth seed Benjamin Becker by 2-6, 6-3, 7-5.Bad luck continued for Becker as he earned his seventh consecutive first-round loss this season.
 
The all-German clash was the first on court at ...

Rohan Bopanna of India failed to qualify for Kremlin Open on Monday. He lost the final round of the USD 1,000,000 Kremlin Open to fifth seed Illya Marchenko in Moscow.
 
Rohan Bopanna had defeated top seed American Rajeev Ram in the first round. The Ukrainian outclassed Indian Davis Cupper ...

Somdev Devvarman of India achieved his career best singles ranking on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) charts on Monday. India's No.1 Somdev climbed seven rungs to reach a career high singles ranking of 124.
 
In the women's singles rankings, Sania Mirza, who reached the ...

Serena Williams of the United States leads a nearly unchanged women's tennis rankings top 10 issued on Monday by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
 
Williams has 7,945 points for a slim advantage over former number one Dinara Safina of Russia (7,940). Svetlana Kuznetsova, also of Russia, ...

Roger Federer retained the top spot in the men's tennis rankings Monday while Novak Djokovic returned to third and Nikolay Davydenko climbed to the sixth place.
 
Switzerland's Federer has 10,805 points in the latest Association of Tennis Professional (ATP) list to lead from Spanish rival ...

Samantha Stosur won the Japan Open women's tennis tournament on Sunday. She defeated Francesca Schiavone of Italy to capture her first career WTA title.
 
The Australian third seed had outclassed Caroline Wozniacki in the semi-finals on Saturday. She established a 7-5, 6-1 victory over the ...

Nikolay Davydenko delivered a blow to the comeback hopes of top seed Rafael Nadal with a 7-6(3), 6-3 victory in the final of the Shanghai Masters played on Sunday.
 
Davydenko added Nadal to a Shanghai casualty list which included second seed Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals.
 
The ...

Sania Mirza’s cruising in WTA Japan Open came to an end after she was crushed by fourth seed World No. 26 Francesca Schiavone in Osaka for a 2-6, 1-6 on Saturday.
 
This stresses that she lost all the three encounters with the Italian player.
 
Sania had taken over Shahar Peer ...

Sania Mirza of India advanced into the semi-finals at Japan Open.She made it to the semis after her second-seeded French opponent Marion Bartoli retired midway through the quarterfinal due to a shoulder injury.
 
Sania controlled the proceedings in the hour-long match. Sania said, “You ...

Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic advanced into the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters with straight set wins in their respective matches on Thursday.
 
The top-seeded Nadal defeated Tommy Robredo by 6-1, 6-4.Nadal, who won five tournaments this year, including the Australian Open ...

The second seed pair of Rohan Bopanna and Hsun Yen Lu crashed out of Tashkent Challenger on Thursday. The duo went down to local pair of Denis Istomin and Murad Inoyatov in the men's doubles semi-finals at the $125,000 Tashkent ATP Challenger series.
 
The Uzbek pair of Istomin and Inoyatov ...

Nikolay Davydenko of Russia advanced into the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters. The Russian defeated Chile's Fernando Gonzalez by 6-3, 7-5.
 
The sixth-seeded Davydenko beat the 10th seed Gonzalez to make it closer to the ATP's season-ending final. Davydenko said, “Like my wife ...

The Indian-American pair of Sania Mirza and Vania King crashed out of the of the doubles event of the Japan Open. They suffered straight set defeat by 4-6, 2-6 at the hands of French pair of Julie Coin and Mathilde.
 
The Indo-American pair battled for around one hour and seven minutes. ...

Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic advanced into the third round of Shanghai Masters on Wednesday.
 
Nadal, crushed James Blake by 6-2, 6-7 (4-7), 6-4 while Second seed Djokovic, the Beijing champion, defeated Italian Fabio Fognini by 6-3, 6-1.
 
Third seed Juan Martin Del Potro, the US ...

Rohan Bopanna of India advanced into the doubles semi-finals at the $125,000 ATP Tashkent Challenger tournament. The other Indian, seventh-seeded Somdev Devvarman, lost to Russian Alexandre Kudryavstev in the men' singles.
 
The 210th-ranked Kudryavstev outclassed Somdev by 6-3, 6-4 to make ...

French 11th seed Gael Monfils outclassed Lleyton Hewitt in the second round of the Shanghai Masters.
 
Hewitt won the first set by 6-4 taking a 2-0 lead in the deciding set .He then lost six consecutive games and suffered a 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 defeat in the hands of the Frenchman. Monfils now has ...

Sania Mirza of India became the first player to make it into the quarters of Japan Open. Mirza defeated Viktoriya Kutuzova of Ukraine in straight sets.
 
The Australian Open mixed doubles winner this season had an easy win over the Ukrainian by 6-4, 6-3 taking advantage of a rash of double ...