Archive for February, 2009


The ATP Tennis Show asks ATP stars, including Juan Martin del Potro, Tommy Robredo and Marcos Baghdatis, what their favorite tournament is.

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The ATP Tennis Show focuses on the first players to qualify for Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai in November 2008.

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Players share their pre-match preparation routine on the ATP Tennis Show.

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Argentine teenager Juan Martin del Potro goes under the spotlight on the ATP Tennis Show after winning his first two career ATP titles in back-to ...

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The U.S. Davis Cup team will go with its regular lineup for an opening-round match against Switzerland. U.S. captain Patrick McEnroe said Tuesday that Andy Roddick, James Blake and the doubles team of twins Bob and Mike Bryan will compete March 6-8 in Birmingham. McEnroe said the Americans became "a pretty solid favorite" when 13-time Gland Slam singles champion Roger Federer pulled out of the series...
Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela rallied to beat Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Monday to advance to the second round of the Acapulco Open. "This is a very important victory, Cuevas is a good player who is coming from the qualifying rounds, he played a great first set but I was able to take him down," said Chela, who is ranked 162nd and came to Acapulco with a wild card.
Venus Williams is ready to add to her collection of singles titles at the Acapulco Open. The fifth-ranked American, who won her 40th title on Saturday at the Dubai Tennis Championships, is already feeling at home in Mexico. "I have never been here before, but I grew up in California, so I got to know a lot from the Mexican culture and I kind of like it," Williams said.

After an Israeli tennis player was banned from playing in a Dubai tournament, the Tennis Channel has announced they will not be broadcasting the ...

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The Dubai Tennis Championships will start next week without five of the top seven men's players scheduled to compete at the ATP Tour event, mostly because of injuries. Top-ranked Rafael Nadal (knee) and second-ranked Roger Federer (back) withdrew earlier this week. The tournament has since lost defending champion Andy Roddick of the United States, No.
Organizers of Dubai's tennis tournament say Israeli player Andy Ram will have all the security he needs for the ATP Tour event that starts Monday. UAE authorities granted Ram permission to enter the country on Thursday. Ram is ranked No. 7 in the world in doubles. Another Israeli player, Shahar Peer, was denied entry into the country a week ago, preventing her from playing in the women's tournament.
The WTA fined Dubai Tennis Championships organizers a record $300,000 Friday after Israeli player Shahar Peer was denied a visa by the United Arab Emirates, and U.S. star Andy Roddick later said he wouldn't defend the title he won there last year. "I really didn't agree with what went on over there. I don't know if it's the best thing to mix politics and sports, and that was probably a big part of...

Israel's Andy Ram, in front of, looks on, as his teammate Austria's Julian Knowle serves to Russia's Mikhail Youzhny and Germany's Mischa Zverev, during their men's doubles match of the Open 13 tennis tournament, in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. The ATP says Israeli player Andy Ram has been granted a visa to play at next week's Dubai Tennis Championships. ATP president Adam Helfant says "the United Arab Emirates government has made the right decision in allowing Andy Ram to enter their country and compete."

Israeli Andy Ram will be allowed to compete in a Dubai tennis tournament next week after the Arab country said Thursday it would permit the seventh-ranked doubles player to enter the country. The United Arab Emirates came under sharp criticism after it banned Israeli women's tennis player Shahar Peer earlier this week from entering the country to participate in the lucrative Dubai Tennis...


Top-ranked Rafael Nadal will skip next week's Dubai Tennis Championships to rest a minor knee injury ahead of Spain's opening Davis Cup tie next month. Nadal strained a ligament in his ABN Amro final loss to Andy Murray on Sunday. The 22-year-old Nadal said Monday that the injury wasn't serious, but he prefers not to take any chances with Spain scheduled to meet Serbia in a World Group first round...