Top seed David Ferrer will face fellow former champion Philipp Kohlschreiber in the Auckland Open quarter-finals on Thursday after both survived tough second round matches on Wednesday.
Top seed David Ferrer will face fellow former champion Philipp Kohlschreiber in the Auckland Open quarter-finals on Thursday after both survived tough second round matches on Wednesday.
Bernard Tomic’s disappointment at being knocked out of the first round of the Sydney International on Wednesday was tempered by his delight at having been granted a wild card for next week’s Australian Open.
DUBAI - A staggering 24 nationalities will line up to fight for the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title when play gets underway at the $2 million WTA event on February 14, in a field that features no less than four former world number ones as well as the current world leader.
World number one Caroline Wozniacki shrugged off defeat in her first competitive match of the year at the Sydney International on Tuesday, saying she would be ready to go at the Australian Open next week.
World number one Rafa Nadal put his recovery from a bout of flu to the test with a rain-interrupted practice session at Melbourne Park on Tuesday ahead of next week’s Australian Open.
Briton Andy Murray will play an exhibition match with Croatia’s Marin Cilic at the Kooyong Classic in Melbourne on Thursday as a warm up before next week’s Australian Open, the invitational tournament’s director said on Tuesday.
SYDNEY - Former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro won his first match in a year on Monday, coming through a 200-minute test of his fitness with a 6-7 7-6 7-6 victory over Feliciano Lopez at the Sydney International.
The Dubai Tennis Stadium will come alive from February 14 to 26 with three of the top five ATP and seven of the top 10 WTA ranked players on the professional circuit confirming their attendance to compete in the 2011 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
World number two Roger Federer began his season in formidable fashion by defeating holder Nikolay Davydenko 6-3 6-4 to win the Qatar Open on Saturday.
China’s Li Na, a semi-finalist at last year’s Australian Open, looked in ominous form in her first competitive outing of 2011 at the Sydney International warm-up tournament on Monday.