Gael Monfils beat Roger Federer 7-6 6-7 7-6 to reach the final of the Masters Series Paris 2010. Monfils will face Robin Soderling, who beat Michael Llodra 6-7 7-5 7-6. Monfils faced five match points in game 12 of the final set before forcing the tiebreaker with an ace. Federer shanked a forehand to give [...]
Posted by uspostTennisSaturday, November 13th, 2010
Robin Soderling ended Michael Llodra’s brilliant run at the Paris Masters on Saturday when he saved three match points to beat the unseeded Frenchman 6-7 7-5 7-6 and book his place in the final. The Swede, twice a French Open runner-up, will face either top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland or Frenchman Gael Monfils, the [...]
Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray were among Friday’s quarterfinal winners at the $5.25 million Shanghai Masters tennis event. The second-seeded U.S. Open runner-up Djokovic drubbed Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2, 6-3 on the hardcourts at Qizhong Tennis Center. Garcia-Lopez was a titlist in Bangkok two weeks ago, while Djokovic is fresh off his title [...]
The 2010 US Open gets underway at New York’s Flushing Meadows today. The men’s side will be without defending champion Juan Martin del Potro, who was forced to pull out of the event with a lingering right wrist injury. Roger Federer, who was last year’s runner-up and is trying to set an Open Era record [...]
Struggling Nadal rescues match point – Rafael Nadal is through to the last eight of the Cincinnati Masters, but the world number one had to save a match point before defeating France’s Julien Benneteau in 3 sets. Rafael Nadal rescued a match point in the second set tie-break before scraping through 5-7 7-6 6-2. The [...]