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RHS tennis loses to Torrey Pines in league match
Ramona High’s tennis team dropped two Palomar League matches in the second round of league play. Ramona is now 3-8 overall and 0-6 in league action. The trip to Torrey Pines was not kind to the Bulldogs as the Falcons (10-2, 5-1) posted an 18-0 win. In singles action Ramona only won seven games. Dayna [...]
Tsonga shocked in Shanghai tennis, Nadal wins
Big-serving Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was sent crashing out of the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday by Japan’s Kei Nishikori but untroubled top seed Rafael Nadal eased through to the third round. Tsonga, the fourth seed, who lost 7-6 (7/1), 4-6, 4-6, appeared to be on his way to a straightforward victory when he stepped up the intensity [...]
Roddick wins in Shanghai opener
Andy Roddickwas among Monday’s opening- round winners at the $3.24 million Shanghai Masters. The 10th-seeded former world No. 1 Roddick snuck past qualifier Yen-Hsun Lu of Taipei 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 on the hardcourts at the beautiful Qizhong Tennis Center. Roddick broke serve in the fourth and eighth games of the final set and prevailed in [...]
Former No. 1 Dinara Safina retires
MOSCOW — Former top-ranked player Dinara Safina has retired from tennis, according to her brother Marat Safin. Safin told Russian sports agency R-Sport on Friday that the 25-year-old Safina considers her decision “as a next step in her life.” In May, Safina took an indefinite break from tennis in hopes of recovering from chronic back [...]
Aisam, Bopanna ousted in first round of Japan Open
TOKYO: Top-seeds Aisamul Haq Qureshi and Rohan Bopanna crashed out in the first round of the doubles event at the Japan Open, losing to the Brazilian duo of Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares 6-4, 6-3. This was the first outing for Aisam and Bopanna together since the pair lost in the semi-finals of the US Open. [...]
Sock-It-To-’Em: Jack Sock Keeps Rolling At U.S. Open As Mixed Doubles Champ
Former Blue Valley North tennis sensation has added a Grand Slam title to his lofty career accomplishments. Sock and his partner, Melanie Ouidin from Georgia, captured the U.S. Open mixed doubles ahampionship on Friday. Winning championships while having fun is what Kansas State high school tennis champion Jack Sock is all about, and on Friday he [...]
Two-Time Champion Kim Clijsters Withdraws From U.S. Open Tennis
Kim Clijsters has withdrawn from this month’s U.S. Open, which she won in 2009 and 2010, due to a strained stomach muscle, the United States Tennis Association said today in an e-mailed release. Clijsters, who also won the tournament in 2005, pulled out of the Rogers Cup in Toronto last week because of the injury, [...]
American teen Christina McHale topples world No. 1
Christina McHale can no longer fly under the radar. Though she’s the fourth-highest ranked American woman, behind Serena and Venus Williams and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, McHale was a relative unknown in the tennis world. But that changed Wednesday with her 6-4, 7-5 second-round win over current world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki at the Western and Southern [...]
Serena Williams Beats Stosur, Wins Rogers Cup
Serena Williams is looking like her victorious self leading into the U.S. Open. In her fourth tournament since sitting out 49 weeks because of injury and illness, Williams won the Rogers Cup on Sunday, beating Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-2. A foot injury and then blood clots in her lungs sidelined the 29-year-old American after she [...]
Mardy Fish advances to semifinals
MONTREAL — Mardy Fish defeated Stanislas Wawrinka 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-0 on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Rogers Cup. The sixth-seeded Fish dropped an error-filled second set to the 14th-seeded Wawrinka. It went to a tiebreak after neither player was able to hold service over the final four games. Fish cruised through [...]
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