Tue, 11/23/2010 - 23:31 by Prince damin
London -- World No. 2 Roger Federer ran past Andy Murray in straight sets Tuesday in posting his second round-robin win at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.
Federer defeated Murray 6-4, 6-2 and is 2-0 in Group B play while the No. 5-seeded Murray fell to 1-1. Fourth-seeded Robin Soderling and seventh-seeded David Ferrer had their round-robin match scheduled for later Tuesday. They both lost their opening matches.
Federer lost only eight points in nine service games in the win over Murray. He broke Murray's serve at love in the third game of the first set and grabbed the advantage with a break to end a lengthy game at the beginning of the second set.
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Mon, 11/22/2010 - 10:48 by Prince damin
London -- Andy Murray of Scotland and Swiss superstar Roger Federer registered wins Sunday to kick off Group B play at the ATP World Tour Final in London.
Murray downed Sweden's Robin Soderling 6-2, 6-4 in a match that lasted 80 minutes at London's O2 Arena, firing 10 aces past the Swede.
And Federer, who has won the London event four times, cruised past Spain's David Ferrer 6-1, 6-4 in Sunday's second match, taking advantage of the Spaniard's six double-faults.
Sunday's matches began the first six days of round-robin play at the event. The top two finishers from Groups A and B will gain the semifinals with the final to be played Nov. 28, ending the ATP season.
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Thu, 11/11/2010 - 08:19 by Prince damin
Paris -- Top seed Roger Federer, No. 2 Novak Djokovic and No. 3 Andy Murray were second-round winners Wednesday at the BNP Paribas Masters tennis tournament in Paris.
Federer defeated Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-4. Djokovic eliminated Juan Monaco 6-4, 6-3 and Murray defeated David Nalbandian 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 to join Federer and Djokovic in advancing to the third round.
No. 4 seed and French Open finalist Robin Soderling of Sweden also had little trouble Wednesday, dispatching Frenchman Gilles Simon, 6-4, 6-0, using 11 aces to log the win in only 63 minutes.
He will now go on to face Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland.
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Thu, 11/04/2010 - 06:42 by harsheeb
Valencia -- No. 1-seed Andy Murray and third-seeded Fernando Verdasco were beaten Wednesday in second-round play of the Valencia Open in Spain.
Juan Monaco piled up five service breaks in a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Murray, who was the event's defending champion. Monaco won 58 percent of the points in the match, including just less than half of those off Murray's serve.
Gilles Simon handled Verdasco 6-1, 6-3 in less than an hour. Simon converted all four breakpoint situations he created and lost only 11 points over eight service games.
Eighth-seeded Gael Monfils claimed a first-round win, topping Eduardo Schwank 6-3, 6-3. Monfils, coming off a tournament win in France last week, had a pair of breaks in each set.
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Wed, 11/03/2010 - 08:00 by harsheeb
Valencia -- Andy Murray began his defense of the Valencia Open title Tuesday with a 6-3, 7-6 (7-1) win over Feliciano Lopez in Spain.
Murray, ranked fourth in the world, needed a second-set tie-breaker to get past the Spaniard, rallying from a 4-1 deficit to move ahead in first-round action.
The Briton now goes on to face Argentina's Juan Monaco in the second round, who he defeated en route to his title in Shanghai two weeks ago.
Meanwhile, No. 4 seed David Ferrer downed fellow Spaniard and 2008 Valencia champion Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, 6-7 (3-7) 6-3, 6-3, in a come-from-behind victory.
Ferrer now goes on to face Russian qualifier Teymuraz Gabashvili.
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Mon, 10/18/2010 - 08:12 by Prince damin
Shanghai -- Andy Murray used four service breaks Sunday in beating Roger Federer in straight sets and winning the ATP's Shanghai Masters.
Murray, ranked fourth in the world, didn't lose his serve -- saving six break-point chances -- in defeating in Federer 6-3, 6-2. Murray improved to 8-5 in his career matches with the world No. 3 Federer. All last three such pairings this year, two of which were won by Murray, were in tournament finals.
Murray also this week became the fourth player to lock up a place the ATP World Finals. Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Federer had already secured places in the select season-ending tournament.
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Sat, 10/16/2010 - 11:41 by Rakhi
Shanghai -- World No. 3 Roger Federer won 11 consecutive games Friday and charged into the semifinals of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament.
Federer lost the opening game but took the next 11 in blowing past fifth-seeded Robin Soderling 6-1, 6-1 in 54 minutes. Federer lost only 11 points on serve and cashed in all but one of his six break-point chances.
He improved to 14-1 in his career versus Soderling. The lone loss came in the quarterfinals of this year's French Open and snapped Federer's record string of 23 consecutive Grand Slam semifinals.
His semifinal opponent Saturday will be Novak Djokovic, the world No. 2-rated player, who dominated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2, 6-3 in the quarterfinals.
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Thu, 10/07/2010 - 21:40 by harsheeb
Beijing -- Top Five players Andy Murray and Robin Soderling battled their way into the quarterfinals of the China Open with wins Thursday.
Murray, the world No. 4 and the tournament's No. 2 seed, handed Albert Montanes a 7-5, 6-3 loss behind nine aces and four service breaks. Murray lost his serve once in each set but won over Montanes' serve twice in each set.
Soderling, ranked fifth in the world and seeded third, needed nearly two hours to get by Nicolas Almagro 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. Soderling had 22 aces, lost his serve just once in the match and won 91 percent (50-of-55) of the points when he landed his first serve.
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Mon, 09/06/2010 - 06:29 by Prince damin
New York -- Top-seeded Rafael Nadal cruised to a third-round win but fourth-seeded Andy Murray was bounced in an upset Sunday at the U.S. Open.
Nadal, seeking to collect his first U.S. Open championship, advanced to the Round of 16 where he will take on countryman Feliciano Lopez, who defeated Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-3, 4-0 after the Ukrainian retired with an infected toe.
Murray, meanwhile, was victimized by No. 25 seed Stanislas Wawrinka, who rallied after dropping the first set to take a 6-7 (3-7), 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, 6-3 victory over the Scotsman.
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Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:56 by Rakhi
New York -- Andy Murray needed less than 2 hours to dispatch Slovakian Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 Wednesday in first-round action at the U.S. Open.
The Scot steamrolled Lacko with six service breaks to move on to the second round during another 100-degree-plus day at the U.S. Tennis Center in New York.
Murray, the 2008 tourney runner-up, goes on to face 6-foot-5 Jamaican Dustin Brown.
In an upset Wednesday, Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych fell to French left-hander Michael Llodra 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, 6-4. Llodra won despite having to tend to an injured foot during the second set.
Berdych was unable to break the Frenchman's quality serve.
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Sat, 08/21/2010 - 09:02 by harsheeb
Cincinnati -- American Mardy Fish sent Scotsman Andy Murray packing Friday in the quarterfinals of the $3 million Western & Southern Financial Group Masters.
Fish, a wild card player in this U.S. Open Series event on the hard courts of the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati, bounced back from a 6-7 (7-9) first-set loss to the fourth-seeded Murray to take the second set 6-1 and then the deciding set 7-6 (7-5). Murray sought medical attention on his leg during the middle set.
Fish served up 13 aces and held serve throughout the nearly 3-hour match. The 28-year-old American is now 3-0 against Murray this year.
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Mon, 08/16/2010 - 23:17 by Prince damin
London -- Roger Federer regained the world No. 2 position, ending Novak Djokovic's six-week stay in the second spot of the men's tennis rankings.
Federer finished second to Andy Murray in the Rogers Cup tournament in Toronto Sunday but it was his win in Saturday's semifinals that caused the change near the top of the rankings. Federer defeated Djokovic in the semis, a result that flipped the rankings of the two players.
Rafael Nadal, the other Rogers Cup semifinalist, has a large lead for the No. 1 ranking two weeks before the start of the year's final major tournament. The U.S. Open begins Aug. 30.
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