Fri, 12/10/2010 - 06:20 by Prince damin
White Plains, N.Y. -- Andy Roddick, who finished 2010 ranked No. 8 in the world, has committed to play Davis Cup tennis for the United States next year.
Roddick wasn't on the U.S. team that lost a first-round series in March to Serbia, which went on to win the 2010 Davis Cup title. But he said he would rejoin the team for its March 4-6 first-round series against Chile.
Those matches will mark the debut of Jim Courier as U.S. team captain.
"Having Andy commit to the 2011 campaign is huge for our team," Courier said. "Andy not only brings his outstanding Davis Cup record but also his experience and team leadership, which will be invaluable to our efforts.
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Sat, 11/27/2010 - 09:48 by Rakhi
London -- World No. 1 Rafael Nadal won the last five games of his Friday match and secured a spot in the semifinals of the ATP World Tour Finals.
Nadal topped No. 6-seeded Tomas Berdych 7-6 (7-3), 6-1 in completing a 3-0 run through the Group A round robin. Berdych finished 1-2.
Novak Djokovic then claimed the final semifinal berth with a 6-2, 6-3 decision over Andy Roddick.
Second-seeded Roger Federer, like Nadal unbeaten this week, and No. 5 Andy Murray qualified Thursday for the semifinals from Group B.
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Wed, 11/17/2010 - 07:09 by Prince damin
London -- World No. 1 Rafael Nadal will head up Group A while Roger Federer tops Group B for round-robin play at the ATP World Tour Finals next week in London.
Nadal's group will also have third-ranked Novak Djokovic, No. 6 Tomas Berdych and eighth-ranked Andy Roddick. In addition Federer, Group B features fourth-seeded Robin Soderling, No. 5 Andy Murray and seventh-ranked David Ferrer.
Sunday kicks off six days of round-robin play with Soderling going against Murray while Federer will take on Ferrer. Monday opens the Group A schedule with Djokovic and Berdych going in the first match and Nadal and Roddick in the second.
The Top 2 finishers in each group advance to the Nov. 27 semifinals with the championship to be decided Nov. 28.
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Sat, 11/06/2010 - 11:07 by Prince damin
Basel, Switzerland -- Top-seeded Roger Federer claimed another quick straight-set victory Friday in quarterfinal play at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament.
Federer improved to 9-2 lifetime against Radek Stepanek with a 6-3, 6-2 victory. Federer won 80 percent of the points on serve and didn't face a break point. He notched a break in sixth game of the first set and won two more -- in the fifth and seventh games -- in the second.
He moves into Saturday's tournament semifinals against fourth-seeded Andy Roddick, who beat David Nalbandian 6-4, 6-4. Roddick only lost nine points on serve and also didn't have to deal with a break point.
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Mon, 09/20/2010 - 21:22 by harsheeb
London-- Andy Roddick returned to the men's tennis world Top 10 Monday after the ATP took the week off.
There were no ATP tournaments last week as the tour stepped aside for the Davis Cup semifinals -- France and Serbia will meet in December's finals -- and world group playoffs.
But David Ferrer lost 65 ratings points -- about 2 percent of his previous total -- and that was enough for Roddick to move from 11th to 10th. It ended a one-week stint in the Top 10 for Ferrer, who was ranked fifth in October 2008 but had bounced around the second 10 since then.
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Thu, 09/02/2010 - 09:57 by Rakhi
New York -- Andy Roddick completed a disappointing year of grand slam events Wednesday by falling to Janko Tipsarevic in the second round of the U.S. Open.
Roddick, seeded ninth, failed to get past the quarterfinals in any of the four major tournaments this year.
Tipsarevic eliminated Roddick 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) in a late-night match at the U.S. Tennis Center.
Andy Murray, playing in the heat of a scorching afternoon, cruised past Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in another highlight attraction and will meet Dustin Brown in the third round.
Tomas Berdych, runner-up at Wimbledon and seeded seventh in this event, was also a surprise victim Wednesday. He lost his first-round match to Michael Llodra 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, 6-4.
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Tue, 08/31/2010 - 09:55 by Rakhi
New York -- Former champions Roger Federer and Andy Roddick both cruised to first round victories Monday at the U.S. Open in New York.
Federer, the No. 2 seed and five-time tourney winner, posted a 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Brian Dabul of Argentina in the night match at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The Swiss superstar reached the finals last year only to be stunned by Juan Martin del Potro, preventing him from capturing a sixth straight Flushing Meadows title.
Ninth-seeded Roddick celebrated his 28th birthday with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win over Frenchman Stephane Robert, improving his career U.S. Open record to 36-9.
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Tue, 08/31/2010 - 09:36 by Prince damin
New York -- Andy Roddick cruised to a first-round U.S. Open win over Frenchman Stephane Robert while celebrating his 28th birthday Monday.
The ninth-seeded Roddick sped past Robert 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in 1 hour, 42 minutes at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, improving his career U.S. Open record to 36-9.
Roddick, the tourney's 2003 champ, fired eight aces and had his serve broken only once in the match. He next faces Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, who downed Belgian Olivier Rochus 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-0), 6-2.
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Mon, 08/23/2010 - 22:16 by Prince damin
London -- Andy Roddick jumped back into the Top 10 Monday in the final world men's tennis rankings released before the year's final Grand Slam event.
Roddick dropped out of the Top 10 two weeks ago, leaving the list without an American player for the first time. But after a No. 13 ranking last week, Roddick advanced to the semifinals of the ATP's stop in Cincinnati and improved his ranking to No. 9
It will be seen this week how that affects Roddick's chances at the U.S. Open, which begins Aug. 30. Tournament officials will release the draw, based on rankings, late in the week.
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Tue, 08/17/2010 - 09:04 by Prince damin
Cincinnati -- Andy Roddick needed three sets Monday to defeat Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky in the first round of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters.
The ninth-seeded American blew a second-set tiebreaker but then regrouped to breeze through the third set and post a 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1 decision over Stakhovsky, moving on to the second round in Cincinnati.
Roddick won the U.S. Open tune-up event in 2003 and 2006 and was the runner-up in 2005.
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Mon, 08/09/2010 - 22:30 by Prince damin
London -- Andy Roddick dropped two spots to No. 11 in the men's world tennis rankings, marking the first time no American is rated in the Top 10.
Roddick was ousted in the third round of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic last week. He'd been a semifinalist in the event last year and, as a result, lost 315 points in the rankings. That allowed Fernando Verdasco and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to pass Roddick, who had been in the Top 10 each week since Aug. 21, 2006.
The only other change in the Top 10 was Tomas Berdych's one-spot improvement at the expense of the injured Juan Martin del Potro. Berdych is now seventh and del Potro slipped to eighth.
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Fri, 08/06/2010 - 11:57 by Prince damin
Washington -- Top-seeded Tomas Berdych survived a scare Thursday and No. 2 seed Andy Roddick was eliminated in the second round of the Legg Mason Classic.
The entire second round was scheduled for Thursday and the day's action was delayed by rain. Matches went on late into the night, however, so as to complete the round and set up Friday's quarterfinals.
Berdych, competing in a tournament for the first time since reaching the Wimbledon final, captured his second straight three-sets match. He fought off Andrey Golubev 6-3, 5-7, 7-5.
The three-time champion Roddick went quietly against Gilles Simon 6-3, 6-3.
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