Wed, 09/29/2010 - 21:06 by harsheeb
Kuala Lumpur -- Igor Andreev ousted No. 2-seeded Nikolay Davydenko in three sets Wednesday at the Malaysian Open tennis tournament.
Andreev capped Wednesday's play with a 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 6-3 decision over Davydenko. Andreev rallied from a 1-5 deficit in the first-set tie-breaker and lost only six points in five games serving in the third set of the second-round match.
Milos Raonic also pulled off a second-round upset, stopping Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-7 (8-10), 7-6 (11-9), 6-3. Raonic lost seven points -- five in one game -- in his four third-set service games.
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Mon, 04/12/2010 - 09:57 by Rakhi
Monte Carlo, Monaco -- Russia's Igor Andreev and Andreas Seppi of Italy were among the first-round winners Sunday at the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco.
Germany's Michael Berrer also advanced Sunday before the session was postponed due to rain and strong winds.
Andreev struggled to cope with the wind and rain as he notched a 6-3, 6-4 win over Italian wild card Simone Bolelli.
Seppi, meanwhile, prevailed when Belgian Olivier Rochus retired with a back injury during a 7-6 (7-3) tiebreaker, while Berrer had little trouble dismantling Evgeny Korolev of Kazakhstan in a 6-1, 6-4 match.
Another match between Germany's Benjamin Becker and Australian wild card Bernard Tomic was pushed back to Monday.
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Wed, 10/28/2009 - 10:52 by shalini.bahadur
St. Petersburg, Russia -- Jeremy Chardy, who at No. 4 was the highest seed in action Tuesday, stormed past Petru-Alexandru Luncanu 6-2, 6-2 at the St. Petersburg Open.
Chardy has reached the semifinals on the ATP circuit four times this year and won the Mercedes Cup, but he had lost in the opening round of his previous four tournaments.
No. 5 seed Igor Andreev also advanced Tuesday with a 6-4, 6-2 triumph over Potito Starace.
Qualifier Sergiy Stakhovsky pulled off the biggest surprise of the day with a 6-4, 6-3 win over sixth-seeded Evgeny Korolev.
Two-time defending champion Andy Murray chose not to compete here this week. No. 1 seed Mikhail Youzhny, coming off a tournament victory in Moscow last weekend, will meet Andrey Golubev Wednesday.
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Fri, 08/28/2009 - 10:02 by preet_20
New Haven, Conn. Aug. 28: Sam Querrey defeated top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko Thursday to reach the semifinals of the Pilot Pen in New Haven, Conn.
Querrey, putting pressure on Andy Roddick for recognition as the leading American player, ousted Davydenko 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Querrey has reached four championship matches this year and won a title this month in Los Angeles.
Querrey will be the No. 22 seed when the U.S. Open begins next week. His semifinal opponent at the Pilot Pen will be Jose Acasuso, who defeated Florent Serra 7-5, 6-4.
The other semifinal will send Fernando Verdasco against Igor Andreev. Verdasco was a 6-3, 6-1 winner over Jurgen Melzer and Andreev defeated Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3.
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Thu, 08/13/2009 - 11:00 by preet_20
Montreal, Aug. 12: Roger Nadal, appearing for the first time since the French Open, reached the second round of the Rogers Cup Wednesday without having to play a full set.
Nadal, seeded second, won his second-round match at this ATP Tour Masters event when David Ferrer retired with a left knee injury. Nadal had a 4-3 lead in the opening set when Ferrer called it quits.
Nadal had not played since the fourth round of the French Open in June. He has been sidelined since then due to soreness in both knees.
He was joined in the third round by Andy Roddick and Juan Martin del Potro, who won last week's ATP Tour stop in Washington.
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Thu, 08/06/2009 - 09:52 by preet_20
Washington, Aug. 5: Top-seeded Andy Roddick coasted into the third round of the Legg Mason Classic in Washington Wednesday with a 6-3, 6-2 decision over Benjamin Becker.
Roddick, gearing up for next month's U.S. Open, will next meet Sam Querrey, who is coming off his triumph last week in Los Angeles.
Querrey advanced past the second round with a 6-3, 6-4 decision over Igor Kunitsyn.
No. 4 seed Fernando Gonzalez reached the third round by surviving against qualifier Alejandro Falla 7-5, 7-5. His third-round opponent will be Wayne Odesnik, who dropped Igor Andreev 2-6, 7-5, 6-4.
Juan Carlos Ferrero, runner-up last week in a tournament in Croatia, ousted Tommy Robredo 6-3, 6-2 to set up a meeting with Tommy Haas.
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Sat, 08/01/2009 - 06:50 by Shruti Sharma
Gstaad, Switzerland -- Igor Andreev, the 2008 runner-up, beat Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-3 during Friday's quarterfinals at the Swiss Open tennis tournament in Gstaad.
Andreev, the event's third seed, is trying to win for the first time since 2005, when he captured three tournaments.
Friday, the Russian saved the one break point he faced and won 70 percent of his first serve points, avenging a 4-6, 6-4, 4-6 loss to his French opponent at the Medibank International at Sydney in January.
Also Friday, sixth-seeded Nicolas Kiefer of Germany lost 3-6, 1-0 to Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci. Kiefer retired in the second set because of a left ankle injury.
Brazilian Marcos Daniel downed Frenchman Florent Serra 6-4, 7-6 (7-1) and
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Thu, 07/30/2009 - 04:50 by surajdogra
Gstaad, Switzerland -- No. 3 seed Igor Andreev of Russia and No. 5 Jeremy Chardy of France led Wednesday's second-round winners at the Swiss Open in Gstaad, Switzerland.
Andreev, the 2008 Gstaad runner-up, topped Jan Hernych of the Czech Republic 6-4 6-1. Chardy, the recent champion at Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, Germany, toughed out a 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 win over Russian Mikhail Youzhny.
Chardy is 29-18 this season and was runner-up to France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the SA Tennis Open in February.
Andreev lost to Romanian Victor Hanescu in last year's final.
In other matches Wednesday, German Andreas Beck outlasted Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (7-3), 1-6, 7-6 (7-3); and Romanian Victor Crivoi beat Russia's Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-4, 6-4.
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Wed, 06/17/2009 - 02:04 by Salinder Kumar
Eastbourne, England. -- Qualifier Frank Dancevic beat top-seeded Igor Andreev in straight sets Tuesday during first-round play of the Aegon International tennis tournament in England.
Andreev only won 12 points when returning Dancevic's serve. In the second set, Dancevic won 14 of his 15 first-serve points to finish Andreev off in the first round.
Fifth-seeded Mikhail Youzhny was another upset victim, as Julien Benneteau rallied for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 opening-round match. The grueling match took 2 hours, 18 minutes.
In second-round play, No. 4-seeded Fabrice Santoro came back for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 win over Robby Ginepri and eighth-seeded Guillermo Garcia-Lopez topped Yen-Hsun Lu 6-4, 67- (0-7), 7-6 (7-3) in a match that took nearly 3 hours.
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Sun, 05/31/2009 - 10:09 by preet_20
Paris -- Three-time runner-up Roger Federer of Switzerland advanced but Novak Djokovic of Serbia lost in men's play Saturday at the French Open in Paris.
Federer, the second seed, rallied to beat Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.
The fourth-seeded Djokovic lost 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to Germany's unheralded Philipp Kohlschreiber.
"What is disappointing was that I couldn't find the rhythm throughout the whole match," Djokovic said after his surprising loss. "I was trying not to be frustrated with a lot of unforced errors. Tried to be positive and just wait for the chances."
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Fri, 04/10/2009 - 09:50 by Shruti Sharma
Casablanca, Morocco -- Top-seeded Igor Andreev took three hours Thursday to win his second-round match at the Grand Prix Hassan II tennis tournament in Casablanca, Morocco.
When the marathon was over, the Russian recorded a 6-7 (11-13), 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 victory against unseeded Nicolas Devilder of France.
The lengthy match had only three service breaks in all.
Also Thursday, No. 6 seed Marc Gicquel of France was a 6-4, 7-5 winner against Germany's Mischa Zverev; fifth-seeded Florent Serra of France beat Belgium's Olivier Rochus 6-3, 6-3; and Russian Teimuraz Gabashvili downed Spain's Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 6-4, 6-4.
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