Wed, 10/27/2010 - 09:33 by Prince damin
Montpellier, France -- John Isner and David Nalbandian notched first-round wins Tuesday at the Sud de France Open tennis tournament.
The sixth-seeded Isner had 10 aces and lost only 10 points in 10 service games in stopping Benoit Paire 7-5, 6-2. He was able to finish off three of the nine break-point chances he had.
The aces gave Isner an ATP-leading 972 for the year.
Nalbandian, seeded eighth, defeated Marcel Granollers 6-4, 6-4 behind a pair of service breaks in each set. He had five aces but also five double faults and won only a third of his second-serve points but still advanced.
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Sat, 07/24/2010 - 09:06 by Rakhi
Atlanta -- Andy Roddick and John Isner, the tournament's top two seeds, both reached the semifinals Friday at the Atlanta Tennis Championships.
The top-seeded Roddick rallied to defeat Xavier Malisse in the quarterfinals 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. This event is being held for the first time since 2001 and Roddick defeated Malisse in the finals that year.
Isner coasted to a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Michael Russell in a match that took less than an hour to complete. Isner is competing for the first time since Wimbledon, when he won an epic 11-hour match over Nicolas Mahut in the first round.
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Thu, 07/22/2010 - 09:59 by Prince damin
Atlanta -- No. 2 seed John Isner fired 33 aces Wednesday to outlast Gilles Muller in three sets and advance to the third round of the Atlanta Tennis Championships.
Playing in his first tournament since winning his record-setting 11-hour match against Nicolas Mahut during the first round at Wimbledon, Isner defeated Muller 4-6, 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (9-7). The match lasted 2 1/2 hours.
The 33 aces ran Isner's total for the season to an ATP Tour-leading 705. Isner will next meet Michael Russell, who advanced with a 1-6, 6-2, 7-5 win over Rainer Schuettler.
Mardy Fish, the sixth seed, moved into the third round by downing Robby Ginepri 6-1, 7-5. Taylor Dent, who defeated Horacio Zeballos 4-6, 6-2, 6-0, will face Fish in the next round.
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Thu, 06/24/2010 - 22:40 by Inderjit Singh
London -- John Isner came away the winner Thursday over Nicolas Mahut in their record-setting Wimbledon first-round match.
The match was twice -- first Tuesday and then Wednesday -- suspended because of darkness and finished Thursday when Isner got his second service break of the match and took a 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3), 70-68 decision.
The match set records for time at 11 hours, 5 minutes and games with 183. The previous marks were 6 hours, 33 minutes for time and 112 for games. The Isner-Mahut fifth set last 8 hours, 11 minutes.
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Wed, 05/19/2010 - 10:25 by Rakhi
Dusseldorf, Germany -- U.S. aces leader John Isner pulled out of the ATP World Team Championship with an arm injury Tuesday, and his replacement lost a match to the Spanish team.
Isner, instrumental in the U.S. victory over Australia in the first round of the round-robin event in Dusseldorf, Germany, was replaced on the American squad by former top-20 performer Robby Ginepri -- who was outlasted by Spaniard Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7-4) in second-round Red Group play.
The Americans did manage a split in Tuesday's singles competition when Sam Querrey posted a 6-3, 6-4 win over Spain's Daniel Gimeno Traver. With the tie, the U.S.-Spain contest will be decided by a doubles match Wednesday.
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Sun, 05/09/2010 - 09:58 by Rakhi
Belgrade, Serbia -- Two Americans, John Isner and Sam Querrey, advanced to the final of the Serbia Open Saturday after taking their semifinal matches.
Isner, the No. 2 seed, dispatched fourth-seeded Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, 7-5, 7-5, in one semifinal, while third-seeded Querrey made quick work of Serbian Filip Krajinovic, 6-1, 6-2 in the other match.
Isner and Querrey -- doubles team winners at Memphis and doubles finalists in Rome -- have split their two career matches against each other. Isner is looking for his second career title after taking Auckland in January.
Querrey is seeking fourth career title. He downed Isner in the singles championship match of the Memphis tournament in February.
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Sat, 05/08/2010 - 10:06 by Rakhi
Belgrade, Serbia -- Americans John Isner and Sam Querrey each claimed three-set victories Friday in semifinal play of the Serbia Open clay-court tennis tournament.
Isner, seeded second this week, rallied for a 2-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 victory over Richard Gasquet. Isner was down a break early in the third set before finishing off the comeback.
The third-seeded Querrey ousted Igor Andreev 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.
The Belgrade crowd lost two local favorites Friday when top-seeded Novak Djokovic fell behind Filip Krajinovic 6-4 but couldn't continue because of illness and Viktor Troicki was defeated by sixth-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka 7-5, 6-7(3-7), 7-6 (8-6). Wawrinka had to fight off two match points before advancing.
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Sun, 03/07/2010 - 11:34 by Rakhi
Belgrade, Serbia -- Americans Bob Bryan and John Isner teamed for a four-set victory Saturday, keeping Serbia from clinching the first-round Davis Cup series.
Bryan and Isner claimed a tight 7-6 (10-8), 5-7, 7-6 (10-8), 6-3 win over Serbians Janko Tipsarevic and Nenad Zimonjic that cut Serbia's lead to 2-1 in the best-of-five series.
The United States needs to win both singles matches Sunday or Serbia will earn the Davis Cup quarterfinals spot against Croatia, which won its first-round series against Ecuador.
Bryan and his twin brother Mike comprise the No. 1 doubles team in the world but Isner was a late substitute for Mike Bryan, who contracted food poisoning Saturday.
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Sun, 02/21/2010 - 11:42 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Memphis -- Americans Sam Querrey and John Isner will face off for the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships tennis title after winning their semifinal matches Saturday.
The eighth-seeded Querrey, who bounced two-time Memphis champ Andy Roddick Friday in the quarterfinals, reached the title match by downing Latvia's Ernests Gulbis 6-3, 6-4.
No. 6 seed Isner gained the final by defeating German Philipp Petzschner 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 in a two-hours-plus match. The win placed Isner in his second ATP final of the year -- he won the Heineken Open this year.
Davis Cup teammates Isner and Querrey -- who is seeking his third career title -- have never faced each other.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Sat, 01/16/2010 - 10:32 by shalini.bahadur
Auckland, New Zealand -- John Isner warmed up for the seventh major championship appearance Saturday by winning his first career title at the Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand.
The 6-foot-9 Isner served up 22 aces to defeat Arnaud Clement in the championship match 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7-2). In his five matches during the event, Isner had 78 aces.
He survived a match point in the 12th game of the final set, and then produced two aces to force the tiebreak.
This was only the second final for Isner, who lost to Andy Roddick with the title on the line in Washington during the 2007 season. Clement won that same tournament in 2006 for his fourth and thus far last crown.
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Fri, 01/15/2010 - 09:38 by shalini.bahadur
Auckland, New Zealand -- John Isner and Arnaud Clement earned spots in the championship match Friday at the Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand.
Isner reached the finals for the second time in his career. He will be looking for his first title after defeating Albert Montanes 6-2, 7-6 (7-5).
It was Isner's second win over Montanes in as many opportunities. Isner had 14 aces, boosting his total for the tournament to 56 in four matches.
Clement reached the finals by downing Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 7-6 (7-2). It will be Clement's first final since 2007.
Copyright 2010 by United Press International.
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Thu, 01/14/2010 - 20:38 by Inderjit Singh
Auckland -- John Isner blasted 20 aces in a three-set upset victory Thursday over top-seeded Tommy Robredo at the Heineken Open in New Zealand.
Isner's serve allowed him to get by Spain's Robredo 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 6-4 in a tight quarterfinals match. The American got 73 percent of his first serves in and won more than three-quarters of the points when that happened. Robredo landed just more than half of his first serves and had seven double faults in the match.
Sixth-seeded Austrian Jurgen Melzer was also ousted, losing 6-2, 7-5 to France's Arnaud Clement, who upset second-seeded David Ferrer in the second round. Clement didn't drop serve and broke Melzer's serve four times.
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