Wed, 10/20/2010 - 06:23 by harsheeb
Moscow -- Seeded players Radek Stepanek and Andrey Golubev collected straight-set, first-round wins Tuesday at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow.
Stepanek, the No. 5 seed, didn't face a break point in defeating Victor Hanescu 7-6 (7-5), 6-3. Both players lost only 15 points on serve but Stepanek recorded the only break of the match to advance.
The sixth-seeded Golubev saved all three of the break points he faced in topping Maximo Gonzalez 6-3, 6-2.
Stepanek and Golubev were the only seeded players on Tuesday's schedule as the top four seeds were given first-round byes.
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Sat, 09/18/2010 - 22:41 by Prince damin
Belgrade, Serbia -- The duo of Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek registered a victory Saturday, giving the Czech Republic a 2-1 Davis Cup semifinal lead over Serbia.
Berdych and Stepanek bounced back after losing the first set of the doubles match to defeat the Serbian tandem of Novak Djokovic and Nenad Zimonjic, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-1, putting the Czechs one win away from a meeting with France in December's Davis Cup final.
France posted a decisive 3-0 lead over Argentina in Saturday's other Davis Cup semifinal.
U.S. Open finalist Djokovic wasn't available for Serbia Friday due to illness, and his replacement, Viktor Troicki, lost to Stepanek in four sets.
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Sun, 03/07/2010 - 12:42 by Rakhi
Bree, Belgium -- Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek took a doubles victory Saturday that allowed the Czech Republic to win a Davis Cup series over Belgium.
Berdych and Stepanek also won Friday's singles matches, giving the Czech Republic three wins in the best-of-five series. The Czechs will meet the winner of a series between Chile and Israel in the Davis Cup quarterfinals in July.
As they did in singles, Berdych and Stepanek won in straight sets Saturday, taking care of Belgians Steve Darcis and Olivier Rochus 7-6 (7-0), 6-0, 6-3.
After the shutout in the first-set tie-breaker, the Czechs allowed Darcis and Rochus just 11 points in the second set, only one of which came when either Berdych or Stepanek was serving.
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Thu, 01/07/2010 - 21:49 by Inderjit Singh
Brisbane -- Defending champion Radek Stepanek and third-seeded Gale Monfils secured semifinal berths Thursday in the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Australia.
Stepanek, seeded second this week, took control of the match in a first-set tiebreaker en route to a 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 victory over Wayne Odesnik.
Odesnik broke Stepanek's serve to take a 5-4 lead in the first set but Stepanek broke back and both players held serve to move into the tiebreaker.
Stepanek took over then, losing only two points and those on double faults.
It was all Stepanek in the second set.
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Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:23 by shalini.bahadur
Vienna -- Third-seeded Gael Monfils beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in a straight sets first-round match Wednesday at the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy at Vienna.
Monfils, the tournament's 2008 runner-up, defeated his Spanish foe 7-5, 6-4, winning 79 percent of service points and hitting seven aces.
If Monfils, a Paris native, wins the Vienna event, he will earn 160 points in his effort to qualify for the season-ending men's singles final at London next month.
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Wed, 10/28/2009 - 10:20 by shalini.bahadur
Vienna -- Marin Cilic and Radek Stepanek, seeded Nos. 1 and 2, posted quick first-round victories Tuesday at the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy.
Cilic was a 6-2, 6-3 winner over qualifier Alejandro Falla to set up a second-round match with Daniel Brands. Stepanek downed Lukasz Kubot 6-4, 6-1 and will next meet Frederico Gil.
No. 4 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber also advanced with a 6-1, 6-3 decision over Dieter Kindlmann and sixth-seeded Feliciano Lopez ousted Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-4, 6-4.
Lopez won his one and only tour title in this event five years ago.
In the most entertaining match of the day, No. 7 seed Jurgen Melzer went to two tiebreakers before downing Marco Chiudinelli 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (12-10).
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Sat, 09/19/2009 - 07:46 by harsheeb
Porec Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Radek Stepanek's five-set win over Ivo Karlovic helped the Czech Republic build a 2-0 lead over Croatia at a Davis Cup semifinal at Porec, Croatia.
The scores of the near 6-hour match, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (2-7), 16-14, put the Czechs within one victory of advancing to the Davis Cup finals.
The fourth-longest match in Davis Cup history featured a record 78 aces by the 6-foot-10 Karlovic, a 30-game marathon fifth set and just one service break.
Also, the 82 games played equaled the record for the most number of games played in a single match since the tie-break was introduced to Davis Cup competition in 1989.
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Mon, 07/13/2009 - 00:41 by Salinder Kumar
Ostrava, Czech Republic. -- Radek Stepanek scored a straight-set victory over Juan Monaco Sunday, giving the Czech Republic a 3-2 win over Argentina in the Davis Cup quarterfinals.
The Czech team will play Croatia in the semifinals in September. The Croats advanced by eliminating the United States.
Stepanek downed Monaco 7-6 (7-5), 6-3, 6-2 in the decisive match after Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro defeated Tomas Berdycha 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, tying the best-of-five competition at Ostrava, Czech Republic, at two wins apiece.
The Czechs advance to the semifinals for the first time since 1996.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Sun, 07/12/2009 - 11:36 by preet_20
Ostrava, Czech Republic July 11: Radek Stepanek and Tomas Berdych teamed Saturday to give the Czech Republic a doubles win in Davis Cup quarterfinal action.
The duo overpowered the Argentine combination of Leonardo Mayor and Jose Acasuso 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 to give the Czechs a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five match-up.
Berdych improved his record in Davis Cup doubles to 7-0.
Juan Martin del Potro and Berdych are to open Sunday's reverse singles.
Argentina, playing without the injured David Nalbandian, is in the quarterfinals for the eighth consecutive year.
The winner of this quarterfinal match-up will meet the winner between the United States and Croatia in the semifinals in September.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Mon, 02/16/2009 - 11:22 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
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Sun, 02/15/2009 - 16:18 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
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Tue, 02/10/2009 - 11:10 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
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