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10/4/2010 8:59:41 AM
Juan Martin del Potro has returned from right wrist surgery, but his game is still very much a work in progress. The 2009 US Open champion suffered a 6-3, 6-0 shellacking at the hands of Spain's Feliciano Lopez in today's 82-minute opening-round match of the Japan Open in Tokyo.

10/4/2010 8:12:32 AM
They are both MIA from this week's China Open in Beijing, but that hasn't stopped Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters from going places.

10/4/2010 7:22:36 AM
A stress fracture in her foot has forced Agnieszka Radwanska to pull the plug on her season and could cause her to miss the Australian Open in January as she continues her recovery.

10/4/2010 6:44:57 AM
Serena and Venus Williams, accustomed to life at or near the top, are both set to take unfamiliar steps back next week in the ATP rankings.

10/3/2010 2:59:49 PM
John McEnroe won his long awaited re-match with Ivan Lendl 6-4, 3-2, when his nemesis retired with a calf injury and went on to lift the Jean-Luc Lagardere Trophy in Paris today.

10/3/2010 1:47:54 PM
Svetlana Kuznetsova was bed-ridden with the flu after the US Open. Kuznetsova recovered from her illness, but could not revive her ailing game today. Italian qualifier Roberta Vinci dumped defending China Open champion Kuznetsova from the Beijing draw with a 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 victory.

10/3/2010 1:13:16 PM
Mikhail Youzhny has reached title heights indoors. The fourth-seeded Youzhny collected his second tournament title of the season with today's 6-7(7), 6-2, 7-6(3) victory over eighth-seeded Andrey Golubev in the Kuala Lumpur final.

10/3/2010 7:13:14 AM
In team sports, there's an old adage: defense wins championships. Caroline Wozniacki, whose family tree is rooted in soccer, is intent on proving defense can carry her to the top of tennis.

10/2/2010 7:30:59 PM
Sorana Cirstea has played on the grandest stages in tennis, including the All-England Club at Wimbledon and Roland Garros at the French Open. But the 20-year-old Romanian told the Lexus of Las Vegas Open  tennis fans there was no place she would have rather been on Saturday than Las Vegas.

10/2/2010 4:26:41 AM
Caroline Wozniacki rallied past Elena Dementieva to win Tokyo and now nears a professional peak. The top-seeded Wozniacki roared back for a 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 triumph over Dementieva to capture the Pan Pacific Open championship in Tokyo today. If Wozniacki reaches the Beijing quarterfinals next week, she will surpass Serena Williams as the new World No. 1.

10/1/2010 7:03:42 PM
The top four seeded players moved into the semifinals at the second annual Lexus of Las Vegas Open being played at the Red Rock Country Club in Summerlin.

10/1/2010 6:32:50 PM
Ivan Lendl thrilled fans on his return to the tennis court for the first time in more than a decade, but old rival Mats Wilander wasn’t prepared to let him win on his ATP Champions Tour debut in Paris.

10/1/2010 12:57:32 PM
When the leaves start falling this time of year, football calls its annual blitz and sacks tennis from the sports pages. But on the first day of the final full month of the 2011 WTA Tour calendar let's huddle up and review the state of the women's game right now.

10/1/2010 10:12:40 AM
It took three hours, but top seed Caroline Wozniacki is one win away from another title.

10/1/2010 9:49:18 AM
In the span of a week, the Beijing Open has gone from two Williamses to zero.

10/1/2010 8:34:16 AM
Lauren Albanese had a miserable 20th birthday one year ago, losing to Asia Muhammad in both singles and doubles at the Lexus of Las Vegas Open. A day before her 21st birthday on Thursday, Albanese got some satisfying revenge, winning six straight games in beating the hometown hero from Henderson in the same round as last year, 6-4, 7-5.

10/1/2010 8:20:50 AM
Vera Zvonareva has booked her return trip to Doha. The Wimbledon and US Open runner-up became the second singles player to qualify for the season-ending WTA Championships–Doha 2010, set to take place for the third year in a row at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex in Doha, Qatar, from October 26-31st.

9/30/2010 3:41:29 PM
Unfortunately for Fernando Verdasco, the Thailand Open is about tennis, not taking your shirt off.

9/30/2010 10:57:37 AM
Andy Roddick is coming back to The Beach. The former Boca Raton resident and 2003 US Open champion will return to the tournament where he made his pro debut when he plays in the 2011 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships (ITC) ATP World Tour event next February.

9/30/2010 10:23:08 AM
John McEnroe will have to get by Jim Courier, Wayne Ferreira  and Jeff Tarango if he wants to play for a second title at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America Tennis Championships in Surprise, Arizona, as tournament officials have released the round-robin groupings and schedule of play.

9/30/2010 9:05:28 AM
Seventh-seeded Elena Dementieva pulled the surprise of the day by taking down second-seeded Vera Zvonareva 7-5, 6-2 in the Pan Pacific Open quarterfinals Thursday.

9/29/2010 3:41:53 PM
It wasn’t a good day to be a high seed in the ATP. Theimo de Bakker, the sixth seed at the Thailand Open, fell to Germany’s Daniel Brands 7-6(2), 1-6, 7-6(9) in the third round while Nikolay Davydenko, seeded second at the Malaysian Open, went down against Igor Andreev, 7-6(5), 5-7, 6-3.

9/29/2010 2:52:00 PM
Jelena Jankovic’s half-season to forget took another turn for the worse Wednesday as she was bounced in the third round of the Tokyo Pan Pacific Open by Kaia Kanepi.

9/29/2010 11:22:03 AM
They slow the ball down, they slow the game down, they get to everything, and rarely hit winners. We are EXPECTED to win, but more often than not they become just another BAD LOSS.

9/29/2010 10:31:28 AM
For the third consecutive year, rain postponed the men’s final to Monday and another round of showers interrupted Rafael Nadal’s four-set final with Novak Djokovic before Nadal finally completed the match to capture his first US Open crown and complete the career Grand Slam in a match that began on CBS, jumped to ESPN2 and lacked the customary post-match interviews as the Grand Slam network was eager to move to its scheduled NFL Coverage.

9/29/2010 10:23:33 AM
Spitting showers took their tired attempts at atmospheric acting to the Jersey Shore, the dancing dual water fountains outside Arthur Ashe Stadium soared in revelry in their last liquid leaps and the man who spends his spare summer days barefoot on the beach was spraying sweat sprinting toward tennis’ watershed moment.

9/28/2010 1:19:59 PM
As big names took the court Tuesday for the second round of the Pan Pacific Open, local favorite Kimiko Date Krumm once again stole the show.

9/28/2010 10:41:20 AM
Juan Martin del Potro played for the first time since January Tuesday, falling to Belgium’s Olivier Rochus 7-6(7), 6-4 at the Thailand Open.

9/28/2010 10:16:25 AM
Chinese news service Xinhau has reported that two-time defending US Open champion Kim Clijsters has withdrawn from the China Open, due to start Oct. 2 in Beijing.

9/28/2010 9:23:15 AM
WTA tournament officials in Moscow have confirmed that Russian visa support has been requested by Serena Williams and her team, with Williams’ agent Jill Smoller sending all documentation over already.

9/27/2010 12:13:54 PM
One day short of her 40th birthday, Kimiko Date Krumm has started the Pan Pacific Open off with a bang, shocking Maria Sharapova 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 Monday in Monday’s first round.

9/27/2010 11:52:48 AM
There’s no Rafael Nadal-caliber star power at the Malaysian Open, but four of the Top 10 players in the world are in attendance this week at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

9/27/2010 11:18:35 AM
Serena Williams’ taped appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey” show Monday afternoon might be the only place you can catch the No. 1 player in the world for a while.

9/27/2010 10:47:48 AM
The eyes of the tennis world are firmly set on Bangkok today as the PTT Thailand Open kicks off, marking the first action for world No. 1 Rafael Nadal since winning the US Open, as well as the return of Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro, the 2009 US Open champion.

9/27/2010 10:02:05 AM
The biggest jump inside the Top 50 came courtesy France’s Gilles Simon, who moved up eight spots to No. 33 with his 6-3, 6-2 win over Germany’s Mischa Zverev in the finals of the Metz Open.

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