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Top seed Tomas Berdych opened his campaign for a second title at the If Stockholm Open with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Germany's Dustin Brown on Thursday. The 29-year-old Czech saved all three break points he faced during the 83-minute match, and claimed 78 per cent of service points.
With new coach Xavier Malisse guiding him at least through the end of this season, Bernard Tomic booked a spot in the If Stockholm Open quarterfinals by upsetting No. 3 seed Kevin Anderson on Wednesday. Tomic is joined in the last eight by Grigor Dimitrov and Fernando Verdasco, respective straight-set winners over Teymuraz Gabashvili and Jarkko Nieminen.
Eugenie Bouchard and Maria Sharapova are among the early arrivals in Singapore as the inaugural edition of the WTA Championships gets underway next week in Asia.
Croatian sixth seed Ivo Karlovic spent two and a half hours in defeating Argentine Federico Delbonis 6-7 (1-7), 7-6 (11-9), 7-6 (7-2). Karlovic finished with 29 aces. Serb Viktor Troicki, who served a ban which ended in July for delaying a post-match blood test by 24 hours in 2013, beat Victor Estrella Burgos 6-0, 6-3.
Check out these EPA photos of Eugenie Bouchard at the ladies' tennis tournament in Linz, Austria.
Check out these EPA photos of Roger Federer during the Shanghai Rolex Masters.
Andy Murray will have no walk in the park in the Vienna, at least if the draw has anything to do with it. The second-seeded Scot’s opener will likely come against Vasek Pospisil
This year, amazingly, the women's singles Race was settled at Beijing, and even the doubles Race was pretty well done despite the fact that twice as many teams were eligible as in recent years.
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic had nothing but praise for rival Roger Federer following a 6-4, 6-4 defeat to the Swiss in the Shanghai Rolex Masters semi-finals on Saturday.
Check out this gallery of Roger Federer and his new Wilson tennis racket.
The Novak Djokovic vs. Roger Federer rivalry will add another chapter to its lore after the soon-to-be top two players in the world won their respective quarterfinal matches at the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Friday. Djokovic took care of David Ferrer 6-4, 6-2 to book his semifinal spot before Federer downed Julien Benneteau 7-6(4), 6-0.
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Rafael Nadal headed back home from Shanghai to Majorca on a circuitous route via Moscow and Barcelona but before leaving China he insisted his world traveling wasn’t over for 2014. After suffering the onset of appendicitis at the Shanghai Rolex Masters but opting against immediate surgery, he was able to play against fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez.
Rafael Nadal and a whole host of other seeds are out, but the third-round schedule at the Shanghai Rolex Masters is still an intriguing one. A showdown between Andy Murray and David Ferrer is among the eight matches on Thursday, while Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer are also aiming for spots in the quarterfinals.
Unsurprisingly, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer experienced very different fates at the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Wednesday. Struggling with appendicitis upon his return from three months away due to a wrist injury, Nadal lost his opening match in straight sets to fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez. Federer almost bowed out as well despite being a heavy favorite against Leonardo Mayer, but the Swiss saved five match points and survived in a third-set tiebreaker.
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