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And so Roberta Vinci loses yet another chance to reach the Top Ten; indeed, it appears she will fall a couple of spots. That means the final Top Ten spot would go to either Caroline Wozniacki or Sloane Stephens, who were contesting it at Luxembourg.
Rafael Nadal told the magazine Cosas Peru that he is not ready to start a family yet as “it's much easier to start a family when you have a stable life. When you have an unstable life, as we do as players --we travel anywhere in the world every week, it’s not as easy.”
Roger Federer is such a dominate force one often wonders , how does he do it ? What powers him and those running down the line cross courts ?
This was a day of upsets, and for a little while, it looked as if our #1 seed might be one of them. He survives -- but it doesn't do him any good in the race or rankings yet; this is too small to count.
With his upset of Janko Tipsarevic In Moscow, Russian Karen Khachanov became the first 17 year old to reach an ATP quarterfinal since Juan Martin Del Potro at 2006 Umag. . .
Maria Sharapova is not rushing her rehab program after the summer's shoulder injury, with the former No. 1 taking the chance to combine quality time with ATP love interest Grigor Dimitrov with rehab on her injury.
Alisa Kleybanova says that her main focus these days is getting enough matches in so she can possibly return to the top 20 someday, but the Russian, who had to battle cancer before launching a full scale comeback last spring, is also enterprising.
Surprisingly easy for Samantha Stosur, particularly given that she just flew in from Osaka. Kaia Kanepi is usually stronger than that, when she is able to play.
Top seed Caroline Wozniacki beat hometown player Mandy Minella 6-3, 7-6(2) to lead the tournament elite into the second round.
Former top 10 Joachim "Pim-Pim" Johansson qualified for the Stockholm Open, his first ATP event in two years. . . One prominent Swiss tennis writer speculated that the reason why Roger Federer ended his relationship with coach Paul Annacone...
IMG’s Max Eisenbud has a track record of going for the sport’s very best when it comes to employing coaches for his players and the more unpredictable the appointment the better.
Czech fifth seed Lucie Safarova began her week with a win over China's Peng Shuai 7-5, 6-4 while Serb Bojana Jovanovski, seeded eighth, beat former French Open winner Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 6-3.
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced that Germany’s Angelique Kerber has earned the eighth and final singles place at the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships, to be staged at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, from October 22-27, 2013.
While the state of Connecticut will likely become the first state to buy a WTA tournament if it’s $618,000 bid to purchase the rights to the New Haven Open is approved by the state’s Capital Region Development Authority, tournament officials believe that it will turn out to be a great investment.
Juan Martin del Potro couldn't do much in the first set; Djokovic was running him all over the place. But the Argentine's power started to tell as he built a 3-0 lead.
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