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Xavier Malisse made a successful start to the defence of his Optima Open title as the Belgian beat Thomas Enqvist in straight sets on the opening day at the Royal Zoute Tennis Club in Knokke-Heist.
2014 has been a great year for men's professional tennis. It's been a great year for all the SUPERSTARS of ladies tennis. It's been hard on the FAN. The ticket prices are too high. The old tourney directors and promoters never factored in players pay checks from ticket holders seat prices. Nope. That's what the sponsors were for.
The 2007 Australian Open finalist Fernando Gonzalez started his ATP Champions Tour career with an impressive 6-4, 6-3 victory over Thomas Enqvist. Playing for the first time inside the Royal Albert Hall, the Chilean showed the Statoil Masters Tennis crowd that his famous forehand has lost none of its potency.
Tim Henman opened his 2014 Statoil Masters Tennis account with a 6-7, 6-4 10-8 win over Swede Thomas Enqvist at the world famous Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday. Henman rushed to the net at every opportunity, taking time away from his flat-hitting opponent. It was a clash of styles that delighted the 3000-strong crowd.
With a week to go until the Statoil Masters Tennis at the Royal Albert Hall, Sir Elton John and Billie Jean King have selected their teams for finals day on Sunday 7th December, when a special Mylan World TeamTennis charity match will be held.
Bernard Tomic's first tournament with Xavier Malisse in his coaching corner continued on Friday with a 0-6, 6-4, 7-6 (6) win over Fernando Verdasco in the quarterfinals of the Stockholm Open. At the Kremlin Cup, meanwhile, Ernests Gulbis also prevailed in a third-set tiebreaker. The Latvian held off Andreas Seppi 7-6(6), 4-6, 7-6(3) to reach the semis.
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.
Belgian Xavier Malisse defeated Fabrice Santoro in the final of the Optima Open in Knokke-Heist to lift his debut ATP Champions Tour title.
Xavier Malisee and Fabrice Santoro will meet in the final of Belgium’s Optima Open on Sunday after both sailed through their final group stage matches.
Xavier Malisse and Fabrice Santoro got off to winning starts on the opening day of the Optima Open in Knokke Heist, each recording victories over Goran Ivanisevic and Greg Rusedski respectively.
Three-time former champion Goran Ivanisevic headlines a star-studded ATP Champions Tour field returning to Knokke-Heist in Belgium today for the fifth annual instalment of the Optima Open (August 14-17).
The five leading women's seeds all won, led by Serena Williams, who beat Coco Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-1. Williams was finally satisfied after some patchy performances on court. "I was really struggling my first two matches, so I just wanted to have a better performance today," the world number one said.
Hello again. Austin here. Woke up today and went straight to the tennis garden. First up, I went to support Ruben Bemelmans, from Belgium, where I joined the 10sBalls.com crew - Lovey, Pancho and X. Always nice to have a great crew in your corner.
"Yo Yo" is the newest addition to the Xavier Malisse family. So far he seems to have his daddy's talent for playing awesome ball. The "X MAN " is here in Indian Wells @ the BNP Paribas Open.
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