Andy Murray, the British no.1 men’s tennis player won the Open 13 title in Marseille yesterday.  Murray played a solid game, beating Croatia’s Mario Ancic 6-3 6-4.
This latest victory gave him his fifth ATP Tour title and will most probably send him back into the top 10 world ranking.
Murray said this victory justified his recent [...]

[Read more →]

Before Novak Djokovic’s win in the Australian Open, the first major tennis tournament of 2008, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal had won the last 11 Grand Slam events.
Novak Djokovic’s grand slam win has catapulted him into the elite of the world’s top tennis stars.  But not many people had heard about him until he beat [...]

[Read more →]

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the young frenchman who knocked out Andy Murray in the first round shocked the world of tennis last night by thrashing world number two Rafael Nadal to reach the Australian Open final at Melbourne Park. He won the first set in an amazing 32 minutes!
In only his fifth grand slam tournament, the [...]

[Read more →]

Andy Murray has been beaten in the first round of the Australian Open tennis championship this morning in four sets by Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 7-5 6-4 0-6 7-6 (7-5).
Murray had been tipped by many critics as “one to watch” after winning the Qatar Open in Doha earlier this month.
After losing the first two sets, Murray [...]

[Read more →]

Andy Murray won his fourth tennis tournament by beating Stanislas Wawrinka in the final of the Qatar Open hard court tennis tournament in Doha on Sunday.
Murray started the tornament as third seed, and beat the Swiss player Stanislas Wawrinka with an aggressive baseline game. He won in three sets, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. It was [...]

[Read more →]

The tennis world number four, Nikolay Davydenko, continues to deny any part in the ongoing betting scandal investigations, and according to the USA sports channel ESPN described his treatment by the ATP as “idiotic”.
Nikolay Davydenko was fined in October for what was described as a “lack of effort” in a match against Croatian qualifier Marin [...]

[Read more →]

As well as 2008 being the year of the Beijing Olympics, it is also the year that most tennis pundits suggest Roger Federer will surpass Pete Sampras’ 14 Grand Slam victories. He is currently on 12 with the Australian Open next on the calandar.
But it is the French Open where Federer will want [...]

[Read more →]

Andy Murray started his 2008 tennis season off with a convincing 6-0 6-2 win over the Belgian, Olivier Rochus in the first round of the Qatar Open on New Year’s Eve.
The 20-year-old British number one has assembled a new team of coaches and advisors as he bids to return to the world’s top 10 after [...]

[Read more →]

Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal is excited at the prospect of competing in the 2008 Olympic Games, which he rates alongside the Grand Slams and Davis Cup.
“I feel a special motivation for the Olympic Games,” Nadal said Sunday ahead of his season launching ATP Tour’s Chennai Open in southern India. “I consider the Olympics as [...]

[Read more →]

The USA defeated Russia in straight sets to win the Davis Cup tennis championship in Portland, Oregon, USA. Surprisingly, it is the first time the United States have won the Davis Cup since 1995.
Bob and Mike Bryan beat Nikolay Davydenko and Igor Andreev 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, 6-2 to give the USA a 3-0 lead [...]

[Read more →]