Top-seeded James Blake beat Paul Capdeville of Chile 6-1, 6-4 Thursday to become the sixth American to reach the quarterfinals of the Delray Beach International. Blake joined third-seeded Sam Querrey, sixth-seeded Vince Spadea, eighth-seeded Mardy Fish, wild-card entrant Robby Ginepri and Bobby Reynolds as second round winners.
Top-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy beat Mathilde Johansson of France 6-4, 6-0 Thursday to move into the quarterfinals of the inaugural Cachantun Cup. Pennetta’s next match will be seventh-seeded Kaia Kanepi of Estonia, who rallied to beat Maria Elena Camerin of Italy 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 to make her second quarterfinals of the year.
Monica Seles officially retired from tennis Thursday, five years after she played the last match of a career that included nine Grand Slam singles titles and was interrupted at its height when she was stabbed in the back during a match. “I have for some time considered a return to professional play, but I have now decided not to pursue that,” the 34-year-old Seles said in a statement released by…
Second-seeded Nicolas Almagro beat Boris Pashanski 6-2, 6-3 Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Brazil Open for the third straight year. Fifth-seeded Filippo Volandri defeated Guillermo Coria 6-1, 6-2 in 51 minutes. Coria, bothered by a sore shoulder, won his first ATP match in 19 months two days ago.
Top-ranked Justine Henin rallied from a set down to defeat Tsvetana Pironkova 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-1 Thursday and reach the quarterfinals of the Diamond Games. Second-seeded Anna Chakvetadze was upset 6-3, 7-5 by Sofia Arvidsson. Henin, playing her first match since her quarterfinal loss to Maria Sharapova in the Australian Open, looked rusty in the first set, handing it to 76th-ranked Pironkova on a…
The Washington Kastles are the newest franchise in World Team Tennis. The Kastles will become the 11th team in the coed summer league, WTT announced Thursday. Owned by a group led by venture capitalist Mark Ein, the Kastles will play their home matches in Washington, D.C. The league, co-founded by Billie Jean King, begins its 33rd season in July.
Nicolas Mahut upset Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (1) to reach the quarterfinals of the Open 13 on Wednesday. Also, Mario Ancic of Croatia, in his first match of the year after a stomach illness, stunned Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5, 7-6 (3). Ancic earned the only service break at 5-5 in the first set.
Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic lost to reigning Marseille titlist Gilles Simon in Thursday’s second-round action at the $1.125 million Open 13 tennis event.
Frenchman Gilles Simon Thursday upset top-seeded Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3 in the second round of the Open 13 tennis tournament in Marseilles, France.
Giles Simon stunned Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic in the second round of the Open 13 on Thursday.
