SHANGHAI: Shanghai continued to produce big tennis upsets yesterday after another pair of top seeds, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, were stunned at the Shanghai Masters Cup at Qi Zhong Tennis Center.
SHANGHAI: Fans from across the world have flocked to Shanghai to feel the heart-pounding excitement of the Masters Cup, a showdown pitting the world's most skilled tennis players against one another.
BERLIN: German tennis player Philipp Kohlschreiber, accused of match-fixing by an unnamed source in German newspaper Die Welt on Sunday, has insisted he has "nothing to hide" and "only plays to win."
SHANGHAI: Novak Djokovic had the best year so far in his career, but the Serbian-born player said he doesn't plan to sit back and relax just because the Masters Cup is considered the end of the annual tennis season.
SHANGHAI: In a game combining big serves, a one-sided tiebreak, a basket of winners from smashing forehands and laser-speed backhands, the winner was not Roger Federer.
SHANGHAI: Rafael Nadal's rivalry with Roger Federer is already the stuff of legend, but the Spaniard says their dominance of the sport could be under threat from a new generation of challengers.
BERLIN: German tennis star Tommy Haas revealed on Wednesday he believes he was poisoned during his country's Davis Cup semifinal loss to Russia in Moscow last September.
MADRID: World No 1 Justine Henin qualified for the WTA Championships semifinals with an easier-than-expected 6-2, 6-2 win over Serb Jelena Jankovic on Wednesday.
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