Tennis Top Gear

In the past month, has been all over the world. From , she spent time in before heading off to (where she won the title) and Mexico City (another week, another trophy). She arrived in New York today to do some promotion for the Billie Jean King Cup, which happens tomorrow […]

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If you?ve watched more Olympics than me (and I only got to the most important three hours of it, the women?s free skate), then you were sure to have had the pleasure of watching my favorite tennis commentator ? and ?esteemed journalist ? Mary Carillo in one of NBC?s delightful featurettes.
Carillo?s sports knowledge is obvious, […]

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spoiled ?s 31st birthday today by taking his first ever ATP title with an easy 6-2, 6-3 win over Karlovic at the International Tennis Championships.
Gulbis, who has longed be touted as the next big thing, finally put it together this week for his first ever title. With the win and […]

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spoiled ?s 31st birthday today by taking his first ever ATP title with an easy 6-2, 6-3 win over Karlovic at the International Tennis Championships.
Gulbis, who has longed be touted as the next big thing, finally put it together this week for his first ever title. With the win and […]

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Gulbis Bounced out of .
Did Johansson Reveal the Stockholm Sex Duo?

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College has gotten very busy lately and I just don?t have the time to update as much as I used to so I?m gonna try my best to type my posts on my lunchbreak from now on!
was a real shame for a second year in a row. It?s not that there wasn?t some quality […]

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College has gotten very busy lately and I just don?t have the time to update as much as I used to so I?m gonna try my best to type my posts on my lunchbreak from now on!
was a real shame for a second year in a row. It?s not that there wasn?t some quality […]

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Barclays Tennis Championships?U.A.E.
Holding a significant lead while heading into Sunday?s resumption of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, No. 2 seed liked his chances of success.
Having won the first set over No. 7 seed , Djokovic had a service break in hand before heavy rain ended Saturday?s action.
However, the resumption of Sunday?s […]

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Barclays Tennis Championships?U.A.E.
Holding a significant lead while heading into Sunday?s resumption of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, No. 2 seed liked his chances of success.
Having won the first set over No. 7 seed , Djokovic had a service break in hand before heavy rain ended Saturday?s action.
However, the resumption of Sunday?s […]

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A celebrity packed tennis lineup, featuring , , Jim Courier and come together for fifth time in the Tampa Tennis Classic benefiting Raymond James Courier’s Kids…

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A celebrity packed tennis lineup, featuring , , Jim Courier and come together for fifth time in the Tampa Tennis Classic benefiting Raymond James Courier’s Kids…

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World No. 4 was made to defend his recent comments after losing in the second-round to Serb .
The Scot made referrence to the statue of the event, and his lack of commit to winning.
?The stuff that I was doing in the matches here are similar to what I?d be doing if […]

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World No. 4 was made to defend his recent comments after losing in the second-round to Serb .
The Scot made referrence to the statue of the event, and his lack of commit to winning.
?The stuff that I was doing in the matches here are similar to what I?d be doing if […]

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The Billie Jean King Cup happens tomorrow night at Madison Square Garden, an event that features , , and . While this is an exhibition that might not mean much on paper, there is some pride on the line (Ivanovic?s plummet; Kuzy?s ability to play with the top gals; Clijsters?s […]

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The Billie Jean King Cup happens tomorrow night at Madison Square Garden, an event that features , , and . While this is an exhibition that might not mean much on paper, there is some pride on the line (Ivanovic?s plummet; Kuzy?s ability to play with the top gals; Clijsters?s […]

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Chilean tennis officials have stated that next week?s Davis Cup tie between Chile and Israel will go ahead as planned despite the earthquake that hit the country on Saturday.
The host city of Coquimbo will feature the likes of , , and .
The tie will take place March 5-7.

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Chilean tennis officials have stated that next week?s Davis Cup tie between Chile and Israel will go ahead as planned despite the earthquake that hit the country on Saturday.
The host city of Coquimbo will feature the likes of , , and .
The tie will take place March 5-7.

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The legendary American doubles tandem of Mike and Bob Bryan captured their 600th career win on Saturday in , Flordia over  and 6-7(6), 7-5, (10-4), before going onto win their 58th career title on Sunday over Philipp Marx of Germany and Igor Zelenay of Slovakia 6-3, 7-6 (3).
The Bryans are now four […]

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will take ?s spot in next week?s first-round Davis Cup tie in Spain, after Ferrero was forced to withdraw because of a right knee injury he sustained in Saturday?s loss to  during the finals in , Mexico.
Davis Cup captain Albert Costa informed Almagro of the decision on Sunday.
Almagro will join Ferrer, […]

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At one time and that time may still not have passed, Ali was the most recognizable face on the planet – sports, non-sports whatfreakingever.
Woods is unanimously considered as the most famous athlete on the planet – not the most recognizable face. Shouldn’t that mean that no other athlete, leave alone your wife, be able to […]

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Unseeded Latvian won his first career singles title in on Sunday, defeating ace machine 6-3, 6-2.
Breaking Karlovic?s serve on four and nine occasions, Gulbis survived 14 aces, while striking six aces of his own.
“I’m never impressed with statistics,” said Gulbis, who also reached the semifinals last week. “I’m impressed […]

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Even though this year’s AO title (Federer) and the upcoming clay season (Nadal) may go counter to above, making it way too premature, there are a host of other obvious factors on the other side of the see-saw matching that presumption, if not outweighing it.
If pushed to choose who between the two as to who […]

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Ernests Gulbis became the first Latvian to win an ATP Tour title when he upset second-seeded Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 6-2, 6-3 at the Delray Beach International Championships on Sunday. “Everything I do it’s the first for my country,” Gulbis said. “I was first one in top 300, first one in top 200, first one in top 100.” Now he’s the first one on top.

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PLANE
I’m Chilean I live in Santiago. I was in my apartment (17th floor) with my girlfriend when the earthquake began, it was horrible, we thought the entire building was going to fall apart. The body count it’s 214, but it’s estimated a total of 300. Here are good pics of what […]

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Ernests Gulbis of Latvia upset second-seeded Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday to win his first career title at the Delray Beach International Championships.

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Ernests Gulbis of Latvia upset second-seeded Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday to win his first career title at the Delray Beach International Championships.

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Nicolas Almagro will replace the injured Juan Carlos Ferrero for Spain’s Davis Cup tie against Switzerland on March 5-7. Ferrero hurt his knee during the final of the Mexico Open in Acapulco, which he lost to fellow Spaniard David Ferrer. Amagro was informed he was in the squad by Spanish team captain Albert Costa on Sunday, the Spanish tennis federation said.

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Novak Djokovic successfully defended his Dubai Championships title on Sunday, beating Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 7-5, 5-7, 6-3 in a rain-delayed final. Leading 7-5, 2-0 before rain suspended play on Saturday, the second-seeded Serb won his 17th career title in a match lasting 3 hours, 21 minutes at the Aviation Club.

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The men’s final just began on Tennis Channel as I type this and there was no live feed for the women’s final at all. But Venus Williams rallied from a set down against Polona Hercog to retain her Albierto Mexicano crown 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, and David Ferrer found a way past the red-hot but weary Juan Carlos Ferrero in a score of 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 to exact revenge from last week’s final to win his first title since 2008.

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Men’s Doubles Final
[1] L Kubot (POL) / O Marach (AUT) d F Fognini (ITA) / P Starace 60 60

Women’s Doubles Final
(4) Hercog/Zahlavova Strycova (SLO/CZE) d. Errani/Vinci (ITA/ITA) 26 61 10-2

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Malaysian Open

Singles - Final
(4) Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) d. (1) Elena Dementieva (RUS) 63 62

Doubles - Final
(2) Chan/Zheng (TPE/CHN) d. Rodionova/Rodionova (AUS/RUS) 67(4) 62 107

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Dubai Tennis Championships

Singles - Final
[2] N Djokovic (SRB) d [7] M Youzhny (RUS) 75 57 63

Stop the presses: the Serb finally defended a title.

Doubles - Final
S Aspelin (SWE) / P Hanley (AUS) d [2] L Dlouhy (CZE) / L Paes (IND) 62 63

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Delray Beach International Tennis Championships

Singles - Semifinals
[2] I Karlovic (CRO) d M Fish (USA) 62 63
E Gulbis (LAT) d J Nieminen (FIN) 64 64

Doubles - Semifinals
[1] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA) d [WC] T Dent (USA) / R Harrison (USA) 67(6) 75 10-4
P Marx (GER) / I Zelenay (SVK) d B Becker (GER) / L Mayer (ARG) walkover

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Alisa Kleybanova won her first WTA title at the Malaysian Open on Sunday, beating top-seeded Elena Dementieva 6-3, 6-2 in an all-Russian final. The 21-year-old Kleybanova dominated the Olympic champion, using her raw power and booming first serve to earn most of her points. Once described as the new Monica Seles due to her aggressive play, Kleybanova served four aces in the first set.

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Novak Djokovic successfully defended his Dubai Championships title on Sunday, beating Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 7-5, 5-7, 6-3 in the rain-affected final.

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Alisa Kleybanova won her first WTA title at the Malaysian Open on Sunday, beating top-seeded Elena Dementieva 6-3, 6-2 in an all-Russian final.

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Venus Williams fights back from a set down to win the Mexican Open final and her second consecutive title in a row.

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Alisa Kleybanova beats top seed Elena Dementieva 6-3 6-2 in a rain-disrupted all-Russian final to claim her first WTA title at the Malaysian Open.

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Novak Djokovic beats Mikhail Youzhny 7-5 5-7 6-3 to win the weather-hit Dubai Open and successfully defend an ATP title for the first time.

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Scrappy Spaniard won his eighth career title on Saturday in , Mexico, defeating countryman 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.
Losing to Ferrero last week in the final, Ferrer improved to 6-2 against his good friend in career head-to-head meetings.
Ferrero, who was riding a 14-match winning streak, showed visible signs of fatigue […]

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Venus Williams came from a set down to defend her Mexican Open title, while David Ferrer defeated good friend and fellow Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero to end his 14-match winning streak. Williams beat Polona Hercog 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday night for her second consecutive title — this one on clay to go with Dubai a week ago on hard courts.

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Williams will now take a three-week break from the tour as she is not in the draw at , Mexico this week, and annually skips the two-week event since 2001 when her sister and father branded the event and California fans racists after they booed the sisters when Venus defaulted five minutes prior to a scheduled semifinal match against Serena, and booed Serena in the final. The sisters’ father, Richard, says he heard racists comments during the final.

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Latvian “The Importance of Being” won his first ATP title in his first final on Sunday in , fending off big-serving “Dr.” 6-2, 6-3 to capture the Delray Beach International Ten

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“I want to congratulate Alisa, she played really well today,” Dementieva said. “I know it is difficult to organize a tennis event such as this but I think the o

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“It took a lot of energy for me,” Djokovic said. “Stopping and playing, and coming back and then again stopping the match last night because of the rain. If we

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In a replay of last week’s final, but this time with the result reversed, defeated former No. 1 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 for the Abierto Mexicano Telcel title in . After

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Venus Williams came from a set down to defend her Mexican Open title with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Polona Hercog of Slovenia on Saturday night.

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The massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile early Saturday morning was felt as far away as Argentina by tennis star .

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Reigning champion Juan Martin del Potro experienced the recent 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile early Saturday morning.
Recovering from a wrist injury he sustained last fall, del Potro told the atpworldtour.com that he woke up in the middle of the night by the earthquake, while sleeping in his condominium.
“I was sleeping […]

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Talented Latvian , who has been touted throughout his brief career by many tennis pundits as the future of men?s tennis, reached hisfirst ATP World Tour final on Saturday in , Florida by defeating Jarrko Nieminen 6-4, 6-4.
Breaking serve on three occasions, Gublis won 85 percent of his first serve points while striking nine aces during […]

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