Month of August , 2007

British number one Andy Murray has accepted a wild card invitation to the Pen Pilot event in New Haven.

 

Serbian second seed Jelena Jankovic defeated American Vania King 6-3, 6-0 on Thursday, joining three other seeds in reaching the third round of the 1.34 million-dollar San Diego Classic.

 

Top seed Andy Roddick smashed 18 aces on his way to a 6-4 6-2 victory over Tomas Zib in the second round of the Legg Mason Classic in Washington.

 

John McEnroe says that world number three Novak Djokovic could soon threaten the dominance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

 

Sania Mirza continued with her demolition act as she entered the third round of the $1.3-million Acura Classic women’s tennis tournament here on Wednesday.

 

On a sunny afternoon on Stadium Court at the Acura Classic, tenth-seeded Venus Williams advanced to the third round with a solid, 6-2, 6-4, victory over Virginie Razzano of France.

 

Second-seeded teenager Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland defeated compatriot Marta Domachowska 6-0, 6-3 to advance to the Nordic Light Open quarterfinals in Sweden on Wednesday.

 

Tommy Haas was triumphant in his first match since a torn stomach muscle forced him to withdraw from Wimbledon, defeating Alejandro Falla 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday at the ATP Washington Classic.

 

Sania Mirza's dream run at the Acura Classic tournament came to an end as she lost to Maria Sharapova in the quarterfinals today(August 4) at San Diego, California.

 

Sania Mirza continued with her dream form to sweep past eighth seed Russian Dinara Safina 6-1, 6-2 to set up an exciting quarter-final clash with world number two and defending champion Maria Sharapova at the $1.3 million Acura Classic Women's tennis tournament.

 

Sania Mirza continued with her dream form to sweep past eighth seed Russian Dinara Safina 6-1, 6-2 to set up an exciting quarter-final clash with world number two and defending champion Maria Sharapova at the $1.3 million Acura Classic Women's tennis tournament.

 

With tennis legend Pancho Segura looking on at courtside, 11th seeded Patty Schnyder of Switzerland overcame fourth-seeded Nadia Petrova of Russia, 6-4, 6-4, to advance to the semifinals of the 2007 Acura Classic.

 

Vera Dushevina managed to dodge the rain in Stockholm to book her place in the semi-finals of the Nordea Nordic Light Open on Friday.

 

The line-up for the quarterfinals of the Nordea Nordic Light Open was finalised on Thursday and after an afternoon of upsets in the Swedish capital only three of the original eight seeds remain. Anabel Medina Garrigues, the tournament's top seed, was the most notable casualty in the second round of the $145,000, Tier IV event, falling in three sets to Dominika Cibulkova.

 

Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week's Los Angeles Classic with a lingering thumb injury that has forced her out of five events since Wimbledon.

 

Tenth-seeded Venus Williams of the United Stated, using her power game, blew past sixth-seeded Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, 6-0, 6-3, to advance to Friday’s Acura Classic quarterfinals.

 

Andy Roddick and Tommy Haas moved closer to a showdown at ATP Washington with third-round victories over Radek Stepanek and Michael Russell respectively.

 

Andy Murray has been handed a tough task in his comeback match at the Montreal Masters as he has been drawn to face Robby Ginepri in the first round.

 

Anna Chakvetadze maintains her good run of form on U.S. hard courts when she staved off a match point before stunning Venus Williams 6-7 7-6 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the San Diego Classic.

 

Andy Roddick rolled into the semi-finals of the Washington Open but second seed Tommy Haas and number three Marat Safin were ousted from the U.S. Open tune-up.