Bautista Agut beats Simon in Monte Carlo 1st round

Defending champion and second seed Gilles Simon had to fight from a set down to beat Jarkko Nieminen in his opening match at the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy in Bucharest. Simon, ranked 16 in the world, triumphed 4-6 6-4 6-4 against the in-form Finn in ...

Sixth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga enjoyed relatively straightforward passage into the third round of the Sony Open on Saturday, as he defeated Viktor Troicki in straight sets. After coming through a hard-fought tiebreak to clinch the opening stanza, the ...

David Nalbandian was dumped out in the first round of the Sony Open Tennis after a 2-6 6-4 6-3 defeat to Jarkko Nieminen. Nieminen had been defeated in five of his last six meetings with the Argentine veteran but fought back from a set down to claim ...

BUCHAREST - Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki and Italian Andreas Seppi reached the doubles semi-finals at the tournament in Bucharest on Thursday, after defeating German-Finnish pair Martin Emmrich/ Jarkko Nieminen in a quarter-final match 6-2, ...

**** **** Rochusclub, Dusseldorf, Germany Total Prize Money: $530,000 Pos Name, Seed --- ---------- 1. Janko Tipsarevic (1) 2. Bye 3. Qualifier 4. Qualifier 5. David Goffin 6. Grega Zemlja 7. Michael Russell 8. Viktor Troicki (7) 9. Juan Monaco (3) ...

Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic beat seventh-seeded Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 Tuesday to advance to the second round of the BMW Open. Youzhny was the second former winner of the clay-court event to be eliminated after two-time ...

OEIRAS (Portugal), May 1: China's Peng Shuai showed little sign of a recent shoulder injury at the ATP/WTA Portugal Open on Tuesday as she knocked out French top seed Marion Bartoli in the first round 6-0, 1-6, 6-4. Peng, a 2010 semi-finalist in her ...

MUNICH, Germany, April 30 (UPI) -- Stepanek ousted seventh-seeded Mikhail Youzhny 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. Stepanek ended up with five breaks, with three coming in the third set. Monfils was on the court less than an hour in dispatching No. 8-seeded Jurgen ...

Results from the ATP Munich Open on Tuesday (x denotes seeding): Gael Monfils (FRA) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT x8) 6-3, 6-3 Evgeny Korolev (RUS) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 7-5, 7-6 (7/3) Grega Zemlja (SLO) bt John Millman (AUS) 6-2, 6-2 Viktor Troicki ...