Nadal advances at Indian Wells after Mayer's withdrawal

Rafael Nadal beat Leonardo Mayer in straight sets on Thursday to reach the semifinals of the Mexican Open, setting up a meeting with Spanish compatriot Nicolas Almagro. The second-seeded Nadal won 6-1, 7-5 as the former top-ranked player continues his ...

Twice champion Rafa Nadal was gifted a place in the last 16 of the BNP Paribas Open when Argentina's Leonardo Mayer withdrew before their third-round match with a back injury. Spaniard Nadal, who said he had been "very scared" after experiencing his ...

Results from the second day of the ATP Nice Open tennis tournament on Monday: - Carlos Berlocq (ARG) bt Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 6-2, 6-1 Robin Haase (NED) bt Marinko Matosevic (AUS) 6-1, 6-4 Lu Yen-Hsun (TPE) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA x5) 7-5,

Newly single John Mayer announced his first tour in three years after recovering from vocal cord surgery, that left him silent for months . "I probably had contiguously three, maybe four months of not saying a word," says Mayer , revealing that he ...

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Fifth seed Andreas Seppi and former world number one Lleyton Hewitt were big-name first-round casualties at the Open de Nice Cote d'Azur. Seppi looked to have steadied the ship after losing the first set to Chinese Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu, as he won ...

NICE, France, May 20 (UPI) -- Lu took out fifth-seeded Andreas Seppi 7-5, 1-6, 6-4. Lu took the tight first set but Seppi dominated the second. Lu came back with three third-set breaks to finish the upset. Carlos Berlocq ran through a 6-2, 6-1 romp ...

Lleyton Hewitt will head into next week's French Open feeling positive despite a distinct lack of tournament play following a first round exit at the ATP event in Nice. Australia's representation at the claycourt tune-up tournament ended at the ...

Former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt of Australia and fifth-seeded Andreas Seppi of Italy lost in the first round of the Nice Open. Hewitt, playing in this tournament for the first time, was beaten by Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Seppi fell to Lu ...