Youzhny retires at St. Petersburg Open Mikhail Youzhny was forced to retire due to a lower back pain while trailing Denis Istomin 6-2, 2-1 in the second round of the St. Petersburg Open. Istomin will play the winner of the match between Igor Andreev and Marat Safin. In othe results today, Sergiy Stakhovsky beat Andrey Kuznetsov 6-1, 6-4, and Igor Kunitsyn defeated Michail Elgin 6-2, 6-3. Stakhovsky...
Tennis Video: St Petersburg 2009 Monday Highlights World No. 81 Karol Beck sprung a surprise Monday at the St. Petersburg Open as he defeated third-seeded Serbian Viktor Troicki, while Bjorn Phau produced some incredble shot-making to beat Russian wild card Stanislav Vovk.
Beck upsets Troicki to advance in St. Petersburg Karol Beck upset Viktor Troicki 7-6 4-6 6-4 in the first round of the St. Petersburg Open. Troicki leveled at a set apiece after breaking in the 10th game of the second set. Beck set up his victory with a break in the seventh game of the third set. Troicki also lost in the tournament’s opening round last year, falling to eventual champion Andy...
Kohlschreiber and Beck advance to Open de Moselle quarterfinals Philipp Kohlschreiber defeated Bjorn Phau 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 to advanced to the Open de Moselle quarterfinals and will next face Evgeny Korolev, who beat Denis Istomin 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (2). Andreas Beck made it past Thierry Ascione 6-2, 6-4 and will play Paul-Henri Mathieu, who defeated Marc Gicquel 7-6 (5), 6-4. Mathieu earned a decisive mini...
Bjorn Phau sent countryman Rainer Schuettler packing on Monday in first round play in Metz, France. Phau wil be joined in the second round by Andreas Beck, also of Germany.
You had to feel sorry for Vera Dushevina and Björn Phau, who probably felt like gatecrashers at a Fourth of July party. The first night session of the US Open, with its glitzy opening ceremony, is always high on all-American razzmatazz and the Russian and the German must have known they were expected to have only walk-on roles. They duly played their parts by losing their first-round matches...
The 2009 U.S. Open tennis tournament kicked off yesterday in Flushing with fireworks, Heidi Klum, an unseasonable chill, and a hotly contested match between Venus Williams and Vera Dushevina, a 22-year-old Russian who, despite being ranked 47th, gave the number 3 ranked Williams a serious run for her money. After narrowly losing the first set to Dushevina, Williams came from behind to squeak out a...
Andy Roddick showed no ill-effects from a late start at Flushing Meadows or his crushing Wimbledon final loss to Roger Federer as he blasted his way into the US Open second round in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Fifth seed Roddick, who took world No 1 Federer to a 30th game in the fifth [...]
Andy Roddick's straight-sets victory against 84th-ranked Bjorn Phau of Germany ended at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday morning, and the 2003 U.S. Open champion loved every minute of it.
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