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Richard Gasquet was among Sunday's opening- round winners at the Italian Masters tennis event, a clay-court French Open tune-up.The ninth-seeded Frenchman beat American Sam Querrey 6-2, 7-6 (10-8) at Foro Italico. Gasquet's second-round opponent will be Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, who topped Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 6-3, 6-4.In other first-round action, Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin rallied for a 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 win over American John Isner, Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov bested Italian wild card Matteo Viola 6-4, 6-3, South African Kevin Anderson dismissed Austria's Jurgen Melzer 6-1, 6-2 and Spaniard Marcel Granollers advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 triumph over Russian Nikolay Davydenko.Six-time champion Rafael Nadal beat 2011 titlist and two-time winner Novak Djokovic in last year's marquee finale.The "Big Four" of Djokovic, Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Nadal are all on hand this week.The 2013 Rome winner will take home $660,000....
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 t...
Fifth-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov and German crowd favorite Florian Mayer were among Tuesday's first-round winners at the $535,000 BMW Open.Dolgopolov doused lucky lo...
Former finalist Marcos Baghdatis has retired from his third-round match at the Australian Open because of a reported groin injury.Baghdatis was trailing Saturday's m...
NICE, France (AP) — Leonardo Mayer of Argentina beat fifth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 in the Open de Nice quarterfinals on Thursday.Mayer hadn't...
Ivan Ljubicic has reached the semifinals of the ABN World Tennis Tournament after beating Marcos Baghdatis 6-4, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (4).The seventh-seeded Ljubicic will nex...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Defending champion Novak Djokovic edged unseeded Marcos Baghdatis 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4 Friday to reach the final of the Dubai Champio...
Defending champion and top-seeded Mikhail Youzhny of Russia was one of three seeded players to tumble out of the BMW Open in the second round Wednesday.Philipp Petzs...
Juan Martin del Potro saved three match points to rally past Marcos Baghdatis 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4) at the Dubai Championships on Tuesday.The seventh-ranked Argentine wa...
World No. 1 and three-time champion Novak Djokovic highlighted Tuesday's opening-round winners at the $1.785 Dubai Tennis Championships.Playing his first match in fo...
Juan Martin del Potro and Julien Benneteau won their semifinals in straight sets Saturday and will play for the title of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament.Del Pot...
Grigor Dimitrov rallied from a set down to beat Marcos Baghdatis 6-7 (4), 7-6 (0), 6-3 and book a place in the semifinals of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament on ...
Julien Benneteau upset the sluggish Roger Federer 6-3, 7-5 on Friday to reach the semifinals of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament.Defending champion Federer strug...
Marcos Baghdatis has won his Unicef Open quarterfinal on his 26th birthday, beating Denis Gremelmayr of Germany 6-1, 6-0 and awaiting his semifinal later in the day....
German veteran Tommy Haas upset eighth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis 6-1, 7-6 (3) to reach the semifinal of the BMW Open on Friday, his first since August 2009.Haas got a ...
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic rallied past Marcos Baghdatis 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 Friday in the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors.Djokovic had his service broken twice early be...
Second-seeded Tomas Berdych advanced to the quarterfinals of the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament on Thursday when Marcos Baghdatis retired with a leg injury in the ...
Reigning champion Roger Federer was an easy second-round winner Tuesday at the $4.425 million Madrid Open.After enjoying a bye into the second round and being idle s...
Reigning champion Roger Federer and former titlist Andy Murray were a pair of second-round winners Tuesday at the $4.425 million Madrid Open.After enjoying a bye int...
Talented Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov stunned world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, while reigning champion Roger Federer and former titlist Andy Murray were a pair of second-rou...