Andy Roddick and number two Tommy Haas moved closer to a showdown at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic with third-round victories.
We round off the week with some good, bad and ugly looks.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
top seed Tommy Robredo lost his opening match at the Swedish Open on Monday to Peruvian Luis Horna.
Haas dispatched big-serving American Sam Querrey 6-4 7-5 while Blake completed his 200th career match victory with a 6-1 6-3 demolition of compatriot Scoville Jenkins.
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Tommy Haas might be forgiven if he decided to skip Wimbledon from now on as the tournament brings him nothing but bad luck.
His opponent Tommy Haas withdrew on Sunday with an abdominal muscle strain.
The Chilean produced a dazzling display to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time.
The Swiss world number one needed more than 2- hours to squeeze past Czech Radek Stepanek in Melbourne.
The unseeded Russian beat Marcos Baghdatis to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time at the French Open.
He beat Haas on Saturday to move within one win of equalling Bjorn Borg's record for consecutive victories on grass.
The world number two, whose victory took his winning streak on clay to 75 matches, went through to a semi-final against fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko at the Rome Masters.
Florian Mayer put more than a year of injury problems behind him to secure a 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 victory over teenager Alexander Zverev in an all-German final at the Halle Open on Sunday.
Tommy Robredo demolished fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-2, 6-2 at the Barcelona Open.
Ivo Karlovic utilised a single break of service to upset world number 10 Tommy Haas 7-6 6-4 in the quarter-finals of the US Men's Clay Court Championships on Friday.
Haas, ranked 10th in the world and the 2004 champion here, converted five of 12 break points to defeat the 19-year-old Californian for the third straight time this season.
Van Gaal also said that they gave the ball away unnecessarily after half-time, insisting that their positions in midfield were not as good as in the first half.
In the Dubai Open semis, Federer plays Tommy Haas, while Youzhny takes on Robin Soderling.
The German produced a stunning performance to win the Memphis International for the third time.
Andy Roddick has pounded down 56 aces this week, while Tommy Haas has yet to even face a single break point.
Andy Roddick and Andy Murray eased into the quarterfinal of the Memphis International.
Reader Amit Modi sent us a picture of Sania Mirza from Perth, Australia.
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The 10th seed reached his first grand slam final in which he will play world number one Roger Federer on Sunday.
A misfiring Roger Federer beat Spain's Tommy Robredo 6-3, 7-6, 7-5 to enter the semi-final of the Australian Open.
Former world number one and 1998 French Open champion Carlos Moya is among those who has confirmed for the event that begins on September 25.
Nadia Petrova and Dmitry Tursunov ensured a 2-0 victory over Spain in the final.
Tommy Robredo came from a set down to beat Mario Ancic and give Spain
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Philipp Kohlschreiber upset world No 4 Nikolay Davydenko to put Germany level after Igor Andreev trounced Germany's No 1 Tommy Haas in the opening rubber.
World No 2 Rafael Nadal recovered from a slow start to beat compatriot Tommy Robredo and get his Masters Cup campaign back on track.
James Blake beat Russia's Nikolay Davydenko 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the Shanghai Masters.
The American secured the eighth and last spot at the season-ending tournament Tommy Haas pulled out of his Paris Masters semi-final against Slovak Dominik Hrbaty.
Slovakia's Dominik Hrbaty qualified for the final of the Paris Masters on Saturday after German Tommy Haas retired in their semi-final to drop out of the Masters Cup race.
Mario Ancic's defeat left only two players, American James Blake and German Tommy Haas, in contention for the last remaining slot at the season-ending Masters Cup.
