Super Serbs Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic locked in their second round Australian Open spots on Monday as Andy Roddick routed a sacrificial Swede on Day One of the year's first grand slam.
World number three Novak Djokovic opened the defence of his Toronto Masters title in impressive style with a 6-4 6-4 win over Canadian Frank Dancevic.
Roger Federer will open his bid for a third successive Masters Cup title, and a fifth in all, against Gilles Simon after being grouped with the Frenchman in Wednesday's draw for the $4.45 million (2.8 million pounds) tournament. The Swiss is top seed in the absence of Spain's world number one Rafael Nadal, whose withdrawal through injury allowed Simon to take his place in the season-ending event for the top eight men in the world.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won his maiden Masters Series event when he beat Argentine David Nalbandian 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the final of the Paris Masters on Sunday to clinch the last qualifying spot for the season's finale in Shanghai. The 23-year-old Frenchman joined Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Nikolay Davydenko, Andy Roddick and Juan Martin del Potro as the players who qualified for the Masters Cup, which will start on Nov. 9.
Czech Tomas Berdych halted fifth seed Juan Martin Del Potro's hot streak by beating the Argentine 6-1, 6-4 to win the Japan Open on Sunday. Ninth seed Berdych's fourth ATP Tour title and his first since winning on grass in Halle last year came after Del Potro left the court to take medicine for an upset stomach.
Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro ended top seed David Ferrer's reign as Japan Open champion with a 6-1, 7-5 quarter-final victory.
Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic and unseeded Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka will meet in the final of the Rome Masters on Sunday after their semi-final opponents retired injured on Saturday. Serbian third seed Djokovic went through after unseeded Czech Radek Stepanek, pulled out when 6-0 1-0 down while Wawrinka made the final after American sixth seed Andy Roddick withdrew at 3-0 down in the first set because of a back injury.
Defending champion Rafael Nadal failed to win a single game in the opening set of his US Open quarter-final against Dominic Thiem on Tuesday but fought back to beat the Austrian 0-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5) in match that ended past 2 am in New York.
Top seed David Ferrer of Spain was bundled out of the $524,000 China Open by Israel's Dudi Sela on Thursday, while big-serving American Andy Roddick swept past compatriot Brendan Evans to book a quarter-final place.
Dmitry Tursunov will take on Andy Roddick in Friday's first singles of the Russia-US Davis Cup final while Mikhail Youzhny meets James Blake in the second.
While prone to losing to modest opponents, Kyrgios often produces his best tennis when up against one of the 'Big Three' of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Nadal.
British Actor Pierce Brosnan watched Bogdanovic play against Roddick during The Queen's tennis tournament on Thursday.
Novak Djokovic said he overreacted to jokes about his long list of injuries when he lashed out at Andy Roddick after defeating the American on Thursday to reach the semi-finals of the US Open. Roddick had commented to the crowd courtside after his previous match on the assorted maladies cited by Djokovic, who complained about stomach, hip, ankle and breathing problems during his five-set win against Spain's Tommy Robredo.
Defending champion Serena Williams battled to a 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over world number four Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach the Sony Ericsson Open final on Thursday. The American, who had to cope with back trouble along with the hot and humid conditions, is bidding to equal Steffi Graf's record of five title successes in the tournament.
Russian Igor Kunitsyn ended the run of Indian qualifier Somdev Devvarman with a 6-4, 6-1 victory in the quarter-finals of the Washington ATP.
Spain's David Ferrer has qualified for the season-ending Masters Cup featuring the world's top eight players.
Factbox on Rafael Nadal, who beat Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 to win his 11th French Open title on Sunday:
Roger Federer will complete his preparations for next year's Australian Open at the Kooyong Classic.
India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas stormed into the final of the $1,401,000 ATP Dubai Tennis Championships with a straight set thrashing of second seeds Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle. Bhupathi and Knowles, seeded fourth, scripted a resounding 6-2, 6-0 victory over the Swedish-Austrian combination and will now face third-seeded Czech pair of Martin Damm and Pavel Vizner.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy set up a quarter-final clash with Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles after a straight-set win over Roger Federer and Stainslas Wawrinka in the second round of ATP Rogers Masters in Toronto on Thursday night. The seventh seeded Indo-Czech pair needed less than an hour to beat their unseeded Swiss opponents 6-4, 6-4.
The fourth seeded Indo-Bahamas pair got a walkover from the American duo of Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick in the second round of the ATP Rogers Masters.
Argentina, the Czech Republic and Spain also booked their places in the last eight by opening up 3-0 leads.
Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal made it to the final of the Indian Wells tournament after victories over Roger Federer and Andy Roddick respectively.
Rafael Nadal ended Andy Roddick's bid for a record fifth title at Queen's by charging into the final with a 7-5, 6-4 win.
Russia's captain Shamil Tarpishchev has ruled out chance of drafting Marat Safin in late for this week's final against USA.
The All England Club took the players' grasscourt credentials to come up with their top 32 seeds for next week's Wimbledon championships.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles beat Martin Damm and Pavel Vizner to set up a meeting with top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan in the final of the US $377,0000 Sony Ericsson Open. Bhupathi and Knowles beat their sixth seeded Czech opponents 7-6(5), 4-6, 11-9 to secure their fourth consecutive match tie-break victory.
Roger Federer has been drawn with Andy Roddick, Nikolay Davydenko and Fernando Gonzalez at the Shanghai Masters Cup.
Germany's Tommy Haas came from a set down to upset 11th-seeded Andy Murray 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 in Wednesday's fourth round and maintain his impressive run at the Pacific Life Open.
Brad Gilbert, former coach to Andre Agassi and Andy Murray, believes Australian Bernard Tomic got off lightly for his comments about being bored at Wimbledon and could have been suspended from the game.
The top seeded pair was shocked by Americans Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish in the first round of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships.
World number one Rafael Nadal humbled Andy Roddick with a clay-court master class on Sunday to knock holders the United States out of the Davis Cup and send Spain through to their sixth final.
James Blake beat Russian Mikhail Youzhny in the second singles after American No 1 Andy Roddick outclassed Dmitry Tursunov in the opening rubber.
After losing the first set, Konta faced three break points in an epic fifth game of the second when she came under enormous pressure.
List of seeded players for the 2006 Australian Open.
The Swiss will play Nadal's countryman David Ferrer in Sunday's final at the showcase eight-man event in Shanghai following his 6-1, 6-3 thrashing of American Andy Roddick in the first semi-final.
World number two Rafael Nadal led an exodus of seeds at Queen's Club on Friday when swirling winds threw Wimbledon preparations off course for several players.
The Swiss beat Nikolay Davydenko 6-4, 6-3 to stay alive in the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, while American Andy Roddick became the first player to book a semi-final spot at the season-ending event in Shanghai after crushing Chile's Fernando Gonzalez 6-1, 6-4.
Just 24 hours after showing second seed Andy Roddick the exit, the French wildcard ended Hewitt's challenge at the Poertschach International.
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