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Roddick, Jankovic Win Titles; Davenport Baby BoyView Comments (3) | View Discussions
Posted on June 18, 2007
WEEKEND WRAP:
The Artois Championships
London, England
Singles Final:
(2) Andy Roddick (USA) d. Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 4-6, 7-6(7), 7-6(2)
Doubles Final:
(4) Knowles/Nestor (BAH/CAN) d. (1) Bryan/Bryan (USA) 7-6(4), 7-5
Mahut cuts short a masterful performance by choking a forehand sitter on match point, handing Roddick his fourth Queen's Club title. "I was one point away to put my name on the trophy," Mahut said. "Like I said yesterday, it's one of the greatest tournaments of the tour. You know, I had match point. It's really hard now. It was just an easy passing shot like I hit a thousand passing like that. But, you know, it's easier when you practice. When you have to make it to win the tournament, it's another shot." The Bahamiam/Canadian team win another title, making their planned break-up after Wimbledon a little tougher.
Gerry Weber Open
Halle, Germany
Singles Final:
(4) Tomas Berdych (CZE) d (8) Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 7-5, 6-4
Doubles Final:
(3) Aspelin/J.Knowle (SWE/AUT) d. (2) Santoro/Zimonjic (FRA/SRB) 6-4, 7-6(5)
Berdych drops just two points on his first serve in the final after last year finishing runner-up to Roger Federer. "It's fantastic," said Berdych after winning his third career title. "It's the second year in the final so to finish the champion this time is great. Two years ago I was saying I didn't like grass too much, so to be the champion after a tough tournament is very nice."
DFS Classic
Birmingham, Great Britain
Singles Final:
(2) Jelena Jankovic (SRB) d. (1) Maria Sharapova (RUS) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
Doubles Final:
(2) Chan/Chuang (TPE) d. T.Sun/Tu (CHN/USA) 7-6(3), 6-3
Jankovic wins her fourth tour singles title of the year, tying Justine Henin. Sharapova falls to 0-2 in finals this year. The final was a rematch of the 2005 DFS Classic championship which Sharapova won in three sets. "I just tried to stay positive out there and that's what helped me win the match," Jankovic said. "I'm so happy this is my first title on grass. My fourth one this year, and now I have titles on three different surfaces -- hard, grass and clay -- so it's a good thing for me."
Barcelona KIA
Barcelona, Spain
Singles Final:
(6) Meghann Shaughnessy (USA) d. Edina Gallovits (ROU) 6-3, 6-2
Doubles Final:
Llagostera Vives/Parra Santonja (ESP) d. (2) Dominguez Lino/Pennetta (ESP/ITA) 7-6(3), 2-6, 12-10
Shaughnessy collects her sixth career singles title, and first since 2006 Forest Hills, improving to 6-4 lifetime in tour singles finals. Gallovits had never before reached the quarterfinals at a tour singles stop.
THIS WEEK:
Ordina Open
's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Seeds: 1. Tommy Robredo, 2. Ivan Ljubicic, 3. Guillermo Canas, 4. Marcos Baghdatis, 5. Juan Carlos Ferrero, 6. Juan Ignacio Chela, 7. Philipp Kohlschreiber, 8. Marc Gicquel
The Nottingham Open
Nottingham, England
Seeds: 1. Richard Gasquet, 2. Dmitry Tursunov, 3. Agustin Calleri, 4. Jonas Bjorkman, 5. Dominik Hrbaty, 6. Paul-Henri Mathieu, 7. Stan Wawrinka, 8. Arnaud Clement
International Women's Open
Eastbourne, England
Seeds: 1. Justine Henin, 2. Amelie Mauresmo, 3. Nadia Petrova, 4. Elena Dementieva, 5. Nicole Vaidisova, 6. Shahar Peer, 7. Marion Bartoli, 8. Sybille Bammer
Ordina Open
's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Seeds: 1. Jelena Jankovic, 2. Ana Ivanovic, 3. Anna Chakvetadze, 4. Dinara Safina, 5. Daniela Hantuchova, 6. Katarina Srebotnik, 7. Anabel Medina Garrigues, 8. Alona Bondarenko
TENNIS-X NEWS, NOTES, QUOTES AND BARBS
Queen's runner-up Nicolas Mahut was the Wimbledon juniors winner in 2000...Greg Rusedski pulled from the Liverpool International exo with a neck injury...Mark Woodforde is working with Novak Djokovic on his grasscourt game...From Stuart Bathgate of The Scotsman on BBC tennis coverage: "Sue Barker, John Lloyd, Andrew Castle and David Mercer unarguably know a lot about playing tennis. But they don't give the impression of knowing a whole lot about the world beyond the locker rooms. Peter Fleming, a regular guest this week, offers a welcome change of perspective, as does his former doubles partner John McEnroe, who has made frequent appearances on the BBC over the past few years. Yet it's still far from being enough. One hesitates to use the word 'diversity' within earshot of a BBC employee, lest they respond by jumping into a taxi, taking it to Brixton, and offering a presenter's contract to the first black kid whose slang they could not understand. But that's what we need all the same -- a more diverse group of presenters, with a wider range of backgrounds."...Xavier Malisse, Gaston Gaudio and Jurgen Melzer have pulled from Wimbledon...After losing early at Queen's, Rafael Nadal says he needs to throw some back with the boys and relax before Wimbledon: "I need to disconnect, play some golf, watch a little bit [of soccer], have some fun with the friends. I need put the racket very far from me for two days."...Pat Cash has written a high-minded (re: ass) column for the Times Online on how Tim Henman should retire...Illinois assistant coach Kent Kinnear has taken a position with the USTA Player Development squad...Lindsay Davenport gave birth to her first child, a boy named Jagger Jonathan Leach, on Sunday...Anna Kournikova, who experienced back and foot injuries during her career, says her body has been through a lot as she practices for an exhibition in Canada: "My foot where I have my screw will be itching when it's raining. I get affected by the weather. I definitely feel it in my joints. I still keep in shape and try to work out, but I definitely feel like I was a professional athlete. I definitely feel like my body has been through a lot."...Anastasia Myskina has pulled from Wimbledon due to her ongoing foot in jury reports Kommersant: "I have had a wonderful life in Moscow in the last five months [she was co-host of NTV's football program]. So I know what to do after tennis," Myskina concluded."...Belated props to The Tennis Channel for actually showing pre-final-round doubles during their coverage of the French Open -- perhaps a first in the Open Era?...Rafael Nadal, who skipped Spain's last Davis Cup tie against the U.S., says the Davis Cup format must change if the top players are going to play: "To play the Davis Cup a lot makes you lose a whole lot of money and also leaves you with practically not a single week of rest in the whole year," Nadal told Reuters. "This is something the International Tennis Federation should look at, why some of the best players in the world don't play in it. I don't have the solution."...From The Sports Network: "Nystrom Beckman and Paris LLP, a leading boutique litigation firm based in Boston, today announced that the jury trial for the landmark steroid-use-in-sports case, Guillermo Coria vs. Universal Nutrition a/k/a Universal Protein Supplement Corp. and G.E.N. Tech, LLC, will commence on June 18, 2007 in the Superior Court of New Jersey. Plaintiff Guillermo Coria, the former No. 3 tennis player in the world from Argentina, maintains that Universals negligent manufacturing process infused traces of undisclosed steroids into the companys Gaspari Nutrition multivitamin, causing Coria to fail a drug test during the height of his career. If the jury finds in favor of Coria, this will become the first case of a world-class professional athlete proving that a positive test for performance-enhancing drugs was caused by product contamination."...The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour announced that Bangalore, India; Doha, Qatar; Istanbul, Turkey; and Monterrey, Mexico have been selected as the finalist bid cities to host the 2008 Sony Ericsson Championships.
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