The current champion Roger Federer Wimbledon Grand Slam tennis tournament with ease singles quarterfinals of the men have entered due to retire while the third seed Jelena Ayancovich Carolyn Vojniaqui experiencing the vicissitudes of the tournament had to be out.
Star Swiss top seed in the tournament on Monday in straight sets to Austrian Juergen Maelzar 6-3, 6-2 6-2. The fourth round of the fight was so one-sided 16th-seeded Federer to break Maelzar the service was not any kind of trouble. Kim Jung beauties in two Belgian women's singles fourth round match Claisters a brilliant comeback after losing the first set, the 17th seed 2-6 to Henin, 6-2, 6-3 defeat.
By breaking the court came down on both retirement and then it was the third fight. Claisters also won three. Meanwhile, fourth-seeded Serbian Jelena Ayancovich Somar fourth-round match due to a back injury midway, leaving the competition got out of the Ninth-seeded Li of China had not entered the quarterfinals. Former champion and second seed Venus Williams at the Australian Jarmila Growth 6-4, 7-6 quarterfinal victory and created space.
Roger Federer of Switzerland remains top of virtually unchanged men’s tennis rankings issued on Monday
by the ATP with one change seeing Britain’s Andy Murray move up one place to fourth.
Federer has 10,690 points to lead from Serb Novak Djokovic (7,390) and Spain’s Rafael Nadal (6,480).
ATP Top 10 as of May 3 (previous ranking in parentheses):
1. Roger Federer, Switzerland, 10,340
2. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 6,970
3. Rafael Nadal, Spain, 6,480
4. Andy Murray, Britain, 5,565
5. Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, 5,545
6. Nikolay Davydenko, Russia, 5,235
7. Robin Soderling, Sweden, 4,805
8. Andy Roddick, United States, 4,780
9. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 3,735
10. Jo—Wilfried Tsonga, France, 3,220
Source: Thehindu.com
The U.S. Open is six weeks away, but the preparations begin in earnest today.
The Indianapolis Tennis Championships launch the six-week-long Olympus US Open, 10 events on North American hardcourts that lead into the season's final Grand Slam tournament. And there will be plenty at stake on the road to New York.
• Federer vs. Nadal: Rafael Nadal, the defending US Open Series champion, opened 2009 with a win on hardcourts in the Australian Open. Roger Federer took the next two Grand Slam events. Nadal, who skipped Wimbledon because of tendinitis in his knees, is scheduled to return at the Aug. 10-16 Rogers Masters in Montreal. Federer and the rest of the world's best are to join him. They will be in Cincinnati the following week, too, as part of back-to-back mandatory events.
• Andy Roddick: The top American, coming off his epic loss to Federer (16-14 in the fifth set) in the Wimbledon final, has been a force in the Series, winning the points race twice in its first five years. But he withdrew from the Indianapolis tournament because of a right hip flexor injury. "I just don't feel like I was 100% ready to compete in a tournament yet," Roddick said Saturday. He said he needs more repetitions playing on the hip to see if he is prepared. Roddick will have two weeks off to see if he is ready to play in Washington starting Aug. 2.
• Serena Williams: Williams has won three of the last four majors, but she has no regular tour event titles this year. She headlines strong fields in Stanford, Calif., in the Bank of the West Classic and in Cincinnati in the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open. World No. 1 Dinara Safina, who won the US Open Series title last year, will try to hang on to the No. 1 ranking.
• A cool million: If the winner of the US Open Series also wins the US Open, he or she pockets a $1 million bonus — on top of the $1.6 million paid to the men's and women's singles champions.
Source: usatoday.com
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