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Week 6 Preview: Costa do Sauipe, Delray Beach, Marseille

By Around the ATP Team • Feb 11th, 2008 • Category: ATP Tour News

Costa do Sauipe (Brasil Open)

Main Draw Singles

Main Draw Doubles

As expected, the only ATP tournament played in Brazil is full of clay court specialists. Carlos Moya comes back to play there after missing it last year; he is the top seed. He has an interesting first round match [...]



Davis Cup Roundup: First Round Day 3, February 10

By Around the ATP Team • Feb 11th, 2008 • Category: ATP Tour News

Russia vs Serbia
As we expected, Novak Djokovic attempted to play for Serbia to keep their hopes alive. Despite Djokovic not being 100% fit, Nikolay Davydenko played even worse and Djokovic was able to build a 2 sets lead and had 3-0 double break in the third set. Davydenko lifted his level of play in [...]



Davis Cup Roundup: First Round Day 2 Doubles Action, February 9

By Around the ATP Team • Feb 10th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

A Davis Cup weekend with some interesting matches between Russia - Serbia, Argentina - Great Britain and Austria - USA.



Davis Cup Draw Ceremony Roundup: February 7

By Around the ATP Team • Feb 10th, 2008 • Category: ATP Tour News

All around the world today, the First Round Davis Cup draw ceremonies were held. Here’s all the important news and photos from around the globe! We won’t bore you with the “who plays whom first” stuff that you can get easily at the Davis Cup website. Instead, here are a few things that we think [...]



Davis Cup First Round Preview

By Around the ATP Team • Feb 7th, 2008 • Category: ATP Tour News, Lead Story

This weekend, the 2008 Davis Cup competition will get underway with the first round for both the World Group and Zonal Ties.



Joachim “Pim-Pim” Johansson To Call It Quits

By Around the ATP Team • Feb 3rd, 2008 • Category: ATP Tour News

Yesterday, another injury-plagued player said goodbye to the ATP tour. Sweden Joachim Johansson announced he is retiring from the tour at age 25 due to lingering shoulder problems that have troubled him over the past few years. Although he can train pain-free for a few weeks and play one tournament at a time, he realized [...]