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Victory over rival Roger Federer at Melbourne Park, however, was his sole major triumph of a season blighted by injury.

The last time a Swede reached the year-end men's championships, when it was held for the first and only time in Lisbon, Magnus Norman left the event as shyly as he had gone in.

I T'S just too easy. Every time you fail, blame somebody. What the heck, go for those who are the closest.

There are only three more days until the start of the Barclay's ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London.

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SIGNED AND SEALED: Italian tennis star Flavia Pennetta, the world number 12, models an outfit in Milan in 2009, has signed to play at next year's Auckland ASB Classic.

LAS VEGAS a ' Manny Pacquiao weighed in at 144 pounds, his heaviest ever, while Miguel Cotto came in at the contract limit of 145 pounds for their today's scheduled 12-round fight.

In a battle between two players who have been questioned in the past for their "heart," No.

Novak Djokovic captured his fifth title of 2009 with a three-set victory over French crowd favorite Gael Monfils in the title match of the Paris Masters.

Djokovic defeated Nadal for the second consecutive time to improve his overall record to 6-14 against him.

Rafael Nadal eliminated defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5, 7-5 with his best tennis of the week to set up a semifinal against Novak Djokovic at the Paris Masters on Friday.

Andre Agassi said he has no regrets about baring his life and his use of crystal meth in his recently published memoirs despite criticism from the tennis community, adding that his wife, Steffi Graf, was proud of him.

Rafael Nadal moved into the Paris Masters quarter-finals with a win over Tommy Robredo underlining his threat to unseat Roger Federer as world No.1 by the end of the season.

Sweden's Robin Soderling kept alive his hopes of qualifying for the ATP Tour Championships by defeating Russia's Nikolay Davydenko 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in the third round of the Paris Masters on Thursday.

Tiger Woods, playing for the first time Down Under in 11 years, shot a 6-under-par 66 that put him atop the leaderboard in the Australian Masters in Melbourne.

Back in Paris for the first time since his fourth round exit at the French Open, Rafael Nadal doesn't hold a grudge toward the French crowd.

James Blake failed to impress in his first European indoor event of what could be a brief end-of-season, with the former Top 10 player eliminated 7-6 , 6-7 , 6-4 in the first round of the Swiss Indoors Wednesday by Jeremy Chardy.

Second-seeded Serbian star Novak Djokovic highlighted Tuesday's opening-round winners at the Swiss Indoors The former Australian Open champion Djokovic handled German Andreas Beck 6-3, 7-5 at St.

Ivan Ljubicic won his first ATP World Tour title in Lyon in 2001. No. 3 seed and 2001 champion Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia meets wild card and Frenchman Michael Llodra on Sunday in the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon championship.