Jonas Bjorkman News

But two heavyweight wins earlier in the week secure his semi-final place against Juan Martin Del Potro.

Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram saved five break points. Mirnyi and Ram are making their debut together at the season finale, but it will be a second appearance in the title match for the 32-year-old Mirnyi, who lifted the trophy in 2006 with Swede Jonas Bjorkman .

Jamie Murray was back in the classroom yesterday but from next month the doubles specialist will be learning on the job with one of the most experienced hands in tennis.

Novak Djokovic joined Andy Murray on the statistical scrapheap as Nikolay Davydenko defeated Robin Soderling 7-6 4-6, 6-3 to earn the last of the semi-final places at the ATP World Tour Finals Friday.

At 3.40pm yesterday at the Stella Artois Championships here, everybody blinked. Then everybody cheered.

The famed, torn, and successful career of former world No. 1 Marat Safin ended this week with a final showing at the BNP Paribas Masters.

Here we go again, preying on the lower-ranked players. The powers that be send the X Man to solitary confinement for a year not for testing positive for a banned substance, but for missing a test and failing to disclose his whereabouts twice.

Mats Wilander has stepped down as Swedish Davis Cup captain. "I have decided not to go on," Wilander told the Aftonbladet newspaper in comments reprinted by AFP.

Australia's Todd Woodbridge and Todd Reid helped the country to a hat-trick of titles on the final day of the Championships yesterday, both tasting Grand Slam success within an hour of Lleyton Hewitt lifting the trophy in the main event.

Mike and Bob Bryan have reached the US Open final three times. Defending champions Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan reached the US Open semi-finals for a fifth time after defeating Australian duo Carsten Ball and Chris Guccione 6-4, 7-6 Tuesday in New York.

Stefan Edberg, in the final season of his distinguished career, has fitness problems before Sweden's Davis Cup semi-final against the Czech Republic starting in Prague tomorrow.

A rain-soaked Wimbledon is also inevitably steeped in nostalgia - what else to do with all those breaks except ransack the archives? But even when play was possible this week there were blasts from the past all over the place, and Jonas Bjorkman brought with him a sound of the old days with his roaring outburst during his loss to Tomas Berdych on ...

Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram are currently No. 6 in the 2009 ATP Doubles Team Rankings.

David Ferrer and Tommy Robredo also reached the Cincy quarter-finals in 2005. Top-seeded Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan avenged last weeka TMs semi-final loss at the hands of Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram , defeating the Belarusian-Israeli duo 6-4, 6-2 in second-round action Thursday at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters, an ATP World Tour Masters ...

FORMER Wimbledon champion Michael Stich's return to competitive action 12 years after his retirement lasted only 62 minutes on Tuesday, losing his doubles first round at the German Open in Hamburg.

Tennis Lleyton Hewitt, Samantha Stosur set to team up for Hopman Cup Australia's quest to break a 10-year Hopman Cup title drought have been given a massive boost with confirmation Lleyton Hewitt and Samantha Stosur will combine for the $1 million mixed teams event in Perth from January 2-9. Australia have won the event just once - in 1999 when ...

Swede Robin Soderling will have the chance to defend his Catella Swedish Open doubles title after he and partner Robert Lindstedt upset fourth-seeded Spaniards Marc Lopez and Tommy Robredo 6-4, 7-6 in the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament in Bastad on Friday.

Robert Lindstedt and Robin Soderling post a first-round upset in Bastad. Last year at the ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament in Bastad, Soderling and countryman Jonas Bjorkman had defeated Brunstrom and Rojer in the final.

US Serena Williams and US Venus Williams hold their trophies after the women's final at the 2009 Wimbledon tennis championships at the All England Club yesterday.

Mark Knowles celebrates after championship point in the mixed doubles final. While Roger Federer is a well-known private jet fractional owner, another Wimbledon champion had a different travel experience flying back from London.