Juan Martin Del Potro News

Three-time champ Roger Federer reached the quarterfinals at Basel today followign a 6-3, 6-3 triumph over Andreas Seppi.

Jurgen Melzer defeated top-seeded Marin Cilic 6-4, 6-3 to win the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy on Sunday.

Roger Federer returns after six weeks off resting and easing into his new role as a father of twin girls when he headlines at his home event, the Swiss Indoors, starting on Monday.

Home favourite Juergen Melzer followed up his quarter-final win over second seed Radek Stepanek by beating Janko Tipsarevic 4-6 7-6 6-4 on Saturday to reach the Vienna Open final.

Say the words "off season" around a bunch of professional tennis players and then watch as they double over in fits of uncontrollable laughter .

The ATP Tour is set to culminate this year, at the end of a very long season, in London's grand O2 Arena between Nov.

An out-of-sorts Roger Federer smashed his racket in frustration as he fell to a 3-6 6-2 6-3 defeat to Serbiaa s Novak Djokovic in the semi-final of the Sony Ericsson Open Friday.

In the last two years, World No. 1 Roger Federer has been on the brink of winning a Grand Slam for the sixth year running and two years running the Swiss maestro has failed to do so.

For anyone to vanquish the indomitable Roger Federer in a Grand-Slam final is certainly monumental, but the fact that at 6-foot-6, Del Potro became the tallest player ever to win a Grand Slam singles title suggests that his victory might be the beginning of something even bigger.

Pete Sampras predicts Roger Federer still has a few more Grand Slam titles to win despite his recent loss in the U.S. Open final.

Somewhere Andy Roddick has to be cracking a smile, if only a little one. The American's complaint just a few days ago that the lengthy ATP season is causing injuries is proving ever prophetic by the day.

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U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro retired because of right wrist tendinitis while trailing Jurgen Melzer of Austria 7-5, 2-1 Wednesday at the Shanghai Masters.

US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro retired because of a right wrist injury while losing 7-5 2-1 to Austrian Melzer in the second round of the Shanghai Masters.

U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro will stand in for Roger Federer at the invitational Kooyong Classic in January if the Swiss world number one decides against defending his title, organizers said Tuesday.

World No. 2 Rafael Nadal battled to victory on his return from injury at the China Open on Tuesday, but third seed Andy Roddick made an early exit.

I just wanted to post about this because I'm so sick of doing the "another top seed on the WTA tour loses early!" posts.

Cricket is working hard to not lose its place in the sun. THE faithful are sticking to a time-honoured line - ''cricket is the sound of summer'' - but even in Jolimont there is recognition that, more than ever, the traditional staple faces an unprecedented challenge to make itself heard.

This is the first in a set of four articles that analyze two rivalries that have come under the scanner following the recent results on the ATP Tour.

One could not help but applaud the emphatic way in which the young Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro earned the first Grand Slam title of his career, last month at the US Open.