Victor Hanescu News

They were not playing La Marseillaise as the players went on court, or filling the water bottles with Evian rather than Buxton, but Court 13 was all but turned into France's 97th dpartement here yesterday.

A fairly comfortable first set then for the world number 37 as he wraps it up with a forehand winner down the line, after running round the ball, after 31 minutes Mathieu P.-Troicki V. 5-4 - We're still on serve in the opening set of the Mathieu-Troicki clash with the Serb preparing to serve to stay in it after the Frenchman battered down an ace ...

Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic are chasing their eighth tour-level title of the season.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga retired in the first round of the Valencia Open on Wednesday with a wrist injury while trailing 6-7 , 6-0, 3-0 to Mikhail Youzhny of Russia.

Fourth seed Fernando Verdasco advanced to the second round of the Valencia Open on Wednesday after Spanish compatriot Oscar Hernandez retired with back trouble.

After reaching his second quarterfinal of the season, Ernests Gulbis failed to advance to his first semifinal of the year, losing in straight sets to clay-court specialist Horacio Zeballos 7-6 , 6-4. Zeballos, who has spent the greater part of his year winning five Challenger finals, while making three finals, persevered through a tough opening set ...

Ernests Gulbis reached the semi-finals on his St. Petersburg debut in 2006. Two-time St.

Ukrainian qualifier Sergiy Stakhovsky defeated German veteran Bjorn Phau 6-2, 7-5 Friday in the quarterfinals of the St.

Once touted as a future world No. 1, Latvian Ernests Gulbis has been endured one of his worst seasons to date.

Latvian Ernests Gulbis , who started working with former ATP World Tour pro Hernan Gumy last month, upset World No.

Second-seeded Victor Hanescu of Romania beat Illya Marchenko of Ukraine 6-3, 6-4 Wednesday in the second round of the St.

St. Petersburg Open - Russia No. 3 seed Viktor Troicki was ousted in first round action on Monday, losing to journeyman Karol Beck 7-6 , 4-6, 6-4. Troicki, who lost his 11th first round match of the season, struck 10 aces and won 83 percent of his first serve points while falling to 30-27 on the year.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Second-seeded Victor Hanescu of Romania advanced to the second round of the St.

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Moscow: Champion Jelena Jankovic was dumped out of the Kremlin Cup quarter-finals by Alisa Kleybanova 6-4 6-3 yesterday, a day after clinching the last remaining spot in next week's WTA championships in Doha.

Defending champion Jelena Jankovic is into the second round of the WTA Kremlin Cup after a battling three-set defeat of Jaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan here on Tuesday.

Second seed Victor Hanescu was handed his fifth consecutive loss on Tuesday, squandering a match point in a losing effort to Wayne Odesnik.

Victor Hanescu and Igor Andreev, the second and fourth seeds in the Kremlin Cup, became upset victims Tuesday.

Defending champion Jelena Jankovic advanced to the second round of the Kremlin Cup on Tuesday by defeating Yaroslava Shvedova 6-4, 5-7, 6-1. Wayne Odesnik of the United States rallied to upset second-seeded Victor Hanescu of Romania 5-7, 7-5, 6-4. Jankovic won the first set after Shvedova hit into the net twice to give her the 10th game.

Wayne Odesnik saved one match point in the second set. World No. 91 Wayne Odesnik saved one match point as he handed Victor Hanescu his fifth successive tour-level first-round defeat with a 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 victory over the No.