Wesley Moodie News

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

Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut celebrate a first-round upset of the top seeded duo in Lyon.

Seeds tumbled like nine pins in the Shanghai Masters doubles -with South African Wesley Moodie and his Belgian partner, Dick Norman, sharing in the annihilation of all five leading pairings.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Julien Benneteau are through to their first final together.

The advantage of playing top singles players in doubles events on the ATP circuit is that there is always the strong possibility of a walkover victory.

Jean-Julien Rojer and Johan Brunstrom will contest their fourth ATP World Tour final of the season.

By Jacques van der Westhuyzen India have progressed to the World Group of the Davis Cup after taking an unassailable 3-1 lead at the Ellis Park Indoor Arena on Sunday afternoon.

The duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] have always given India an edge in the doubles rubber but the last minute pullout of Paes has made things slightly tricky for India.

The injury to India's star doubles player, Leander Paes, has swung this week's Davis Cup match marginally in South Africa's favour.

INDIA : Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi, Somdev Devvarman, Rohan Bopanna, Yuki Bhamri South Africa : Wesley Moodie, Jeff Coetzee, Rik de Voest, Izak van der Merwe, Raven Klaasen Somdev Devvarman, who qualified and took a round at the US Open, will spearhead India's challenge at the Davis Cup World Group play-off against South Africa in Johannesburg ...

Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy reached their first major final at the 2008 US Open.

Paes and Dloughy, seeded fourth, beat seventh seeded Wesley Moodie of Russia and Dick Norman of Belgium in three sets 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in the quarter final at Flushing Meadows.

Bhupathi and Knowles beat Ljubicic and Llodra 6-4, 4-6, 7-6. Earlier, Fourth seeds Leander Paes [ Images ] and Lukas Dlouhy [ Images ] entered the semi-finals, beating seventh seeds Wesley Moodie of South Africa [ Images ] and Dick Norman of Belgium 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 on Tuesday.

South Africa's Wesley Moodie and his Belgium partner, Dick Norman, continued their giant strides in grand slam doubles this year by reaching the quarter-finals of the United States Open with a photo-finish 6-7 7-6 7-6 win over the Czech Republic's Martin Damm and Sweden's Robert Lindstedt.

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

New Delhi News.Net Friday 4th September, 2009 New York, Sep 3 : India's Somdev Devvarman lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in the men's second round of the US Open on Thursday.

The Bryan brothers are two-time US Open champions. Top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan began their title defence Thursday at the US Open with a confident 6-3, 6-4 win over Argentines Jose Acasuso and Martin Vassallo Arguello .A They needed just a break in each set to close out the 69-minute win.

Bob and Mike Bryan have a 21-6 record at the Canadian tournament. Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic , the leading pair in the 2009 ATP Doubles Team Rankings, will meet third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles in the semi-finals of the Rogers Cup , an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 hard-court tennis tournament in Montreal, on Saturday.

Top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan opened their title campaign Thursday at the Rogers Cup , an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tennis tournament in Montreal, with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Robert Lindstedt and Marcelo Melo .

WESLEY Moodie has returned to the SA Davis Cup team, but national No1 Kevin Anderson is still not available for next month's World Group play-off against India.