Fernando Verdasco News Archives

The Valencia Tennis Open will be held in Valencia, Spain from November 2-9, with this year, the tournament being held in the newly-constructed Agora building, a stunning arena developed along the desiccated soil along the River Turia.

Spainard Fernando Verdasco enjoyed a sensational run to the Semi Finals of the Australian Open earlier this year.

Marin Cilic took a wild card into the tournament. A busy Tuesday schedule features top seed Marin Cilic of Croatia, top Austrian and No.

DUBAI // The UAE's top tennis players will benefit from the same expertise that set the likes of Fernando Verdasco and Feliciano Lopez on the path to stardom, after a co-operative agreement with the Spanish Tennis Federation was penned yesterday.

Men's Tour Robin Soderling beats Guillermo Garcia-Lopez to reach Stockholm semis From correspondents in Stockholm, Sweden October 24, 2009 Top seed Robin Soderling kept home title hopes alive when he defeated Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 6-4 in the Stockholm Open quarter-finals. The Swede, who was runner-up to Argentina's David Nalbandian in ...

The top seed, who is playing for the first time in his career as a member of the ATP Top ten, can lift his chances of reaching one of the last two spots in the eight-man World Tour Finals with a title at the weekend.

It is one of the most prestigious competitions in the tennis calendar and the eight players who compete will be looking to end the year on a high with a victory.

Nikolay Davydenko won his third ATP World Tour Masters 1000 trophy. As victor of the penultimate ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament of the year, Davydenko earned 1000 South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking points, moving him up one place to No.

Swedish tennis star and French Open finalist Robin Soderling resumes his fight to earn one of the three remaining spots in the ATP World Tour Finals when he plays as top seed at his home Stockholm Open starting Monday.

Nikolay Davydenko avenged last year's Tennis Masters Cup final defeat by Novak Djokovic to upset the world No.

ABU DHABI // It goes against the grain for top-class tennis players not to defend their hard-earned tournament successes but Andy Murray has decided against returning to Abu Dhabi to seek a repeat triumph in the Capitala at Zayed Sports City.

Gael Monfils, under the guidance of Lleyton Hewitt's former coach Roger Rasheed, improved to a 35-15 season record.

SHANGHAI: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Fernando Verdasco, acclaimed for their speed around the court, admitted to feeling a little nervous themselves as they played a modified exhibition match while hurtling around Shanghai in one of the world's fastest commercial high-speed trains.

Shanghai - Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Spain's Fernando Verdasco staged a brief show of mini tennis at 430km/h on Tuesday aboard one of the world's fastest trains.

Tommy Haas played an Asian match for the first time in more than two years, defeating compatriot Benjamin Becker 7-6 , 6-4 Tuesday to advance into the second round of the Shanghai Masters.

Martin Damm and Robert Lindstedt lost in a Match Tie-break to Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak.

Shao-Xuan Zeng, the 396th-ranked wildcard from China, upset Dudi Sela of Israel 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 Sunday in the first round at the Shanghai Masters.

No. 2 seed Novak Djokovic had little trouble in disposing of countryman Viktor Troicki on Wednesday, defeating the 23-year-old 6-3, 6-0. The one hour and one minute contest featured Djokovic at the top of his return game.

WHEN last in Brisbane, Spanish slugger Fernando Verdasco told fans he would be back at the 2010 Brisbane International.

Photograph: Feng Li/Getty Images The second seed Novak Djokovic overcame Spain's Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 in the quarter-finals of the China Open on Friday to move within one victory of reclaiming the world No3 ranking.

With Serena's unfortunate and totally inappropriate US Open tirade still fresh in the public's mind, his article only adds more fuel to the fire of Serena haters and they are legion.

Second seed Novak Djokovic cruised into the quarterfinals of the China Open in Beijing with a straight sets victory over fellow-Serb Viktor Troicki on Wednesday.

Defending champion Andy Roddick suffered a surprise first-round exit at the China Open following a straight sets defeat by Lukasz Kubot.

French Open finalist Robin Soderling used his superior size and strength in winning four consecutive matches against Nikolay Davydenko so when the third-seeded Swede surrendered only one game in storming through the first set of today's Kuala Lumpur semifinal, it seemed to be business as usual.

Top-seededed Nikolay Davydenko of Russia defeated Fernando Verdasco of Spain 6-4, 7-5 to win the Malaysia Open on Sunday.

Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko overcame a sloppy first set to beat No. 3 Robin Soderling of Sweden 1-6, 7-6 , 6-2 Saturday to set up a Malaysia Open final against Fernando Verdasco.

Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko overcame Gael Monfils of France 6-3, 6-3 Friday to reach the semifinals of the Malaysian Open.

Second-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, fourth-seeded Chilean Fernando Gonzalez and fifth-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils highlighted Thursday's second-round winners at the inaugural $947,750 Malaysian Open.