Ivan Ljubicic News

Swiss wild cards Marco Chiudinelli and Roger Federer suffered defeat on their team's debut.

Roger Federer tamed childhood friend Marco Chiudinelli 7-6 6-3 on Saturday, winning his 19th straight match at the pair's home Swiss Indoors to set up a final with Novak Djokovic.

Over the last month at least 20 matches on the ATP Tour have failed to finish - or did not even start - because of injury.

Tennis Cruise control ... the world No.1 put on a show for his home crowd. AP Roger Federer, Marin Cilic advance at ATP Davidoff Swiss Indoors November 05, 2009 Swiss world No.1 Roger Federer took just an hour to crush Italian Andreas Seppi 6-3 6-3 and reach the quarter-finals of the ATP Davidoff Swiss Indoors.

AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani via Daylife Andre Agassi wasn't the only bald tennis-playing daddy making news this weekend.

An onslaught of 28 aces went for nought as huge Croatian server Ivo Karlovic was tamed 7-6 , 6-4 by Frenchman Florent in the opening round of the Swiss Indoors Monday.

Like many proud parents, Ivan Ljubicic will tell you the birth of his first child, Leonardo, was the proudest moment of his life.

Serena Williams said she didn't arrive at the Sony Ericsson Championships expecting to win.

Ukrainian qualifier Sergiy Stakhovsky finished off a surprising week with a three-set victory over Argentina's Horacio Zeballos to capture the title at the St.

Ivan Ljubicic won his first ATP World Tour title in Lyon in 2001. No. 3 seed and 2001 champion Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia meets wild card and Frenchman Michael Llodra on Sunday in the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon championship.

Third-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia reached the semifinals of the Lyon Grand Prix on Friday by beating Florent Serra of France 7-6 , 6-2. Ljubicic, the 2001 Lyon champion, served 16 aces and broke his opponent twice in the second set before closing out the game on his second match point.

Third seed Ivan Ljubicic , the 2001 champion, fired 27 aces past Nicolas Kiefer in a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win at the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon on Thursday.A Ljubicic converted two of 11 break point opportunities to extend his record to 4-0 over No.

Thursday, October 29, 2009 LYON, France: Top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga served 14 aces and needed two tie-breakers to beat Kevin Kim of the United States 7-6 , 7-6 in the first round of the Lyon Grand Prix on Tuesday.

Third-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia beat Martin Vassallo Arguello of Argentina 6-3, 6-4 Tuesday in the first round of the Lyon Grand Prix.

Moments after the 66th-ranked Cypriot captured his first tournament title in 32 months with today's 6-1, 7-5 victory over Olivier Rochus in the IF Stockholm Open final, Baghdatis dropped to his knees and kissed the court in the Royal Tennis Hall in jubilation.

Nikolay Davydenko beat Rafael Nadal 7-6 , 6-3 in the final of the Shanghai Masters on Sunday.A This is Davydenko's fourth title of the season and his third career Masters title.

Ivan Ljubicic , former world number three, expresses his love of Guns and Roses, Metallica and George Clooney.

The sixth-seeded Davydenko broke decisively in the sixth game of the second set to collect his 18th career title.

Top seed Rafa Nadal moved into the semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters on Friday when Ivan Ljubicic became the eighth player to retire from the $3.24 million tournament.

Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who will meet Ivan Ljubicic in the quarter-finals, has a 4-1 record against the Croatian.