Luis Horna News

The Peruvian tennis team lost the first men's singles to Canada on Friday, trailing 1-0 in Group One of the Americas Zone in the Davis Cup here.

Canada will look to hold on to its place in the Davis Cup when it faces Peru in a five-match first-round playoff starting Friday.

Second seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic successfully defended their Wimbledon title with a 7-6 , 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 victory over rivals Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan in a gripping final on Saturday at the All England Club.

Third seeds Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes advanced to their second Grand Slam final after edging past top seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic 7-6 , 7-6 in the Roland Garros semi-finals in Paris on Thursday.

Top seeds Nenad Zimonjic and Daniel Nestor were rarely troubled in a 6-0, 6-3 victory over German-Dutch duo Christopher Kas and Rogier Wassen to reach the Roland Garros quarter-finals on Sunday.

Canadian Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic cruised into the semifinals of the French Open on Tuesday with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Russians Igor Kunitsyn and Dmitry Tursunov.

Not with ease Second seed, Roger Federer nearly avoided his earliest loss from grand slam event since 2003.

There are times, particularly when attention is diverted by the far more serious matter of lunch, when the main show court here at the French Open can be as deserted as a Metro station during one of the strikes that periodically paralyse Paris.

Third seeds Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes marked the one-year anniversary of their partnership as they opened doubles action Wednesday at Roland Garros with a comfortable 6-1, 6-3 victory over the French team of Sebastien De Chaunac and Benoit Paire.

Andy Roddick banked some honeymoon cash last week with two exhibition matches in South America ahead of this weekend's reported marriage to Sports Illustrated model Brooklyn Decker.

This weekend's Israel-Sweden Davis Cup tie will be a silent affair - played in a closed arena without fans due to Malmo government officials' security concerns over extremist local demonstrators against Israel ...

Fifth seed and two-time former finalist Jose Acasuso leads six Argentine players in second round action on Thursday at the Copa Telmex, an ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament in Buenos Aires.

14 in September, 2003. The 30-year-old Dutchman, who was hampered by an assortment of injuries, is currently ranked No.