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From : Sebouh Z Tashjian Date : Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:53:56 +0400 DAVID NALBANDIAN WINS COPA ARGENTINA FINALS /PanARMENIAN.Net/ 21.12.2009 14:02 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Argentinean tennis player of Armenian descent, David Nalbandian, won Copa Argentina finals in Buenos Aires, gaining 6:4, 6:4 victory over Marcos Baghdatis.

Despite losing 3:6, 7:5, 4:6 in the last 3 sets to his compatriot Gaston Gaudio, David Nalbandian managed to make it to the finals.

Carlos Moy and Gastn Gaudio will open the seventh Tennis Peugeot Cup in Argentina held at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club that will last until Sunday 20 and will count with the presence of national and international renowned tennis players.

To some that may have been a funny way to put it for an alternate who wouldn't have gained entry in the tournament if it hadn't been for Andy Roddick's ailing knee.

EDENHOPE tennis player Oscar McDonald has been selected to represent Country Victoria in a national junior event in January.

Open: An Autobiography, by Andre Agassi, Alfred A. Knopf, 388 pages. During summer in 1997, tennis star Andre Agassi did the dangerous drug crystal meth, came up positive on a drug test, lied to the Association of Tennis Professionals in a letter begging for clemency, and was let off the hook.

Marcos Baghdatis finished the 2009 season by winning the If Stockholm Open title.

Men's Tour Juan Martin del Potro replaces Marcos Baghdatis in Kooyong Classic field US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro will fine-tune his Australian Open campaign at Melbourne's Kooyong Classic in January.

Enigmatic tennis great Agassi lays it all on the line. Near the end of his beefy confession, the author excerpts one of the more famous passages from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": "Do I contradict myself? / Very well, then, I contradict myself." It's a powerful invocation that resonates well with the portrait unveiled here of the boy born with ...

Roger Federer made a winning return from a six-week break with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Olivier Rochus of Belgium at his hometown Swiss Indoors tournament.

Top-seeded Robin Soderling has withdrawn from the Stockholm Open semifinals because of an elbow injury.

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.

BASEL, Switzerland: Roger Federer eased through to the second round of the Swiss Indoors on Monday on his return after a six week break with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Belgian qualifier Olivier Rochus.

Australia outplay India in thrilling first ODI VADODARA: World champions Australia kept their cool in the last over to beat India by four runs in a thrilling one-dayer on Sunday.

The headline, "Free Pass", highlighted a fundamental flaw in tournament tennis. The subtitle read, "Marcos Baghdatis was handed a spot in the Stockholm Open final after top seed Robin Soderling withdrew from the semis with an elbow injury." It was the second time in the last three month's Soderling's elbow injury prompted his withdrawal - he ...

Cypriot tennis star Marcos Baghdatis lifts the trophy of the $600,000 ATP tournament he won in Stockholm on Sunday, the third in his career.

REUTERS/Soren Andersson via Daylife Marcos Baghdatis won his first ATP title since 2007 on Sunday beating fellow un-seeded player, Olivier Rochus at the Stockholm Open : 6-1, 7-5. To be fair to Olivier, the diminutive Belgian played a three set semifinal on Saturday against Thomaz Bellucci while Marcos got a walkover from Robing Soderling.

A few thoughts from the tennis world ... 1. For years, many of you have joined me in begging the WTA to euthanize the failed experiment that is "on-court coaching." We may finally get our wish.

Baghdatis tops Rochus in Stockholm final October 25, 2009 Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus beat Olivier Rochus of Belgium 6-1, 7-5 on Sunday, winning the Stockholm Open for his third career ATP Tour singles title just a week after learning he had gained the event's main draw.

Kremlin Cup MOSCOW, Russia Mikhail Youzhny kept the title in the family Sunday is Moscow, becoming the sixth straight Russian to win the Kremlin Cup.