Taylor Dent News

Andy Roddick, who is recovering from a knee injury, is the headliner for the Bay Area's most prestigious men's tennis tournament, the SAP Open, to be held the second week of February at HP Pavilion in San Jose.

Random thoughts, observations and opinions from the tennis scene in and around Ventura County: n The best junior player in Ventura County is without question Marcos Giron of Thousand Oaks.

The dust has cleared. The smoke has settled. The players--finally--are resting. Now it's time to hand out grades for all Top 100 players on the ATP Tour based on their 2009 performances.

In the first chapter of this two part series examining the 2009 season's highlights and lowlights from the professionals tours, we focused our attention towards the men as Roger Federer captured his record 15th Grand Slam, veteran American Taylor Dent came back from a severe back injury to finish the year at #76 in the rankings, and veteran Belgian ...

Pete Sampras will return to San Jose next year to play in another exhibition. SAP Open tournament officials said Friday that Sampras will kick off this year's tournament with an exhibition match against Spain's Fernando Verdasco on Feb.

Cosumnes River College beat Ventura College 3-0 in a California Community College State Women's Final 4 semifinal Friday at CRC.

The skill, determination and bravery of the 18-year-old Andy Murray has ensured that Britain march into tomor-row's US Open with that comparative luxury, a trio of repres- entatives.

It's near on 1 a.m. and I have just gotten back from the hospital. Here's what happened.. I was one spot out of the doubles main draw here in Puebla, and have been asking a friend of mine what the status of his injured hand was in case he couldn't play and had to pull out of the doubles giving us a chance to play.

Michael Berrer beat Dominik Hrbaty 6-7 64 7-6 to win the men's singles at the Ritro Slovak Open in Bratislava, Slovak Republic Michael Russell won the JSM Challenger of Champaign-Urbana, beating Taylor Dent 7-5 6-4 in Champaign, Illinois, USA Eduardo Schwank beat Jorge Aguilar 7-5 6-4 to win the Lima Challenger 2009 in Lima, Peru Takao Suzuki beat ...

Taylor Dent powered past top-seeded Kevin Kim, 6-1, 6-2, in 57 minutes to advance to the JSM Challenger final in Urban, Illinois.

Taylor Dent against will face fifth-seeded Jesse Levine in the marquee quarterfinal of the JSM Challenger in Urbana, Illinois today.

Colt Gaston was an All-American at LSU before graduating in 2007. Rome native Colt Gaston is now officially among the top 500 tennis players in the world.

Taylor Dent has returned to the top 100 and returns to tournament action this week as one of the headliners in the $50,000 JSM Challenger of Champaign-Urbana in Illinois.

Taylor Dent took another step Saturday afternoon on his long comeback trail from a back injury and surgery.

If you look at Ilija Bozoljac's Web site, you would think he's a Serbian celebrity.

Nobody can accuse Ryan Sweeting of being too cocky. Sweeting, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., knocked off top-seeded Wayne Odesnik 6-3, 6-4 in Thursday's quarterfinals of the $50,000 Knoxville Challenger tennis tournament at Tennessee's Goodfriend Tennis Center, and he sounded humble when asked if he was confident going into the match.

Kaden Hensel didn't let a gift from his friend go to waste Tuesday afternoon. Hensel, former No.

RUSSIA'S Mikhail Youzhny rallied to beat Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-7 , 6-0, 6-4 to win the Kremlin Cup, while Italian Francesca Schiavone won her second career title, beating Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-3, 6-0 for the women's crown.

Mikhail Youzhny on a roll in Moscow. No. 3 seed Mikhail Youzhny looks to extend the Russian title streak in Moscow to six consecutive years on Sunday as he takes on No.

Although his opponent in the final of the $50,000 USTA Men's Pro Tennis Championship of Calabasas was 11 years his senior and ranked 129spots higher on the ATP World Tour, it was 20-year-old Donald Young who played like a savvy veteran Sunday.