Tomas Berdych News

Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco will hope to put a combined six defeats at last week's season-ending ATP event in London well behind them as the pair lead Spain into the weekend's Davis Cup final against the Czech Republic.

In this week's Sports News, Czech preparations go smoothly for the Davis Cup clash with Spain; Sarka Zahrobska does what she does best in Aspen, Colorado, with another downhill slalom World Cup victory; and Sparta Prague catch up to Teplice at the top of the football league, although the flu-struck league leaders were allowed to make an early start ...

PRAGUE : Radek Stepanek and Tomas Berdych will spearhead the Czech Republic's bid for Davis Cup glory when they face Spain in next week's final, team cheif Jaroslav Navratil said Saturday.

Top 10 duo Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco have returned to the Spain side for next month's Davis Cup final against Czech Republic, captain Albert Costa said yesterday.

Nicolas Almagro was hurting. Rafael Nadal was reeling. And neither man was in the mood for losing.

A fairly comfortable first set then for the world number 37 as he wraps it up with a forehand winner down the line, after running round the ball, after 31 minutes Mathieu P.-Troicki V. 5-4 - We're still on serve in the opening set of the Mathieu-Troicki clash with the Serb preparing to serve to stay in it after the Frenchman battered down an ace ...

World number two Rafael Nadal saved five match points before overcoming Nicolas Almagro 3-6 7-6 7-5 in a thrilling all-Spanish second-round battle at the Paris Masters on Wednesday.

Tomas Berdych, who won the BNP Paribas Masters in 2005 for his lone Masters 1000 title, defeated French qualifier Vincent Millot, 6-3, 7-4 , in first-round action Monday.

Tomas Berdych has beaten French qualifier Vincent Millot 6-3, 7-6 to reach the second round of the Paris Masters.

The final Masters 1000 event of the season will once again host the game's best at the Paris Bercy.

Friends and French Davis Cup teammates Gilles Simon and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga were both pushed to decisive third sets in Valencia with decidedly different outcomes.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was forced to retire with a wrist injury while trailing Mikhail Youzhny 6-7 6-0 3-0 in round one of the Valencia Open.

Fernando Verdasco is chasing a Barclays ATP World Tour Finals spot. No. 4 seed Fernando Verdasco , who captured his first ATP World Tour title in Valencia five years ago, plays countryman and wild card Oscar Hernandez in the first round Wednesday at the Valencia Open 500.

Nikolay Davydenko of Russia cruised into the second round of the Valencia Open with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Colombian qualifier Alejandro Falla .

Agassi thinks he may have taken speed This January 21, 2004 file photo shows U.S. tennis player Andre Agassi during a break from the hot Australian sun during his men's singles second round match against Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

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

It's official - the Grouchy Season has started. Here's Nadal complaining about the long season to reporters in Shanghai on Tuesday: "Ita s impossible to play 1st of January and finish 5th of December.

Second seed Novak Djokovic captured this third title of the season on Sunday, defeating Marin Cilic 6-2, 7-6 . The match took a pivotal momentum shift in the first set, with the scored tied at 2-2, deuce.

The Russian, who is retiring after next month's Paris Masters, claimed Berdych feigned injury during his 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 win.

Tomas Berdych next will face former World No. 1 Marat Safin. ATP World Tour No. 14 Gael Monfils maintained his good run of form with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over French compatriot Paul-Henri Mathieu Tuesday in the first round of the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 Presented by Rolex, the penultimate ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament of the season.