Tommy Haas News

Roger Federer is playing in the ATP World Tour's season-ending championship for an eighth time in 2009 at the O2 Arena in London.

How hard is Steffi's forehand these days?" your correspondent asked Andre Agassi after the world's No 1 tennis player had spent 20 minutes practising with Steffi Graf on the Centre Court at the Schleyer Halle in Stuttgart.

As he took in the less than awe-inspiring surrounds of the North Harbour Tennis Park in January this year, John Isner could have been forgiven for wondering how it had all come to this, not to mention just where the hell he was.

Idea and Format: Courtesy U.S. It was a fine Monday afternoon in the world's most romantic city.

Marat Safin ended his pro tennis career Wednesday after losing to Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in the second round of the Paris Masters.

Novak Djokovic beat Juan Monaco of Argentina 6-3, 7-5 Wednesday to reach the third round of the Paris Masters.

Students from eight Evansville schools were honored as Kiwanis Award winners for cross country at the Northside club's luncheon on Tuesday at the Meadows Inn.

A Connecticut judge has ordered CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz to pay his ex-wife $916,000 a year in alimony and child support.

Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images Andy Murray has revealed that he is so determined to get everything right in an effort to do well at the Australian Open in January that he is to forego his traditional Christmas at home in favour of staying at his training base in Miami.

The French tennis federation is considering whether to move the French Open from its Roland Garros home if an extension project at the venue does not get the go-ahead within a year.

Tommy Haas withdrew from this week's ATP tournament in Switzerland after becoming ill with what turned out to be swine flu.

BERLIN: Germany's Tommy Haas, a Wimbledon semi-finalist this year, is recovering from the H1N1 flu virus that forced him to pull out of last month's Stockholm event.

Germany's Tommy Haas has pulled out of this week's Davidoff Swiss Indoors tennis tournament in Basle after contracting swine flu.

Sam Querrey will start the new year clad in new clothes. Querrey is changing his stripes .

After struggling past Greg Rusedski in the 3rd round Pete Sampras appeared very lucky still to be involved in his home Grand Slam.

Say the words "off season" around a bunch of professional tennis players and then watch as they double over in fits of uncontrollable laughter .

Former world No. 1 Maria Sharapova, on the mend from a shoulder injury that sidelined her earlier this year, has scheduled a return appearance to Memphis.

French Open runner-up Robin Soderling kept his ATP World Tour Finals chances alive on Thursday by overpowering Italy's Andreas Seppi 6-1, 6-3 to move into the quarter-finals of the Stockholm Open.

German Tommy Haas tested his recent Shanghai shoulder niggle with resounding success Wednesday, opening his account at the Stockholm Open with 17 aces on the way to a 6-3, 6-4 defeat of Frenchman Florent Serra.

MOSCOW: Maria Kirilenko of Russia upset third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday in the first round of the Kremlin Cup.