Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Andre Agassi Editor's note: The Bee's Paul Bauman wrote an unauthorized biography of Andre Agassi, "Agassi & Ecstasy," published in 1997. The book title "Agassi & Ecstasy" was a pun on the 1960s novel and movie about Michelangelo, "The Agony and the Ecstasy." Given Andre Agassi's recent admission of recreational drug use the same year the biography of him came...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Professional tennis player Dmitry Tursunov underwent successful ankle surgery Thursday in San Francisco, his manager said. Dr. Keith Donatto removed excess bone growth caused by long-term stress and a bone fragment from an old fracture in the 26-year-old Folsom resident's left ankle, Michael Gorin said. Donatto had removed bone spurs from the same ankle April 7. Tursunov, ranked 36th in the world,...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Folsom resident Dmitry Tursunov, ranked 36th in the world in men's professional tennis, is scheduled to have ankle surgery Thursday in San Francisco. The 26-year-old Moscow native, who has fallen 14 places in the rankings in the last 10 weeks, will have excess bone growth removed from his left ankle and miss four to six months. In an unrelated procedure, Tursunov had bone spurs removed from his left...
Tennishead (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Mens Doubles: Round 1 Nicolas Almagro (Spa) & Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (Spa) bt Teimuraz Gabashvili (Rus) & Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) 6-1 7-6 (9-7) Julian Knowle (Aut) & Jurgen Melzer (Aut) bt Fabio Fognini (Ita) & Potito Starace (Ita) 6-3 6-4 (16) Marcelo Melo (Bra) & Andre Sa (Bra) leads Daniel Koellerer (Aut) & Christophe Rochus (Bel) 2-6 6-3 6-3 Julien Benneteau (Fra) & Jeremy...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Aug 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Open men's singles first round results from New York on Monday (Prefix denotes seeding, * new result) * 15-Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic) beat Simone Bolelli (Italy) 6-4 6-4 6-4 * Leonardo Mayer (Argentina) beat Andrey Golubev (Kazakhstan) 6-4 4-6 7-5 6-3 * Marc Gicquel (France) beat Dmitry Tursunov (Russia) 6-2 5-7 6-3 6-3
ATP Mens Tennis (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
US Open 2009 Order of Play Monday August 31st Arthur Ashe Stadium 11:00 Start Viktoriya Kutuzova(UKR) vs. Kim Clijsters(BEL) Not Before:13:00 Roger Federer(SUI)[1] vs. Devin Britton(USA) Alexa Glatch(USA) vs. Serena Williams(USA)[2] 19:00 Start Vera Dushevina(RUS) vs. Venus Williams(USA)[3] Bjorn Phau(GER) vs. Andy Roddick(USA)[5] Louis Armstrong Stadium 11:00 Start Victoria Azarenka(BLR)[8] vs. Alexandra...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Folsom resident Dmitry Tursunov said Tuesday he hopes to play in the U.S. Open tennis tournament but probably will have surgery next month to remove excess bone growth in his left ankle. The operation would be Tursunov's second on the ankle this year and would sideline the 26-year-old Moscow native, ranked 36th in the world, for six months. In an unrelated procedure, Tursunov had bone spurs removed...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
Dmitry Tursunov of Folsom said Thursday he is questionable for the U.S. Open tennis tournament because of an ankle injury and probably will need surgery for the second time this year. Tursunov, ranked 32nd in the world, said doctors suspect he has bone fragments in his left ankle from past injuries. The 26-year-old Moscow native had a CT scan Thursday in San Francisco and expects the results Monday....
Tennishead (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Mens Singles: Round 1 Frederic Niemeyer (Can) bt Igor Kunitsyn (Rus) 7-5 6-1 Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) bt Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) 6-4 6-1 (9) Gilles Simon (Fra) bt Frank Dancevic (Can) 6-1 6-2 Rainer Schuettler (Ger) bt Florent Serra (Fra) 6-4 6-0 Jeremy Chardy (Fra) bt Yen-Hsun Lu (Tpe) 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-4 (13) Gael Monfils (Fra) bt Marat Safin (Rus) 6-2 3-6 6-2 Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez...
ATP Mens Tennis (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Isner on top in L Open, Safin and Haas also advance John Isner scored a 6-3 7-6 victory over Marcos Baghdatis in the second round of the LA Open. A day after upseting Benjamin Becker, Isner overcame Baghdatis and a late ankle injury with another confident display at the LA Tennis Center. Although Baghdatis saved five match points in the second set tiebreak, Isner scraped through 13-11 to seal the...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
LOS ANGELES, July 30 (UPI) -- Sam Querrey, who lost in the finals of his last two tournaments, moved past the first round of the Los Angeles Tennis Open Wednesday with a straight-sets win. Querrey defeated Denis Istomin in the last of the first-round matches 6-2, 6-0. Querry, seeded sixth this week, recently fell to Rajeev Ram in the finals of the Hall of Fame Championships and then dropped a decision...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Los Angeles - Third seed Dmitry Tursunov was forced out in his opening match Wednesday at the Los Angeles Open by a left ankle injury, giving a 6-4, 0-1 second-round win to Australian qualifier Carsten Ball. The California-based Russian, who lost the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Los Angeles - Third seed Dmitry Tursunov was forced out in his opening match Wednesday at the Los Angeles Open by a left ankle injury, giving a 6-4, 0-1 second-round win to Australian qualifier Carsten Ball. California-based Russian Tursunov, 2006 lo...
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Frank Dancevic ended Dmitry Tursunov's hopes of reaching a third successive final at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships on Friday.
ATP Mens Tennis (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Sam Querrey to meet Ginepri for Indianapolis Title Sam Querrey cruised into the Indianapolis Championships final with a 6-4 6-4 victory over Frank Dancevic and will face Robby Ginepri, who beat John Isner 6-4 6-3, in the final. “I’ve trained 150 times with each of those guys, but we’ve never played a (ATP) Tour match. I’ve had three semi-finals here and now I’ve finally...
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