Courtprolive - Tennis News

This story is a couple days old, but worth refreshing. On the heels on Nikolay Davenko’s investigation last month, I wrote about how tennis is an easy target for criminal organizations looking to cash in by fixing matches. Well, things are not getting any better for tennis.

"I'm a little bit tight for my brother just because he's being doing it for a while and hasn't won it yet and the pressure's on," said McEnroe

Sure enough, Russia and Germany could get involved in a close encounter in Moscow, but who cares about teams headlined by Nikolay Davydenko and Tommy Haas, when you have Novak Djokovic and Lleyton Hewitt grind it out on a moon-landscaped clay court, in front of nearly 20,000 out-of-their-mind Serbs, which just happens to be the biggest Davis Cup crowd ever, outside of a final.

There's a method to the seeming madness in the WTA Tour announcing a second season-ending tournament to start in 2009 in Bali, Indonesia.

Surprise, surprise. Well, not really. For the 12th time in his career Roger Federer has been passed over as the Sports Illustrated cover boy following a Grand Slam title.

Sept 12 (Reuters) - China Open men's singles results on Wednesday (prefix number denotes seeding, * = new result).

BEIJING, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Fourth seed Ivan Ljubicic swept into the quarter-finals of the China Open on Wednesday with an emphatic 6-1 6-1 win over Viktor Troicki.

Sept 12 (Reuters) - China Open men's singles results on Wednesday (prefix number denotes seeding, * = new result).

First round 6-Lee Hyung-taik (South Korea) beat Bjoern Phau (Germany) 7-6 6-1 3-Tommy Robredo (Spain) beat Denis Gremelmayr (Germany) 6-2 6-4 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports)

BEIJING, Sept 12 (Reuters) - World number one Justine Henin has pulled out of next week's China Open because of a respiratory infection, organisers said on Wednesday.