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Shanghai Masters Semifinals Preview

Five days and eight injury retirements later, the Shanghai Masters semifinals are set. In the last quarterfinals match on Friday, Ivan Ljubicic pulled out of his match against Rafael Nadal in the third set with noticeable pain in his left thigh. He joined an absurdly long list of players to withdraw due to injury in...

Why Is Nikolay Davydenko Still Playing Tennis Amid Match Fixing Accusations?

On August 2, Russian Nikolay Davydenko, the No. 4 tennis player in the world, quit during a match against Martin Vassallo, the No. 87 tennis player in the world. By default, that made Vassallo the winner.Davydenko said he quit because he was hurt. But $1.5 million had been gambled on Vassallo to win, and Davydenko is being...

Nikolay Davydenko Fined for Not Trying

This is absolutely incredible: The ATP has fined Russian tennis player Nikolay Davydenko $2,000 for "lack of best effort." The "lack of best effort" took place during a loss to Croatian Marian Cilic at the St. Petersburg Open on Thursday. Davydenko was the top seed and easily won the first set, but then he collapsed to...

Men's Tennis Scandal Gains Weight

A few weeks back, we pointed you in the direction of the controversy surrounding a recent men's tennis match between Nikolay Davydenko and Martin Vassallo Arguello. Essentially, Betfair, a British online gambling site refused to pay out anything on the match because an unusually exorbitant amount of money was placed on...

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05/29/12 Tursunov Downs Flat Soeda at Roland Garros Source: RIA Novosti - Russia Russian world No. 88 Dmitry Tursunov surprised an out-of-sorts Go Soeda on Tuesday, winning in straight sets in the first round of the French Open. The Russian prevailed 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 to knock out the Japanese player, ranked 30 places higher, and set up a second-round match with either 29th seed Julien Benneteau of France or Moscow-born German player Mischa Zverev.
05/27/12 Davydenko Returns to Top 50 after Nice Charge Source: RIA Novosti - Russia Russian tennis player Nikolay Davydenko has returned to the world top 50 in the latest ATP rankings published Sunday after he reached the semifinal of the 400,000-euro clay court Nice Open. The four-time Grand Slam semifinalist is now ranked 47th after gaining six places.
05/25/12 Baker test for Almagro Source: Sky News Nicolas Almagro reached his third final of the year with a 6-1 6-3 victory over Gilles Simon in Nice on Friday.
05/23/12 Davydenko Advances to Nice Quarterfinals Source: RIA Novosti - Russia Nikolay Davydenko advanced to the quarterfinals of the Nice Open on Wednesday with a hard-fought win over Denis Istomina of Uzbekistan.
05/13/12 Lorenzi upsets Davydenko Source: Sportal (New Zealand) Italian wildcard Paolo Lorenzi won through to the second round of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia after a 6-3 2-6 6-3 win over Nikolay Davydenko.