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  • Svitolina Defends Title in Baku

    Svitolina Defends Title in Baku

    Elina Svitolina

    Elena Svitolina of Ukraine defeated Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia in the final in Azerbaijan on Sunday 6-1, 7-6(2).

    The second-seeded Svitolina, ranked No. 38, took the opening set in 22 minutes, breaking the Serbian twice, and won the second set tiebreak at 2.  Svitolina, 19, is the first teenager to win multiple WTA titles since Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who won three titles in 2010 and 2011 before turning 20.

    Jovanovski, age 22 and ranked No. 36, was the 2012 champion at Baku, and had been going for her third career title.

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  • Mona Barthel Wins Swedish Open

    Mona Barthel Wins Swedish Open

    Mona Barthel

    German Mona Barthel won her third career WTA title at the Swedish Open by beating South African Chanelle Scheepers 6-3, 7-6(3).

    Barthel fought from 5-3 down in a tough second set to claim victory and end Scheepers’s hopes.

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  • Caroline Wozniacki Wins Istanbul Cup

    Caroline Wozniacki Wins Istanbul Cup

    Caroline Wozniacki

    Caroline Wozniacki returned to top form with a victory in the final of the Istanbul Cup in Turkey over Roberta Vinci.

    Wozniacki served up two bread-sticks en route to a comfortable 6-1, 6-1 victory behind a dominant service game.

    “I served well and pushed her around the court,” said Wozniacki, who held serve for the duration of the match.

    The victory moves Wozniacki back up to No. 13 in the world rankings. Hours later, former fiance Rory McIlroy won the British Golf Open at Royal Liverpool.

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  • Bogota Bliss for Bernard Tomic

    Bogota Bliss for Bernard Tomic

    Bernard Tomic

    Bernard Tomic’s recent woes came to an end with a hard-fought victory over Ivo Karlovic to win the final of the Claro Open in Bogota, Colombia.

    The Australian won a final set tiebreak against the huge serving Karlovic to win the second title of his career.

    Tomic had entered the tournament as a wildcard and returns to the Top 100 a few days after being unceremoniously dumped by his IMG management team. His $129,835 will go some way to repairing the damage.

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  • Leonardo Mayer Wins First ATP Title in Hamburg

    Leonardo Mayer Wins First ATP Title in Hamburg

    Leonardo Mayer

    Argentine Leonardo Mayer claimed the first ATP title of his career by defeating top seeded David Ferrer in three sets, 6-7(3), 6-1, 7-6(4), at the Bet-at-Home Open in Hamburg, Germany.

    Mayer, 27, had a break in the first set and a chance to serve it out at 5-4 before being broken by Ferrer and losing the subsequent tiebreak.

    The second set was a more decisive affair with 46th ranked Mayer brushing off his earlier nerves and dominated proceedings to take the second stanza 6-1.

    The third set was another close affair with Mayer again being broken back when serving for the set (and in this case, the match). Unlike the opening set, Ferrer wasn’t able to capitalize and the Argentine was able to close out victory in 2 hours 20 minutes to take the €272,300 winner’s cheque.

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  • Australian Match Fixing Arrests

    Australian Match Fixing Arrests

    General Tennis 1

    Six men from Victoria, Australia, have been arrested in a police sting against match-fixing.

    The investigation leading to the arrests was carried out by the Australian specialist Purana Task Force, following allegations that matches were predetermined by one or more of the players. All six have been arrested in relation to offences under the Crimes Amendment Act relating to sporting integrity.

    Tennis Australia confirmed that they are working with the police.

  • Breaking Bad: Petkovic Wins Nurnberger Title

    Breaking Bad: Petkovic Wins Nurnberger Title

    Andrea Petkovic

    Andrea Petkovic won her second title of the year at the Nurnberger Gastein Ladies tournament in Bad Gastein by defeating Shelby Rogers 6-3, 6-3.

    Rogers was a surprise finalist and defeated the second seed Sara Errani en route to the championship decider. It was her debut in a WTA final.

    Both players exchanged breaks in the first set, before Petkovic broke Rogers to take a 5-3 lead. She served out the final game to take the opening stanza.

    The second set initially looked like Petkovic was going to run away with proceedings. She jumped out to a 3-0 lead with a double break. Rogers fought back twice but had difficulty consolidating her serve throughout the set, and her more experienced opponent ran out the match by taking the second set and the championship 6-3.

    Petkovic, ranked No. 20, now has four career WTA titles to her name and this was her second of the year after triumphing at Charleston in April.

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  • Hall of Fame Inductees 2014

    Hall of Fame Inductees 2014

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    The International Tennis Hall of Fame inducted its “Class of 2014” at the annual Newport Tennis Championships. The class of 2014 comprised of the following figures from the sport:

    Nick Bollettieri (Contributor)
    Lindsay Davenport (Recent Player)
    Jane Brown Grimes (Contributor)
    John Barrett (Contributor)

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  • Hewitt Annexes Newport HOF Titles

    Hewitt Annexes Newport HOF Titles

    Lleyton Hewitt

    Lleyton Hewitt completed a rare double at the Newport Hall of Fame Tennis Championships by winning both singles and doubles events.

    He won the singles event defeating huge serving Croatian Ivo Karlovic in a deciding third set tiebreak to take the match 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-6(3), then followed up by partnering with fellow Australian Chris Guccione to win the doubles title 7-5, 6-4 over Jonathan Erlich and Rajeev Ram.

    The victory over Karlovic was Hewitt’s 30th career singles title, and propels the 33-year-old up to No. 41 in the ATP world rankings.

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  • Simona Halep Prevails on Home Turf

    Simona Halep Prevails on Home Turf

    Simona Halep

    Simona Halep defeated Roberta Vinci with a comfortable 6-1, 6-3 win to take the inaugural Bucharest Open title in Romania.

    Roared on by a partisan crowd in her home country, Halep dictated proceedings from start to finish to secure the title in just 68 minutes.

    Halep, the top seed and World No. 3, has now won eight titles in the last two years.

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