Winner's Circle

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Albert Montanes of Spain holds the trophy at the Estoril Tennis Open after his 6-2, 6-7(4), 7-5 victory Portugal's Frederico Gil in Lisbon May 9, 2010.


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Mikhail Youzhny from Russia holds the trophy during the winner ceremony after the final match against Marin Cilic from Croatia at the ATP BMW open tennis tournament in Munich, southern Germany, on Sunday, May 9, 2010. Youzhny won the match 6-3, 4-6 and 6-4.


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Sam Querrey of the U.S. holds up his trophy after defeating John Isner of the U.S. during their final tennis match of the Serbia Open tennis tournament, in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, May 9, 2010.

Face Of The Day

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Spain's Albert Montanes reacts after winning his match against Switzerland's Roger Federer during the Estoril Open tennis tournament in Lisbon May 8, 2010.

Serbia Open

Singles - Semifinals
[2] J Isner (USA) d [4] S Wawrinka (SUI) 75 75
[3] S Querrey (USA) d [WC] F Krajinovic (SRB) 61 62

Clearing my throat. Are these scores for real?

Doubles - Semifinals
S Gonzalez (MEX) / T Rettenmaier (USA) d [1] J Brunstrom (SWE) / J Rojer (AHO) 75 76(4)
T Bednarek (POL) / M Kowalczyk (POL) d [2] R Hutchins (GBR) / J Kerr (AUS) 62 57 10-8

Estoril Open

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Women's Singles - Final
Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) d. Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) 62 75

Women's Doubles - Final
(1) Cirstea/Medina Garrigues (ROU/ESP) d. Diatchenko/Védy (RUS/FRA) 61 75

Men's Singles - Semifinals
[4] A Montanes (ESP) d [1] R Federer (SUI) 62 76(5)
F Gil (POR) d [5] G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 62 57 63

BMW Open

Singles - Semifinals
[1] M Cilic (CRO) d [5] M Baghdatis (CYP) 36 62 63
[2] M Youzhny (RUS) d P Petzschner (GER) 75 76(5)

Doubles - Semifinals
[3] E Butorac (USA) / M Kohlmann (GER) d C Kas (GER) / P Petzschner (GER) 61 76(3)
[4] O Marach (AUT) / S Ventura (ESP) d M Ancic (CRO) / J Knowle (AUT) 76(4) 36 10-5

Madrid Open

Women's Singles - First Round
Shahar Peer (ISR) d. (5) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 63 26 60
(6) Elena Dementieva (RUS) d. Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) 60 61
(12) Marion Bartoli (FRA) d. Polona Hercog (SLO) 36 64 64
Vera Zvonareva (RUS) d. Melanie Oudin (USA) 63 64
Alona Bondarenko (UKR) d. Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 26 61 64
Andrea Petkovic (GER) d. Sara Errani (ITA) 67(3) 61 75
(WC) Sybille Bammer (AUT) d. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 64 36 63

Women's Doubles - First Round
Dekmeijere/Kleybanova (LAT/RUS) d. Grandin/Spears (RSA/USA) 64 64

Autumnal Champions

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Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan holds winner's trophy after she defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain in the women's singles final, during a ceremony at the Hansol Korea Open Tennis Championships in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009.

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As Matt informed us, she is the second oldest player (Billie Jean King was the oldest) to ever win a title on the WTA. She'll be 39 tomorrow. Nice work if you can get it. And she got it after being off the tour for 12 years. 12 years.

“Yeah, of course, very happy. I realized one more time after this game that we don’t know about tennis unless we actually play it.

“Above all, my husband’s love was a big help for my win.

“I think I won’t have any problem in my physical strength over the next five years. But I’m married … have to have kids and have a lot of things to do. I think I can play tennis for the next two years.”

Hers is quite a story.

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Spain's Albert Montanes celebrates with the trophy after defeating Argentine's Juan Monaco in the ATP Romania Open tennis, on September 27, 2009 in Bucharest. Montanes won the final 7-6, 7-6.

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Wearing a traditional Uzbek costume, Israel's Shahar Pe'er smiles during an awards ceremony after beating Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova in the Tashkent Open final, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. Peer won her second straight WTA Tour title, beating local favorite Amanmuradova 6-3, 6-4 in the Tashkent Open final.

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Raise your hand if you saw back-to-back titles coming for a woman who's struggled most of the year?

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Gael Monfils ended a four-year title drought by winning the Open de Moselle in Metz over Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6(1), 3-6, 6-2.