CLERMONT-FERRAND, France(AP) Julien Benneteau has sealed France's 5-0 sweep of Spain in their Davis Cup quarterfinal tie with a 7-6 (3), 6-4 win over Feliciano Lopez. Gilles Simon had beaten Nicolas Almagro 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) in Sunday's first reverse singles match to give France a 4-0 lead. France clinched

LONDON (AP)—Spain's two-year grip on the Davis Cup was tenuous after losing both opening singles to France, while Croatia and Serbia were tied 1-1 in their quarterfinal on Friday. Also, the Czech Republic looked set to reach successive semifinals for the first time after sweeping Chile 2-0 in Coquimbo, and

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France (AP)—Michael Llodra has upset Fernando Verdasco 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (2) to give France a 2-0 lead over defending champion Spain in the Davis Cup quarterfinals. Gael Monfils outlasted David Ferrer 7-6 (3), 6-2, 4-6, 5-7, 6-4 in a first singles match that lasted 3 hours, 57

102749417 by Pete Bodo Afternoon, everyone. Two of the Davis Cup World Group quarterfinal ties are over as I write this, and as is often the case in Davis Cup, what looked like a crippled weekend has opened with some results that might cause you to spill coffee all over

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France (AP)—Gael Monfils will play David Ferrer in the opening singles match of the Davis Cup quarterfinal tie between France and Spain on Friday. Michael Llodra will face Fernando Verdasco in the second match. Monfils leads Ferrer 1-0 in head-to-head matches while Llodra has a 1-1 record against Verdasco.

"Nadal will announce today that he will be in South Africa next Sunday supporting the Spanish team," said RafaelNadal.com. "Rafa watched the [semifinal] match [against Germany] at home with his family, and, once the match finished, he went out to celebrate the triumph with the rest of the people." After

The finales were predictable—the No. 1s won—but the rest of Wimbledon this time around was a string of surprises, from the Williams sisters’ doubles defeat, to the rise and fall of Yen-Hsun Lu, to the strong run of the highly vulnerable Novak Djokovic. Who outdid themselves? Who disappointed us? Let’s

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP)—Top-seeded Sam Querrey was upset in the second round of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships on Wednesday, losing in straight sets to Dustin Brown of Jamaica. Querrey, ranked 19th and a three-time winner on the tour this season, was beaten 6-4, 6-3 in just 47 minutes. Brown

LONDON(AP) Croatia and Serbia meet for the first time in Davis Cup competition this weekend in what is sure to be an emotional quarterfinal matchup between the former Yugoslav republics. Croatia, Davis Cup champion in 2005, will host the best-of-five series in Split. Serbia has won only once in Davis

LONDON (AP)—Croatia and Serbia meet for the first time in Davis Cup competition this weekend in what is sure to be an emotional quarterfinal matchup between the former Yugoslav republics. Croatia, Davis Cup champion in 2005, will host the best-of-five series in Split. Serbia has won only once in Davis

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP)—Nicolas Mahut walked onto the shadowless center court at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where temperatures were into the 90s and still climbing, and thought, as he frequently does, about Wimbledon. “Nothing is worse than what I did in Wimbledon. Every match, I pray it will be

Every Grand Slam is a trade-off. If the first 10 days are dull and by the book, chances are the final weekend will be a dramatic one. And, conversely, if you see a lot of action—i.e. upsets—through the early rounds, in the end you’re going to be left without the

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—It was the middle Sunday at Wimbledon, the tournament's traditional day off, and the best players in men's tennis were scattered around the All England Club's practice courts. Rafael Nadal was there, going through a relatively light training session. To his right stood Roger Federer, hitting on the

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) The queen of England had the right idea coming to Wimbledon during the first week. That's when the tournament produced most of its drama, while the final weekend stuck with a predictable script, thanks to Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams. Nadal cemented his status as the world's No.

PRAGUE (AP)—Wimbledon finalist Tomas Berdych has ruled himself out of the Czech Republic’s Davis Cup quarterfinal against Chile because of an abdominal muscle injury. “If I have a problem, it’s this muscle,” Berdych told Czech public radio on Sunday just hours after losing the Wimbledon final to Rafael Nadal 6-3,

Does it feel like the ground is shifting under us, just a little? You never know about these changing of the guard moments, and exactly how they’ll play out, until a few years have passed. We remember Pete Sampras’ win over Ivan Lendl at the U.S. Open in 1990 as

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) After back-to-back quarterfinal losses at the French Open and Wimbledon, Roger Federer is suddenly no longer the Grand Slam certainty he used to be. For the first time in eight years, Federer won't be striding onto the Centre Court grass on Sunday afternoon for the final at the

Nicolas Mahut is starting to be recognized more back home in France, and he's being greeted in a most unusual way. `People on the street congratulate me,'' he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, less than a week after he played in - but lost

Nicolas Mahut is starting to be recognized more back home in France, and he’s being greeted in a most unusual way. “People on the street congratulate me,” he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, less than a week after he played in—but lost—the longest match

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—For the first time in eight years, Roger Federer won’t be striding onto Centre Court for the Wimbledon final. The six-time champion was upset in the quarterfinals by big-hitting Tomas Berdych on Wednesday, stopping his bid for a record-tying seventh title at the All England Club and extending