2009 News

Saturday March 21, 2009

Rain, Rain and More Rain ...Semifinals & Finals Set for Sunday

Showers rained on Sunrise postponing almost the entire schedule of matches scheduled on Saturday.

Rains pushed back the scheduled start of the day's opening match, the doubles semifinal featuring Filip Polasek (SVK) and Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) against Eric Butorac (USA) and Bobby Reynolds (USA). Set for Noon, the teams didn't take the court until 1:30pm. Ten minutes into the match the rain returned creating the first of three rain delays. The match started and stopped two more times before coming off the court for good at 5:45pm. When the day's action was called, Butorac and Reynolds were up 7-5, 6-6 (4-5). The match will resume at 11:00am on Sunday with Butorac and Reynolds serving.

Read more: 2009 BMW Tennis Championship March 21 DAILY RECAP

March 19, 2009

SINGLES SUMMARY
Top Three Seeds Berdych, Schuettler & Lopez Advance to QF

SECOND ROUND

• For the second consecutive year, Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) advanced to the quarter finals. Fifth seed Tipsarevic cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 win over wild card entry Stefan Koubek (AUT).
• Tomas Berdych (FRA), No. 1 seed was pushed to three sets by Marc Gicquel (FRA). Berdych's strong serve carried him to the 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 win. For his second consecutive match, Berdych recorded eight service aces.

Read more: 2009 BMW Tennis Championship March 19 DAILY RECAP

March 18, 2009

All matches set for Wednesday are now scheduled to take place on Thursday. The Day Session moves up one hour to start at 11:00am. In an effort to make up for the matches not played yesterday, four courts will be in play almost the entire day.

The day will begin with the remaining first round singles matches being played. Second round play is scheduled to start after 4:00pm. The night session will include both singles and more first round doubles action.

Up to the minute scoring is available online. Additionally, on and off the court updates can be followed throughout the day via twitter at bmwmedia.

Read more: 2009 BMW Tennis Championship March 18 DAILY RECAP

March 17, 2009

ORDER OF PLAY - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2009
STADIUM start 12:00 noon

G Muller (LUX) vs [Q] R Soderling (SWE)
[Q] E Korolev (RUS) vs [2] R Schuettler (GER)

Not Before 4:00 PM
B Reynolds (USA) vs M Youzhny (RUS)

Not Before 7:00 PM
[1] [WC] T Berdych (CZE) vs N Devilder (FRA)
T Bellucci (BRA) vs [3] F Lopez (ESP)

COURT 9 start 12:00 noon
[4] I Kunitsyn (RUS) vs M Vassallo Arguello (ARG)
[WC] T Johansson (SWE) vs [Q] D Gremelmayr (GER)
D Sela (ISR) vs [6] J Acasuso (ARG)
[1] J Coetzee (RSA) / J Kerr (AUS) vs [WC] A Clement (FRA) / N Mahut (FRA)
E Butorac (USA) / B Reynolds (USA) vs [WC] C Rochus (BEL) / O Rochus (BEL) - After Suitable Rest

Read more: 2009 BMW Tennis Championship March 17 DAILY RECAP