Daniela Hantuchova has hired Claudio Pistolesi as her new coach. Claudio Pistolesi has coached the likes of Robin Soderling, Monica Seles and Ai Sugiyama. It will be interesting to see if he can help Hantuchova. The pair have decided to have a three tournament trial period to see if the partnership can work.

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Robin Soderling vs Lleyton Hewitt, 6-7(5), 3-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4, Wimbledon 2nd RD

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Novak Djokovic vs Roger Federer, 6-7(7), 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5, US Open SF

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Robin Soderling has announced he will not be playing the Australian Open 2012. Soderling has had a really tough time recovering from illness which saw him withdraw from the US Open.

On his Twitter account: “I am very sorry for being away for so long and for not giving many updates but my recovery has been longer than expected. I am feeling better with each day but it will still take some time before I can start practising in full speed. My goal is to start with practice in January and I hope for tournament comeback in February but at this stage it is hard to know when and where. I hope my body will allow me to do that. “

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The injury list for the US Open is growing by the day, so it is going to be a very interesting tournament. The only top male player not on the list is Roger Federer.

• Novak Djokovic – Shoulder and general fatigue. Has had some issues with patella tendinitis this season
• Rafael Nadal – Large burn blisters on fingers and left foot
• Andy Murray – Sore arm
• Mardy Fish – Heel
• Tomas Berdych – Shoulder
• Robin Soderling – Wrist – he has announced he will travel to NYC
• Jo Wilfried Tsonga – Arm. Ultrasound showed no muscle tear after he withdrew in Montreal.
• Andy Roddick – Recently pulled out of Montreal with an oblique but played in Cincinnati.
• Milos Raonic – Recovering from hip surgery
• David Ferrer – Recovering from hairline fracture in left hand
• Tommy Robredo – Withdrawn – Ongoing groin issues
• Sam Querrey – Withdrawn – Recovering from elbow surgery (spurs)
• Juan Carlos Ferrero – Recovering from multiple injuries

Womens injuries so far:

• Serena Williams – Aggravation of toe injury
• Andrea Petkovic – Torn meniscus
• Kim Clijsters – Withdrawn – Abdominal muscle tear
• Venus Williams – Recovering from virus

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Former world number one Andy Roddick has withdrawn from the Rogers Cup which is also known as the Montreal Masters. Andy has cited that he has an injured oblique muscle, making it the second week in a row that Roddick withdrew from an event. Roddick has been bothered by injuries over the past two years, and was forced to pull out of Roland Garros about two months ago with a shoulder injury.

A local Montreal newspaper also reported that world number five Robin Soderling has also withdrawn from the event with a wrist injury. Among others who have opted out of the tournament include Jurgen Melzer (quad), and Xavier Malisse (personal).

After losing in the 3rd round of Wimbledon to Feliciano Lopez and then playing Davis Cup, Roddick has not played since and was forced to withdraw from this week’s tournament in Washington. Luckily, he hasn’t got any points to defend at Montreal since he has also pulled out from from the tournament last year. He should be able to compete at the Cincinnati event the week after Montreal and has sent a message about his return on Twitter: ”Hopefully I’ll be ready for cincy in 10 days or so…. Fingers crossed.” Let’s hope Andy will make it to the Cincy event since he does have 360 semifinal points to defend there, and also will make an appearance at the new tournament in Winston-Salem, NC just before the last Grand Slam of the year (US Open).

Well, it is a pity that some of the best players in the world have cancelled their appearance at Montreal but there are still plenty more great players who should make up for it.

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Mens Singles:

Today was a class of titans. Rafael Nadal was taking on Robin Soderling and Andy Murray to play Juan Ignacio Chela. Murray was up first and performed very well with a straight sets win over Chela 7-6 7-5 6-2. Murray seemed to over come his ankle injury to keep his brilliant run on clay alive.

In the other match of the day Rafael Nadal was the center of attention as he pummeled Robin Soderling 6-4 6-1 7-6. Nadal played so well that there was no real point where I actually thought he was going to lose a set.

Womens Singles:

Maria Sharapova turned up to play today and she killed Andrea Petkovic 6-0 6-3. While Na Li continued her amaazing return with a strong 7-5 6-2 win over Victoria Azarenka.

Today is going to be out last round up as you will be able to see all the results from millions of news sources from around the world.

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Mens Singles:

A lot happened today in the mens singles. First of all in the key matches with the top players both Nadal, Soderling and Murray advanced quite easily. However, there were a few upsets! Marcos Baghdatis (27) was defeated by Leonardo Mayer in straight sets, Florian Mayer was defeated by Alejandro Falla in four sets, Nikolay Davydenko (28) was defeated by Antonio Veic in a tuogh five set match, and Sam Querrey (24) was defeated by Ivan Ljubicic in straight sets.

The dark horse seems to be Lukasz Kubot who progressed again with a straight sets win over Carlos Berlocq. Kubot has come through some tough matches in qualifying and has already taken out Nicolas Almagro (11) and Carlos Berlocq in the main draw, with both of these players being clay court specialists.

Womens Singles:

Match of the day for me was Maria Sharapova (7) against young French lady Caroline Garcia. Garia was playing some amazing tennis and was making Sharapova look like your average hacker. Garcia was up 6-3 4-1, but then she seemed to remember that she was playing on center court at the French Open against Maria Sharapova. After that she didnt win another game and Sharapova won 3-6 6-4 6-0.

Apart from that all seeds that played today pushed into the next round, apart from Alexandra Dulgheru (27) who lost to Sorana Cirstea 6-2 7-5.

Mens Doubles:

Michael Llodra and Nenad Zimoniic (4) played some great tennis today and defeated Igor Kunitsyn and Ivan Ljubicic. Watch out for these guys in the tournament!

Womens Doubles:

Casey Dellacqua and Rennae Stubbs are an unseeded team to watch in the womens doubles. They just defeated Kimiko Date-Krumm and Shuai Zhang 6-1 7-6.

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Day 3 was an amazing day. Day 3 saw Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray in action amoung other great players.

Nadal came up against John Isner, who has an amazingly big serve. It was expected that Nadal would dominate the match and just simply be too strong on the clay. However, Isner was playing his A-game and Nadal was quick lucky to win in five very tough sets. 6-4 6-7 6-7 6-2 6-4.

In the rest of the matches most of the seeds got through without any trouble at all. However, Nicolas Almagro (11) was not so lucky as he fell to Lukasz Kubot in five sets. 3-6 2-6 7-6 7-6 6-4.

For me the pick of the matches was between two of the older guys on tour, Dmitry Tursunov and Xavier Malisse. These guys were roughing it on court 17 and they gave the crowd something to talk about. The match lasted three hours and saw Xavier Malisse progress 6-1 in the fifth set.

Womens Singles:

In day 3 on the womens side everything seemed to go very well for all the seed. The only seed that didnt make it through was Ana Ivanovic (whats news). Ana seemed to be playing strong tennis as she lost the first set 7-6 and then won the second set 6-0. However, as Ana isnt really predictable, she then went on to lose the third set 6-2.

For me the match of the day was Patty Schnyder and Sorana Cirstea. This was expected to be a very close match between two good players who both were not seeded. However, it seemed like Patty didnt really turn up for the match and Cirstea steam rolled her 6-1 6-3.

Overall:

Rafael Nadal has a tough match and progressed, this could set him up nicely for a good campaign here! In the other matches Andy Murray played very well, but he tends to run out of steam in the second week of Grand Slams. Outsiders are Robin Soderling and Gilles Simon, both played very well today.

Kim Clijsters has to be the favourite for this title and she didn’t disappoint today. Surprisingly Maria Sharapova is playing some great tennis at the moment and I could see he going quite deep in this tournament.

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