USA tennis: August 2008 Archives

Venus WIlliams won in straight sets to advance to the quarterfinals of the Olympics. She defeated Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday.
Williams will face Li Na of China in the quarterfinals.

After making it into the third round of the Olympic tennis tounament in singles, Venus and Serena Williams won their first round doubles match in three sets over a team from the Czech Republic.
The Williams sisters,who won gold medals in doubles in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, defeated Iveta Benesova and Nicole Vaidisova, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.
The second-seeded Williams sisters trailed 4-6, 1-3 before winning 12 of the next 15 games.

Lindsay Davenport of Palos Verdes and Liezel Huber won their first round doubles match in straight sets.
They defeated Poland's Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska, 6-2, 6-1, and will play the winner of the match between Estonia's Maret Ani and Kaia Kanepi and Victoria Azarenka and Tatiana Poutchek of Belarus.

Brothers Bob and Mike Bryan of Camarillo, the tops seeds in the OIympic tournament, won their first round doubles match in straight sets.
The Bryan brothers defeated Mark Knowles and Devin Mullings of the Bahamas, 6-2, 6-1 in 52 minutes. They will face either 2004 silver medalists Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuttler of Germany or Austria's Julian Knowle and Jurgen Melzer in the second round.
Venus and Serena Williams each advanced to the third round in singles competition.
Fourth-seeded Serena defeated Samantha Stosur of Australia, 6-2, 6-0, in 44 minutes and will meet Alize Cornet of France in the round of 16.
Venus Williams advanced with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic on Tuesday afternoon. Her next opponent will be the winner of the match between Casey Dellacqua of Australia and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.

American Robby Ginepri lost to the third-seeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia in straight sets in the first round of the Olympics tennis tournament.
Ginepri lost 6-4, 6-4 at the Olympic Green Tennis Center on Monday night in China.
Sam Querrey of Thousand Oaks lost his Olympic debut to Igor Andreev of Russia, 6-4, 6-4. He and James Blake will face Andreev and Nikolay Davydenko in first round men's doubles later tonight.

Serena Williams from Lynwood defeated Olga Govortsova of Belarus in straight sets in the first round of the Olympic women's tennis tournament.
The match was suspended Sunday because of rain with Williams leading 6-3, 2-1. Williams went on to win the match 6-3, 6-1.
The next opponent for Williams will be Samantha Stosur of Australia, a 6-3, 6-2 winner over Sara Errani of Italy in opening-round play.

Sam Querrey of Thousand Oaks faces Igor Andreev of Russia in his first Olympic tennis match at Beijing.
Mardy Fish, who was on the 2004 Olympic tennis team for the United States in Athens, had high expectations for Querrey. Fish was asked after his semifinal match at the Countrywide Classic tennis tournament at UCLA about his thoughts on Querrey.
The Countrywide Classic had a few young, tall players, including 6-foot-6 Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina who beat Fish to advance to Sunday's final at UCLA.
"Sam Querrey is another one of those guys that's 6-5 and can hit the crap out of the ball and moves real well," Fish said. "Sam can beat anyone. He's only 20 or 21 years old. He's got a bright future for sure. I expect him to be in the top 20 relatively soon. He's just gradually gotten better and better and better."
Another young, although not-so-tall, American playing in the Countrywide Classic was Donald Young, who upset eighth-seeded Tommy Haas in the first round at UCLA.
"Don Young probably has a little more work to do," Fish said. "He can't necessarily rely on a huge game like Sam can. He's talented; he's really talented. He moves real well and lefties are real tough to play. Jury's still out a little bit on him, but he can certainly play. He showed here, he beat someone like Tommy, who I haven't figured out ever."