The Hindu

Somdev Devvarman won his second gold medal of the Asian Games, demolishing top seed Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-1, 6-2 in the men’s singles final here on Tuesday.

It called for a solid gameplan to beat the 40th-ranked Istomin, who has had a fine run this season. The Uzbek played a thrilling five-setter against eventual runner-up Tomas Berdych before losing in the third round at Wimbledon.

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SportsNewsFirst

Williams has been struggling with a foot injury since mysteriously cutting her foot in Munich back in July, which eventually required her to have surgery to repair a damaged tendon.

She was pictured only last week arriving at an NFL  game in Miami on crutches, and with her right foot in significant plaster.

Sportsnewsfirst.com.au understands Williams has told organisers she will not be attending the mixed team event because of injury, and they are now scrambling to find a replacement.

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AFP

Andy Roddick has expressed his dissatisfaction with the timing of the final two tournaments of the 2010 ATP season.

The American world number eight, beaten in straight sets by Robin Soderling in the Paris Masters quarter-finals here on Friday, has five days off before he has to report for duty prior to the ATP World Tour Finals in London.

It means the former world number one will be in London for four days before the season finale at the 02 Arena begins, and he says he would prefer a smaller gap between the two events.

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Yahoo! News

Environmental group Greenpeace hung banners on the venue of the Paris Masters tennis tournament Saturday protesting the involvement of sponsors BNP Paribas in funding a nuclear project in Brazil.

Half-a-dozen militants hung the 11-square-metre (118-square-foot) banners from the Palais Omnisport de Bercy, calling on the bank not to fund the building of the nuclear reactor Angra 3, 150 kilometres (95 miles) from Rio de Janeiro.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

ROGER FEDERER is no longer The Man, a title which will officially be bestowed upon Rafael Nadal when he takes out the Australian Open next year to extend the chasm between himself and the rest of tennis world and ensure the aura that once belonged to The Fed is dead.

Discuss.

”Life changes,” says former great Mats Wilander, who won three of his seven grand slam titles in Melbourne. ”[Federer] is not the same person that he was four years ago. He is obviously not as confident in winning tennis matches.

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Edmonton Journal

A few years ago, when men’s tennis threatened to become an unwatchable ace fest, the response from the authorities was to slow down the courts.

It worked, to an extent, but it has now backfired.

The men’s game now has too often become a monotonous backcourt fest as the players continue to get even bigger and stronger, and the technology continues to progress — especially with the new strings.

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The Guardian

As the WTA season wrapped up with the championships at Doha recently, Caroline Wozniacki, a 20 year old from Denmark, ended the tour ranked No 1 in women’s tennis – largely thanks to her consistency in winning minor WTA events. For many, Serena Williams, though knocked off the top spot in the rankings and unable, through injury, to defend her 2009 Doha title, remains clearly the supreme player of her generation.

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The New York Times

It was certainly not the dream ending from a French perspective. Gaël Monfils, low on energy and bright ideas, was beaten, 6-1, 7-6 (7-1), by Robin Soderling in the final of the BNP Paribas Masters on Sunday without procuring so much as one break point.

But the shot that created the ending — a forehand volley from Soderling on match point — was certainly what the French tournament director, Jean-François Caujolle, had in mind when he installed a faster court this year.

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Yahoo! Sports

Fans of Swiss Super League leaders FC Basel and second place FC Luzern thought the match between their two clubs should have been the most important sporting event in all of Switzerland on Sunday. So, when a Swiss TV company arranged to have kickoff moved up to 12:45 p.m. to ensure the match would be over in time for the 3 p.m. start of the ATP Basel tournament final between Novak Djokovic and local boy Roger Federer (who is also FC Basel’s most famous fan), the fans of the two football clubs were not pleased.

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The Age

A BIDDING war for sponsorship of the Australian Open is breaking out, with Emirates Airlines moving to secure the naming rights to the tennis tournament. Emirates executives, in town for the Melbourne Cup, told The Age the airline wanted to secure major sponsorship of the open.

Boutros Boutros, senior vice-president of communications for Dubai-based Emirates, confirmed the interest. ”We are open to negotiations with Tennis Australia,” he said. ”This is a wonderful event, a grand slam, and we have been sponsors of the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Rogers Cup, so yes, we are very much interested.”

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