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dspyn — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:58:38 +0000

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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Madonna is carrying a outrageous celebration and everyone’s invited. The Madonna 2012 World Tour begins May 29th 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel it was strictly announced by Live Nation Entertainment, a tour’s general promoter. The shows will embody arenas, stadiums and special outside sights including a Plains of Abraham in Quebec and a lapse revisit to South America as good as Australia where she has not achieved in 20 years. The debate will stop in 26 European cities including London, Paris, Milan and Berlin.

The initial of 26 North American shows is scheduled for August 28th in Philadelphia and includes a September 6th uncover in NY’s Yankee Stadium and an October 10th opening during LA’s Staples Center. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale commencement February 10th in Tel Aviv and a United Kingdom, with North American tickets going on sale commencement Feb 13th. Tickets for North America are accessible during Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com. A finish channel of Madonna 2012 follows this release.

Madonna’s prior tour, a phenomenally successful “Sticky Sweet” Tour validated her standing as one of a many successful furloughed artists of all time. The ancestral debate included such implausible furloughed feats as a 70,000 chair sell-out in Werchter, Belgium, an 85,000 sell-out in Helsinki (the largest uncover ever in a Nordic countries by a solo artist), a 40,000 sheet sell-out in Oslo, Norway, and 72,000 tickets sole out in one day in Tallinn Estonia. Other record violation sheet sales around a creation embody 650,000 tickets sole in her array of South American dates, 72,000 tickets during Zurich‘s Dubendorf Airfield – a largest assembly ever fabricated for a uncover in Switzerland, 75,000 tickets in London and 4 sell outs in New York‘s Madison Square Garden (60,364 tickets).

The proclamation of Madonna’s 2012 World Tour follows an unusual week that enclosed a staggering spectacular of a opening during the Bridgestone Super Bowl Halftime that was seen in over 200 countries by over a billion people. Last week also saw a recover of Madonna’s new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin” from her rarely expected new manuscript MDNA on Live Nation Entertainment/Interscope Records – scheduled to be expelled on March 26th. Pre orders have already catapulted MDNA to No. 1 on iTunes in 51 countries including a US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Canada, Italy, Sweden and a Netherlands. The single’s video destined by Megaforce that also stars Nicki Minaj

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Djokovic Wins Laureus World Sportsman of a Year Award

dspyn — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:51:43 +0000

LAUREUS WORLD SPORTS AWARDS 2012

London, England

by ATP Staff

07.02.2012

Novak Djokovic, a Laureus World Sportsman of a Year, is eyeing another record-breaking season.

Speaking during Westminster Hall in London, on Monday night, a World No. 1 said, “I will try to set adult my form for Roland Garros initial of all, where we wish to get a pretension and go all a approach through. Then I’ll start meditative about Wimbledon and a Olympics.”

Djokovic will be looking to lift his initial Roland Garros prize in Jun and turn a eighth male in tennis story to bind a career Grand Slam of all 4 vital championship titles.

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The 24 year aged believes he can win in Paris and afterwards land a bullion endowment during a Olympic Games tennis event, that will be held during a All England Club, Wimbledon, from 28 Jul to 5 August.

“Why not both?” Djokovic asked. “I’ve learnt how to hoop my schedule, how to hoop myself on and off a justice and to ready for a biggest events. That is going to be a box this year. we have to stay optimistic, trust in what we can do, trust in my abilities and trust that we can win on all surfaces.

“I have proven on countless occasions that we can unequivocally be one of a possibilities to win any Grand Slam on any surface. we need to keep that up. Roland Garros is a one to win this year.”

Djokovic kick Formula One universe champion Sebastian Vettel, competitor Usain Bolt, Tour de France cycling champion Cadel Evans, NBA basketball star Dirk Nowitzki and Barcelona football actor Lionel Messi to a Laureus World Sportsman of a Year award.

“I brave to dream of apropos a best player. Now we have this special endowment and we consider all is possible,” he said. “Serbia is a tiny and pleasing country, though also really poor. It has a lot of troubles and wars in a final 20 years. we wish any and any one in a universe could dream.”

World No. 2 Rafael Nadal, who mislaid to Djokovic in final year’s Wimbledon, US Open and new Australian Open finals, is a reigning Olympic champion. The Spaniard kick Fernando Gonzalez 6-3, 7-6(2), 6-3 in a 2008 final during Beijing.

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Mahut/Roger-Vasselin Lift Montpellier Trophy; Gil/Gimeno Traver Win Vina del Mar Crown

dspyn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:44:19 +0000

ATP WORLD TOUR 2012 – WEEK 5

Doubles 2012

by ATP Staff

05.02.2012

Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin prisoner their initial ATP World Tour pretension during a Open Sud de France in Montpellier Sunday, defeating No. 3 seeds Paul Hanley and Jamie Murray 6-4, 7-6(4). “It means a lot to me,” Roger-Vasselin told ATPWorldTour.com. “Nicolas and we won a few titles during a Challenger level, though to win a pretension on a ATP World Tour, generally in France, it’s wonderful.”

The French span dismissed 12 aces, won 93 per cent of their initial offer points, and converted a usually mangle of offer in a compare to lift a prize in one hour and 23 minutes. They did not dump a set or remove serve during a tournament. “We had a good week, personification good any round,” pronounced Mahut. “Today, we feel we both served really well. We had one mangle indicate in a initial set, and we done it, and afterwards won a tie-break in a second set. We knew it was going to be tough as we were personification a good team. It’s good to win a pretension in France.”

Mahut leveled his doubles final record to a 4-4 mark, while Roger-Vasselin distinguished his initial career tour-level title. The dual had formerly teamed adult to win 4 titles on a ATP Challenger Tour. “We wish to play again in Marseille, so hopefully we get in,” Roger-Vasselin said. “If we can play as good as we did here, maybe we’ll have a possibility to win again.”

Hanley and Murray were behest to win their initial pretension together, carrying assimilated army during a start of a season. Hanley fell to a 25-21 final record and Murray forsaken to 7-5 in pretension matches.

At a VTR Open in Vina del Mar, Frederico Gil and Daniel Gimeno-Traver prisoner their initial ATP World Tour doubles pretension together with a 1-6, 7-5, 12-10 feat over fourth seeds Pablo Andujar and Carlos Berlocq. Earlier, Berlocq had also finished runner-up in a singles final opposite Juan Monaco.

In recuperating from a one-set deficit, Portugal’s Gil and Gimeno-Traver of Spain converted dual of their 6 mangle indicate chances, and denied their opponents on 7 of 11 opportunities before clinching feat in a Match Tie-break after 82 minutes.

The 26-year-old Gil was contesting his initial ATP World Tour doubles final, while Gimeno-Traver, also 26, was appearing in his second final after finishing runner-up in Costa do Sauipe with Andujar final year.

“It’s a good feeling,” pronounced Gimeno-Traver. “I’m really happy for me and also for Frederico. It was a really tough match. We were 6-1 down in 15 mins and all was going so fast. At a finish we could spin it adult and win a title.”

Gil added, “As Danny said, we played good this week and I’m happy with a approach I’m playing. I’m feeling happy since we won the initial ATP title.

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Mahut/Roger-Vasselin Lift Montpellier Trophy

dspyn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:42:28 +0000

ATP WORLD TOUR 2012 – WEEK 5

Doubles 2012

by ATP Staff

05.02.2012

Gil added, “As Danny said, we played good this week and I’m happy with a approach I’m playing. I’m feeling happy since we won the initial ATP title.

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Sunday Briefing – Montpellier, Zagreb

dspyn — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:39:37 +0000

MEDIA NOTES 2012

by Greg Sharko

04.02.2012

MONTPELLIER SUNDAY PREVIEW – BERDYCH MONFILS TO CLASH FOR MONTPELLIER CROWN
• A stream Top 10 actor will block off opposite a former Top 10 actor in an all-star final during a Open Sud de France, an ATP World Tour 250 stop hold on a indoor courts of Montpellier.

• Top seed and World No. 7 Tomas Berdych has cruised by to this week’s final yet losing a set, in fact losing his offer usually once (to Nicolas Mahut in a q uarter-finals). He also put on his best offer opening in a semi-finals, winning 100% of a points on his initial offer during a 63 64 win over No. 7 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber (he won 34 of 34 points on his initial offer points). Berdych is by to his 13th ATP World Tour final now, going 6-6 in pretension matches (he won his usually career indoor final, during a ATP World Tour Masters 1000 in Paris behind in 2005, his other pretension compare on French soil).

• No. 3 seed Gael Monfils cruised by his initial few matches of a week yet won a thriller in a semi-finals, saving compare indicate down 64 65 opposite No. 2 seed Gilles Simon and eventually creation it past his countryman, 46 76(4) 64. Monfils is by to his 17th ATP World Tour final yet has a 4-12 record in pretension matches (though 3 of his 4 titles have come indoors). The Frenchman is appearing in his second final of a deteriorate after opening a year with a runner-up in Doha (l. to Tsonga).

• Berdych kick Monfils handily in their usually prior meeting, in a initial turn of Dubai 4 years ago (the Czech never faced a mangle indicate en track to a 53-minute, 63 62 victory).

• Berdych is now ranked No. 7 and in his 109th career week in a Top 10; Monfils is No. 13 right now yet has been as high as No. 7 (he has spent 46 career weeks in a chosen yet dipped out final tumble after not fortifying his finals points from a ATP Masters 1000 stop in Paris from 2010).

WHAT’S AT STAKE –
Winner: €91,900 and 250 South African Airways ATP Ranking points
Runner-up: €37,860 and 150 South African Airways ATP Ranking points

FINALS HISTORY –
Berdych: Appearing in his 13th career ATP World Tour turn final..He is 6-6 lifetime in finals (0-0 in ‘12)
Monfils: Appearing in his 17th career ATP World Tour final………He is 4-12 lifetime in finals (0-1 in ‘12)

SUNDAY CHAMPIONSHIP FedEx ATP Head 2 Head –

Court Central

(1)Tomas Berdych (CZE) vs (3) Gael Monfils (FRA) Berdych Leads 1-0
08 Dubai (U.A.E.) Hard R32 Tomas Berdych 6-3 6-2

Berdych FastFacts:
2012 Highlights:
QF: Australian Open (l Nadal)
YTD W-L: 7-1
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 6
Date of Birth: Sep 17, 1985
South African Airways ATP Ranking: 7

• Berdych, 26, has not forsaken a

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Sunday Briefing – Montpellier, Zagreb, Vina del Mar

dspyn — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:37:58 +0000

MEDIA NOTES 2012

by Greg Sharko

04.02.2012

• Berdych kick Monfils handily in their usually prior meeting, in a initial turn of Dubai 4 years ago (the Czech never faced a mangle indicate en track to a 53-minute, 63 62 victory).

WHAT’S AT STAKE –
Winner: €91,900 and 250 South African Airways ATP Ranking points
Runner-up: €37,860 and 150 South African Airways ATP Ranking points

SUNDAY CHAMPIONSHIP FedEx ATP Head 2 Head –

Court Central

(1)Tomas Berdych (CZE) vs (3) Gael Monfils (FRA) Berdych Leads 1-0
08 Dubai (U.A.E.) Hard R32 Tomas Berdych 6-3 6-2

Berdych FastFacts:
2012 Highlights:
QF: Australian Open (l Nadal)
YTD W-L: 7-1
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 6
Date of Birth: Sep 17, 1985
South African Airways ATP Ranking: 7

• Berdych, 26, has not forsaken a

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Baghdatis-Youzhny Upset Erlich-Ram In Zagreb Semis

dspyn — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:37:49 +0000

ATP WORLD TOUR 2012 – WEEK 5

Doubles 2012

by ATP Staff

04.02.2012

Marcos Baghdatis and Mikhail Youzhny dissapoint No. 2 seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram 6-2, 6-4 in a PBZ Zagreb Indoors semi-finals on Saturday.

Baghdatis and Youzhny saved all 5 mangle points opposite their serves, and pennyless a Israeli span 3 times to allege to a final in one hour and 4 minutes. The Cypriot and Russian will face furious cards Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavic for a title.

The Croatians kick Ivo Karlovic and Frank Moser 6-3, 6-7(5), 10-4, banishment 10 aces and winning 78 per cent of their use points in a one-hour and 27-minute victory.

Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin discharged Treat Conrad Huey and Ken Skupski 6-2, 6-2 to strech a Open Sud de France final in Montpellier.

Mahut and Roger-Vasselin won 84 per cent of their use points and pennyless their opponents twice in any set to allege in only 48 minutes.

The Frenchmen will seem in their initial ATP World Tour final together, carrying won 4 titles on a ATP Challenger Tour. Mahut has prisoner 3 doubles titles in 8 tour-level finals, while Roger-Vasselin will make his pretension compare debut.

At a VTR Open, Frederico Gil and Daniel Gimeno-Traver modernized to a final with a 7-6(4), 3-6, 10-3 win over Santiago Giraldo and Maximo Gonzalez in Vina del Mar.

After dropping a second set, a Portuguese-Spanish tandem dominated a Match Tie-break to explain feat in one hour and 40 minutes. Gil and Gimeno-Traver are each looking to win their initial ATP World Tour title.

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Berdych, Simon, Monfils Advance To Montpellier SFs

dspyn — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:35:50 +0000

OPEN SUD DE FRANCE 2012

Montpellier, France

by ATP Staff

03.02.2012

Top-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych overcame Nicolas Mahut of France 6-3, 6-4 on Friday for a place in a Open Sud de France semi-finals in Montpellier.

Berdych recovered from a 0-3 necessity in a second set to win 5 true games. He strike 14 aces and won 38 of his 47 use points to record his third unbroken win over Mahut in 74 minutes. Mahut, 30, is now 3-22 opposite Top 10 opponents.

“So distant everything’s going flattering well,” pronounced Berdych. “I have a second compare underneath my belt. The really critical thing in my diversion is serve. It was operative flattering well, [except] for one diversion where we mislaid maybe a bit of thoroughness and mislaid that game, though finally was means to finish it in true sets, so happy for that.”

Last week, World No. 7 Berdych reached a Australian Open quarter-finals (l. to Nadal) for a second year running.

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The Czech will subsequent play German seventh seed Philipp Kohlschreiber, whom he has beaten in 6 of their prior 7 meetings. ”It’s going to be another semi-final, that is a plain week so far, though we don’t wish to finish adult with that, so try my best and try to go through,” pronounced Berdych.

Kohlschreiber struck 18 aces and capitalised on 3 of his 6 mangle points to better No. 4 seed Richard Gasquet of France 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.

“I came out with a good start. we had a right tactic,” pronounced a German. “Maybe he was not 100 per cent in a compare in a beginning, so we felt we had a small bit of chance. we put a lot of pressure, we played very, really high peculiarity tennis, and overall I served really well. It was a really good compare for me.”

Second seed Gilles Simon modernized to his second ATP World Tour semi-final of a deteriorate with a 7-6(5), 6-7(2), 6-2 feat over associate Frenchman and furious label Guillaume Rufin in dual hours and 53 minutes.

There were 4 true breaks of offer in a determining set, before a World No. 12 won a final 4 games. He is looking to lift his 10th ATP World Tour pretension and third on French dirt (2007-Marseille, 2010-Metz).

Simon will subsequent face 2010 champion Gael Monfils, who is now No. 13 in a South African Airways ATP Rankings. Third seed Monfils strike 9 aces and mislaid 6 points on offer in a convincing 6-3, 6-3 feat over Jarkko Nieminen of Finland in only 54 minutes.

Monfils reached a Qatar ExxonMobil Open final (l. to Tsonga) in a initial week of a 2012 ATP World Tour season. Nieminen forsaken to an 8-3 deteriorate record, that includes lifting his second ATP World Tour pretension during a Apia International Sydney (d. Benneteau)

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Youzhny Battles Past Karlovic In Zagreb; Baghdatis Ousts Dodig

dspyn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:32:17 +0000

PBZ ZAGREB INDOORS 2012

Zagreb, Croatia

by ATP Staff

03.02.2012

Third seed Mikhail Youzhny warranted a hard-fought win over eight-seeded Croatian Ivo Karlovic, prevalent 7-6(10), 3-6, 7-6(6) after dual hours and 42 mins on Friday during a PBZ Zagreb Indoors.

Youzhny won 10 reduction points than Karlovic, though survived 22 aces and edged a home favourite in a tie-breaks to strech a Zagreb semi-finals for a second time. He softened to a 3-0 FedEx ATP Head2Head record opposite his opponent, including a win during Doha progressing this season.

“It was a really tighten match, really tough compare for both,” pronounced a Russian. “I consider we was a bit lucky. When we win in dual tie-break sets, dual points difference, we have to have to have fitness on your side.”

Youzhny subsequent faces German Michael Berrer, who stayed on march to strech his third true final during this ATP World Tour 250 contest after rallying past former World No. 8 Jurgen Melzer of Austria 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in dual hours and 3 minutes.

“I knew it’d be a really formidable compare and I’d have to play on top,” pronounced Berrer. “In a commencement we was 1-4 down and we felt like, I’m personification not bad, though he’s only too good. But afterwards we got a small bit some-more offensive, attempted to get him divided from a baseline, pushed him behind a small bit, and afterwards we went to chip and assign returns. we was means to put him down a small bit.”

The 105th-ranked Berrer is creation his initial tour-level coming given final Oct in St. Petersburg.

Sixth seed Marcos Baghdatis ensured a Croatian actor would not lift a Zagreb prize for a fifth time in 7 years after he knocked out fortifying champion and No. 4 seed Ivan Dodig 6-4, 7-5 in a final compare Friday. The Cypriot, who won a Zagreb pretension in 2007, improves to an 8-0 record during this tournament.

Baghdatis is by to his second semi-final of a 2012 season, also advancing to this theatre in Sydney (l. to Benneteau), and will be attempting to strech his 12th tour-level final.

Slovakian Lukas Lacko requisitioned a place in his initial ATP World Tour semi-final on Friday after he kick seventh seed Robin Haase of a Netherlands 6-4, 6-4 in 70 minutes.

Lacko, 24, is full of certainty after reaching a Australian Open third turn (l. to Nadal) as a qualifier final month. The World No. 97 played in 5 quarter-finals in 2010 (at Chennai, Zagreb, Memphis, Halle and Atlanta).

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Tennis ATP World Tour PBZ Zagreb Indoors – Times

dspyn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:31:25 +0000

Posted: Feb 3
Updated: Today during 1:20 AM

Tennis ATP World Tour PBZ Zagreb Indoors

Tennis ATP World Tour PBZ Zagreb Indoors Results

Singles

Second Round

Marcos Baghdatis (6), Cyprus, def. Lukasz Kubot, Poland, 6-4, 6-2.

Mikhail Youzhny (3), Russia, def. Grega Zemlja, Slovenia, 6-1, 6-3.

Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, def. Alex Bogomolov Jr. (2), Russia, 6-0, 6-7 (1), 6-1.

Ivan Dodig (4), Croatia, def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Ivo Karlovic (8), Croatia, def. Dudi Sela, Israel, 6-3, 6-2.

Doubles

Quarterfinals

Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram (2), Israel, def. Daniele Bracciali, Italy, and Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, 7-5, 7-6 (4).

Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, and Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, def. Benjamin Becker and Alexander Waske, Germany, 7-6 (3), 7-5.

Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavic, Croatia, def. Jurgen Melzer and Alexander Peya (1), Austria, 1-6, 7-6 (7), 10-7 tiebreak.

Open Sud de France Results

Singles

Second Round

Nicolas Mahut, France, def. Florian Mayer (6), Germany, 7-6 (3), 6-3.

Tomas Berdych (1), Czech Republic, def. Florent Serra, France, 6-0, 6-2.

Gael Monfils (3), France, def. Michael Russell, United States, 6-3, 6-3.

Jarkko Nieminen (8), Finland, def. Paul-Henri Mathieu, France, 7-6 (4), 6-1.

Doubles

Second Round

Paul Hanley, Australia, and Jamie Murray (3), Britain, def. Kenny de Schepper and Fabrice Martin, France, 7-6 (6), 6-2.

Treat Conrad Huey, Philippines, and Ken Skupski, Britain, def. Olivier Rochus, Belgium, and Igor Zelenay, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-3.

Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, def. Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins (1), Britain, 7-5, 7-5.

Dustin Brown, Germany, and Lovro Zovko, Croatia, def. Nikolay Davydenko and Igor Kunitsyn, Russia, 6-3, 7-5.