Bulk of Masters field set by final rank
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At a time when mail boxes are stuffed with holiday cards, bills and the usual batch of junk mail, 17 players might want to be very careful about throwing away unopened letters the next few weeks.
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Roger Federer, the three-time defending champion, heads the menâs field for the United States Open, which includes all players ranked in the top 100. The United States Tennis Association announced yesterday that the field would also include the former Open champions Lleyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick and Marat Safin.
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MOSCOW, November 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Marat Safin reached the semi-finals of the Masters Cup Year-End Championship in Houston, TX with the prize-winning money of $3,700,000.
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MADRID : The Madrid Masters tournament is in danger of being dubbed the master-less series after three of the world&#39;s most exciting players joined the event&#39;s growing absentees list.
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To win Ernie Els British Opens: 17th appearance Best: Won, 2002 Top 10s: 9 Rounds: 62 Scoring average: 70.45 Of note: He's on the one playing surface -- links -- on which he can hang with Tiger Woods
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The 16 player field for the 2004 HSBC WORLD MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP to be played at Wentworth this week, October 14-17, is the most international in the 41 year history of the Championship, a fitting statistic for HSBC, the world&#39;s most international bank
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The last putt on the last hole of the last match. Bernhard Langer playing Hale Irwin and Langer has a six-footer for Europe to retain the Ryder Cup.
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With Bobby Reynolds losing in Saturdayâs final round of qualifying, itâs now official: Nineteen men will represent the United States in this yearâs main draw â the second fewest since at least 1972. Of those, only two American players â Andy Roddick and James Blake â are seeded, which ties a low for the Open [...].
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Those of you with the Rockies in four are out of the pool. It was a nice thought, I suppose. With 21 of 22 and seven straight in the postseason, why not run the table? But there had to be some sort of shelf life on karma, right? Four or five days, max, I'd say.
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Organisers of the 4.5-million-US-dollar Tennis Masters Cup have announced the round robin draw for the event. World number one and defending champion Roger Federer is to group
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Andre Agassi will have to get through top-seeded Roger Federer if he wants to make the semifinals. Venus Williams will have to get through No.
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China's Liang Wen-Chong, Thailand's Prayad Marksaeng and India's Jeev Milkha Singh were issued special invitations to the Masters golf tournament here Monday by Augusta National Golf Club.
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MARAT SAFIN crowned an outstanding personal season by winning the Madrid Masters in some style yesterday. The tournament may have been without Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt, Carlos Moya and Andy Roddick but
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Defending U.S. Open champion Andy  Roddick has qualified for the end-of-season Tennis Masters Cup,  tournament organizers announced on Tuesday.
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NORTON, Mass. -- Vijay Singh won a head-to-head matchup with Tiger Woods to end his record reign atop golf&#39;s ultimate leaderboard.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- A strong field that includes six former Champions Tour winners will be vying for 2005 playing privileges at the final stage of qualifying school this week.
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Mark Foster shot a six-under-par 66 in a strong, swirling wind to share the lead with Robert-Jan Derksen after two rounds of the British Masters in Sutton Coldfield, England. Both players were at seven-under 137, leading a group of five players by one stroke. Derksen shot a 68.