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May 21 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Strasbourg International Women's Singles Round 1 matches on Tuesday 7-Chanelle Scheepers (South Africa) beat Claire Feuerstein (France) 7-5 6-4 Flavia Pennetta (Italy) beat Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 6-4 6-2 3-Alize Cornet (France) beat Mathilde Johansson (France) 6-3 6-2 5-Monica Niculescu (Romania) beat Marina Erakovic (New Zealand) 6-7(7) 6-3 7-6(5) Misaki Doi (Japan) beat Karolina Pliskova (Czech Repu    

May 21 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Nice Open Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Tuesday Paul-Henri Mathieu (France) beat Ryan Harrison (U.S.) 6-4 6-4 6-Fabio Fognini (Italy) beat Marco Cecchinato (Italy) 1-6 6-1 6-2 Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukraine) beat Rogerio Dutra Silva (Brazil) 6-2 6-3    

May 21 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Duesseldorf Cup Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Tuesday Aljaz Bedene (Slovenia) beat 8-Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) 3-6 6-4 6-3 Grega Zemlja (Slovenia) beat David Goffin (Belgium) 5-7 6-0 6-2 Igor Sijsling (Netherlands) beat Evgeny Korolev (Kazakhstan) 6-2 6-4    

May 20 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Nice Open Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday Victor Hanescu (Romania) beat Albert Ramos (Spain) 6-3 5-7 6-4 Pablo Andujar (Spain) beat Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) 6-3 4-6 6-3 Lu Yen-Hsun (Taiwan) beat 5-Andreas Seppi (Italy) 7-5 1-6 6-4 Robin Haase (Netherlands) beat Marinko Matosevic (Australia) 6-1 6-4 Carlos Berlocq (Argentina) beat Leonardo Mayer (Argentina) 6-2 6-1    

May 20 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Duesseldorf Cup Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday Guido Pella (Argentina) beat Lukasz Kubot (Poland) 6-4 4-6 6-4 Tobias Kamke (Germany) beat Benjamin Becker (Germany) 6-3 6-2 Roberto Bautista (Spain) beat Gilles Muller (Luxembourg) 2-6 6-4 6-2 6-Jarkko Nieminen (Finland) beat Lukas Lacko (Slovakia) 6-3 6-1 Andre Ghem (Brazil) beat Go Soeda (Japan) 6-4 6-0    

May 20 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Brussels Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday Elena Baltacha (Britain) beat Stefanie Voegele (Switzerland) 7-6(9) 7-5 7-Varvara Lepchenko (U.S.) beat Bojana Jovanovski (Serbia) 6-2 6-7(8) 6-4 Jana Cepelova (Slovakia) beat Lesia Tsurenko (Ukraine) 5-7 6-3 7-5 Olga Govortsova (Belarus) beat Arantxa Rus (Netherlands) 6-2 7-5    

May 20 (Reuters) - WTA rankings on Monday (last week's positions in brackets): points 1. (1) Serena Williams (United States) 11620 2. (2) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 10015 3. (3) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 9005 4. (4) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6475 5. (6) Sara Errani (Italy) 5835 6. (5) Li Na (China) 5335 7. (8) Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic)    

May 20 (Reuters) - May 20 (Reuters) - ATP World Tour rankings on Monday (last week's positions in brackets): 1. (1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 12310 points 2. (2) Andy Murray (Scotland) 8670 3. (3) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 8000 4. (5) Rafa Nadal (Spain) 6895 5. (4) David Ferrer (Spain) 6740 6. (6) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 4700 7. (7) Juan Martin D    

ROME, May 19 (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal made short work of his great rival Roger Federer to win the Italian Open, his sixth trophy of the year, 6-1 6-3 on Sunday.    

May 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Nice Open Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Sunday Edouard Roger-Vasselin (France) beat Alejandro Falla (Colombia) 7-5 0-0 (Falla retired) Ricardas Berankis (Lithuania) beat 8-Denis Istomin (Uzbekistan) 6-2 6-2    

May 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Result from the Rome Masters Men's Singles Final on Sunday 5-Rafa Nadal (Spain) beat 2-Roger Federer (Switzerland) 6-1 6-3    

ROME, May 19 (Reuters) - Serena Williams won her fourth consecutive tennis tour title when she thrashed former world number one Victoria Azarenka 6-1 6-3 to take the Italian Open on Sunday.    

May 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Duesseldorf Cup Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Sunday Jan Hajek (Czech Republic) beat Evgeny Donskoy (Russia) 6-2 6-2 Daniel Brands (Germany) beat 5-Lukas Rosol (Czech Republic) 6-4 6-3 Ivan Dodig (Croatia) beat Blaz Kavcic (Slovenia) 7-5 6-4    

May 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Result from the Italian Open Women's Singles Final on Sunday 1-Serena Williams (U.S.) beat 3-Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 6-1 6-3    

* Serena sees off qualifier Halep (Adds Federer quotes)    

May 18 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Rome Masters Men's Singles Semifinal matches on Saturday 2-Roger Federer (Switzerland) beat Benoit Paire (France) 7-6(5) 6-4 5-Rafa Nadal (Spain) beat 6-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 6-2 6-4    

Rome, May 18 (Reuters) - Serena Williams crushed Romanian qualifier Simona Halep 6-3 6-0 to book her place in the Italian Open final and extend her winning streak to 23 matches on Saturday.    

May 18 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Italian Open Women's Singles Semifinal matches on Saturday 3-Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) beat 7-Sara Errani (Italy) 6-0 7-5 1-Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Simona Halep (Romania) 6-3 6-0    

May 17 (Reuters) - Czech Tomas Berdych snapped a run of 11 consecutive defeats by world number one Novak Djokovic to reach the semi-finals of the Rome Masters before Rafa Nadal was stretched to the limit against David Ferrer on Friday.    

May 17 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Rome Masters Men's Singles Quarterfinal matches on Friday 2-Roger Federer (Switzerland) beat Jerzy Janowicz (Poland) 6-4 7-6(2) 5-Rafa Nadal (Spain) beat 4-David Ferrer (Spain) 6-4 4-6 6-2 6-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) beat 1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 2-6 7-5 6-4 Benoit Paire (France) beat Marcel Granollers (Spain) 6-1 6-0