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Becker News + Blog
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Bangkok Post Breaking News
Bangkok Post Breaking News: "Paradorn improves record with Basel win"
Basel (dpa) - Paradorn Srichaphan edged closer to break-even tennis this season,
improving his record to 28 wins and 30 losses with a 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4)
opening win over German Benjamin Becker at the Davidoff Swiss Indoors Tuesday.
Inside Tennis: The Buzz, October 2006
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Top-ranked Federer dismisses Becker in 2
From the Waco Tribune:
TOKYO — Roger Federer’s shin is still sore after a run-in with a bedpost this week, but he was fit enough to provide Benjamin Becker with a nightmare encounter of his own Saturday in the Japan Open tennis semifinals. Federer, the world’s top-ranked player, needed only an hour to beat the former Baylor all-American, 6-3, 6-4, dominating every aspect of the game to extend his hard-court record this year to 48-2.
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Federer broke Becker in his opening service game to take a 2-0 lead and the Swiss star’s first of eight aces made it a commanding 3-0 before the former NCAA champion got untracked.
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Becker, who beat former Top 5 player Jiri Novak in the round of 16 and 16th-ranked Jarkko Nieminen in the quarterfinals, earned $32,600 for his first ATP semifi"
Thursday, October 05, 2006
ATPtennis.com - Tennis news from around the world
"Benjamin Becker and Jiri Novak took the court for the last match of the Day 4 schedule and Becker emerged a 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(4) winner at 3.24 a.m after having saved one match point while serving at 5-6 in the third set. It is the latest finish to a match in ATP history.
Previously, the latest time a match finished was at 3.21 a.m. In that match at Philadelphia in 1990, Pete Sampras and Jim Courier lost a doubles match 6-4, 6-2 to Paul Chamberlin and Tim Wilkison."
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