Last week's results

ATP
ARAG ATP World Team Championship
Dusseldorf, Germany
Prize money: €1,500,000
Surface: clay

Final
Sweden d Russia 2-1
R Soderling (SWE) d M Youzhny (RUS) 6-3 6-1
I Andreev (RUS) d T Johansson (SWE) 2-6 6-3 6-4
R Lindstedt/R Soderling (SWE) d D Tursunov/M Youzhny (RUS) 4-6 7-6(5) [11-9]

Sweden won its fourth World Team Championship, joining the US, Germany and Spain as title leaders. The Swedish team wasn't fancied to win as indicated by their eighth seeding in the tournament. 

Sweden's star of the week was Robin Soderling who won all four of his singles matches and all four of his doubles matches during the week. He is only the third player in the tournament's 31 year history to achieve this feat. After the match he had this to say: “It was close. We saved a match point. It was a really big Match Tie-break. I've never been this nervous in my whole life and maybe never been this glad in my whole life either. It's a great feeling … I love to play in a team. It's not very often. You always travel alone and play tournaments. To play in a team it's a great feeling. It makes me even happier.”

The Hypo Group Tennis International 2008
Portschach, Austria
Prize money: €370,000
Surface: clay

Singles - final
[1] N Davydenko (RUS) d [2] J Monaco (ARG) 6-2 2-6 6-2
Doubles - final
[1] M Melo/A Sa (BRA) d [2] J Knowle/J Melzer (AUT) 7-5 6-7(3) [13-11]

Russian Nikolay Davydenko claimed his third Austrian title in four years and improved his ATP finals record to 13–4 with his win over Argentinian Juan Monaco. The pair have now met three times – Davydenko leads their head to head 2–1.

After the match Davydenko was happy with his performance: "I am very happy to win here and I have a lot of confidence going into Paris. I will try to be better and play good there. I am happy winning the title and it's important to get some more points and stay number four in the world and I hope I could reach Shanghai this year."

Grand Prix Hassan II
Casablanca, Morocco
Prize money: €370,000
Surface: clay

Singles - final
[Q] G Simon (FRA) d [5] J Benneteau (FRA) 7-5 6-2

In an all-French final, qualifier Simon surprised his seeded compatriot in straight sets. The win makes Simon the second qualifier to win an ATP title this year, the first was Japanese teenager Kei Nishikori who won the Delray Beach title in February.

After the match, Simon spoke to the media: "I came here to get some matches under my belt. I added this tournament to my schedule pretty late, which meant that I had to play two more matches in the qualifying. Even if I was a qualifier this week, I knew that in theory I was number two of the tournament. I came here to win the tournament. I knew that I had my chances and it was a great week for me. It was my fifth year in a row in Casablanca. I like this tournament a lot and we always get good support from the crowd here."

WTA
Istanbul Cup
Istanbul, Turkey
Prize money: $200,000 (Tier III)
Surface: red clay (outdoor)

Singles - final
[2] Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) d (1) Elena Dementieva (RUS) 6-3 6-2
Doubles - final
(3) Craybas/Govortsova (USA/BLR) d Erakovic/Hercog (NZL/SLO) 6-1 6-2

The win gave Radwanska her third career Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title; she is now 3-0 lifetime in Tour singles finals. Radwanska will surpass $1 million in career prize money earnings with the $30,500 winner's cheque – she is the first Polish player in Tour history to pass that prize money milestone.

After the match, Radwanska spoke of how she felt during the match. "In the warm-up I couldn't put the ball in the court because I was so nervous, so the first few games were more like my warm-up. Then I started playing my game and being more aggressive. After winning the first set I won the first few games of the second set and things got better, and I did it."

Internationaux de Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
Prize money: $175,000 (Tier III)
Surface: red clay (outdoor)

Singles - final
[6] Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) d (5) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) 4-6 7-6(4) 6-0

Doubles - final
[2] Perebiynis/Yan (UKR/CHN) d (1) Chan/Chuang (TPE) 6-4 6-7(3) [10-6]

The Strarsbourg title is Medina Garrigues's first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title of the year, and the eighth of her career; four of those titles came at Palermo (2001, 2004, 2005, 2006), three have now come at Strasbourg (2005, 2007, 2008) and one at Canberra. She is now 8–4 lifetime in Tour singles finals.

Medina Garrigues spoke to the media after the match: "I was down 6-4 6-5 and Kata was playing so well, so I'm even happier I was able to win the title today. I think I was playing defensively in the beginning and she was taking advantage of it. It was hard to concentrate, with all of the rain delays, but I really tried to hit deeper and be more aggressive. That was what helped me get back into the match."

Playing this week
ATP
The French Open (week 1)
Paris, France
Prize money: €15,580,000 (total)
Surface: clay
Who's there? Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Nikolay Davydenko, David Ferrer
Any Aussies? Lleyton Hewitt (singles and doubles), Chris Guccione (singles and doubles), Peter Luczak, Robert Smeets, Paul Hanley (doubles only), Todd Perry (doubles only), Ashley Fisher (doubles only), Jordan Kerr (doubles only), Stephen Huss (doubles only)  

WTA
The French Open (week 1)
Paris, France
Prize money: €15,580,000 (total)
Surface: clay
Who's there? Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Jankovic, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Serena Williams
Any Aussies? Casey Dellacqua (singles and doubles), Samantha Stosur (singles and doubles), Alicia Molik (doubles only), Rennae Stubbs (doubles only)

Next week
ATP
The French Open (week 2)

WTA
The French Open (week 2)

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