Results – Thursday, February 9, 2012
Singles – Second Round
(2) Marion Bartoli (FRA) d. Petra Martic (CRO) 75 61
(7) Roberta Vinci (ITA) d. (Q) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 63 16 63
(9) Angelique Kerber (GER) d. Monica Niculescu (ROU) 63 46 63
Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) d. Christina McHale (USA) 62 75
Klara Zakopalova (CZE) d. Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 60 63
(Q) Mona Barthel (GER) d. (WC) Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 63 60

Doubles – Quarterfinals
(4) Niculescu/Rosolska (ROU/POL) d. Safarova/Zakopalova (CZE/CZE) 62 62
Craybas/Zahlavova Strycova (USA/CZE) d. (WC) Coin/Parmentier (FRA/FRA) 26 75 107 (Match TB)

Order Of Play – Friday, February 10, 2012
Central (from 12.30hrs)
1. Huber/Raymond vs. Brianti/Cornet
2. Julia Goerges vs. Klara Zakopalova (NB 14.30hrs)
3. Maria Sharapova vs. Angelique Kerber
4. Groenefeld/Martic vs. Kichenok/Kichenok
5. Roberta Vinci vs. Marion Bartoli (NB 19.00hrs)
6. Yanina Wickmayer vs. Mona Barthel

Results – Thursday, February 9, 2012
Singles – Second Round
(3) Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) d. Urszula Radwanska (POL) 63 62
(8) Vania King (USA) d. Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 61 63
Sania Mirza (IND) d. Anne Keothavong (GBR) 64 75
(Q) Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) d. Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN) 75 60

Doubles – Quarterfinals
(1) Mirza/Rodionova (IND/AUS) d. Wongteanchai/Wongteanchai (THA/THA) 64 63
(2) Daniilidou/Tanasugarn (GRE/THA) d. Akita/Rottman (JPN/AUT) 62 60
(3) Amanmuradova/Date-Krumm (UZB/JPN) d. Lertcheewakarn/Sema (THA/JPN) 76(4) 61
(4) H.Chan/Y.Chan (TPE/TPE) d. Cirstea/Keothavong (ROU/GBR) w/o (Keothavong: illness)

Order Of Play – Friday, February 10, 2012
Court 1 (from 15.00hrs)
1. Vera Zvonareva vs. Sorana Cirstea
2. Maria Kirilenko vs. Tamarine Tanasugarn
3. Vania King vs. Daniela Hantuchova
4. H.Chan/Y.Chan vs. Daniilidou/Tanasugarn

Court 2 (from 15.00hrs)
1. Hsieh Su-Wei vs. Sania Mirza

Results – Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Singles – Second Round
(1) Maria Sharapova (RUS) d. Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 63 61
(6) Julia Goerges (GER) d. Petra Cetkovska (CZE) 61 64

Singles – First Round
(7) Roberta Vinci (ITA) d. Simona Halep (ROU) 64 64
(WC) Pauline Parmentier (FRA) d. (8) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 26 63 63
Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) d. (LL) Jill Craybas (USA) 61 ret. (right leg injury)
Monica Niculescu (ROU) d. Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS) 61 46 64
Christina McHale (USA) d. (LL) Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 64 75
Klara Zakopalova (CZE) d. (WC) Alizé Cornet (FRA) 63 61
(Q) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) d. (Q) Kristina Barrois (GER) 76(3) 62

Doubles – First Round
(1) Huber/Raymond (USA/USA) d. Kondratieva/Lefèvre (RUS/FRA) 64 46 106 (Match TB)
Kichenok/Kichenok (UKR/UKR) d. (3) Gajdosova/Mattek-Sands (AUS/USA) 62 62
Groenefeld/Martic (GER/CRO) d. Bogdan/Marosi (ROU/HUN) 36 61 107 (Match TB)

Order Of Play – Thursday, February 9, 2012
Central (from 12.00hrs)
1. Roberta Vinci vs. Bethanie Mattek-Sands
2. Mona Barthel vs. Pauline Parmentier (NB 14.00hrs)
3. Monica Niculescu vs. Angelique Kerber
4. Coin/Parmentier vs. Craybas/Zahlavova Strycova
5. Petra Martic vs. Marion Bartoli (NB 19.00hrs)
6. Yanina Wickmayer vs. Christina McHale

Court 1 (from 13.00hrs)
1. Klara Zakopalova vs. Tsvetana Pironkova
2. Niculescu/Rosolska vs. Safarova/Zakopalova (NB 17.00hrs; after suitable rest)

Isner has lost both matches against the third-ranked Federer, each time on hard courts, and said he aims to serve well and play quick points.
 
“I don’t want to be getting in 15-ball rallies with Roger from the baseline ‘cause that probably won’t bode well for me,” the 17th-ranked Isner said. “I’m going to need to play aggressive, play-first strike tennis and see how it goes.”
 
Fish, who has a 2-0 career record against Wawrinka, is satisfied to be opening the series.
 
“I would prefer to play first. On a team note, I would like to try to get the team off to a good start,” Fish said.
 
U.S. captain Jim Courier plans to have 19-year-old Ryan Harrison make his Davis Cup debut on Saturday, partnering with Mike Bryan in doubles against Federer and Wawrinka, who won Olympic gold in doubles in Beijing.
 
Still, that could change depending how deep Fish and Isner go in their singles matches.
 
“We’ll see as we go,” Courier said. “That’s the team we are nominating now, but certainly things can change given whatever happens (Friday).”
 
Bryan’s twin brother, Bob, is unavailable after his first child was born last week.
 
In Sunday’s scheduled reverse singles, the third-ranked Federer is set to face Fish, followed by Wawrinka against Isner.
 
The U.S. has a 2-1 edge against Switzerland in Davis Cup matchups, though each series went to the home team on hard courts.
 
The Americans’ dream team of Courier, Andre Aggasi, John McEnroe and Pete Sampras won the 1992 final played at Fort Worth, Texas, and a first-round series when Federer was unavailable in 2009 at Birmingham, Alabama.
 
A 19-year-old Federer led the Swiss to victory in a 2001 first-round match in his home city Basel.

He said he no longer had the energy to play at the top level after having been bothered by back, knee and hip injuries for several years.
 
Gonzalez won 11 ATP events and the three Olympic medals—gold, silver and bronze.
 
He reached the final of the 2007 Australian Open, losing in straight sets to Roger Fedrerer. He was also a semifinalist at the 2009 French Open and reached the quarterfinals twice in the U.S. Open and once at Wimbledon.
 
Gonzalez, who returned last year after being out for eight months following hip surgery, said he had gone through some “tough times” in recent months.
 
“I realized that I didn’t have the energy that I needed, nor am I prepared to do all I need to in order to be where I want to be,” Gonzalez said. “Given the respect tennis deserves, I have decided to step aside. Tennis has given me some incredible experiences, and I’ve met many admirable, wonderful people.”
 
Jose Hinzpeter, president of the Chilean tennis federation, was in shock at the decision.
 
“We thought we’d be able to count on him for a bit more,” Hinzpeter said.

After the Nadal skit on Monday, two more skits by Les Guignols (The Puppets) satirical program were released Wednesday. They took aim at recently banned Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, Spain’s World Cup-winning soccer team and its European Championship-winning basketball squad.
 
Nadal, a six-time French Open champion, has been the butt of Les Guignols’ jokes, appearing in two of the three clips. Last week, Contador received a two-year ban from the Court of Arbitration for a positive doping test he blamed on contaminated meat.
 
The latest video shows Spanish athletes signing a petition in support of Contador but using needles rather than pens, including Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas, an unidentified basketball player and Nadal.
 
“It’s not against me but against Spain in general,” Nadal told reporters Thursday during practice at his home island of Mallorca. “With less, we’ve achieved more than they have, we’re doing something better. It’s not about pills or syringes.”
 
The videos have drawn much publicity in Spain, with many media outlets countering with reports suggesting France is jealous of the country’s achievements.
 
“It’s an indiscriminate attack on Spanish sport that is completely false and doesn’t correspond with reality,” Wert said. “Several federations have already undertaken means of protest and the CSD is now studying it.”
 
Spain’s soccer team is the world and European champions, while Nadal holds 10 Grand Slams titles and helped the Davis Cup team to three titles since 2008.
 
Bernard Hinault was the last Frenchman to win the Tour in 1985, with Spanish cyclists winning 10 times since. Spanish tennis players have won 11 titles at Roland Garros since Yannick Noah’s victory in 1983, the last for a Frenchman.
 
“It’s in fashion to discredit champions with this theme of doping,” said Barcelona defender Gerard Pique, a member of Spain’s World Cup winning team. “To shut them up, we just have to keep winning.”
 
Spain has often been accused of protecting its own in the face of doping charges, especially since the 2006 probe Operation Puerto, the biggest investigation into doping in cycling. That case implicated more than 50 cyclists. On Thursday, 1997 Tour champion Jan Ullrich was banned for two years for his involvement.
 
Contador, who is one of only five cyclists to have won all three of cycling’s premier races, also was implicated in the case.
 
Wert said Spain was pushing through legislation to make sure anti-doping laws live up to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s code. Madrid looks to bid for the 2020 Olympics.
 
Spanish Olympic Committee president and Madrid 2020 bid leader Alejandro Blanco said changes need to be made to WADA’s doping code after Contador was banned for testing positive for a minuscule amount of clenbuterol on a 2010 Tour rest day.
 
“I would support a change in the anti-doping rules. One day they will set a barrier for clenbuterol and then from there down it won’t be considered doping,” Blanco said. “No one can accuse us of not being front and center in the fight against doping.”