Florent Serra

...Ljubicic reaches semifinals at Lyon GP LYON, France Third-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia reached the semifinals of the Lyon Grand Prix on Friday by beating Florent Serra of France 7-6 (6), 6-2. Ljubicic, the 2001 Lyon champion, served...

In this article: Ivan Ljubicic, Gilles Simon, Lyon, Michael Llodra, London, France, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Marc Gicquel

...2001 champion and only non-French player still in the draw. Ljubicic beat Florent Serra of France 7-6 (6), 6-2, serving 16 aces and breaking his opponent twice in the second set. Saturday's semifinal will be his first since May 2008 at...

In this article: Ivan Ljubicic, Lyon, Arnaud Clement, Gilles Simon, Michael Llodra, London, All rights reserved, Australian Open, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

...broke his opponent twice to extend his perfect record against Kiefer to 4-0. Ljubicic will face Florent Serra of France in his eighth quarterfinal of the year. Also, former Lyon finalist Marc Gicquel of France upset Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-4,...

In this article: Ivan Ljubicic, Lyon, Nicolas Kiefer, Paul-Henri Mathieu, France, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Marc Gicquel, and Gilles Simon

...reach the Lyon Grand Prix semi-finals on Friday. Ivan Ljubicic, the 2001 champ, beat Florent Serra of France 7-6 (6), 6-2, serving 16 aces and breaking his opponent twice in the second set. The big-serving Ljubicic will play his first...

In this article: Denis Istomin, Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ivan Ljubicic, London, Paris Masters, Kremlin Cup, Australian Open, Ernests Gulbis, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Marin Cilic

...beat Simon Greul of Germany 6-3, 7-5 to reach the quarterfinals. The second-seeded Tommy Haas, a two-time semifinalist in Stockholm, defeated Florent Serra of France 6-3, 6-4. Haas broke Serra's serve once in each set. The German will play...

In this article: Robin Soderling, Stockholm, Tommy Haas, Andreas Seppi, All rights reserved, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Stockholm Open, Simon Greul, and Ernests Gulbis

...champion will end a year as No. 1 for the first time since 2002 . . . Fifth-seeded Julien Benneteau and Florent Serra reached the quarterfinals of the Lyon (France) Grand Prix. Serra upset No. 8 Albert Montanes, 7-5, 6-3, while Benneteau beat...

In this article: Jelena Jankovic, Serena Williams, Roberto Luongo, NCAA, Myles Brand, Jose Baez, and Mikhail Youzhny

...from injury with a 6-4 6-2 win over third seed Juan Carlos Ferrero. There were no such problems for second seed Tommy Haas, who defeated France's Florent Serra 6-3 6-4. Top seed Soderling is also aiming to become the first home player...

In this article: Robin Soderling, London, ATP, Stockholm Open, Tommy Haas, Marcos Baghdatis, Fernando Verdasco, Giovanni Lapentti, and French Open

...round clash. Verdasco, a semi-finalist in the Australian Open at the start of the year, brushed aside Florent Serra of France 6-3, 6-0, 6-3, while Haas was too good for American Robert Kendrick, winning 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) The German, who...

In this article: Sam Querrey, US Open, Tommy Haas, Fernando Verdasco, Andy Roddick, Australian Open, John Isner, and Jesse Witten

...Tennis Center at Yale. In other first-round action in the week leading up to the final grand slam of the year: France's Florent Serra defeated Steve Darcis of Belgium, 6-3, 6-3; Leonardo Mayer of Argentina upended Russian Denis...

In this article: Taylor Dent, Jairus Byrd, British Open, Tom Watson, Marcos Daniel, Eric Wood, French Open, and Alona Bondarenko