Tag: Tennis

Sao Paulo: Brazilian tennis legend Maria Bueno, who dominated the women’s game in the late 1950s and for much of the 1960s, has died at the age of 78 after a battle with mouth cancer. Bueno passed away at the 9 de Julho hospital here, where she had been admitted several days earlier, doctors and […]

New Delhi: Tennis ace Sania Mirza is thrilled to feature on the ESPN’s World Fame 100 list for 2018, and says it motivates her work hard and achieve more. “I am thrilled and excited to be with along side such great athletes of the world and obviously honoured,” Sania said in a statement to IANS. […]

Madrid:Spain’s tennis great Rafael Nadal has announced that his lingering hip injury will prevent him from playing in this month’s Indian Wells Masters and Miami Open tournaments, adding that his goal is to recover in time for the clay-court season. “Unfortunately, the injury I suffered in Acapulco before starting the tournament is in the same […]

New Delhi: Star Indian tennis player Sania Mirza on Sunday said she will remain out with injury for at least two more months before she makes a comeback to the court. The six-time Grand Slam holder has remained out of action since October 2017 with an injury in her right knee. The 31-year-old also said that […]

Melbourne: Veteran Leander Paes and fellow Indian Purav Raja defeated N. Basilashvili and A. Haider-Maurer in straight sets in the first round of the men’s doubles competition at the Australian Open tennis tournament here on Thursday. The Indian combination did not face too much trouble from their European opponents as they eased to a 6-2, 6-3 […]

Melbourne: After sitting out most of 2017 tennis season with a career threatening injury, former World No.1 Novak Djokovic has spent the last six months reassessing his serving technique. “It was an obviously part of my game that I had to address because of my elbow issues,” the Serbian said on Saturday, reports Xinhua news agency. […]

Beijing: World No.2 Simona Halep of Romania snapped her seven-match losing streak to Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, advancing to the quarter-finals of the China Open here on Wednesday. The wild carded Sharapova was troubled by her serve, producing five double faults in the whole match, three of which came in the first set, reports […]

Prague: Swiss tennis great Roger Federer, ranked No. 2 in the world, defeated Australia’s Nick Kyrgios 4-6, 7-6(6) and “match tie-break” (11-9) to take home the first-ever Laver Cup, named in honour of the legendary Rod Laver. Federer and Kyrgios played to a “heart-attack finish” in the O2 Arena before 17,000 fans on Sunday, reports Efe […]

Tokyo: Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki claimed her first trophy of 2017 beating Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the Tokyo Open final on Sunday. The World No.6 defending champion defeated her Russian rival, World No.23, with a score of 6-0, 7-5 in one hour and 13 minutes, reports Efe. “It feels great to have won the […]

Edmonton: India team tennis player Ramkumar Ramanathan registered a defeat against Denis Shapovalov in the men’s singles to allow Canada take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the Davis Cup World Group play-offs at the Northlands Coliseum here. The Indian who ranks 154 lost to the 51 ranked Canadian 3-6, 6 (1)-7, 3-6 in two hours […]

Kolkata: Even after being excluded from India’s Davis Cup team, veteran India tennis player Leander Paes on Thursday stood his ground saying he is far from finished and people should not be surprised if they see him on the podium next year. “I will have a new mixed doubles partner and don’t be surprised if […]

Madrid: Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal remained in the number one spot in the men’s Association of Tennis Professionals world singles rankings released on Monday. Nadal, 16-time Grand Slam champion, on Sunday won his third US Open title with a dominating 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 victory over big-serving South African Kevin Anderson, reports Efe news agency. Switzerland’s […]

Washington: US tennis star Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl at a clinic in Florida, the media reported. Williams, 35, whose partner is Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, 34, was admitted to the St. Mary’s Medical Centre in West Palm Beach on Wednesday, reports the BBC. She gave birth on Friday night. The 23-time […]

Bengaluru: Fresh from winning the maiden Grand Slam title of his career at the French Open, Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna asserted on Saturday that he is in the best form of his life at the moment. “At the start of the year, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and I won the Chennai Open. Then, Marcin (Matkowski) and […]

Madrid: Spanish No.1 Rafael Nadal claimed his fifth Mutua Madrid Open title with a 7-6 (10), 6-4 win over eighth seeded Dominic Thiem here. Sunday’s win also means that Nadal has now won 30 ATP Masters 1000 Series titles in his long career, more than anyone who is currently playing, reports Xinhua news agency. The […]