
Madrid: Rafael Nadal lost to Spanish countryman Fernando Verdasco for the first time in the Madrid Open on Thursday, then he and top-ranked Novak Djokovic threatened not to return if the new blue clay-court wasn't discarded. Nadal blew a 5-2 lead in the third set in losing 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, his first defeat to Verdasco in 14 matches. The third-round loss was Nadal's earliest exit in a clay-court tournament since...

12:09 AM, May 11, 2012

New York: Caroline Wozniacki is keeping her dad as coach. The former top-ranked player fired coach Ricardo Sanchez last week after just two months on the job. She said during a conference call on Friday from Doha, Qatar, that she's been coached by her father, Piotr, "for a very long time" and "right now, it's the best thing." She won't need much coaching at the BNP Paribas Showdown on March...

02:43 PM, Feb 12, 2012

Copenhagen: Former top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki has fired her coach Ricardo Sanchez of Spain after just two months. Wozniacki's father Piotr told Wednesday's edition of the Ekstra Bladet that his daughter didn't get "new impulses" from the cooperation with Sanchez. The Spaniard was hired in early December, only to see Wozniacki lose to defending champion Kim Clijsters in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open and her No 1 ranking. Wozniacki remains...

01:02 PM, Feb 02, 2012

Brussels: After being sidelined for nearly four months bacause of injury, Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters made a successful return to the court by beating World No 1 Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 7-6 (5) in an exhibition on Thursday. In front of some 10,000 home fans at the Antwerp Sports Palace, Clijsters proved she has fully recovered from the stomach muscle injury which forced her off the tour in August. She...

02:56 PM, Dec 09, 2011

Copenhagen: Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki has hired Spanish coach Ricardo Sanchez, according to a Danish newspaper. According to Friday's edition of the tabloid Ekstra Bladet, Wozniacki says Sanchez is replacing her father, Piotr Wozniacki, who "wanted to get a little bit of time off the court." Sanchez says his first goal is to have Wozniacki win next month's Australian Open. Wozniacki has never won a Grand Slam tournament. The 21-year-old Dane...

08:02 PM, Dec 03, 2011

Wozniacki survived a three-hour battle against close friend Azarenka. ...

05:37 PM, Oct 29, 2009

Clijsters defeated Danish teenager Wozniacki 6-3, 7-5. ...

10:35 AM, Sep 14, 2009

Caroline Wozniacki was steady in defeating 17-year-old Melanie Oudin. ...

08:49 PM, Sep 10, 2009

Oudin , Wozniacki, Bondarenko and Wickmayer have made it to the last 8. ...

11:12 PM, Sep 08, 2009