Chennai: Joshna Chinappa won her sixth title on the professional tour when she beat England's Sarah Jane Perry 9-11, 11-4, 11-8, 12-10, in the final of the Chennai Open squash tournament in Chennai on Saturday. On a comeback trail following knee injury, 25-year old Joshna displayed touches of her vintage form that had taken her to a high of 28 in World rankings two years ago as she overcame a...
06:05 PM, May 26, 2012
Chennai: The third seed Indo-Serbian pair of Leander Paes and Janko Tipsarevic on Sunday won the doubles title at the Aircel Chennai Open 2012, defeating fourth seed Israeli duo of Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich 6-4, 6-4 in straight sets here. In a match the lasted 73 minutes, the local favourites won their first title together and Paes' sixth doubles title here. Tipsarevic played the match right after losing the...
11:11 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Chennai: Fourth seeded Canadian Milos Raonic played the game of his career to snatch the singles Chennai Open title from the jaws of defeat by beating top seeded Serbian Janko Tipsarevic 6-7, 7-6, 7-6 in the final on Sunday. The match also turned out to be the longest final in the history of the Chennai Open. Sending out 35 aces against Tipsarevic's eight, Raonic colleted 250 ATP points and a...
09:07 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Chennai: The top-seeded Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna said they were not rattled by their shock defeat at the hands of Israeli pair Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich in the Chennai Open semi-final and had several positives to take home from their performance. The fourth-seeded pair of Ram and Erlich sent the Indian duo crashing out of the tournament with a 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 win on Saturday....
11:08 AM, Jan 08, 2012
Chennai: The top-seeded Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of the doubles event of the Chennai Open in the semi-finals after losing to Israel's Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich on Saturday. The fourth seeds came back from a set down to upset the title favourites in tie-breaker 4-6 ,6-3, 10-8. But India had something to cheer about as the third-seeded Indo-Serbian pair of Leander Paes and...
10:44 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Chennai: Fourth seeded Canadian Milos Raonic aced his way past World No.10 Nicolas Almagro 6-4, 6-4, to set up a title clash with top seed Janko Tipsarevic who ended the dream run of Japanese qualifier Go Soeda 6-1, 6-4, in the Chennai Open on Saturday. Raonic, the 20-year old ranked 31, slammed 17 aces that sent the second seeded Spaniard Almagro reeling to defeat in 72 minutes while the ninth...
06:22 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Chennai: Unheralded Japanese journeyman Go Soeda pulled off the biggest win of his career by knocking out defending champion and World No. 17 Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-4, 6-4 at the Chennai Open to enter his maiden ATP tour semi-finals on Friday. Soeda was all but joined by compatriot and fellow-qualifier Yuichi Sugita, who blew three match points and lost a two-hour, 44-minute marathon 6-4, 6-7 (8), 6-4 to second-seeded...
10:38 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Chennai: Serbian tennis ace Janko Tipsarevic, top seeded in the singles draw of the Aircel Chennai Open 2012, said that his aim is to move closer to the top five in the world in the upcoming season. "I'd like to be closer to the top five. I want to be a consistent top-10 player," Tipsarevic, currently ranked number 9 in the world, said. The Serbian said he is not "just...
08:05 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Chennai: Top seeded Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna survived a scare from unseeded duo of Swiss Stanislaus Wawrinka and Andreas Beck of Germany to storm into the doubles semifinal of the Chennai Open on Thursday. The Indian pair clinched the match with a 6-4,7-6 (3)scoreline in only 74 minutes. The pair combined well and co-ordinated with an improved approach compared to their Wednesday's match against Xavier Malisse...
11:02 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Chennai: Serbian top seed Janko Tipsarevic hardly broke a sweat in a clinical 6-1, 6-3 elimination of Indian Wildcard Yuki Bhambri, in the second round of the Chennai Open on Thursday. In a match that lasted just 62 minutes, Tipsarevic, the world No 9, breezed past Bhambri, who initially appeared overawed but showed spirit in the second set. Bhambri, who upset Slovakian Karol Beck in the first round to set...
10:20 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Chennai: The newly-formed Indo-Serbian combination of Leander Paes and Janko Tipsarevic survived their first test when they beat Canadian pair of Vasek Pospisil and Milos Raonic 6-3, 4-6, 10-7 to enter the quarter-finals of the doubles event in the Aircel Chennai Open here on Wednesday. Despite some awkward moments in the second set that the Canadians dominated, Paes and Tipsarevic combined well enough to pull through a tough match that...
11:54 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Chennai: Defending champion and third seed Stanislas Wawrinka shrugged off a first set loss to beat lucky loser Edouard Roger-Vasselin while talented Canadian Milos Raonic, the fourth seed, brushed aside Victor Hanescu in straight sets to enter the third round of the Aircel Chennai Open here on Wednesday. Wawrinka, the 26-year old World No.17 from Switzerland, who has enjoyed a profitable run in this season opening tournament the past two...
09:05 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Chennai: Belgian wild card David Goffin knocked out compatriot and last year's runner-up Xavier Malisse 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the first round of the Chennai Open on Tuesday. The 124th-ranked Goffin rallied from a set down to beat the seventh-seeded Malisse, also the 2007 champion, in one hour and 53 minutes after securing the crucial break in the sixth game of the third set. Another Belgian to suffer an upset...
09:51 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Chennai: Indian tennis veteran Mahesh Bhupathi asserted that playing from the deuce court would not pose much of a problem for him while partnering Rohan Bopanna, and with more practice the pair would be ready for the challenges ahead. Bhupathi, like Bopanna, has always played from the ad court (left-hand side), and though he admitted to some "teething problems" in getting used to playing on the right side, he was...
07:50 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Chennai: Former world number one junior player Yuki Bhambri made an impassioned plea for financial support to young Indian tennis players who are in the critical transitional stage of moving into senior ranks. Speaking to the media after his 6-2, 6-3 rout of Slovakia's Karol Beck in the first round of the Chennai Open on Monday, the 19-year-old Bhambri felt that players needed full-fledged trainers and coaches like the senior...
04:37 AM, Jan 03, 2012
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