Bangalore: Somdev Devvarman and Yuki Bhambri used their heavy artillery to complete the formalities in the reverse singles and author a 5-0 win for India against Indonesia in the Asia-Oceania Davis Cup Group 1 relegation playoff here on Sunday. Devvarman, 28, who is ranked 208, blasted David Agung Susanto 6-3, 6-1, while 20-year-old Bhambri followed it up with an even more comfortable 6-0, 6-1 win over Wisnu Adi Nugroho to...
07:13 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Astana: Lukas Rosol beat Evgeny Korolev 7-6, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 to give the Czech Republic an unassailable 3-1 lead over Kazakhstan and propel the defending champions into the Davis Cup semi-finals on Sunday. Rosol battled Korolev, who had replaced Kazakh number one Mikhail Kukushkin for the first reverse singles, for more than three-and-a-half hours before sealing the quarter-final tie, played on clay at the National Indoor Tennis Centre in Astana....
06:17 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Serbia and Canada both won marathon doubles matches on Saturday to seize control of their Davis Cup quarter-finals in North America. Both matches were decided in the 28th game of the fifth and final set as Serbia grabbed a 2-1 lead over the United States in Idaho and Canada led Italy by the same score in Vancouver. Argentina won their doubles rubber against France in Buenos Aires to snatch a...
10:19 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Idaho: The United States trail Serbia 2-1 in their Davis Cup quarter-final after the top-ranked doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan lost to Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1), 5-7, 4-6, 15-13 on Saturday in a match that stretched to 4 hours and 23 minutes. Zimonjic served three aces in the final game, closing out the victory with an ace on the second match point....
08:28 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Charleston: Serena Williams routed Venus Williams 6-1, 6-2 at the Family Circle Cup on Saturday, the most one-sided match in the sisters' long rivalry. The top-ranked Serena won her 14th straight match, and will play for her second straight title in this tournament on Sunday against Jelena Jankovic. Jankovic, the 2007 champion, defeated Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-2 in the other semi-final. This was the first time...
08:16 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Bangalore: Leander Paes has emphasised that it was team unity as much as individual performances that helped India take an unbeatable 3-0 lead over Indonesia in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I relegation playoff here Saturday, and that India had the potential to not only return to World Group but also go all the way. Speaking to the media after he and debutant Sanam Singh clinched the doubles tie to...
10:06 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Bangalore: The only hiccup was when Leander Paes dropped his serve once, but the veteran guided his partner Sanam Singh led India to a 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 win over Indonesian pair David Agung Susanto and Elbert Sie as the hosts took an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I relegation play-off here on Saturday. While the Indian victory was a foregone conclusion and was achieved in just...
08:48 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Bangalore: The current lot of players are good enough to take India into Davis Cup World Group next year but it requires special talent to be in top-100, yesteryear Indian tennis icon Anand Amritraj said on Saturday. Amritraj said the controversy involving the top Indian players and AITA was unfortunate but hopefully it will end completely so that the country could qualify for the World Group in 2014. "Hopefully in...
07:28 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Astana, Kazakhstan: Yuriy Schukin and Andrey Golubev beat Radek Stepanek and Jan Hajek 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-3 in doubles on Saturday to cut the Czech Republic's lead against Kazakhstan in the Davis cup quarter-finals to 2-1. After rallying from a break down to win the first set, the Kazakh pair broke decisively in the ninth game of the second. They then won the next three games to take a 2-0...
04:27 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Boise: Sam Querrey helped the United States tie Serbia at 1-1 in their Davis Cup quarter-final with a 7-6 (1), 3-6, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 win over Viktor Troicki on Friday. In the first match, world No. 1 Novak Djokovic took care of 23rd-ranked John Isner 7-6 (5), 6-2, 7-5 at the Taco Bell Arena in Boise, Idaho. The 20th-ranked Querrey kept the Americans' hopes of winning a match on the...
08:07 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Charleston: Top-ranked Serena Williams and sister Venus both won twice on Friday to reach the Family Circle Cup semi-finals and set up their first sibling showdown since 2009. Serena won her 13th straight match by defeating sixth-seeded Lucie Safarova, 6-4, 6-1. Earlier, she topped Mallory Burdette in a third-round match moved due to Thursday's 7 -hour rain delay. Venus also had double duty, downing Varvara Lepchenko in three sets before...
08:05 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Zurich: FIFA security director Ralf Mutschke believes the 500 plus qualifying matches so far for the 2014 World Cup have been clean of match-fixing. Mutschke tells the Associated Press " we don't have any leads that any match has been thrown." The full program of about 820 preliminary matches ends in November. Speaking on the sidelines of a FIFA-sponsored conference on match-fixing and betting, Mutschke says "we are also confident...
11:47 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Bangalore: Yuki Bhambri is expecting that Leander Paes and Sanam Singh will do well in the doubles rubber as India will take a decisive 3-0 lead against Indonesia in the Asia Ocenia Group I tie at the KSLTA here Saturday. "I am expecting my team do well in tomorrow's doubles match. We have a good team," he told reporters in the post-match press conference. India's non-playing captain S P Misra...
10:19 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Bangalore: Expectedly, India romped to a 2-0 lead against Indonesia in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group 1 relegation play-off after Somdev Devvarman and Yuki Bhambri won their respective singles ties in straights sets here on Friday. In two hopelessly one-sided contests, Devvarman routed rookie Wisnu Adi Nugroho 6-1, 6-2, 6-2, and then Bhambri got past Christopher Rungkat 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. India's overall dominance was never in doubt once the 28-year...
05:53 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Washington: A staggering 94 per cent of fresh recruits of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) see Jammu and Kashmir as a "fighting front" and hail mostly from Pakistan's Punjab province from families having links with the powerful army and intelligence network, according to a US military report. The report from the US Military Academy in West Point is result of a multi-year research effort conducted by a lead team of five eminent authors...
05:40 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Astana: Jan Hajek defeated Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in the opening singles Friday, giving the defending champion Czech Republic a 1-0 lead over Kazakhstan in their Davis Cup quarter-final. Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev was scheduled to play Lukas Rosol in the second singles. Hajek saved a break point in the third game before breaking Kukushkin in the eighth and then serving out the first set. The Czech won five consecutive...
05:20 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Charleston: Australian tennis player Sam Stosur retired with a calf injury from her third-round match at a WTA tour event here in South Carolina. The third seed on Thursday was trailing Canadian qualifier Eugenie Bouchard by a set and was 0-2 down in the second when she felt she couldn't go on. "I was really excited to get out there and I felt like I played really well - it's...
01:42 PM, Apr 05, 2013
After the turmoil in the recent past, Indian tennis looks to revive itself and seek redemption in their Davis Cup clash against Indonesia in Bangalore. ...
09:41 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Charleston: Former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic advanced to the quarter-finals of the Family Circle Cup after a 7-hour rain delay on Thursday that prevented a number of players from getting on the court, including Serena and Venus Williams. Serena, riding an 11-match winning streak in Charleston, was scheduled to play American qualifier Mallory Burdette, while Venus was to face Varvara Lepchenko for a spot in the quarter-finals. Both matches...
08:49 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Boise: Novak Djokovic believes he has left his recent poor form behind and will be in top shape when he leads Serbia in this weekend's Davis Cup quarter-final tie against the United States. The world number one, who was upset last month in the semi-finals at Indian Wells by Juan Martin Del Potro and then in the third round at Miami by Tommy Haas, will open Friday's play against American...
08:27 AM, Apr 05, 2013
