Tomas Berdych beat defending champion Roger Federer 3-6, 7-6 (8), 6-4 to set up a final clash against Novak Djokovic. ...
11:42 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Bopanna and Ram hit seven aces to beat Victor Hanescu and Lukas Rosol 4-6, 7-5, 10-4 in 79 minutes. ...
09:50 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Having clinched his 50th career title and his first with Rohan Bopanna at the Dubai Championships, Mahesh Bhupathi is eyeing further success ahead of the London Olympics. ...
09:28 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Dubai: Roger Federer swatted aside Andy Murray 7-5, 6-4 to win the Dubai Championships on Saturday, the Swiss maestro's 72nd tour title, as he abandoned the baseline to dominate from the net. The 16-time Grand Slam winner may no longer be favourite for the top prizes but few can match his longevity or dedication on the gruelling men's tour, and the 30-year-old claimed his fifth Dubai title without dropping a...
10:54 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Dubai: Mahesh Bhuapthi and Rohan Bopanna won their first title together after pipping the Polish pair of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in the summit clash if the ATP Dubai Open, here on Saturday. Bhupathi and Bopanna, seeded fourth, secured a 6-4 3-6 10-5 win after facing stiff resistance from their rivals in the final of the $1,700,475 hard court event. The two Indians, planning to play in Olympics together,...
08:20 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Dubai: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic lost for the first time this season, falling to Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5 in the semifinals of the Dubai Championships on Friday. The surprisingly one-sided victory ended Djokovic's 10-match winning streak that included the Australian Open title and his bid for a fourth successive Dubai title. In the final, Murray will meet Roger Federer, who edged Juan Martin del Potro 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6). Del Potro...
08:41 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Dubai: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna, who need to improve their rankings to earn a direct entry into the London Olympics, stormed into the summit clash of the ATP Dubai Open with a straight sets win on Friday. The fourth-seeded Indian pair of Bhupathi and Bopanna edged past the giant-killing Austrian pair of Julian Knowle and Alexanderin Peya 7-6 (2) 7-6 (7) in the semi-finals of the USD 1,700,475 hard...
06:44 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Dubai: Novak Djokovic defeated fellow Serb Janko Tipsarevic 6-1, 7-6 (6) Thursday to set up a Dubai Championships semifinal against Andy Murray, a rematch of a marathon five-setter at the Australian Open. Murray, who lost to Djokovic at the Australian Open each of the last two years, defeated fifth-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-3, 7-5 on Thursday. Roger Federer will face Juan Martin del Potro in the other semifinal. Del Potro beat...
08:54 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Dubai: India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna beat Lukas Dlouhy and Alexandr Dolgopolov to enter the men's doubles quarter-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships here. Bhupathi-Bopanna, seeded fourth, defeated the Czech-Russian pair 6-4, 7-5 in the opening round on Wednesday. The Indians converted four of their 14 break points and wrapped up the match in 70 minutes. They next face Australian-English combine of Paul Hanley and Jamie Murray...
08:16 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Dubai: Novak Djokovic beat fellow Serb Janko Tipsarevic 6-1, 7-6 (6) on Thursday to set up a Dubai Championships semifinal with Andy Murray, who beat Tomas Berdych 6-3, 7-5. Roger Federer too made it to the last-four beating Mikhail Youzhny 6-3, 6-4 and now awaits the winner of Juan Martin del Potro vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga quarter-final later on Thursday. The top-ranked Djokovic, gunning for his fourth straight title in Dubai,...
07:30 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: The poor singles run in recent times has further dented Sania Mirza's ranking as the Indian slipped to 129, a loss of 16 places, in the latest WTA list issued on Monday. Sania had lost in the WTA Dubai Open qualifiers in the singles but did well in doubles by ending runners-up along with Elena Vesnina. The runners-up finish helped Sania retain her seventh place in the doubles...
03:19 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Dubai: Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina suffered a crushing 2-6, 1-6 defeat against top seeds Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond to end runners up at the WTA Dubai Open here on Saturday. The second seeded Indo-Russian pair had started well and gave a good fight in the first 30 minutes of the match but were blown away after that. It was the pair of Sania and Vesnina, who earned the...
08:38 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Dubai: Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina entered the women's doubles semifinals of the Dubai Open tennis event on Thursday, defeating Maria-Jose Matrinez Sanchez and Shahar Peer. The second seeds got the better of the Spanish-Israeli combine 6-1, 4-6, 10-8 in the quarterfinals, which was their first match of the tournament after getting a bye in the opening round. The Indo-Russian duo next play China's Peng Shuai and Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh,...
09:08 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Dubai: Somdev Devvarman went down in straight sets to Roger Federer in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Tuesday. World No.2 Federer was largely untroubled as he came through 6-3, 6-3 against the 26-year-old Devvarman, who is ranked 77 places below the Swiss maestro. The match was the biggest in wildcard Devvarman's career on the ATP Tour and he never really looked like pulling off...
12:00 AM, Feb 23, 2011
Sania on Monday had made her fourth first round exit in the five singles outings this season. ...
03:20 PM, Feb 16, 2010
Sania Mirza lost 3-6 4-6 to Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues on Monday. ...
05:35 PM, Feb 15, 2010
The third-ranked Serbian was playing in his first final this year. ...
10:54 PM, Feb 28, 2009
Andy Murray registered a comfortable 6-2, 6-3 win over Arnaud Clement. ...
08:00 PM, Feb 26, 2009
Venus Williams faces unseeded Virginie Razzano of France in the final. ...
12:47 PM, Feb 21, 2009
