Osaka: Second-seeded Marion Bartoli of France cruised to a straight-sets victory over top-seeded Samantha Stosur of Australia to win the Japan Open on Sunday. Bartoli defeated the US Open champion 6-3, 6-1 in 1 hour, 14 minutes on the hard court at the Utsubo Tennis Center. The Frenchwoman broke Stosur twice in the opening set and held serve throughout the match on the way to her second WTA Tour victory...
06:43 PM, Oct 16, 2011
Tokyo: Andy Murray of Britain rallied to beat Rafael Nadal 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 and win the Japan Open on Sunday. Murray overcame losing the first set to win his second straight ATP tour victory. Murray, who also won last week in Bangkok, broke his Spanish opponent in the fourth game of the second set and then proceeded to win 11 of the next 12 games to clinch the title at...
02:13 PM, Oct 09, 2011
Tokyo:Top-seeded Rafael Nadal will take on Andy Murray in the final of the Japan Open after both recorded straight-sets victories in Saturday's semi-finals. Nadal powered past Mardy Fish in the second set to beat the American 7-5, 6-1 while Murray was a 6-2, 6-3 winner over David Ferrer. The Nadal-Fish match was on serve until the 11th game in the opening set, when the Spaniard broke and then served out...
01:36 PM, Oct 08, 2011
Tokyo: Top-seeded Rafael Nadal will play American Mardy Fish in the semi-final of the Japan Open. Nadal defeated Santiago Giraldo of Colombia 7-6 (6), 6-3 on Friday, and Fish beat Bernard Tomic of Australia 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-1. The other semi-final will feature David Ferrer against fourth-ranked Andy Murray. Ferrer of Spain defeated seventh-seeded Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic 6-2, 7-6 (3), while the second-seeded Murray of Britain defeated...
11:05 PM, Oct 07, 2011
Tokyo: Top-seeded Rafael Nadal advanced to the quarterfinals of the Japan Open with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Milos Raonic of Canada on Thursday. Nadal, ranked No 2, will take on unseeded Santiago Giraldo of Colombia in the final eight. Giraldo beat Dmitry Tursunov of Russia 6-4, 7-6 (4) earlier. "I was happy with almost everything today," Nadal said. "I was focussed with my serves without mistakes. I lost very...
05:06 PM, Oct 06, 2011
Tokyo: Rafael Nadal overpowered qualifier Go Soeda 6-3, 6-2 as he began the defence of his Japan Open title in a blur of swashbuckling winners on Tuesday. The top seed produced some dazzling shot-making under floodlights in Tokyo, taking the first set with a jaw-dropping backhand lob at full stretch with Japanese Soeda marooned at the net. Nadal, sweat dripping from his purple T-shirt, kept his foot on the gas...
11:45 PM, Oct 04, 2011
Tokyo: Fourth-seeded Mardy Fish of the United States defeated fellow American Ryan Harrison 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in their first-round match at the Japan Open on Monday. Fish relied on his serve-and-volley game to outlast his compatriot in a battle that took 2 hours, 44 minutes at Ariake Colosseum. Harrison put up a valiant fight, displaying a blistering forehand throughout the match, but leading 5-4 in the final set he saw...
08:06 PM, Oct 03, 2011
New Delhi: Riding on her semi-final finish at the Japan Open Super Series, Saina Nehwal improved a rung to be placed fourth in the latest world badminton rankings released on Thursday. While the 21-year-old Saina was stunned by Germany's Juliane Schenk in the last-four stage in Japan, she could not advance beyond the quarter-finals of the World Badminton Championship and China Masters. Commonwealth Games bronze medallist P Kashyap and Ajay...
09:20 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Tokyo: China's Chen Long and Wang Yihan won the men's and women's singles title at the Japan Open Superseries badminton event here on Sunday. Chen downed World No. 1 Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia 21-8, 10-21, 21-19 in a gruelling men's final lasting 73 minutes. Top seed Wang outplayed Germany's Julian Schenk 21-16, 21-14 to take top honours in the women's category. Schenk had beaten India's Saina Nehwal in the...
05:08 PM, Sep 25, 2011
New Delhi: It was not a million years ago that Indian badminton ace Saina Nehwal was ranked number two in the world, and there was talk about her getting to the numero uno position sooner rather than later; however her defeat at the hands of Germany's Juliane Schenk, in the semi-finals of the Japan Open represents a slump in form, that can no longer be dismissed as just a passing...
02:16 PM, Sep 24, 2011
New Delhi: Saina Nehwal was stunned by Germany's Juliane Schenk in the women's singles semi-finals as India's campaign came to an end in the Japan Open Super Series badminton tournament in Tokyo on Saturday. Fourth seeded Saina lost 19-21, 10-21 to her eighth-seeded rival in a contest lasting 39 minutes. In the closely-fought first game, Saina and Schenk went neck and neck all through but at 19-19, the German nosed...
11:59 AM, Sep 24, 2011
New Delhi: Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal entered the semi-finals of the Japan Open Super Series badminton tournament in Tokyo after dispatching Singapore's Juan Gu in straight games in just half an hour on Friday. The fourth-seeded Indian defeated Juan 21-17, 21-13 to make the last-four stage, where she will take on Germany's Juliane Schenk. Saina was facing Juan after almost three years and the Indian dominated her world number...
02:27 PM, Sep 23, 2011
New Delhi: Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal emerged as the lone survivor for India at the Japan Open, defeating Mingtian Fu of Singapore in straight-games to reach the quarterfinals of the women's singles competition at Tokyo on Thursday. Fourth seed Saina took 33 minutes to beat Mingtian 21-17 21-16. She will take on Juan GU of Singapore on Friday. Commonwealth Games bronze medallist P Kashyap played his heart out before going...
06:28 PM, Sep 22, 2011
New Delhi: Saina Nehwal crossed the first hurdle comfortably but highlight of the day for the Indians came when Ajay Jayaram registered a stunning victory over world number seven Tien Minh Nguyen to sent him crashing out of Japan Super Series in straight-games in Tokyo on Wednesday. Fourth seed Saina defeated Inthanon Ratchanok of Thailand 21-17 21-10 in a 31-minute women's singles match to set up a second round clash...
08:17 PM, Sep 21, 2011
Tokyo: Indians shuttlers disappointed at the Japan Open Superseries tournament, bowing out of the competition in the qualifying stages here on Tuesday. Anand Pawar and Arundhati Pantawane managed to win their opening matches of the men's and women's singles but failed to make it to the main draw. Pawar beat Japan's Kento Momota 21-16, 21-17 before going down to Tien Chen Chou of Chinese Taipei 18-21, 21-19, 21-23 in his...
10:32 PM, Sep 20, 2011
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