Manchester: Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has committed his future to the club, dismissing speculation that he is set to leave this summer after just one season in the Premier League. The 23-year-old enjoyed a successful debut season at City, scoring 23 league goals, including the crucial last-gasp winner against QPR which secured the Premier League title on the final day. The Argentina international has been linked with a move...
03:32 PM, May 29, 2012
London: Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic has claimed that he is on Real Madrid's wish-list for the new season. Spanish sources have reported that Ivanovic is high on Jose Mourinho's list of targets as the Portuguese coach looks to fine-tune his squad to give Madrid their 10th Champions League trophy in 2012-13. The 28-year-old defender, who started Serbia's 2-0 defeat against Spain on Saturday, stated that he is aware of Madrid's...
11:57 AM, May 28, 2012
Madrid: Jose Mourinho agreed to extend his contract with Real Madrid for two years on Tuesday, tying him to the club until the end of the 2015-16 season. The 49-year-old Portuguese coach led Madrid to their first Spanish league title in four years this season to add to the Copa del Rey trophy he won during his first campaign at the Santiago Bernabeu, after joining from Inter Milan in 2010...
10:00 PM, May 22, 2012
Madrid: Roger Federer matched Rafael Nadal's record of 20 Masters titles when he fought back from a set down to beat Tomas Berdych 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 in a gripping Madrid Open final on Sunday. The Swiss maestro, who will also climb above his great rival Nadal to number two in the world when the rankings are updated, secured his fourth title of the season with a gritty display on the...
11:52 PM, May 13, 2012
Madrid: A fired-up Serena Williams sent out a warning to the young pretenders of women's tennis when she powered to a crushing 6-1 6-3 victory over world number one Victoria Azarenka to win the Madrid Open on Sunday. The 30-year-old former number one, seeded ninth at the premier clay event in the Spanish capital, made the most of Azarenka's nervous start on the blue dirt of the Manolo Santana show...
07:04 PM, May 13, 2012
Madrid: The Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of the ATP Madrid Masters after losing their semi-final match to Robert Lindstedt of Sweden and Horia Tecau of Romania here. The seventh-seeded Indian duo fought hard before losing 4-6 6-1 7-10 in an hour and 16 minutes. After losing the first set 4-6, Bhupathi and Bopanna fought their way back into the match, clinching the second comfortably,...
02:15 PM, May 13, 2012
Madrid: Roger Federer will play for his third Madrid Open title with a chance to take over the No. 2 spot in the world ranking after cruising past Janko Tipsarevic 6-2, 6-3 in the tournament semi-finals on Saturday. The Swiss star and former No. 1 advanced to a finals matchup against Tomas Berdych, who edged Juan Martin del Potro 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6) in the other semi-final. A victory will...
08:42 AM, May 13, 2012
Madrid: Tomas Berdych reached the final of a Masters event for only the third time when he edged out Juan Martin Del Potro 7-6, 7-6 in a gripping claycourt slugfest at the Madrid Open on Saturday. The Czech sixth seed, who won the Paris Masters in 2005 and was runner-up in Miami two years ago, produced edged it in the tiebreaks as the powerfully-built pair, who are both just under...
11:32 PM, May 12, 2012
Madrid: Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams will square off for the Madrid Open title after the current and former world number ones swept into the final with a minimum of fuss on Saturday. Australian Open champion Azarenka took a step closer to a fifth title of 2012 when she dispatched Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2 6-4, before Williams, seeded ninth at the premier event in the Spanish capital, crushed Czech qualifier Lucie...
08:14 PM, May 12, 2012
Madrid: Novak Djokovic joined Rafael Nadal in declaring he won't play again on the new blue-clay court at the Madrid Open after losing 7-6 (2), 6-3 to Janko Tipsarevic in an all-Serb quarterfinal on Friday. It was Tipsarevic's second win in five matches against Djokovic, who last lost at this stage in November at the Paris Masters. Nadal was beaten by Fernando Verdasco on Thursday. He later said he wouldn't...
08:39 AM, May 12, 2012
Madrid: The Indian team of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna on Friday reached the semi-finals of the ATP Madrid Masters after scoring a hard-earned win over Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer, here. The seventh seed Indian pair edges past the Pak-Dutch combination 7-6 (2) 7-6(5) in the quarter-finals of the euro 3,973,695 clay court elite event. Qureshi was Bopanna's partner in the 2011 season and tasted good success together as...
09:13 PM, May 11, 2012
Madrid: World number one Victoria Azarenka was made to battle hard for a semi-final place at the Madrid Open as she eventually overcame Roland Garros champion Li Na 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Friday. The Belarussian, runner up in Madrid last year, looked to be cruising at 4-1 up in the third before China's Li broke back. Li was unable to take advantage of four break-point chances, however, and 36 unforced...
06:30 PM, May 11, 2012
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
Madrid: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna overcame a late resistance from Santiago Gonzalez and Christopher Kas to move to the quarter-finals of the ATP Madrid Masters, here. The seventh seed Indian pair took one hour and three minutes to eke out a 6-1, 7-6 (2) win over the Mexican-German unseeded pair in the second round of the clay court event. The Indians converted both the break chances they got in...
01:02 PM, May 10, 2012
Madrid: Defending champion Petra Kvitova was upset by qualifier and Czech compatriot Lucie Hradecka 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the Madrid Open on Wednesday. World number one Victoria Azarenka, who lost to Kvitova in last year's final of the premier clay event, claimed her place in the quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-4 success against Ana Ivanovic of Serbia. Belarussian Azarenka, winner of four titles this year including her...
11:23 AM, May 10, 2012
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