London: Wimbledon champions Serena Williams and Roger Federer are in action on the opening day of the Olympic tennis tournament on Saturday, returning to the centre court just three weeks after their triumphs. Williams faces Serbia's Jelena Jankovic in the second match on the 15,000 capacity court and is followed by Federer against Colombia's Alejandro Falla. In the opening match, sixth seed Czech Tomas Berdych will play Belgium's Steve Darcis....
06:51 PM, Jul 27, 2012
London: Venus and Serena Williams have opted for the comfort of a Wimbledon hotel over the athletes' village and might miss the opening ceremony but the tennis siblings were still able to soak up some of the London Olympic experience on Tuesday. Soon after arriving in the English capital, the Williams sisters and their United States team mates got a taste of Olympic traffic gridlock, delaying their pre-games news conference....
10:33 AM, Jul 25, 2012
Stanford: Serena Williams overcame a shaky start and two service breaks to beat lucky loser Coco Vandeweghe 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday for her second straight Bank of the West Classic title. Eight days after winning Wimbledon, Williams saved a set point and won the final four games of the opening set. It was the 43rd WTA Tour championship of Williams' career, tying older sister Venus for the most among active...
08:08 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Stanford: Serena Williams overpowered Romania's Sorana Cirstea 6-1, 6-2 in the Bank of the West Classic on Saturday to set up the first all-American WTA final on home soil in eight years. Exactly a week after winning her fifth Wimbledon title, Williams cruised to another victory in 60 minutes. The quick work came despite Williams converting only 38 percent of her first serves. She will go for her second straight...
09:09 AM, Jul 15, 2012
Stanford: Serena Williams has still not kicked post Wimbledon jet lag, but she still managed to beat Chanelle Scheepers 6-4 6-0 in the quarter-finals of the Stanford Classic on Friday. Second seed Mario Bartoli and third seed Dominika Cibulkova, however, did not fare as well with France's Bartoli beaten by Yanina Wickmayer 6-3, 6-2, while Romania's Sorana Cirstea beat Slovakia's Cibulkova 6-7, 6-2, 6-0. Williams, who won her fifth Wimbledon...
11:36 AM, Jul 14, 2012
Stanford: Four days after capturing the singles' title at Wimbledon, fourth-ranked and top-seeded Serena Williams beat reigning NCAA champion Nicole Gibbs 6-2, 6-1 in the second round of the Bank of the West on Wednesday. Gibbs double-faulted on her first serve and then seemed to regain her composure and played a number of strong points the rest of the way. Williams, who credited her win at Stanford last year as...
09:30 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Stanford, California: US wildcard Nicole Gibbs beat Noppawan Lertcheewakarn of Thailand 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the Bank of the West Classic on Tuesday to set up a second-round match against Wimbledon champion Serena Williams. Gibbs, a junior at Stanford who won NCAA singles and doubles titles in the spring, is coming off a victory in a $50,000 ITF event in Denver. In other matches, eighth-seeded Marina Erakovic...
11:21 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Stanford, California: Fatigue and a busy schedule are not going to get in the way of Serena Williams returning to the place where she, says Serena, launched her comeback and got the confidence to believe she could win another grand slam. Fresh off her fifth Wimbledon triumph, Williams is eager to defend the Stanford Classic title she won in 2011 that signalled her return after missing nearly a year recovering...
09:20 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Stanford: Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer laboured past Kai-Chen Chang 7-5, 2-6, 7-5 in the first round of the Stanford Classic on Monday but all eyes will be on Wimbledon champion Serena Williams who begins her title defence on Wednesday. Fifth seed Wickmayer, ranked 37 in the world, had to work really hard to remain on course for her first WTA title of the year. Her struggle was almost identical to her...
01:04 PM, Jul 10, 2012
London: Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska cancelled a news conference on Friday because of a respiratory illness that made it difficult for her to speak. Radwanska is scheduled to meet four-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams for the title on Saturday. Radwanska played with the ailment on Thursday, when she beat Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-4 and became the first Polish player to reach a Grand Slam final since 1939. Her news conference...
07:42 PM, Jul 06, 2012
London: A couple of hours after reaching her seventh Wimbledon ladies singles final, Serena Williams returned to Centre Court with sister Venus to secure a spot in the semi-finals of the ladies doubles. The Williams sisters routed Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears 6-1, 6-1 in less than an hour on Thursday. Venus and Serena are playing a doubles tournament for the first time in two years and are looking for...
02:00 PM, Jul 06, 2012
London: Serena Williams hit top gear in deposing champion Petra Kvitova and ominously for her Wimbledon semi-final opponent Victoria Azarenka the four-times champion says she has nothing to lose in the last-four clash on Thursday. Williams, who banged down 13 aces in her quarter-final rout of Kvitova, faces the Australian Open champion and world number two in what is likely to be a decibel-busting clash between two of the game's...
11:43 AM, Jul 05, 2012
London: Serena Williams had to earn two doubles victories with older sister Venus at Wimbledon on Wednesday, a day before her singles semi-final against Victoria Azarenka. The Williams sisters were finally able to complete their second-round match against Maria Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova that started on Saturday but was suspended by rain. It picked up in the third set on Wednesday, with the Williams sisters winning 3-6, 6-3, 9-7. The...
09:11 AM, Jul 05, 2012
London: Four-time champion Serena Williams overcame windy conditions and a gritty 65th-ranked opponent on Monday to pull out another three-set victory and reach the quarter-finals of Wimbledon, where she will meet the defending champion Petra Kvitova who ousted Francesca Schiavone on Monday. The sixth-seeded American won the last three games of the final set to beat Kazakhstani wildcard Yaroslava Shvedova 6-1, 2-6, 7-5, in cool and gusty conditions on Court...
07:42 PM, Jul 02, 2012
London: Good thing Wimbledon schedules its middle Sunday as a day off. This year, that gave everyone a chance to catch their breath after an eventful Week 1. Really, when action resumes on Monday with all 16 men's and women's fourth-round matches, what could Week 2 possibly have in store to equal what the first six days offered? There was two-time champion Rafael Nadal's loss in the second round to...
09:31 PM, Jul 01, 2012
London: Serena Williams hit 23 aces, held every service game and barely escaped an upset bid by Zheng Jie, winning 6-7 (5), 6-2, 9-7 on Saturday in the third round at Wimbledon. Meanwhile, second-ranked Victoria Azarenka broke little sweat to brush aside Slovakian qualifier Jana Cepelova 6-3, 6-3. Williams, who erased all six break points she faced, served three times to stay in the match and held each time at...
09:24 PM, Jun 30, 2012
London: Tennis authorities will tackle the perennial problem of grunting players - but it could take years to turn down the volume. So do not throw the earplugs away quite yet and if your daughter is a four-year-old tennis prodigy, make sure she keeps the noise down. Talks are underway to arm umpires with handheld "grunt-o-meters" on court, so that they can assess how loud shrieks are. Such devices are...
02:30 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Wimbledon: Four-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams moved into the third round with an overpowering serving performance on Thursday, hitting 10 aces in a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Hungarian qualifier Melinda Czink. Williams won 37 of 44 points while serving, including 27 of 28 on first serves, and never faced a break point. Twice, the 98th-ranked Czink whiffed completely while trying to return serves. Williams, who is seeded sixth at the...
07:51 PM, Jun 28, 2012
