New York: Roger Federer will turn 30 next week, but the Swiss winner of a record 16 grand slam singles titles said on Wednesday he will not pause for reflection since he is too busy plotting for more tennis success. Federer will spend his birthday on Monday in Montreal at the Rogers Cup tournament, where adoring fans have serenaded him in the past to mark the occasion. "I'm looking forward...
08:48 AM, Aug 04, 2011
New York: Rafael Nadal will have to wait at least one more day for a chance to complete his collection of grand slam titles after persistent rain washed out Sunday's US Open men's final against Novak Djokovic. For the third year in a row, the championship decider was postponed until Monday after foul weather ruined any chance of the match proceeding as scheduled. Rain began falling less than two hours...
09:39 AM, Sep 13, 2010
United Nations: Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, the new face of Indo-Pak solidarity, may have lost in the US Open 2010 finals, but their ability to close rifts between the neighbours is being hailed by many. "These things are not meant to achieve anything directly but these will embellish the peace process," Abduallah Hussain Haroon, Pakistan's envoy to the UN, said. Urging people to think "out of the box", he...
09:46 AM, Sep 11, 2010
New York: After trailing for much of the third set, Venus Williams suddenly was right back in the thick of her US Open semifinal against Kim Clijsters, serving at 4-all, 30-all. At that moment Friday night, it didn't appear to matter that the 30-year-old Williams was bidding to become the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam title in two decades. Or that she arrived at Flushing Meadows coming off...
09:18 AM, Sep 11, 2010
New York: The Bryan brothers on Friday won their ninth Grand Slam title, derailing the "Indo-Pak Express" doubles team of India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi in the men's doubles final at the US Open. Bob and Mike Bryan captured their third title at Flushing Meadows and 65th overall with a 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) victory in a match in which neither team broke serve. Ambassadors from India and...
11:36 PM, Sep 10, 2010
New Delhi: Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi failed to win his first grand slam title when he and his partner Kveta Peschke lost to Liezel Huber and Bob Bryan in the mixed doubles final. Quresh and his Czech partner were no match for their opponents and went down in straight sets 4-6, 4-6. Earlier on Wednesday, Qureshi and his doubles partner in the men's doubles event Rohan Bopanna created history by reaching...
10:39 AM, Sep 10, 2010
New York: After one early miss, Rafael Nadal slapped himself on the right thigh. After another, he put his hands on his hips and stared at the spot where his shot went awry. It did not take long for Nadal to put a slightly slow start behind him and move one step closer to the only Grand Slam title he hasn't won. The top-seeded Nadal figured out how to handle...
09:16 AM, Sep 10, 2010
New Delhi: A country in doldrums. A country where the masses live more in hope and fear of the almighty than bread. Floods, bomb blasts, corruption and what not? But all is not lost. A messiah rises from the ashes. Pakistan's cricket captain Salman Butt leads his team to victory against England in a Test match and wastes no time in dedicating the win to the millions caught by the...
04:45 PM, Sep 09, 2010
New York: Dealing well with whipping winds and a familiar opponent, 16-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer served his way to a 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 victory over fifth-seeded Robin Soderling to reach the US Open semifinals. "I've been practicing my serve a whole lot, for my whole career. If I can't serve in the wind, I've got a problem, you know?" Federer said. "You could probably wake me up at...
09:59 AM, Sep 09, 2010
New Delhi: Rohan Bopanna from India and his Pakistani teammate Aisam Qureshi beat Argentina's Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zeballos in straight sets 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 to enter the men's doubles final of the US Open at Flushing Meadows in New York on Wednesday. The Indian duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi was the last pair from the sub-continent to reach the finals at Flushing Meadows. In fact, the two...
08:31 AM, Sep 09, 2010
New York: India's Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan cruised into their first ever Grand Slam semifinal with a hard fought straight sets victory over 10th-seeded Dick Norman of Belgium and Wesley Moodie of South Africa at the US Open. The 16th-seeded India-Pakistan pair beat Norman and Moodie 7-5, 7-6(2) in the quarterfinals on Tuesday. Bopanna and Qureshi next play unseeded Argentine pair Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zeballos. Earlier...
03:55 PM, Sep 08, 2010
New York: Kim Clijsters needed all her fighting qualities to keep her US Open defense alive and cap an extraordinary day of titanic struggles at the last grand slam of the season on Tuesday. Now unbeaten at Flushing Meadows in 19 matches dating back over five years, the Belgian regained her composure when she needed it most to reel off four games in a row and defeat Australia's Samantha Stosur...
01:10 PM, Sep 08, 2010
New York: Venus Williams arrived at this US Open with a bum knee. She hadn't played a match in more than two months. She hadn't reached the semifinals at any Grand Slam tournament in more than a year. And now? Williams is two victories away from her first US Open title since 2001. The No. 3-seeded Williams overcame nine double-faults and a total of 33 unforced errors to beat reigning...
08:34 AM, Sep 08, 2010
New Delhi: “I guess he would need to win the US Open to put himself there,'' were Swiss maestro Roger Federer's words after winning his third round match at Flushing Meadows against Paul-Henri Mathieu of France. He was commenting on his friend and long time rival Rafael Nadal's bid to win his maiden US Open title. The five times US Open champion may well have a valid point but what...
03:58 PM, Sep 07, 2010
New York: Grit was not going to be enough to get Maria Sharapova past No. 1-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark on Monday, especially not after the Russian conceded nine double-faults — including three in a row — and a total of 36 unforced errors. Wozniacki, the 2009 runner-up, wrapped up a 6-3, 6-4 fourth-round win over Sharapova, who has failed to make it even as far as the quarterfinals at...
09:43 AM, Sep 07, 2010
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