Paris: Serena Williams' French Open is over after a first-round loss in the mixed doubles to go with her quick exit in singles. Playing together for the first time, Williams and Bob Bryan were beaten 7-5, 3-6, 10-6 by Gisela Dulko and Eduardo Schwank of Argentina at Roland Garros on Friday. Williams was upset by 111th-ranked Virginie Razzano in singles on Tuesday, the American's only first-round loss in 47 Grand...
08:39 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Two is company and three's a crowd on any TV show schedule but September will see the launch of four new daytime talk shows - all on the same day - forcing producers to start early with innovative ways of finding and engaging audiences. Ricki Lake, Katie Couric, "Survivor" host Jeff Probst and comedian Steve Harvey all kick off their daytime ventures on September 10. They will enter a female-dominated...
01:29 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Paris: A subdued Venus Williams left the French Open in the second round on Wednesday when she was soundly beaten by third-seeded Pole Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2 6-3. Former world number one Williams, who has won seven grand slam events but is rebuilding her game and her life after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, got into her stride only at the end of a one-sided match. Radwanska dominated the court...
12:16 AM, May 31, 2012
Paris: Between bites of some "frites" at the players' restaurant, Oracene Price smiled at the thought of being back at the French Open with her daughters, Serena and Venus Williams. The family wasn't at Roland Garros a year ago, making it the first Grand Slam tournament since 2003 without either Williams. Serena was still working her way back from a series of health scares, including two foot operations and blood...
05:38 PM, May 26, 2012
Rome: Serena Williams withdrew from the Italian Open with a lower back injury shortly before she was scheduled to meet Roland Garros champion Li Na in the semi-finals on Saturday. Williams said the problem also affected her earlier this week. "It was feeling a little stiff and I don't think this is the right moment to force [it]," she said. "I just want to relax and get ready for the...
09:59 PM, May 19, 2012
Rome: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic overcame a poor first set and a smashed racket to beat Juan Monaco 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 and reach the Italian Open quarter-finals on Thursday. Also through at Foro Italico were five-time Rome champion Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Serena and Venus Williams and French Open champ Li Na. However, top-ranked Victoria Azarenka withdrew with a right shoulder injury. With the wind whipping the red clay into the...
08:55 AM, May 18, 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: 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: Serena Williams marked her first European appearance of the season with victory on the Madrid Open's striking blue clay courts on Monday, but her sister Venus crashed out in the second round. Holder Petra Kvitova also started well as the third seed defeated New Zealander Marina Erakovic 6-2 6-3. Towering Czech Kvitova beat Victoria Azarenka in the final last year before going on to win the Wimbledon title. The...
07:55 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Twitter has been around for the last six years but I joined it six months ago exasperated at colleagues speaking in a seemingly foreign tongue. 'Followers', 'trolls', 'bots' and 'DP' had become water cooler conversation. "I'm nothing if not flexible," I said to myself and signed up for hell. Today, I'm not only a junkie but also an endorser of the subaltern democracy that the micro-blogging site offers...
10:30 AM, Mar 28, 2012
London: Williams team co-founder Frank Williams will quit the board of the Formula One team at the end of the month. Williams says he will continue as team principal and keep his majority shareholding but that he "decided to signal the next stage in the gradual but inevitable process of handing over the reins to the next generation." Williams is 70 in April. His daughter, Claire, will join the board...
11:11 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Los Angeles: Speech by Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning for Hugo. Rob Legato: Well, I didn't expect this. I know it's a huge thrill to be nominated, but it's awesome to win and it's really underrated. I really wouldn't be here for not for the genius of Martin Scorsese. It's an epic thrill to work on a movie with Marty and especially this particular movie and...
06:15 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo' gave all other films a run for their money when it bagged five Oscars. Though it did not score above the other competitors for 'Best Picture' - it bagged the 'Best Visual Effects'. The men behind that achievement were Rob Legato, Joss Williams (absent), Ben Grossman and Alex Henning. Here's the backstage interview with the winners - Q. I have a question about the locomotive...
03:46 PM, Feb 27, 2012
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