Brisbane: Andy Murray is one tournament into a partnership with new coach Ivan Lendl and already it has netted a title. The No. 4-ranked Murray warmed up for the Australian Open with a commanding 6-1, 6-3 win over third-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov in the Brisbane International final. The victory provided the ideal start to Murray's partnership with Lendl, and the eight-time Grand Slam winner was courtside for only the second time...
03:54 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Melbourne: Kim Clijsters has been cleared of major damage to her hip and expressed guarded optimism on Saturday about recovering in time for the defence of her Australian Open title. Belgian Clijsters, who beat China's Li Na to win at Melbourne Park last year, retired hurt during her semi-final against Daniela Hantuchova at the Brisbane International on Friday, complaining of tightness in her hip. An MRI scan had diagnosed a...
01:18 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Brisbane: Andy Murray was one match away from his 22nd career singles title with new coach Ivan Lendl in his corner, while Kaia Kanepi won her second WTA title with a dominating performance over Daniela Hantuchova at the Brisbane International on Saturday. Kanepi won all but one point in the first four games of the second set and went on to beat Hantuchova 6-2, 6-1 in the women's final to...
03:22 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Brisbane: Serena Williams has a badly sprained left ankle, Roger Federer an aching back and Kim Clijsters a sore left hip. Add in a limping-but-"I'll be OK" Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal playing with a sore left shoulder from the end of last season and the advance tournaments for the Australian Open are beginning to look like a star-studded hospital waiting room. Williams' injury seems to be the most serious of...
11:46 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Brisbane: Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters retired from her semifinal match against Daniela Hantuchova at the Brisbane International on Friday one game after taking a medical time out for a left hip injury. Clijsters won the opening set 7-6 (4), but surrendered a break at the start of the second set and needed treatment after the third game. She came back on court for one game before walking to the...
05:34 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Brisbane: Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters advanced to the semifinals of the Brisbane International with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Iveta Benesova on Thursday. Clijsters won the Brisbane title in 2010 and, after missing the 2011 edition, now has an 8-0 record in the Australian Open tuneup. She raced to a 5-0 lead before Benesova, who ousted U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur in the second round, launched a comeback with...
05:11 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Brisbane: Serena Williams' Australian Open preparations took a major hit on Wednesday when she injured her left ankle and withdrew from the Brisbane International. In her first tournament since losing the US Open final in September, Williams was serving for the match with a 6-2, 5-3 lead against Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia when she twisted her ankle and crashed heavily to the court. The 13-time Grand Slam winner lay near...
06:56 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Brisbane: Andy Murray shook off some rust and overcame some big returns from Mikhail Kukushkin for a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 win at the Brisbane International on Tuesday night in his first singles match since late November. The top-seeded Scot lost the first four games before he rallied to beat Kazakhstan's Kukushkin and advance to the second round. Defending Australian Open women's champion Kim Clijsters had a closer call in the...
07:35 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Brisbane: After winning the first match she's played since her US Open final defeat last September, Serena Williams admitted she's dreading another season of grueling workouts but still can't live without tennis. The 30-year-old Williams had her service broken in the opening game on Monday before beating Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa 6-2, 6-3 at the Brisbane International. She needed just 68 minutes to advance, firing seven aces and taking...
03:32 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Brisbane: Kim Clijsters began preparation for the defence of her Australian Open singles title with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Romania's Simona Halep in the first round of the Brisbane International on Sunday. Clijsters beat China's Li Na in the final at last year's opening Grand Slam at Melbourne Park. This year's Australian Open begins January 16. "I felt that I was playing aggressively and moving well, so I was...
01:18 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Melbourne: Tournament director Craig Tiley says James Blake has withdrawn from next month's Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of 2012. Tiley announced the 59th-ranked American's withdrawal in a Twitter post on Wednesday, but provided no explanation. He said, "just got word that James Blake has withdrawn from the AO and Brisbane. Sorry to hear this and we wish James all the best." Earlier, the Courier Mail newspaper reported Blake...
12:27 AM, Dec 30, 2011
Brisbane: Serena Williams could meet Samantha Stosur in a reprise of their US Open final after signing up to play the Brisbane International in January. The January 1-8 Brisbane International, which for several years has served as a warm-up for the Australian Open later in the month, has been elevated to WTA Premier level. As well as Williams and Stosur, former top-ranked Maria Sharapova, Kim Clijsters and Ana Ivanovic will...
09:02 PM, Oct 12, 2011
Melbourne: A Sikh man was denied entry into a hotel in Australia as he refused to take off his turban, a media report said on Monday. Confirming the incident, management of Royal English Hotel in Brisbane said it was trying to locate the man, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, to tender an apology. The hotel management told the Australian Associated Press (AAP) that one of its staff members...
11:26 AM, Jul 04, 2011
Sydney: Power was cut to Brisbane homes for safety reasons and residents ordered to higher ground as Australia's third-biggest city braced for its worst soaking in living memory. Flood waters barreling toward the Queensland state capital were set to inundate 9,000 properties - 10 per cent of the city's stock - and a further 30,000 were expected to sustain some damage. Thousands have fled to evacuation centres ahead of Thursday's...
07:49 AM, Jan 12, 2011
Sydney: Top seed Robin Soderling underlined his credentials as an Australian Open contender by overpowering defending champion Andy Roddick 6-3, 7-5 to win the Brisbane International on Sunday. The world number five, who had not dropped a set all week and only been broken once, matched Roddick's fiercesome service game and unleashed his deadly forehand to win his seventh professional title. The 26-year-old Swede stayed calm as Roddick raged through...
01:19 PM, Jan 09, 2011
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