Paris: Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza on Sunday advanced to the quarter-finals of the French Open mixed doubles event after notching up a straight-set victory in the second round of the grand slam event. The seventh seed Indian pair defeated their unseeded opponents from France, Virginie Razzano and Nicolas Devilder, 7-6 6-3 in a contest lasting an hour and 20 minutes. They will now be facing the winner of the...
10:47 PM, Jun 03, 2012
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
Paris: India's Sania Mirza and American Bethanie Mattek-Sands were knocked out by Russian-Romanian combine of Nina Bratchikova and Edina Gallovits-Hall in the women's doubles first round at the French Open on Tuesday. The fifteenth seeds went down fighting. Recovering from a set down, they, however, failed to win points on their serve to finally lose 3-6, 6-4, 5-7 to the unseeded pair. The loss is a blow for the Indian,...
08:39 PM, May 29, 2012
Paris: Battling to be in the top 10 before the June 11 cut-off mark for the London Olympics, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna were drawn against the French team of Marc Gicquel and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in their men's doubles opening round of the French Open. Bopanna and Bhupathi, ranked 12th and 13th respectively, need to be in top 10 to make a direct entry into the men's doubles event of...
11:49 AM, May 28, 2012
Rome: The Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna upset top seeds Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Canada's Daniel Nestor in a hard-fought battle to enter the men's doubles semi-finals of the Italian Open on Friday. The seventh-seeded Indians took an hour and nine minutes to get the better of the top seeds, 6-4, 7-5. Bhupathi and Bopanna won 79 percent of their service points, and converted a break...
05:58 PM, May 19, 2012
Rome: The Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna moved into the men's doubles quarter-finals of the Internazionali BNL D'Italia tennis tournament, beating Italians Daniele Bracciali and Andreas Seppi 6-2, 6-1 in the first round. The Indians took just 37 minutes to get the better of their opponents. Bhupathi and Bopanna saved all five break points, while they managed to convert four out of five they earned. After Thursday's...
09:22 PM, May 18, 2012
Madrid: Sania Mirza and Anastasia Rodionova suffered a shock first-round exit from the Madrid Open after losing to Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Shuai Zhang on Monday. The sixth-seeded Indian-Australian duo lost 3-6, 2-6 to the German-Chinese pair in the opening round of the 3,755,140 Euros clay-court event. Sania and Rodionova lost the match in under an hour as they failed to convert five breakpoints and lost their serve six times in...
11:41 AM, May 08, 2012
Estoril, Portugal: Sania Mirza and her partner Anastasia Rodionova crashed out of the Estoril Open after losing to the Kazakh pair of Yaroslava Shvedova and Galina Voskobo 6-3, 7-6 (6) in the women's doubles semi-finals on Thursday. The second-seeded Indo-Australian combo fought hard before going down to third seeds in an hour and 24 minutes. There was, however, little to differentiate between the two teams. While Sania and Rodionova saved...
01:54 PM, May 04, 2012
Estoril, Portugal: Sania Mirza and her partner Anastasia Rodionova overcame a late resistance from Eleni Daniiliidou and Andreja Klepac to progress to the quarter-finals of the Estoril Open on Monday. The second-seeded Indian-Australia pair got the better of their unseeded rivals 6-2, 6-7(5), 10-5 in the opening round of the USD 220,000 clay-court event. It took Sania and Rodionova one hour and 27 minutes to down the Greek-Slovakian combination. After...
10:49 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Monaco: Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek were routed 2-6, 0-6 by top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan as the Indian challenge ended at the ATP Monte Carlo Masters came to an end on Friday. The crushing defeat of the fifth-seeded Indo-Czech pair came about in just 50 minutes in the quarter-final contest. The Bryan brothers gained sweet revenge for this year's Australian Open and Sony Ericsson Open losses to Paes...
12:35 PM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: Sania Mirza continued to slide down the rankings ladder as the Indian is now placed at number 182, after a loss of 41 places, in the latest WTA list issued on Monday. Sania slipped in the rankings after she missed out on making the singles main draw of the Miami WTA Premier event, losing in straight sets to American 10th seed Sloane Stephens. The Hyderabadi girl has also...
07:12 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Miami: India's Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek pulled off an amazing victory over top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan to secure their berth in the final of the Sony Ericsson Open. However, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of the tournament in straight sets on Thursday. Paes is one win away from a third consecutive Sony Ericsson Open doubles title - with three different partners...
02:19 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Indian Wells: Australian Open winners Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek saw off a stiff resistance from Juan Monaco and Kei Nishikori to advance to the quarter-finals of the ATP Indian Wells Masters on Tuesday. The seventh-seeded Indo-Czech pair scored a tough 7-6(5), 6-4 win in the second round over their unseeded opponents. They will now fight it out with the giant-killing Spanish pair of Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal for...
01:40 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Indian Wells: Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina recovered from a second-set lapse against Timea Bacsinszky and Alberta Brianti to advance to the doubles quarter-finals of the Indian Wells WTA Premier event. The second-seeded Indo-Russian pair scored a 6-1, 3-6, 10-2 victory in the second round of the USD 5,536,664 hard court tournament. They await the winner of the other second-round match between the pairs of Irina-Camelia Begu/Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez...
03:55 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Dubai: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna, who need to improve their rankings to earn a direct entry into the London Olympics, stormed into the summit clash of the ATP Dubai Open with a straight sets win on Friday. The fourth-seeded Indian pair of Bhupathi and Bopanna edged past the giant-killing Austrian pair of Julian Knowle and Alexanderin Peya 7-6 (2) 7-6 (7) in the semi-finals of the USD 1,700,475 hard...
06:44 PM, Mar 02, 2012
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