Jwala Gutta is the second most famous name in Indian badminton right now after Saina Nehwal. She is big, she is strong and she is one of the contenders to get a medal for India in the doubles categories at the upcoming Olympics in London. Standing 5ft 10in, Jwala is a force both in women's doubles and mixed doubles. Though she has been playing for a long time, the 28-year-old...
04:29 PM, Jul 19, 2012
The badminton team of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa hopes to repeat its 2010 CWG gold medal-winning feat at the 2012 London Olympics. ...
09:41 AM, Jul 16, 2012
In an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN, Sania Mirza spoke on a variety of issues, including the latest Olympic selection row. Rajdeep Sardesai: We appreciate your joining us Sania. First your views on Roger Federrer. Seven titles now, Incredible. Is he the greatest Wimbledon champion, you think? Sania Mirza: I think that Roger Federrer is the greatest champion ever, not just Wimbledon I mean. Its amazing, hes an absolute genius and...
02:47 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Wimbledon: Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina will have to wait for their first Grand Slam title together as they lost the closely fought Wimbledon mixed doubles summit clash to Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond, here on Sunday. The fourth-seeded Indo-Russian pair suffered a 3-6 7-5 4-6 defeat at the hands of second seed Americans after battling for two hours and four minutes. It is for the second time in this...
01:44 AM, Jul 09, 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: India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna notched up a straight-set victory and advanced to the second round of the men's doubles event at the Wimbledon on Wednesday. The seventh-seeded Indian combination got the better of Marcel Felder of Uruguay and Tunisia's Malek Jaziri 6-0 7-6 (1) 6-2 in an hour and 36 minutes at the All England Club. The duo will take on the winner of the match between...
07:37 PM, Jun 27, 2012
National selector SP Mishra said that a player can chose his or her partner for an open event, but they don't have that preference while representing the country. ...
05:15 PM, Jun 27, 2012
The young Indian tennis player expressed his happiness at AITA's decision to pair him with Paes at the Olympics. ...
01:53 PM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: Sports Ministry officials will be meeting representatives from the All India Tennis Association (AITA) here shortly to try and find a solution to the row over India's men's doubles tennis team for the London Olympics beginning in just over a month's time. While there are reports that AITA may agree to field two teams as demanded by the Sports Minister Ajay Maken, those are merely rumours at the...
03:47 PM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: Confusion and intrigue reign supreme as the decision looms on who should pair up for India at the London Olympics, with Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna locked in a game of musical chairs. According to reports, both Bhupathi and Bopanna have written a letter to the All India Tennis Association that they will play only if they are paired together. But as the only Indian player...
07:27 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Paris: Paris: India's Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi reached their maiden French Open mixed doubles final but Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina were knocked out of the event here Wednesday. Mirza and Bhupathi outplayed Galina Voskoboeva and Danielle Bracciali 6-4, 6-2 to enter the mixed doubles final. They will face the Polish-Mexcian combine of Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and Santiago Gonzalez in the title clash at the Roland Garros....
07:59 PM, Jun 06, 2012
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
