London: The ATP says its season-ending finals will stay in London for an extra two years to 2015. The ATP Tour finale for the top eight players is in the fourth year of a five-year deal to play at the O2 Arena in the British capital. ATP President Brad Drewett says "the excitement created by our season-ending tournament in London has been fantastic, with fans, players, media, and commercial partners...
07:32 PM, Nov 07, 2012
London: Third seeds Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek began their campaign at the season-ending World Tour Final with a straight set win over seventh seeds Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Roger, here. The Indo-Czech pair got the better of Pakistan-Dutch combo, runners-up at Paris Masters last week, 6-4, 7-5 in their opening Group A match. Stepanek, making debut at the event, saved one break point on sudden death deuce in the...
04:33 PM, Nov 07, 2012
London: Roger Federer reached yet another career milestone with victory over Janko Tipsarevic and David Ferrer dipped into his seemingly endless tank of stamina to beat Juan Martin del Potro on the second day of the ATP World Tour Finals on Tuesday. Swiss maestro Federer glided to a 6-3, 6-1 victory over outclassed Serbian Janko Tipsarevic to open his Group B account, taking his haul of victories at the elite...
08:53 AM, Nov 07, 2012
London: Roger Federer opened his quest for a seventh season-ending tour title looking like the man to beat again. The 17-time Grand Slam champion won his record 40th match at the tournament, defeating Janko Tipsarevic 6-3, 6-1 Tuesday in his opening Group B match. Federer lost only eight points on his serve under the roof of the O2 Arena while converting four of his nine break points in the event...
10:18 PM, Nov 06, 2012
London: The Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna squandered two match points before losing its first match of the ATP World Tour Finals against Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen on Tuesday. The Indians, making their debut as a pair in the elite season-ending event, lost their Group B match 6-4 7-6 (1) 10-12 against the British-Denmark combination in one hour and 36 minutes. Bhupathi and Bopanna are coming...
08:54 PM, Nov 06, 2012
London: Novak Djokovic won his opening match at the $8.85 million World Tour Finals here defeating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in two sets. The World No.1, who failed to make it out of Round Robin stage last year, beat the Frenchman for the fifth time this season, grabbing a 7-6(4), 6-3 win on Monday. "To be quite honest, he was the better player throughout the first set. I faced many break points...
04:31 PM, Nov 06, 2012
London: Playing in his opening match at the ATP finals, Novak Djokovic dived right in. The top-ranked Serb twice landed hard on the court on Monday at the O2 Arena, but it didn't stop him from beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6(4), 6-3 and setting up a Wednesday showdown with Group A rival Andy Murray. "All those balls were out of my reach, so I tried to dive," Djokovic said. "I don't...
08:31 AM, Nov 06, 2012
London: Andy Murray won his first match in Britain since claiming his maiden Grand Slam title, beating Tomas Berdych 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 Monday in the opening match of the ATP finals. Murray wasted 10 break points in the match before finally converting to take a 3-1 lead in the second set. He won his only other break point in the third set to take a 2-1 lead. After losing in...
10:51 PM, Nov 05, 2012
London: A tired sounding Novak Djokovic says he will need to draw on all his mental and physical strength if he is to crown another stellar season with the ATP World Tour Finals title. The Serb heads into his opening match with Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Monday safe in the knowledge that he will end the year as the world number for the second consecutive year. Whether he can add...
10:20 AM, Nov 05, 2012
London: The ATP Finals draw threw up a rematch of the US Open final as Andy Murray was placed in the same group as world No.2 Novak Djokovic for the season-ender in London. Murray, who lost to the Serbian in the final of last year's Australian Open, defeated him in five sets to win his first Grand Slam title in New York in September. The pair are joined in Group...
05:46 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Sofia, Bulgaria: Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki reached the Tournament of Champions final after beating Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova 6-4, 6-1 on Saturday. In Sunday's final, Wozniacki will play second-seeded Nadia Petrova of Russia, who defeated Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-7 (8), 6-1, 6-4 in a dramatic match that lasted 2 hours, 42 minutes. "At one moment in the match I thought that I am playing my last match here and that's why...
05:43 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Paris: Jerzy Janowicz of Poland became the first qualifier in eight years to reach the Paris Masters final after beating Gilles Simon of France 6-4, 7-5 Saturday. Janowicz, who was playing in Futures tournaments at the start of the year, has beaten five top-20 ranked players on his improbable run to the final. He will meet the winner of the match between fourth-seeded David Ferrer of Spain and Michael Llodra...
09:38 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Washington: The last of NASA's retired spacecraft Atlantis slowly covered its historic last journey to its final resting place after the US space agency ended its 30-year shuttle program in 2011. The shuttle made its 15.8 kilometres journey on Friday from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, permanently to a visitor centre where it will be put for public display in a $100 million hall due to open in July. Accompanied...
04:33 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Paris: The Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna booked the final berth at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London after advancing to the semi-finals of the BNP Paribas Masters here. In a winner-take-all quarter-final clash on Friday fifth seeds Bhupathi and Bopanna defeated the Polish Power pair of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 6-7(5), 6-3, 10-4. They will now be up against the Australian-Britih combination of...
10:49 AM, Nov 03, 2012
Paris: Frenchman Gilles Simon booked his place in the Paris Masters semi-finals with a comprehensive 6-4 6-4 win over Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych on Friday. The unseeded Simon, who reached the quarter-finals after Japanese Kei Nishikori withdrew with an ankle injury, had too much pace for Berdych in front of his home crowd. Simon was 4-1 down in the second set but fought back to win the five remaining...
09:14 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Paris: Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic secured the last two places for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals after reaching the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters on Thursday. They needed to win their third-round matches at the Bercy indoor arena in Paris, regardless of other results. Tsonga beat Nicolas Almagro of Spain, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) and Tipsarevic defeated Juan Monaco of Argentina 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. They will...
09:08 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Istanbul: Victoria Azarenka wrapped up the season-ending No. 1 position in the world by beating Li Na 7-6 (4), 6-3 on Friday in the WTA Championships. Azarenka secured a spot in the semi-finals and will next play Maria Sharapova. "It's kind of difficult to believe that a little girl from Belarus is on that list," said Azarenka, from Belarus. "It's really incredible achievement. When I started to play tennis I...
01:00 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Paris: World tennis number four Rafa Nadal has pulled out of the Paris Masters and the ATP World Tour finals in London as he is still recovering from his left knee injury, the ATP said on Thursday. The 11-times grand-slam singles champion has not played since he suffered a shock second-round loss to Czech Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon in June. "It's disappointing for me to miss the last two tournaments...
10:19 PM, Oct 25, 2012
The momentum favours Sydney as they are the only side to have won all their four group matches. ...
01:52 PM, Oct 25, 2012
In pursuit of 137, Harbhajan's men could only manage 124 for 8. Mumbai go out of the tournament without a win. ...
08:01 PM, Oct 22, 2012
