Moscow: Caroline Wozniacki won her 20th career title on Sunday beating Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in the final of the Kremlin Cup. The former top-ranked Dane has fallen to No. 11 but is showing signs of returning to her best after also winning in Seoul in September for her first title of the year. Andreas Seppi, meanwhile, rallied to beat Thomaz Bellucci 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3 to...
09:35 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Vienna: Juan Martin del Potro reached his fourth final of the season by defeating Gilles Muller of Luxembourg 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5) at the Erste Bank Open on Saturday. A runner-up last year, the top-seeded Argentine will play either second-seeded Janko Tipsarevic or Grega Zemlja of Slovenia in Sunday's final. The match consisted mainly of short rallies featured no breaks of serve. Del Potro converted his fourth match point with...
11:10 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Central Zone captain Mohd Kaif said his team has be careful against the pacer in the Duleep Trophy final against East Zone starting Sunday. ...
09:51 PM, Oct 20, 2012
While Central will like to take revenge after being humiliated by an innings and 20 runs in the last edition, the East Zone will like to prove that their triumph last time was no fluke. ...
05:40 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Macau: India's Joshna Chinappa kept the tri-colour fluttering by progressing into the semifinals of the women's singles, even as compatriot Dipika Pallikal bowed out of the USD 25,000 Macau Open squash tournament, here on Friday. World ranked 51st and qualifier, Chinappa battled to a five-game victory over Japan's Misaki Kobayashi in the quarterfinals and set up a last-four clash against top-seed Joelle King of New Zealand. The 26-year-old Chennai girl...
09:53 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Moscow: Ana Ivanovic will face Samantha Stosur in the semifinal of the Kremlin Cup after straight-set victories Friday. Ivanovic beat Vesna Dolonc 6-4, 6-1, while the top-seeded Stosur defeated Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-3. Stosur won six consecutive games in the first set but trailed 3-1 in the second set. She recovered with a break in the sixth game and later served out the match at love....
05:37 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Moscow: Ana Ivanovic advanced to the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup on Thursday by beating qualifier Valeria Solovieva 6-1, 6-4. The 11th-ranked Serb broke Solovieva three times in the 19-year-old Russian's second match on the WTA Tour. Ivanovic, whose best result this season was a semifinal appearance in Indian Wells in March, will be playing in her fifth quarterfinal. The 2008 French Open champion is looking for her 12th career...
06:35 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Odense: In a dramatic comeback, badminton World No.4 Saina Nehwal of India won her second round match against Japanese Minatsu Mitani to advance to the women's singles quarterfinals of the Denmark Open Super Series Premier here Thursday. The third-seeded Indian defeated the unseeded Japanese World No.28 21-15, 21-14 in 20 minutes. The scores, however, were no true reflection of the match-play. In the first game, Minatsu surprised Saina by clinching...
04:31 PM, Oct 18, 2012
London: David Ferrer has ensured Spanish representation at the ATP World Tour finals by booking his place at the eight-man finale taking place in London for the fourth year next month. Ferrer joins his compatriot Rafa Nadal as one of the five players guaranteed a place in the year-ender, although the injured Nadal has not played a match since June and the chances of him lining up at the O2...
10:08 PM, Oct 16, 2012
The Duleep trophy semi-final is interestingly poised with East Zone scoring 126/6 in their second innings on Day 3. ...
09:09 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Bilbao: World champion Viswanathan Anand could not fetch a win till the very end as he settled for a draw with Russian Sergey Karjakin in the 10th and final round of fifth Final Chess Masters to finish a lowly fifth here. Having lost to Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the penultimate round after a spate of draws, Anand could not break through the defenses of Karjakin and settled for his...
10:09 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Shanghai: Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna has set up a summit clash with Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek after both the pairs won their respective semifinal matches in the Shanghai Masters here Saturday. The seventh seeded Indian combo reached its second ATP World Tour Masters final of the season after beating British pair of Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins 6-7 (4) 6-3 10-8 in...
06:53 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Bilbao: It went from bad to worse for world Champion Viswanathan Anand as he suffered a shocking loss at the hands of Norwegian Magnus Carlsen in the ninth and penultimate round of fifth Final Chess Masters here. Having drawn the first eight games in the tournament, Anand was expected to hold fort against Carlsen but the Indian ace cracked under pressure and went on to lose his first game in...
09:19 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Bilbao, (Spain): World champion Viswanathan Anand's hunt for an elusive victory continued as he was held to a draw by Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the eighth round of the fifth Final Masters here at the Alhondiga. The eighth draw in as many games means that Anand is now out of any real title contention in the six-player double round-robin tournament barring a miracle that seems pretty unlikely. Draws, in...
06:31 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Shanghai: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna may meet Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek in the summit clash of the Shanghai Masters, after reaching the semi-finals of the elite ATP tournament, here on Friday. Bhupathi and Bopanna, seeded seventh, shocked second seeds Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor 7-6(7), 6-4 in one hour 23 minutes in the quarter-finals of the $3,531,600 hard court event. Later in the day, fourth seeded Paes and...
06:24 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Turkey: Justin Rose is $1.5 million richer after defeating fellow Englishman Lee Westwood by one stroke to win the inaugural World Golf Final in Turkey on Friday. World number five Rose shot a round of a five-under par 66 to hold off Westwood after he moved into a one-shot lead with a birdie on the opening hole and secured victory by holing a 20-foot birdie putt on the 17th. The...
04:33 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Bilbao: World champion Viswanathan Anand's hunt for an elusive victory continued as he was held to a draw by Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the eighth round of the fifth Final Masters here at the Alhondiga. The eighth draw in as many games means that Anand is now out of any real title contention in the six-player double round-robin tournament barring a miracle that seems pretty unlikely. Draws, in fact,...
10:30 AM, Oct 12, 2012
Belek, Turkey: Tiger Woods beat Rory McIlroy by six strokes on Thursday to advance to the semi-finals of the World Golf Final, turning the first head-to-head match between the world's top two players into a one-sided contest. McIlroy, No. 1 in the world, was eliminated from the $5.2 million exhibition after slumping to a third consecutive group match defeat on a day of low scoring at the Antalya Golf Club....
05:15 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Turkey: World number one Rory McIlroy's World Golf Final showdown with 14-time major winner Tiger Woods was put on hold after play was abandoned due to storms on Wednesday. McIlroy, without a win from two matches in the inaugural event after his latest defeat at the hands of 2011 U.S. Masters champion and group pacesetter Charl Schwartzel, is bottom of his pool with Woods and Matt Kuchar on one win...
06:57 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Bilbao (Spain): World champion Viswanathan Anand played out his seventh draw in as many games, signing peace with world number two Levon Aronian of Armenia in the seventh round of the fifth Final Chess Masters. With his seventh draw, nothing changed for Anand as he remained clear fourth in the six-player double round-robin tournament and the Indian ace can now look up to the two white games coming his way...
12:52 PM, Oct 10, 2012
