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
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
CNN-IBN saluted the bearers of good news, who, with their positive stories from across the country, brought out a message of hope amidst the everyday stories of confusion and chaos. ...
08:38 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
