Janko Tipsarevic and Mikhail Youzhny are likely to feature in this year's Kremlin Cup. ...
09:04 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Moscow: Caroline Wozniacki and Samantha Stosur both earned three-set victories on Saturday to reach the final of the Kremlin Cup. Wozniacki advanced to her third final of the season by beating Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-4, while Stosur rallied past former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic 2-6, 6-3, 6-2. Stosur has a 3-2 record against Wozniacki, winning their last two matches. In a match with 18 breaks of...
07:14 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Moscow: Sania Mirza could not end the season on a high as she and her partner Nuria Llagostera Vives were sent packing from the WTA Kremlin Cup by the American pair of Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears, here on Thursday. Third seeds Sania and Nuria, who had ended runners-up at the prestigious China WTA event recently, lost the hard fought second round match 5-7, 4-6 after battling it out for...
07:48 PM, Oct 18, 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
Moscow: Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden advanced to the quarter-finals of the Kremlin Cup by beating Marion Bartoli of France 6-3, 6-0, while Russia's Maria Kirilenko defeated her compatriot and wild card Elena Vesnina. Arvidsson broke Bartoli three times and dropped serve twice in the first set of the second-round match. The Frenchwoman had six double-faults in the second set. Arvidsson, who won her second career title in Memphis earlier this...
07:18 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Moscow: World No.124 Alex Bogomolov dumped Nikolay Davydenko from the Kremlin Cup in the first round, scoring the first upset of a seed in the $740,000 tournament. Fifth seed Davydenko is a three-time champion at his home event, winning in 2004, 2006 and 2007, but was unable to maintain a late comeback to go down 5-7, 4-6 on Tuesday. "I lost because I made 50 errors, how could you not...
10:30 AM, Oct 17, 2012
Moscow: Defending champion Dominika Cibulkova advanced to the second round of the Kremlin Cup, rallying to beat Ekaterina Makarova of Russia 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 on Tuesday. The fifth-seeded Slovakian, who won her second career title in the United States in July, struggled in the first set, losing four consecutive games. But she broke Makarova in the 10th game of the second set to stay in the match and soon jumped...
06:48 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Moscow: Sania Mirza and her Spanish partner Nuria Llagostera Vives entered the second round of Kremlin Cup after a hard-fought victory over Darya Kustova of Belarus and Ukraine's Olga Savchuk here on Tuesday. The third seeded Indo-Spanish pair beat its unseeded opponents 6-3, 5-7, 10-6 in a battle that lasted an hour and 27 minutes. Sania and Nuria will take on the winner of the match between Abigail Spears and...
06:26 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Moscow: Former World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki is to be granted a wildcard for the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament here next month. Wozniacki ended last year as World No.1 but has slipped to 11th after a disappointing 2012 season in which she suffered first-round exits at Wimbledon and the US Open and did not win a tournament until the Korea Open earlier this month. "The titled tennis player is to be...
05:40 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Moscow: Top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic beat defending champion Viktor Troicki 6-4, 6-2 in the first ever all-Serb ATP final to win the Kremlin Cup on Sunday, while Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia won her first career WTA title, rallying to beat Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5 for the women's crown. Tipsarevic, who won his first career title in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, earlier this season, broke Troicki twice in the...
11:33 PM, Oct 23, 2011
Moscow: Agnieszka Radwanska secured the last remaining spot in the season-ending WTA Championships without hitting a ball after Marion Bartoli retired from her Kremlin Cup quarter-final with an illness on Friday. Kremlin Cup organisers said the Frenchwoman was forced to withdraw from her match against Russia's Elena Vesnina after suffering from a viral infection. World number nine Bartoli was the only player with a chance of catching the eighth-ranked Pole,...
08:43 PM, Oct 21, 2011
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05:34 PM, Oct 24, 2010
Moscow: Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and local favorite Maria Kirilenko advanced to the Kremlin Cup final with straight-sets victories on Saturday. In the first semifinal, second-seeded Azarenka beat eighth-seeded Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain 6-3, 6-3 to book her fourth appearance in a final this season. Kirilenko reached her first final of the year with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over her fellow Russian Vera Dushevina. The 10th-ranked Azarenka saved...
07:45 PM, Oct 23, 2010
Moscow: Top seeds Rohan Bopanna of India and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan crashed out of the $ 1,000,000 Kremlin Cup quarterfinals with a 4-6, 5-7 loss to Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki on Friday. The win came in 68 minutes for the Serbians, whose previous best results came in June 2008 when they advanced to the Roland Garros quarter-finals. Bopanna and Qureshi are attempting to qualify for the Barclays...
04:00 PM, Oct 23, 2010
Moscow: Second seed Victoria Azarenka reached the Kremlin Cup semi-finals with a 6-1 6-3 thrashing of home hope Alisa Kleybanova on Friday. The powerful Belarussian, known for her loud grunting on the court, dispatched the seventh-seeded Russian in less than 100 minutes to set up a Saturday clash with Spanish number eight seed Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, who eliminated Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova 6-2 6-3. "I took the initiative right from...
08:55 AM, Oct 23, 2010
Moscow: Top seed Jelena Jankovic went out of the Kremlin Cup at the first hurdle in a 6-1 6-2 thrashing by little-known Kazakh teenager Zarina Diyas on Thursday. Serbia's former world number one, who had a bye in the first round, looked out of sorts from the start, committing numerous errors and winning only 43 percent of her first serves. She was beaten in less than an hour by the...
08:56 AM, Oct 22, 2010
Igor Kunitsyn upset former world No.1 Marat Safin in an all- Russian final. ...
12:48 PM, Oct 13, 2008
The Serb won 12 of the last 13 games to clinch the match that lasted one hour 45 minutes. ...
10:22 PM, Oct 11, 2008
Nicole Vaidisova overcame a slow start to tame world number one Amelie Mauresmo in the Kremlin Cup quarter-finals. ...
06:52 PM, Oct 14, 2006
Maria Sharapova came through a tough second-round match in the Kremlin Cup to beat Ekaterina Bychkova 6-4 7-5. ...
05:38 PM, Oct 12, 2006
