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
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Sania Mirza said she is past the selection row and now is eyeing a good show with Leander Paes in the London 2012 mixed-doubles. ...
09:06 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Sania Mirza on Monday said that the bitter London Olympics tennis selection row created bad blood among the players and also strained her relationship with Mahesh Bhupathi but she has left it behind to focus on winning a medal in mixed-doubles with Leander Paes. Paes was forced to pair with lower-ranked Vishnu Vardhan in men's doubles after both Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna refused to play with him. He...
08:11 PM, Jul 09, 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: India's Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina beat unseeded Paul Hanley and Alla Kudryavtseva to stroll into the mixed doubles semifinals of the Wimbledon tennis championships here Friday. The fourth seeds got the better of the Australian-Russian pairing 6-2, 6-2 in the quarters. They next meet winners of the match between top seeds Bob Bryan-Liezel Huber of America and eighth seeds Daniel Nestor of Canada and Julia...
10:00 PM, Jul 06, 2012
So this blog is supposed to review changes in India over the past decade. But of course there are some things that don't change. ...
05:01 PM, Jul 06, 2012
London: Indian challenge ended in the men's doubles event of the Wimbledon Championships as Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek and the pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna suffered contrasting defeats in their respective matches on Tuesday. While fourth seeds Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek were stunned by Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo in a grueling weather-hit five-setter, Bhupathi and Bopanna lost in straight sets to Mikhael Elgin and Denis...
10:55 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Olympic bronze-medallist wrestler Sushil Kumar has emerged as the front-runner to be India's flag bearer at the London Olympics opening ceremony. Besides Sushil, the Indian Olympic Association had shortlisted Beijing Olympics gold-medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra, bronze-medallists boxer Vijender Singh and tennis veteran Leander Paes for the flag bearer's role in London. But since Vijender might have a bout to fight the morning after the opening ceremony on July...
03:16 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: Leander Paes may have kept everyone guessing whether he would participate in London Olympics but Vishnu Vardhan, his doubles partner for the mega event, said he was always sure that "things would fall in place". Paes, who was frowning over being paired by AITA with a low-ranked player like Vardhan, on Thursday night confirmed that he would compete in next month's London Games. "I was never worried. People...
04:57 PM, Jun 29, 2012
London: Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek brushed aside the challenge of Colin Ebelthite and John Peers in straight sets to progress to the second round of the men's doubles event of the Wimbledon championships here on Thursday. The fourth seed Indo-Czech pair scored an easy 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 win over the unseeded Australian combination in just one hour 31 minutes at court number seven. Paes and Stepanek converted three of...
11:22 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: Jumping straight into the world's biggest sporting event after an eight-month long forced sabbatical is not how an athlete would have planned his comeback, but Somdev Devvarman says he is ready for the tough battle ahead in the London Olympics. Somdev has been out of action due to a shoulder surgery since the start of the season and started practicing only recently. Ideally, he could have played some...
04:45 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Sania Mirza has slammed the All India Tennis Association and Leander Paes for male chauvinism. ...
11:45 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
New Delhi: The All-India Tennis Association (AITA) has rejected Sania Mirza's criticism that she was used as a "bait" to pacify the warring duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, saying the decision to pair Sania with Paes is based on merit. "Selection for the Olympics is based on merit," the AITA secretary general Bharat Oza said in a statement, read by the executive...
01:26 PM, Jun 27, 2012
The IBN18 Editor-in-Chief feels that the spat between Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi is unbecoming of champions. ...
03:14 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Hello and welcome to DRS - my very own personal space where we discuss matters cricket. This week I thought we would discuss not so much cricket but the wider world of sport, particularly because this has been one of the most depressing weeks when it comes to Indian sport, quite simply because of the soap opera that Indian tennis has been reduced to. One of the great joys over ...
02:55 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Hello and welcome to DRS - my very own personal space where we discuss matters cricket. This week I thought we would discuss not so much cricket but the wider world of sport, particularly because this has been one of the most depressing weeks when it comes to Indian sport, quite simply because of the soap opera that Indian tennis has been reduced to. One of the great joys over...
02:55 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Mumbai: Leander Paes was distraught for the better part of Thursday after the All India Tennis Association (AITA) picked two teams for next months London Olympics pairing Mahesh Bhupathi with Rohan Bopanna and Paes with Vishnu Vardhan, ranked 207 in the world doubles. I am at a loss for words right now. Im shocked that we have given in to dirty politics. My ranking [World No. 7] makes me the...
11:05 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: Faced with a pullout threat from Leander Paes, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) has sent one of its selectors to London to pacify the veteran who is miffed at not getting a partner of choice for the men's doubles event of the London Olympics. The world number seven doubles player, who is the only Indian to have got a direct entry into the Olympics on the basis...
11:19 AM, Jun 22, 2012
