London: Tennis authorities will tackle the perennial problem of grunting players - but it could take years to turn down the volume. So do not throw the earplugs away quite yet and if your daughter is a four-year-old tennis prodigy, make sure she keeps the noise down. Talks are underway to arm umpires with handheld "grunt-o-meters" on court, so that they can assess how loud shrieks are. Such devices are...
02:30 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Wimbledon: Maria Sharapova overcame a second-set blip as she returned to the court for a second straight day to finish off a 7-6 (3), 6-7 (3), 6-0 victory over Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria on Thursday to reach the third round at Wimbledon. The top-ranked Russian led 3-1 in the second set when the match was halted on Wednesday because of bad light, but she was broken in the first game...
07:18 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Wimbledon: French Open champion Maria Sharapova picked up right where she left off at Roland Garros, cruising into the second round at Wimbledon on Monday by beating Anastasia Rodionova of Australia 6-2, 6-3. The top-ranked Sharapova completed a career Grand Slam by winning her first French Open title last month. She's looking for her second title at the All England club after winning as a 17-year-old in 2004 and losing...
09:20 PM, Jun 25, 2012
London: With the red clay of Roland Garros tamed, Maria Sharapova heads to the less alien setting of Wimbledon's grass a clear favourite having completed the career grand slam and regained her place at the pinnacle of the rankings. Having washed the red dust out of her long blonde hair, she waves goodbye to her least favourite surface - on which she once described herself as a "cow on ice"...
10:54 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Paris: Maria Sharapova moved another step closer to filling in the last piece of the career Grand Slam, defeating Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday to reach the French Open semifinals. The second-seeded Sharapova rolled through her 23rd-seeded opponent in 74 minutes, a much different scene than the three-set win in the fourth round that took more than three hours. Sharapova made the semifinals at Roland Garros for...
07:24 PM, Jun 06, 2012
Rome: A week after Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal made early exits in Madrid on an experimental blue court, both showed they remain a force on red clay on Friday by reaching the Italian Open semi-finals. The top-ranked Djokovic struggled with his serve in the opening set but found his range to eliminate fifth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5, 6-1. Nadal defeated seventh-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-4, 7-5. "In the second set, I...
08:50 AM, May 19, 2012
Madrid: Rafael Nadal lost to Spanish countryman Fernando Verdasco for the first time in the Madrid Open on Thursday, then he and top-ranked Novak Djokovic threatened not to return if the new blue clay-court wasn't discarded. Nadal blew a 5-2 lead in the third set in losing 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, his first defeat to Verdasco in 14 matches. The third-round loss was Nadal's earliest exit in a clay-court tournament since...
12:09 AM, May 11, 2012
Madrid: Novak Djokovic needed three sets to win his first match on the blue clay at the Madrid Open on Tuesday and then stepped up his criticism of the new surface. Djokovic laboured to a 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 victory over Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain in his debut on the Magic Box's unorthodox surface, after top-ranked Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova both beat Czech opponents to advance in the women's event....
07:35 AM, May 09, 2012
Moscow: A short haircut by Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova provoked a backlash among fans after she posted pictures of the new style on her official Facebook page. The three-time Grand Slam winner has remained a blonde, but most of her earlier long hair is now gone, and the new haircut finishes just below her ears. "So what do you guys think?? I kind of love it!" she wrote on...
09:16 AM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: CNN-IBN's Manisha Mahaldar gets talking to King Khan on his association with Tag Heuer, co-ambassadors Leonardo Di Caprio and Maria Sharapova; and his upcoming films. Manisha Mahaldar Joining me is King Khan welcome to the show Shah Rukh... Shah Rukh Khan Thank You Manisha Mahaldar Shahrukh, you have been associated with Tag Heuer for 9 years now, at a time when fame and brand association are so fickle,...
06:31 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Melbourne: Maria Sharapova last met Gisela Dulko in a Grand Slam event at the 2009 Wimbledon tournament, where the Argentine forced the Russian into error after error on her way to a surprise second-round victory. On Tuesday, the world number four gave back to her 26-year-old opponent exactly what she had received in London and produced a ruthless 6-0, 6-1 victory to set up an Australian Open second-round encounter against...
06:24 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: Serbia's Novak Djokovic does a hilarious impression of Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova at the US Open that includes most of Nadal's typical idiosyncracies - his habit of tugging at his underwear. Nicknamed the 'Djoker', Djokovic proved he is the dominant force in men's tennis by outplaying defending champion Nadal to win Wimbledon for the first time with an emphatic 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3 victory in the final...
01:39 PM, Jul 04, 2011
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11:04 AM, Feb 19, 2010
The former champion was knocked out by fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko. ...
10:34 AM, Jan 18, 2010
Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters are making a return to women's tennis. ...
01:30 PM, Jan 06, 2010
Maria Sharapova has been the world No 1 tennis player. ...
04:32 PM, Oct 08, 2009
It was Maria Sharapova's first title since shoulder surgery last October. ...
04:53 PM, Oct 03, 2009
Jelena is a very solid player, a great mover says Sharapova. ...
10:59 AM, Oct 03, 2009
