Moscow: Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic won their reverse singles matches on Sunday to put Serbia into the Fed Cup final for the first time with a 3-2 win over Russia in the semi-finals. Jankovic defeated two-time major champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1, 6-4 to score the decisive third point and give Serbia an insurmountable 3-1 lead. Ivanovic had put Serbia up 2-1 on the indoor clay court at the Megasport...
03:56 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Moscow: Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Ana Ivanovic 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 to put Russia level at 1-1 with Serbia after the opening singles in their Fed Cup semi-final on Saturday. Jelena Jankovic won the first point for Serbia by defeating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-3. After trading sets, Kuznetsova broke Ivanovic in the first game of the decisive set and it turned out to be enough to win the match. She closed it...
03:18 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Ostrava, Czech Republic: Defending champions Czech Republic took a commanding 2-0 lead over Italy after Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and Lucie Safarova won the opening singles matches of their Fed Cup semi-final series on Saturday. Safarova defeated Francesca Schiavone 7-6 (3), 6-1 to give the Czechs a 1-0 lead before Kvitova used her attacking play to double the advantage by beating Sara Errani 6-4, 6-3 to move the Czechs within...
03:12 PM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: Sania Mirza continued to slide down the rankings ladder as the Indian is now placed at number 182, after a loss of 41 places, in the latest WTA list issued on Monday. Sania slipped in the rankings after she missed out on making the singles main draw of the Miami WTA Premier event, losing in straight sets to American 10th seed Sloane Stephens. The Hyderabadi girl has also...
07:12 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Namangan, Uzbekistan: India salvaged some pride by winning the two inconsequential reverse singles to reduce their margin of defeat against Uzbekistan to 2-3 in the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I second-round tie on Sunday. Young Yuki Bhambri stunned Uzbek number one Denis Istomin in the first reverse singles of the day before Rohan Bopanna gave India their second win by beating Sarvar Ikramov. 20-year-old Bhambri and Bopanna showed a lot...
09:32 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Charleston, South Carolina: Venus Williams kept up with sister Serena by winning a third-round match at the Family Circle Cup, moving one step closer to an all-Williams semi-final. Venus and Serena both reached the quarter-finals of the Family Circle Cup on Thursday with straight-set victories. Venus defeated Anastasia Rodionova 7-5, 6-2 on center court shortly after Serena ousted Marina Erakovic, 6-2, 6-2. Should the sisters win on Friday, it would...
01:09 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Indian Wells: Roger Federer overcame Rafael Nadal and the rain for a 6-3, 6-4 semi-final victory in the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday night, acing Nadal on a match point that was delayed a couple minutes by rain drops. Federer handled the cold, windy conditions better than Nadal, whose grumpy expression matched his out-of-sorts body language. The match got started nearly three hours late because of rain. Wind whipped the...
10:34 AM, Mar 18, 2012
Indian Wells, California: Rafael Nadal outlasted David Nalbandian 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the BNP Paribas Open on Friday, setting up a semi-final against Roger Federer that will be a rematch of their Australian Open semi-final. Federer had an easier time in his quarter-final, beating Juan Martin del Potro 6-3, 6-2 in just more than an hour for his fourth victory over the Argentine this year. Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka defeated Angelique...
10:41 AM, Mar 17, 2012
Indian Wells: Revitalised since recruiting a new coach last month, Russian Nadia Petrova has targeted a return to the top 10 in the rankings after three years of relative struggle. A former top-three player who has piled up 10 career wins on the WTA circuit, the Moscow native ended her 2011 campaign ranked 29th, outside the top 20 for the first time in nine years. "I really want to get...
03:52 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Indian Wells, California: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic defeated Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-3 to reach the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open on Monday, improving his match record to 12-1 this year, but No. 8 Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick were knocked out. Djokovic broke Anderson's serve once in each set playing in the heat of the day at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, where he won in 2008 and last...
08:58 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Dubai: Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland won her eighth career WTA title on Saturday, defeating Julia Goerges of Germany 7-5, 6-4 in the Dubai Tennis Championships final. Radwanska will rise one place to a career-best No. 5 when the world rankings are updated on Monday. The fifth-seeded Radwanska led in both sets but it took her almost two hours to overcome the unseeded Goerges, who ousted defending champion Caroline Wozniacki the...
11:26 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Marseille: French qualifier Albano Olivetti, ranked 388th and playing in the main draw of an ATP event for the first time, stunned Mardy Fish 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the second round of the Open 13 on Thursday. The second-seeded American rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the second set to level the match. But Olivetti jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the decider and kept his composure to earn...
04:12 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Dubai: Defending champion Caroline Wozniacki reached the semi-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Thursday, while US Open champion Sam Stosur was beaten by Jelena Jankovic of Serbia. Caroline Wozniacki ousted Ana Ivanovic of Serbia 6-3, 7-5 in a meeting of former No. 1s, after Jankovic had beaten Stosur 6-4, 6-2 on Thursday. The 22-year-old Wozniacki eased through the first set and then overcame tougher resistance in the second before...
08:48 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Dubai: Sania Mirza squandered a one-set lead to crash out of the qualifying event of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, losing the first round match to Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak. Sania won the first set comfortably but lost steam as the match progressed to lose 6-2, 3-6, 2-6 in the opening round of the USD 2,000,000 hard court event. The Indian will now hope to do well in the doubles...
06:31 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Dubai: Wimbledon Open champion Petra Kvitova has pulled out of the Qatar Ladies Open because of an unspecified injury. The Czech is ranked second and would have been seeded second in the tournament that starts on Monday. Tournament organizers say they have no information on Kvitova's injury. Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka is the top-seeded player while the tournament also includes defending champion Vera Zvonareva, 2011 finalist Caroline Wozniacki and...
02:47 PM, Feb 12, 2012
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