Madrid: Ekaterina Makarova of Russia ousted third-seeded Victoria Azarenka 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday to reach the third round of the Madrid Open. Azarenka, runner-up in Madrid the past two years, lost her temper, broke her racket and argued with the chair umpire. The Belarusian double-faulted five times and got in only just over half of her first serves, compared to a 60 per cent first-serve accuracy for the 24-ranked...
06:58 PM, May 08, 2013
Ekaterina Makarova won the second reverse singles match and paired with Elena Vesnina to secure Russia a 3-2 victory. ...
09:15 PM, Feb 10, 2013
No. 2-ranked Sharapova, who has spent just 5 hours and 15 minutes on court so far in the tournament, won 6-2, 6-2. ...
10:53 AM, Jan 22, 2013
The 19th seed met Sharapova in the same round last year at Melbourne Park. ...
09:20 PM, Jan 21, 2013
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
New York: Russia's Ekaterina Makarova and Brazil's Bruno Soares completed an unlikely run to the US Open mixed doubles title by beating fourth-seeded Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic and Marcin Matkowski of Poland on Thursday. Makarova and Soares committed to the tournament at the last minute and the unseeded duo rode the partnership to a grand slam triumph when Peschke failed to return a baseline backhand from Makarova to...
09:25 AM, Sep 07, 2012
London: Petra Kvitova's preparations for the defence of her Wimbledon title suffered a setback when she was beaten by Russia's Ekaterina Makarova in the first round of the Eastbourne International on Tuesday. The number two seed, who beat Maria Sharapova in the final of last year's Wimbledon, lost 7-5, 6-4 to Makarova who is ranked 48th in the world. Kvitova had looked in good shape heading into the grasscourt season,...
06:55 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Rome: In a matchup of former French Open champions, 13th-seeded Ana Ivanovic beat Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-3 on Monday in a windy first-round match at the Italian Open. "It was tough out there today, but it was the same for both of us," said Ivanovic, who won her only major title at Roland Garros in 2008. "I just tried to move and to adjust and really tried to look at...
12:27 PM, May 15, 2012
Melbourne: Serena Williams lost at the Australian Open for the first time since 2008, struggling with her serve and hitting too many unforced errors in a shocking 6-2, 6-3 fourth-round defeat to Ekaterina Makarova. Williams was surprised by the power of the groundstrokes coming back at her on Monday from the Russian left-hander, who at No. 56 was the lowest-ranked woman to make the fourth round of the season's first...
11:11 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Melbourne: Serena Williams' 17-match winning streak at the Australian Open ended on Monday in a stunning 6-2, 6-3 loss to Ekaterina Makarova, the lowest-ranked woman in the fourth round. The dominant force at Melbourne Park this century, Williams had lost only two matches at Melbourne Park since winning the first of her five Australian Open titles in 2003. After losing in the 2008 quarter-finals, she won titles in 2009 and...
09:31 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Melbourne: Serena Williams raced into the last-16 of the Australian Open with a powerhouse display that left Hungary's Greta Arn stunned after a 6-1, 6-1 drubbing on Rod Laver Arena in the opening night match on Saturday. Five-time Australian champion Williams, who came into the tournament with a left ankle injury, seems to be bothered less and less by the ailment as she progresses through the rounds. The 13-time Grand...
04:53 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Wimbledon: After blowing a big lead and losing at the French Open, 19-year-old Christina McHale of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., made sure she didn't make the same mistake at Wimbledon. McHale reached the second round at the All England Club for the first time " and at any Grand Slam tournament for only the second time " by eliminating 28th-seeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia 2-6, 6-1, 8-6 Monday. Last month in...
10:50 AM, Jun 21, 2011
