Tennis

Miami (Florida), March 29 (IANS) World No.1 women’s player Serena Williams and male Scot star Andy Murray were both eliminated from the Miami Open tennis tournament. Three-time defending champion Williams fell to Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova,…

Miami (Florida), March 28 (IANS) Second seeded German Angelique Kerber advanced to the Round of 16 at the Miami Open when Dutch Kiki Bertens retired in their third-round match. Bertenbs retired amid high temperatures and…

Miami, March 27 (IANS) Spanish tennis ace Rafael Nadal retired from his opening match at the Miami Open against Bosnian Damir Dzumhur after suffering from apparent heat exhaustion. Nadal easily won the first set 6-2…

Miami, March 27 (IANS) Spanish tennis ace Rafael Nadal retired from a Miami Open match after feeling “dizzy” in stifling conditions. Nadal called for the doctor twice before quitting. He was then trailing 0-3 in…

Miami, March 25 (IANS) Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer has said he suffered a knee injury in January while preparing a bath for his twin daughters. The 17-time Grand Slam winner needed arthroscopic surgery and…

Miami, March 25 (IANS) Indian tennis aces Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna registered contrasting results with the former advancing and the latter losing the opening round match of the Miami Open at the Tennis Center…

Miami (US), March 24 (IANS) Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro advanced to the second round at the Miami Open after defeating countryman Guido Pella 6-0, 7-6 (7/4) and will now face Swiss No.3 seed Roger…

Indian Wells, March 22 (IANS) Indian Wells tournament chief executive Raymond Moore on Tuesday resigned after his controversial comments about women’s tennis. Moore, 69, said the women’s game “rides on the coat-tails” of the men…

Indian Wells (US), March 21 (IANS) Tennis World No.1 Novak Djokovic believes that male tennis players should earn more money than their female counterparts, considering the fact that more people watch their matches. Earlier, Raymond…

Indian Wells (California), March 21 (IANS) Serbia’s Novak Djokovic decisively beat Canada’s Milos Raonic 6-2, 6-0 in just an hour and 18 minutes to win the Indian Wells men’s tennis title. He became the first…

Indian Wells (California), March 20 (IANS) World No.1 tennis star Novak Djokovic won a hard-fought first set that lasted well over an hour before asserting full control in a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 victory over Spain’s…

Indian Wells, March 19 (IANS) Spain’s Rafael Nadal advanced to the semi-finals of the BNP Paribas Open with a convincing 6-4, 6-3 victory over Japan’s Kei Nishikori here. The 14-time Grand Slam champion appeared to…

Indian Wells (California), March 17 (IANS) Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal urged on Thursday that the controversy over French former sports minister Roselyne Bachelot’s doping accusations should not be turned into a war between France…

Indian Wells, March 15 (IANS) Spanish tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza got over her elimination from the Indian Wells championship against American Christina Mchale (5-7, 1-6), to focus on the upcoming Miami Open. This year has…

Madrid, March 15 (IANS) Srdjan Djokovic, father of Serbian star Novak Djokovic, has said “tennis still needs” Rafael Nadal, hoping that the Spanish icon can play “another two or three years” at a high level….

Indian Wells, March 14 (IANS) World No.1 Novak Djokovic has qualified for the third round of the Indian Wells tennis tournament after a hard-fought 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 win against the 149-ranked American Bjorn Fratangelo. Djokovic,…

Indian Wells, March 13 (IANS) British tennis star Andy Murray beat Spain’s Marcel Granollers to advance to the third round of Indian Wells 6-4, 7-6 (7-3). “It was very different conditions to what I have…

Madrid, March 11 (IANS) The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) on Friday supported Rafael Nadal following the “unfortunate and unjustified” doping accusations by French former sports minister Roselyne Bachelot. Bachelot said during a talk show that…