New York, Sep 9 (IANS) Top-seeded Serena Williams fell to 10th seeded Czech tennis player Karolina Pliskova in the US Open semifinals on Friday. Williams double faulted on match point in a second-set tie-break to…
New York, Sep 8 (IANS) Fifth-seeded Stan Wawrinka reached the US Open tennis semi-finals for the third time with a 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over 2009 champion Juan Martin del Potro. The Swiss, who…
New York, Sep 8 (IANS) World No.1 Serena Williams advanced to the semi-finals of the US Open, beating fifth seeded Romanian Simona Halep 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. The number one seed, who is seeking her seventh…
New York, Sep 8 (IANS) Tenth-seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova brushed aside Croatian upstart Ana Konjuh 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the US Open semi-finals, the first time she has reached the final four of a…
New York, Sep 8 (IANS) Sixth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan outlasted world No.2 Andy Murray in the US Open quarter-finals, 1-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5, on Wednesday. “I had many up and downs, in the…
Prague, Sep 7 (IANS) Czech player Petra Kvitova has announced she is ending her associatio0n with coach Frantisek Cermak after the US Open tennis tournament where she was beaten in the fourth round. Kvitova, 26,…
New York, Sep 7 (IANS) Germany’s Angelique Kerber rolled to her 7-5, 6-0 victory over Italy’s Roberta Vinci, advancing to the US Open tennis women’s singles semi-finals. The 28-year-old German player took control over the…
New York, Sep 7 (IANS) France’s Gael Monfils defeated his compatriot Lucas Pouille 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 to claim a spot in the US Open tennis semifinals here. In the semis, Monfils will face Novak Djokovic…
New York, Sep 7 (IANS) Seventh seeds Sania Mirza and Barbora Strycova were beaten 6-7 (3), 1-6 by top seeds Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic in the women’s doubles quarter-finals of the US Open, thereby…
Madrid, Sep 6 (IANS) Spain will bring its strongest possible tennis squad including 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal and World No.13 David Ferrer to face hosts India in a Davis Cup World Group Play-off…
Madrid, Sep 6 (IANS) Spain will bring its strongest possible squad including 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal and World No.13 David Ferrer to face hosts India in a Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie….
New York, Sep 6 (IANS) Andy Murray highlighted an eventless day at the US Open tennis tournament with all the big names winning their respective matches at the Flashing Meadows. The second seeded Murray thrashed…
New York, Sep 6 (IANS) Britain’s Andy Murray was through to the quarter-finals of the US Open at Flushing Meadows here. The second seed took out Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 on Monday,…
New York, Sep 6 (IANS) The sixth-seeded Venus Williams lost 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3) to 10th-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic in the fourth round of the US Open here on Monday. “I was…
New York, Sep 6 (IANS) India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski went down fighting in the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles but Sania Mirza maintained her march in the women’s doubles at…
New York, Sep 5 (IANS) India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski went down fighting in the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles competition at the US Open tennis tournament here on Monday. Bopanna…
New York, Sep 5 (IANS) French tennis player Lucas Pouille defeated 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal over five sets, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (6), to reach the US Open quarter-finals here. “It took…
New York, Sep 5 (IANS) Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Ivan Dodig lost in straight sets to Barbora Krejcikova and Marin Draganja in the second round of the mixed doubles category at the US…
New York, Sep 4 (IANS) Australia’s Nick Kyrgios, the No.14 seed, was forced to withdraw from his third-round tennis match at the US Open with Ukraine’s Illya Marchenko due to a hip injury. The 21-year-old…
New York, Sep 4 (IANS) Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova advanced to the US Open tennis fourth round with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over China’s Zhang Shuai. She will next take on American World No.1 and top…