The Russian female tennis player, Dinara Safina maintained her top spot on the women's tennis rankings issued by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on Monday.
 
Safina, who was beaten in straight sets by Venus Williams in the Wimbledon semi-finals earlier this month, leads an unchanged top ...

The Women Tennis Association (WTA) will be headed by Stacey Allaster who was promoted on Monday from president to CEO, 5 months after the head Larry Scott announced that he was stepping down.
 
Allaster, 46, a former boss of Tennis Canada is credited with revitalising tennis in her home ...

Croatia will line up in the Davis Cup World Group semi-finals against the Czech Republic after chasing the 32 times champions United States out of the competition with a 3-1 scoreline.
 
Marin Cilic gave the Croats the winning point beating James Blake 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, on an indoor clay ...

The Association of Tennis Professional (ATP) has banned the teenaged Australian tennis player Brydan Klein for six months for racially abusing an opponent last month. 
The ban follows Klein being fined $14,000 by ATP, and his suspension from the Australian Institute of Sport. 


The ...

While Mahesh Bhupathi gained one spot to eighth, Leander Paes stayed in the sixth place in he Association of Tennis Professional (ATP) doubles rankings released on Monday.

French Open champions Paes and Czech Republic's Lukas Dlouhy had a disastrous Wimbledon outing, stunned by American James ...

Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 Saturday to claim her third Wimbledon title and end a trophy dry spell on the grass which stretched back to 2003.
 

The younger of the American sibling pair claimed her 11th major to double her Grand Slam total for 2009 after ...

Serena and Venus Williams will face each other in the finals of Wimbledon for the fourth time. The sisters won the semi-finals in contrasting styles. 

Serena reached her fifth final with a 6-7 (4/7), 7-5, 8-6 win over Elena Dementieva of Russia in the longest semifinal in the tournament's ...

India's Rohan Gajjar knocked out top seed Kento Takeuchi of Japan 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3 to ensure an all Indian semi-final at the $15,000 International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament being played at the DLTA courts in New Delhi on Thursday.

Takeuchi was the only player from outside India in the ...

India's Leander Paes and Zimbabwean Cara Black defeated Brazil's Andre Sa and Japanese Ai Sugiyama 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday to storm into the semi-finals of Wimbledon mixed doubles.

The top seeded Paes and Black took just over an hour to beat the opponents.

Paes and Black broke the opponents ...

India’s Leander Paes and Zimbabwe’s Cara Black beat the Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza in their mixed doubles match of Wimbledon.

The Indo-Zimbabwean pair won 6-2, 6-7 (2) 6-3 to move into the quarter-finals. Top seeded Paes and Black with a double break pocketed the ...

India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Bahamas’ Mark Knowles entered the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon men's doubles with a 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-0 win over India's Prakash Amritraj and Pakistan's Qureshi.

Fourth seeded Bhupathi and Knowles took the first set, breaking their unseeded opponents ...

After a two-week stint at the prestigious Nick Bollettieri Academy at Florida, Yuki Bhambri feels he is well prepared for the two back-to-back $15,000 International Tennis Federation (ITF) men's Futures that begin at the DLTA complex here Monday.
 

Yuki, who won successive ITF titles here ...

Sania Mirza's run in Wimbledon women's doubles ended when she and Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) went down 2-6, 3-6 to Russia's Alla Kudryavtseva and Monica Niculescu of Romania in the second round here Saturday. 
 
The 15th-seeded Indo-Taiwanese pair frittered away ...

The usually reliable forecasts about weather during Wimbledon went wrong completely on Friday even as Roger Federer breezed into second week on the grass court of Wimbledon in a smooth fashion.
The All England Club opened its gates for the spectators on Friday with a booming announcement from the ...

India's Sania Mirza made light of the second set loss to outlast German Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 in the opening round at the Wimbledon tennis championships here Monday.

The 22-year-old Hyderabadi maintained her unbeaten record against the 52nd ranked German, beating her for the third ...

Rafael Nadal retained the world number one ranking in men's tennis in the latest Association of Tennis Professional (ATP) list issued Monday but is under threat of losing it to Roger Federer as Wimbledon gets underway.
Nadal leads the way with 12,735 points from Federer (10,620) and Briton Andy ...

The singles have always seemed to be a low priority for Indian players in tennis. So even though the famous Wimbledon, beginning Monday, spreads out the favoured Indian surface in grass, it is the doubles on which the country will be pinning its hopes.
 

With none of the men making it to ...

The Wimbledon Championships start on Monday with the rainproof roof on the centre court. The centre court will see uninterrupted matches for the first time since the tournament began in 1877. The roof has cost many million pounds. 

Andrew Jarrett, the tournament referee, has said that he is ...

Defending champion, Rafael Nadal, has pulled out of this year’s Wimbledon championships after failing to recover from a knee injury. The champion has been suffering from tendinitis in his knees since being knocked out from French Open. He tested his fitness level in two exhibition matches ...

Former champion, Bjorn Borg has backed Roger Federer to win this year’s Wimbledon title. The great Swede had written off Federer before the start of Wimbledon championship last year. His prediction had come true and Rafael Nadal had upset Federer to win the title. 

But, after the ...

The Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy entered into the second round of the French Open men's doubles event on Wednesday (May 27). Paes and Dlouhy defeated Sebastien de Chaunac and Benoit Paire of France in straight sets 6-1, 6-3. The third-seeded Indo-Czech pair will now face ...

Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang entered into the second round of women's doubles of the French Open. After being kicked out of the singles, Sania Mirza partnered with Taipei's Chia-Jung Chuang and the pair won its first round match by defeating Ipek Senoglu and Yanina Wickmayer on Wendesday (May ...

Fourth-seeded Novak Djokovic entered into the second round of French Open after his opponent Nicolas Lapentti had to pull out due to an ankle injury on Tuesday (May 26). Djokovic was declared the winner with a score line of 6-3, 3-1. Earlier the match was delayed due bad weather. After the ...

The 16-year-old Delhi boy, Yuki Bhambri has won his second International Tennis Federation (ITF) title by defeating Raven Klaasen at the DLTA complex on Saturday (May 2). The emerging tennis star has won his maiden ITF title only a couple of days ago. On Saturday, Bhambri outperformed Raven Klaasen ...

Sixteen-year-old Yuki Bhambri defeated Vishnu Vardhan to win his maiden International Tennis Federation (ITF) title at Delhi Lawn Tennis Association on Saturday (April 25). The Delhi boy, Bhambri defeated his opponent in a straight set 7-6 (1), 6-4. Vishnu Vardhan gave though challenge to Bhambri ...

Tennis Australia (TA) on Saturday (April 25) decided to pull out the Australian tennis team from Davis Cup tie against India, to be held in Chennai. According to an official statement from TA, the team will not go to India due to security concerns. Earlier TA had urged the International Tennis ...

Dinara Safina of Russia topped the list of women's tennis rankings by dethroning Serena Williams of United States. By clinching the number one position, the 22-year-old Russian player made history. It is worth mentioning that her brother Marat Safin held the top position of men's rankings for ...

The ace Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal won his fifth successive Monte Carlo Masters title by defeating Novak Djokovic on Sunday (April 19). Nadal crushed Djokovic by 6-3 2-6 6-1 to be the first player to win the clay court tournament for the fifth successive time. The world number one won the ...

Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza lifted her first WTA title of the year on Monday (13th April). Sania teamed up with Chinese Taipei's Chia-Jung Chuang to clinch the women's doubles trophy at the USD 220,000 MPS Group Championships in Florida, USA. In a grueling one and a half hour battle, the ...

Nungambakkam Tennis Centre in Chennai will host the Davis Cup tie between India and Australia in May this year, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) said today (18th March). The Asia-Oceania Group I third-round tie, which will see the winner advance to the play-offs for the elite World Group, ...