Somdev Devvarman defeated World No. 59 Lu Yen-Hsun 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 at Yang-Ming Tennis Centre on Sunday (March 8, 2009) to help India take an unassailable lead against Taiwan. India beat Taiwan 3-2 to advance to the third and final round of the Davis Cup Asia/ Oceania Zone Group I tennis ...

Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi defeated Tsung-Hua Yang and Chu-Huan Yi by 6-4, 7-6, 6-7(2), 6-2 to give India a crucial 2-1 lead over Chinese Taipei at Asia-Oceania Group I Davis Cup tournament in Kaohsiung on Saturday (March 7). The Indian pair was playing comfortable tennis after winning the ...

India's tennis sensation, Sania Mirza has bagged 87th position in the latest WTA rankings following her amazing performance at the Pattaya Open last week. Despite her defeat in the final of Pattaya Open against Russian Vera Zvonareva, Sania managed to jump 39 spots to enter into the top 100 on the ...

India's Sania Mirza reached the semi-finals of Pattaya Open by beating sixth-seeded Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand 7-5, 6-4 on Friday (February 13). Sania Mirza took one hour and 45 minutes to wrap up the match. The Indian player will now face eighth seed Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia in one of ...

Rafael Nadal stopped the dream run of Roger Federer by winning the men's singles grand slam title of Australian Open on Sunday (February 1). The Spaniard defeated Roger Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2 in a nearly four-and-a-half hour match. With this victory, Nadal has earned his sixth grand ...

India's Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the mixed doubles title at Australian Open on Sunday (February 1). The unseeded Indian pair ousted Andy Ram of Israel and Frenchwoman Nathalie Dechy 6-3, 6-1 to win the coveted Grand Slam title. With this victory, Mahesh Bhupathi has added the 11th Grand ...

Yuki Bhambri of India inscribed his name in the pages of history by becoming the first Indian boy to win the junior Australian Open title. He defeated Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas of Germany 6-3, 6-1 in the boys final at the Melbourne Park on Saturday (January 31). Bhambri became the fourth ...

The mixed doubles pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza stormed into the finals of Australian Open after clinching a straight set victory on Friday (January 30). The unseeded Indian pair defeated Czech pair of Lukas Dlouhy and Iveta Benesova 6-4, 6-1 in a semi-final match. This is the second ...

The Indo-Bahamian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles reached the final of men's doubles event at Australian Open. Bhupathi-Knowles duo defeated Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach 6-3 6-1 in a semi-final encounter on Thursday (January 29). However, the fourth seeded Paes-Dlouhy pair could not ...

Second seeded Serena Williams entered into the Australian Open final by defeating Elena Dementieva of Russia in a semi-final clash. Williams who is in run for her 13th grand slam title crushed Dementieva by 6-3, 6-4. Serena Williams has won the Australian Open title for three times. Russian fourth ...

Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza entered the semi-finals of the mixed doubles event of Australian Open. Another Indian, Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy also booked their place in the men's doubles semis. Bhupathi-Mirza defeated Canadians Aleksandra Wozniak and Daniel Nestor in a ...

Defending champion Novak Djokovic lost while Swiss star Roger Federer cruised along into the semi-finals of the Australian Open. The hot conditions at a quarter final match forced Serb Djokovic to quit against Andy Roddick who reached the semis with score line of 6-7, (3-7), 6-4, 6-2, 2-1. On the ...

In a day of mixed results for India in the Australian Open, Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles cruised into the semifinals of men's doubles on Tuesday (27th January) in Melbourne. On the other hand the top-seeded mixed doubles pair of Leander Paes and Cara Black were defeated in the second ...

India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles stormed into the third round of the men's doubles event in the Australian Open. The Indo-Bahamian duo ousted unseeded Russian pair of Igor Kunitsyn and Dmitry Tursunov 7-5 7-5.  However, another Indian Rohan Bopanna and partner Jarkko ...

Former world no. 1 Marat Safin announced that he will not be back for the next year's Australian Open. He announced his retirement after he lost to Swiss star Roger Federer in straight sets. The world no 2 Swiss sensation defeated Safin with 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 score on Friday (January 23) night. With ...

India's Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi entered into the second round of the mixed doubles event of Australian Open. The Sania-Bhupathi pair defeated sixth seeds Kveta Peschke and Pavel Vizner of Czech Republic with scoreline of 6-2 6-4. The Indian duo will now take on Anastasia Rodionova and ...

Russian third-seeded Dinara Safina comprehensively defeated Estonia's Kaia Kanepi to reach the fourth round of Australian Open. She registered an easy victory over Kaia Kanepi in straight sets 6-2 6-2. Safina had a commanding control over the match against Kanepi as the latter displayed poor ...

The fourth-seeded Russian tennis player Elena Dementieva cruised into the third round of the Australian Open by crushing Iveta Benesova. With this win, the Russian ace maintained her dream run of winning 12 straight matches. The Olympic champion, Dementieva defeated Benesova in straight sets 6-4, ...

Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles entered into second round of men's doubles at the Australian Open. Bhupathi-Knowles pair defeated Mikhail Youzhny of Russia and Mischa Zvererv of Germany 6-3, 6-2 at the men's double first round match. Leander Paes has also advanced into the second round with his ...

The Swiss sensation Roger Federer cruised into the third round of the Australian Open by beating Russian qualifier Evgeny Korolev in straight sets 6-2, 6-3, 6-1. He will take on Marat Safin at the third-round match. Top seeded Jelena Jankovic and Serb glamour girl Ana Ivanovic also made into the ...

Serbian tennis ace Ana Ivanovic managed to make her way into the third round of the Australian Open by winning a tough match against Alberta Brianti. Ivanovic won the match in straight sets 6-3 6-2. After the match, the fifth seeded Serbian player admitted that she needs to work on different things ...

Sania Mirza failed to continue her campaign in the singles event at the Australian Open after her defeat to 10th seeded Nadia Petrova at a second-round match on Wednesday (January 21). Nadia Petrova crushed the Indian player in straight sets 6-3, 6-2. The Russian tennis player dominated the entire ...

Tennis star Roger Federer made a good start to his dream run of record-tying 14th Grand Slam title by defeating Andreas Seppi at the opener of this year's Australian Open. He defeated the 35th-ranked Seppi by 6-1, 7-6(4), 7-5. It took 2 hours and 21 minutes for Roger Federer to complete the match. ...

Andy Roddick and top-seeded Jelena Jankovic won their respective first round matches at 2009 Australian Open Tennis Championship. Roddick defeated 31-year-old Bjorn Rehnquist of Sweden by 6-0, 6-2, 6-2, while Jelena Jankovic triumphed over Yvonne Meusburger by 6-1, 6-3. Defending champion Novak ...

Ace tennis player, Novak Djokovic made a good start at the Australian Open by wining his first-round match on Monday (January 19). The defending champion defeated Andrea Stoppini of Italy by 6-2, 6-3, 7-5. The 21-year-old tennis player from Serbia, Djokovic took no time to win the first set. But in ...

The unseeded American duo of Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram won the doubles title of Chennai Open tennis tournament on Sunday (January 11). The American pair defeated Swiss pair of Jean-Claude Scherrer and Stanislas Wawrinka in straight sets in the final game. Butorac and Ram who entered the finals ...

India’s ace tennis star Sania Mirza was conferred with the degree of doctor of letters by MGR Educational and Research Institute University, Chennai on Thursday (11th December).
 
Responding to media she said that her childhood dream of being a doctor come to true. For this she thanked ...

The Bengal Tennis Association (BTA) has appointed Indian ace tennis star, Leander Paes as its vice-president. The announcement of the nomination of Leander Paes was made at the 67th Annual General Meeting of the BTA. Speaking about the appointment of Paes, BTA secretary Hironmoy Chatterjee said ...

Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles have bagged the ATP Davidoff Swiss Indoors tournament in Basel on October 26, 2008. The Indo-Bahamas duo has defeated Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany by 6-3, 6-3. The No. 3 ATP pair of Bhupathi and Knowles has received the prize money of euro ...

The ace tennis player Leander Paes seems to be on fire as he has moved up to sixth position in the ATP doubles World Rankings. The credit of such improvement goes to his match wining performance in the Thailand Open. Paes along with Lukas Dlouhy won the Thailand Open but could not maintain the ...