In an effort to win fifth successive US Open, Roger Federer defeated Thiago Alves by 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 in the second round, and reached to third round. This was his 29th consecutive victory in US Open. Last time in the year 2003 he had lost to David Nalbandian in quarter-finals, and thereafter he has ...

Julie Coin of France has defeated top seed Ana Ivanovic of Serbia by 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in second round of US Open. This is first time in 40 years history of US Open that the top seeded player has lost in the second round. Julie, who has not even played any Grand Slam before, defeated top ...

Vera Zvonareva of Russia, who just won a bronze at Beijing Olympics, was sent packing in the second round of the ongoing US Open after she lost to unseeded Tatiana Perebiynis by 6-3, 6-3. The 23 year-old Russian has participated in US Open a total of six times. But this is the first time that Vera ...

The new World No 1 in tennis universe, Rafael Nadal had to struggle to make it to the second round of the ongoing US Open. But four-time defending champion Roger Federer in contrast clinched an easy win against Argentina's Maximo Gonzalez at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center on Tuesday, ...

In an attempt to win the third US Open title this year, Serena Williams put up an aggressive performance in the first round on Tuesday, August 26, ousting Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko by 6-1, 6-4. Through her powerful serve and searing groundstrokes, the fourth ranked American managed to wrap the ...

The female face of tennis in India, Sania Mirza has signed up noted Aussie physical trainer Amir Takla in a bid to bounce back into the action mode. The Hyderabadi lass remained off the tennis court for a good part of 2008 due a wrist injury.
 
Sources inform that 21 year old Sania ...

Entering the 2008 US Open as the World Number 1 for the very first time, tennis pro Rafael Nadal was greeted with a heart warming cheers and applause from the spectators at the Arthur Ashe Stadium Monday, August 25.  Even renowned Golfer Sergio Garcia graced the event to cheer on his fellow ...

Olympic Champion Elena Dementieva has won opening match of US Open tennis defeating Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan by 6-4, 7-5. However, she still feels if she is in Beijing. The Russian player is ranked fifth at US Open tennis championship. The match was played in Arthur Ashe Stadium, eight days ...

In the new era of tennis it will be the first Grand Slam, the very first major in which neither former queen Justine Henin nor the universal favorite Roger Federer will be seen dominating the world of tennis. It is most appropriate then that as the 2008 US Open starts on August 25, it is going to ...

Brazilians Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa ousted Indian tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamas partner Mark Knowles to win the doubles final of Pilot Pen Tennis tournament at New Havens, Connecticut on Saturday, August 23. The second seeded pair of Bhupathi-Knowles double faulted seven times and was ...

Imran Mirza, father of Sania Mirza has said that Sania will not be able to participate in US Open tennis tournament. According to her father Sania is struggling to come to terms with her game since undergoing a wrist surgery to repair a torn capsule.
 
Mr Mirza further informed that doctors ...

Officials have announced that Leander Paes has resigned as the captain of India’s Davis Cup, thereby terminating a rocky two year dominance that witnessed the revolt of co-players against him in February. It was informed by the All India Tennis Association (AITA) that 35 year old Paes voiced ...

Tennis champion Rafael Nadal gave Spain its first Olympic gold medal in tennis by ousting Fernando Gonzalez of Chile in the final of men's singles on Sunday, August 17 at the ongoing Beijing Olympics. The Spaniard overcame two set points in the second set, held every service game and won 6-3, ...

The William sisters – Serena and Venus– of the United States ousted French Open champions Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain on Sunday, August 17, to win gold in the Women's Doubles Tennis at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The score was 6-2, 6-0. Serena and ...

Croatian tennis champion Mario Ancic had to pull out from the US Open on Tuesday, August 6 due to the resurgence of mononucleosis. This is the second simultaneous year that the 24 year old Ancic had to withdraw from the tennis season’s final major.
 
The mononucleosis turned down the ...

Russian tennis beauty Maria Sharapova will not be able to play in US Open tennis tournament to be played soon. She has a shoulder injury and it may take nearly three months to get well. After examining her injury and scan, Dr David Altchek determined the injury would not require surgery. However, ...

TICKETFINDER.com has started selling tickets for US Open tennis. Tickets can be availed online or via telephone and would be delivered at doorstep of the customer. CEO, David A Boitano said that every year, the sale of US Open Tennis tickets keeps increasing and we have to keep a huge ...

The word’s finally out and this time formally! Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has declared on her website that she is pulling out from the August Beijing Olympics due to a shoulder injury. The World number three informed on her website www.mariasharapova.com that an MRI scan has revealed ...

Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles, the Indo-Bahamian pair, have made it to the semifinal round of the Cincinnati Masters by defeating the American wild cards John Isner and Mardy Fish. Though Bhupathi and Knowles ousted their American rivals by 7-5 6-7 (5) 12-10, the latter did not yield in so ...

Tennis champion Maria Sharapova withdrew from the WTA Rogers Open in Montreal because of a shoulder injury. There is a likelihood now that this injury may put her participation in the Beijing Olympics as well as the US Open in jeopardy.
 
Sharapova, who braved excruciating pain during the ...

Spain’s tennis champion Rafael Nadal is determined to keep on his winning spree. After winning the recently held 2008 Wimbledon Championships, Nadal has once again emerged victorious in the Toronto Masters by ousting Nicolas Kiefer of Germany 6-3 and 6-2 during the finals on Sunday, July 27. ...

The Rogers Masters tennis tournament has been a roller coaster for Bhupathi-Knowles couple. Bhupathi-Knowles double has reached to quarter finals of the tournament and for this they did not had to put any effort. Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick decided to give walk over Bhupathi-Knowles as Mardy Fish ...

Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria earned the first Wimbledon championship for his country after winning the boys' singles at the grasscourt grand slam on Sunday, July 7, but he refused to get carried away by this feat. The 17 year-old defeated Henri Kontinen of Finland in the final round by 7-5 6-3 to ...

In what can be termed as one of the most riveting Grand Slam finals ever, Spain’s Rafael Nadal ousted the king of the Wimbledon, the five-time consecutive winner Roger Federer by 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-7 (8/10), 9-7 on Sunday, July 6, 2008. By doing so, Nadal not only added a first All ...

Venus Williams bagged her fifth Wimbledon title on Saturday, July 5, 2008 after crashing sister Serena Williams, in a powerhouse tennis match that lasted for nearly two hours. Venus downed her younger sister 7-5 and 6-4 in the Wimbledon Women singles final. 

The siblings met in a grand slam ...

Top seed Swiss Tennis champion, Roger Federer entered his sixth successive Wimbledon final with an astounding trouncing of the invigorated Marat Safin. It took Federer just an hour and 41 minutes of fantastic performance to beat his Russian opponent by 6-3, 7-6 (7/3), 6-4 on the Centre Court on ...

American tennis champion Serena Williams trounced China’s Zheng Jie playing on a wildcard by 6-2, 7-6 at the ongoing Wimbledon Championships on Thursday, July 3. The victory has propelled Serena into the Wimbledon final for the fourth time, whereas it will be for the third time that she is ...

The women's doubles tennis event of the Beijing Olympics will have Indian participants too as Sania Mirza and Sunitha Rao has been provided a Wild card entry to participate in the quadrennial extravaganza that kick starts on August 8. Sania Mirza happens to be the number one woman tennis player in ...

In the ladies doubles event of this year’s Wimbledon tournament, Sania Mirza of India and her American partner Bethanie Mattek got ousted after losing to the William sisters, Serena and Venus, in the quarter-final round on Wednesday, July 2. In a match that lasted just an hour and a half, the ...

The four times singles French open champion and two times singles runner-up at Wimbledon, Spain’s Rafael Nadal beat Andy Murray by 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 during the quarter-final round of the ongoing Wimbledon tournament on Wednesday, July 2. There was just no stopping the Spaniard who ripped the ...