Croatia’s Mario Ancic, who had defeated Roger Federer during his 2002 Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon, was trounced by the Swiss tennis player on Wednesday, July 2, by 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 during the quarter final round of this year’s tournament. The world number one, Roger Federer will next ...

Chinese Zheng Jie defeated the 18th seed Czech tennis pro Nicole Vaidisova 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 on Tuesday, July 1, to enter the semi-final round of the ladies singles event at the ongoing Wimbledon Championships. She will next be playing against the twice former champion, Serena Williams. In the third ...

Two times former champion Serena Williams easily defeated Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-4, 6-0 in the quarter final round of the 2008 Wimbledon Championships on Tuesday, July 1. This victory has brought Serena closer to the Wimbledon final where she would be facing her sister, Venus Williams. In ...

India’s Leander Paes along with his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy clinched a remarkable straight sets victory over the Israeli pair of Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich to enter the semi-final round of the men’s doubles at the ongoing Wimbledon championships on Tuesday, July 1. 

It took ...

The mixed doubles pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza as well as Leander Paes and Rennae Stubbs were sent packing out from the Round II at Wimbledon on Saturday, June 28. For Mahesh Bhupathi, the defeat has marked off a poor performance at this year’s Wimbledon Championships. ...

The ninth ranked Russian player Dinara Mikhailovna Safina lost out the chance of a rematch with compatriot Elena Dementieva after she was sent packing out from the third round of the ongoing Wimbledon tournament 7-5, 6-7, 8-6 by Shahar Peer of Israel on Saturday, June 28. Safina, who succeeded in ...

Spanish player Rafael Nadal, who is ranked as the world number two, beat the lesser ranked German Nicolas Kiefer by 7-6, 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday, June 28, to enter the fourth round of the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. It was an all-in-all an intense performance from both players throughout the first ...

India’s Sania Mirza may have hit the dead-end as far as the singles event of the ongoing Wimbledon Championships is concerned, but in the doubles campaign she has made a good start in partnership with America’s Bethanie Mattek by overthrowing English duo of Elena Baltacha and Naomi ...

The fifth seeded Spanish player David Ferrer was toppled by Croatia’s Mario Ancic in the Wimbledon draw on Friday, June 27. This remarkable victory has propelled Ancic, who is deemed as amongst the most hazardous floaters in the Wimbledon championships, into the fourth round of the game. ...

Luck deserted the top-seeded Serbian player Ana Ivanovic, who was cast out of the ongoing Wimbledon championships on Friday, June 27 after losing to China's Zheng Jie 6-1, 6-4 in the third round. It was just two days ago when Ivanovic saved two match points against France’s Nathalie Dechy, ...

The Wimbledon dream of twice runner-up Andy Roddick this year was shattered by Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia who beat the American player and sent him packing through a 6-7, 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 score in the second round of the championship on Thursday, June 26.

Tipsarevic, through a well-played game on ...

India’s Sania Mirza, despite her spunky retaliation, lost to Spainard Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 0-6, 6-4, 7-9 on Thursday, June 26 and in the process crashed out of this year’s Wimbledon Championships. Sania Mirza, who is ranked 32nd in the world, lost the initial eight games of the ...

The third seeded Maria Sharapova was ousted from the ongoing Wimbledon championships after losing miserably to Russian Alla Kudryavtseva on Thursday, June 26. Thursday’s show marked her earliest exit from the grass-court Grand Slam, but Sharapova is resolute that her humiliation at being ...

The king of the Centre Court Roger Federer exhibited a truly rocking victory over Robin Soderling during the second round of the ongoing Wimbledon tournament on Wednesday, June 25. Among the ardent fans of Federer’s who had come to view the game included music diva Gwen Stefani and her ...

Fans, especially males, are disappointed to find that their favorite tennis female star Maria Sharapova has traded in her short skirts for shorts during this year’s Wimbledon Championships. The Russian World Number 1 has chosen a pinstripe Nike gear for the tournament that will take place ...

The ‘new right wrist’ of Indian female tennis champion Sania Mirza, as she prefers referring it after a reconstructive surgery, requires ample careful amount of coaxing before it starts following her orders as dutifully as the faithful ‘old one’ which brought her fame and ...

Serbian tennis player Jelena Jankovic, ranked as the world number two, overpowered her lesser ranked Ukrainian opponent Olga Savchuk 6-3, 6-2  to enter the 2008 Wimbledon Championships’ second round on Tuesday, June 24. The Serbian tennis ace Jankovic was the mixed doubles champion the ...

The world number two Spanish tennis ace Rafael Nadal exhibited his prowess at Wimbledon on Tuesday, June 24 by defeating German qualifier Andreas Beck 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 in the first round. Nadal, who for the past two years has been a runner-up to Roger Federer at the All England Club, appeared quite at ...

The 2008 Wimbledon Championships kick-started on June 23 2008. However for the Indian fans, it is Tuesday, June 24 which will be the big day as the national favorite female tennis champ Sania Mirza will be playing against Columbian Catalina Castano, who is lesser ranked than her. India’s ...

Marat Mikhailovich Safin of Russia, a two time winner of the Grand Slam title, faced a third-set fight back by Italy’s Fabio Fognini at Wimbledon on Monday June 23, 2008 to emerge successful 6-1, 6-2, 7-6. In the second round, the former World No 1 Marat Safin will play against the ...

Canadian Frank Dancevic, who is at the World No 90 as per the ATP Rankings, defeated Argentina’s 7th ranked David Nalbandian 6-4 6-2 6-4 at Wimbledon on Monday, June 23, 2008. The ex-finalist David Nalbandian became the highest men's seed to be beaten at Wimbledon during the Monday’s ...

Here comes another revelation that is bound to shock sports enthusiasts the world over. One was well aware of match-fixing scandals plaguing the cricket, but it has recently been revealed that even the tennis world is not untouched by it. Infact as many as 18 players participating in the 2008 ...

Indian tennis aces Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi lost to Croatia’s Mario Ancic and Austria’s Jurgen Melzer in straight sets in the finals of the Ordina Open held at Hertogenbosch on Saturday, June 21, 2008. It took a little more than an hour for the Indian pair to go down 6-7 (5), ...

Second seeded Indian double players Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi defeated Argentineans Guillermo Canas and Juan-Martin Del Potro in a fierce contest to advance to the finals of the Ordina Open in Hertogenbosch. Indians had to struggle a lot before winning the match against Argentineans by 6-7, ...

Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, at 16, has become the youngest to qualify for the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. This spunky youngster recently defeated Germany’s Kathrin Woerle 6-3, 6-0 and then dashed towards her family, friends and supporters to rejoice over her success just after ...

Indian tennis aces Prakash Amritraj and Sunitha Rao have surged forward in their respective sections to qualify for the impending Wimbledon Championships by securing contrasting first round wins in the qualifying competition. Jean-Rene Lisnard was defeated by the Indian Davis cupper Prakash ...

Leander Paes played with former-partner Mahesh Bhupathi in their very first outing in the run-up to the August Beijing Olympics to defeat Swiss Yves Allegro and Sebastian Prieto of Argentina at the Ordina Open in s'Hertogenbosch in Netherlands on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Leander Paes and Mahesh ...

Spaniard Rafael Nadal was crowned the King of Queen’s Open Championship in London on Sunday, after he defeated Novak Djokovic. The French Open 2008 winner finally laid claim to his first grass court title. This is perhaps also a timely warning to world no.1 Roger Federer before the beginning ...

The most coveted tennis tournament, Wimbledon is just a few days away. Tennis fans all over the world eagerly wait for the grass court tournament. This year Wimbledon will begin from June 23 and will conclude on July 6. Wimbledon 2008 too like the previous Wimbledon’s will witness a clash of ...

Rafael Nadal beat the world no 1 Roger Federer in straight sets 6-1, 6-3, 6-0 to win the French Open in fourth year in succession, becoming the first man to win four consecutive titles at Roland Garros since Bjorn Borg, 27 years ago. It was also for the third straight time that Nadal had beaten ...