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Last Updated: 2009-10-31T12:51:31+05:30
Top seed Marin Cilic moved into the semi-finals of the Austria Tennis Trophy. The Croatian eased into the semi-finals with a 6-1, 6-4 win over former champion Feliciano Lopez on Friday.
The Beijing finalist Cilic played against Novak Djokovic and hopes to make a place in the season-ending ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-31T11:26:12+05:30
Jelena Jankovic of Serbia registered a 6-2, 6-2 straight set win over Caroline Wozniacki to advance into the semi-finals of the WTA Championships.
From 2-2 in the first set Wozniacki broke back once late in the second set but eventually lost the match. The US Open finalist must now wait ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-31T10:32:39+05:30
Somdev Devvarman’s ATP Challenger campaign at Seoul ended as he lost his quarterfinal match to Dusan Lojda of Czech Republic. The unseeded Lojda defeated the fourth seed Indian by 4-6, 2-6 at the USD 125,000 hard court event.
With Somdev's defeat, Indian challenge has ended in the ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-30T16:51:30+05:30
Mikhail Youzhny had to retire midway during his second round encounter at St Petersburg Open on Thursday due to back injury. He was playing against Denis Istomin.
Top seed Mikhail Youzhny after winning his first Kremlin Cup title on Sunday, took a medical timeout after losing the first set ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-30T16:23:45+05:30
Third-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia made it into the quarters of Lyon Grand Prix on Thursday. He had a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win over German Nicolas Kiefer.
Ljubicic, The 2001 Lyon champion, Ljubicic, served 27 aces and broke his opponent twice .Ljubicic will next meet Frenchman Florent Serra in ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-30T11:56:52+05:30
Top seed Marin Cilic advanced into the quarter-finals of Austria Tennis Trophy on Thursday.He outclassed German Daniel Brands by 7-6 (9/7), 6-4. Marin Cilic is most likely to make it into the next month's season-ending ATP final with his quarter-final entry in Vienna.
Cilic is among the ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-30T11:26:31+05:30
World number one Serena Williams earned an easy win over Elena Dementieva to make it into the semi-finals of the WTA Championships on Thursday.
Serena's 6-2, 6-4 victory completed a 100 percent record for the American in Maroon Group and confirmed her as the first player through to the ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-30T10:53:04+05:30
Caroline Wozniacki overcame Vera Zvonareva to reach the WTA Championships semi-finals on Thursday. She defeated the Russian by 6-0, 6-7 (3/7), 6-4.
Wozniacki ended the 2hr 48min match but ended with an injury in her left thigh, when she was just two points from victory.
The world ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-29T17:33:45+05:30
Serena Williams reclaimed her world number one spot as Dinara Safina pulled out from the Sony Ericsson Championship.
The tight race for the year-ending world number one ranking ended in sudden and dramatic fashion on Wednesday at the Sony Ericsson Championships when a tearful Dinara Safina ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-29T13:03:16+05:30
World number one Dinara Safina was forced to withdraw in the opening match against Jelena Jankovic at the WTA Championships on Wednesday. She had to retire in the first set due to back injury.
Dinara Safina's dream of becoming the first Russian to end the year as world number one was left ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-29T12:24:54+05:30
Serena Williams will represent United States in next month's Fed Cup final against Italy. This was told by United States Tennis Association on Wednesday.
Williams last appeared in the competition in 2007 and was part of the team that won the title in 1999. The 11 times grand slam winner is ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-28T16:58:11+05:30
Somdev Devvarman stormed into the quarterfinals of Seoul ATP Challenger. He outclassed Pavol Cervenak in the $125,000 event. The other Indian in the race Prakash Amritraj was ousted of the tournament.
Fourth-seeded Somdev defeated the Slovak by 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the second round of the hard ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-28T14:19:04+05:30
Serena Williams defeated Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova on the opening day of the WTA Championships. She had a 7-6, 7-5 win over the Russian and maintained to stay on course to end the year as world number one.
Second-ranked Serena served 11 aces to get the better of the French Open champion ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-28T12:14:42+05:30
Russian Elena Dementieva staged a remarkable WTA Championships comeback defeating Venus Williams by 6-3, 6-7 (6/8); 6-2.Dementieva registered her third win in 12 meetings with the great American, and first since 2004.
Dementieva, who is playing her ninth season-ender, stunned the ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-28T11:53:00+05:30
The 13th ranked Marin Cilic had an easy win over Alejandro Falla of Colombia in the opening round of the Bank Austria Trophy on Tuesday. He defeated the Colombian in straight sets by 6-2, 6-3.
Cilic has a slim chance of qualifying for next month's ATP World Tour Finals, along with ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-28T11:09:11+05:30
Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj of India advanced into the second round of Seoul Challenger. The Indians won their respective first round matches in the $1, 25,000 ATP Challenger event in Seoul, Korea.
Fourth seed Somdev advanced into the pre-quarters after his South African opponent ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-26T17:47:31+05:30
The World number 10, Robin Soderling, will take part in the next edition of Chennai Open. Soderling confirmed his participation for the India's only ATP World Tour tennis tournament on Monday.
The Swede had crushed Rafael Nadal before going down to Roger Federer in the French Open final ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-26T16:57:45+05:30
Geoff Pollard was re-elected as the president of Tennis Australia. He will remain in charge for another 12 months. The 65-year-old Pollard was appointed as TA president in 1989. Pollard overcame Tournament director Paul McNamee in a secret ballot of the governing body's state and territory ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-26T16:20:47+05:30
The Indo-American pair of Somdev Devvarman and Todd Widom crashed out in the first round of Seoul Challenger. The unseeded Indo-American pair was defeated by second seeded Israeli pair of Amir Hadad and Harel Levy. The Israelis outclassed Devvarman and Todd in straight sets in the USD 1, 25,000 ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-26T14:15:58+05:30
Somdev Devvarman attained his career best ranking of 121 on Monday. The tennis ace climbed three rungs in the chart continuing his upward journey. Somdev had achieved his career best ranking of 124 recently.
The other Indian who also improved his ranking was Prakash Amritraj, who with the ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-26T13:01:33+05:30
Francesca Schiavone of Italy claimed the second title of her career winning the women's final at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow. She defeated Olga Govortsova of Belarus in straight sets by 6-3, 6-0.
The world number 24 registered her victory in three head-to-head meetings with ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-26T12:11:14+05:30
Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus won the Stockholm Open title on Sunday. He defeated Belgium's Oliver Rochus by 6-1; 7-5.The Sunday’s victory was Baghdatis first ATP title in more than two years.
Marcos Baghdatis who was runner-up in the 2006 Australian Open continued a re-building ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-25T09:42:04+05:30
Robin Soderling paved way for Marcos Baghdatis to enter the finals of Stockholm Open after he retired from the semi final match of the Open played on Saturday.
Baghdatis will play against Olivier Rochus in the final after the Belgian defeated Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci for 7-6, 4-6, 6-3. ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-24T15:15:18+05:30
Swedish top seed Robin Soderling will play against Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus in his semi-final clash of Stockholm Open. The Swede defeated Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the quarter-finals by 7-6, 6-4.
The 2006 Australian Open runner-up Marcos Baghdatis earned a 6-4, 6-4 straight set ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-24T13:39:21+05:30
Russian Alisa Kleybanova defeated defending champion Jelena Jankovic of Serbia ending Jankovic’s campaign in Kremlin cup. The Russian advanced into the semis with a 6-4, 6-3 straight set victory over the Serbian.
The second-seeded Jankovic has already reserved her place in next ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-23T15:59:40+05:30
Prakash Amritraj advanced into the quarterfinal of US ATP Challenger. He defeated his third seed opponent Jesse Levine in the USD 50,000 event played in Calabasas in United States. The Indian on the other hand could not make it in the doubles event with a last eight round defeat.
Prakash ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-23T15:29:21+05:30
Marat Safin went down to fellow Russian Evgeny Korolev ,ending his campaign in the Kremlin Open. The last year's losing men's finalist was defeated by 6-4, 7-6 on the last match of the day on centre court.
Former world number one Safin could not replicate the good play he displayed against ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-23T14:58:00+05:30
Top seed Robin Soderling made it into the quarterfinal of Stockholm Open on Thursday. He had an easy win over Italian Andreas Seppi. The Swedish world number 10 crushed the Italian in straight sets by 6-1, 6-3.
Soderling had earlier triumphed over Ecuadorian Giovanni Lapentti ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-23T13:13:57+05:30
Jelena Jankovic has qualified for next week's season-ending WTA Championships in Doha. She reserved the final Doha berth after Vera Zvonareva lost to Tsvetana Pironkova by 6-0, 6-2 in the Kremlin Cup.
Jankovic is five points ahead of Zvonareva in the Doha race and will fill the final berth ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-23T12:41:32+05:30
Former world number four Thomas Enqvist was named as the Davis Cup coach of Sweden. He will replace Mats Wilander who announced his retirement earlier this week.
Enqvist in his website statement said,"Of course, it's an honour to be given this assignment and a fantastic heritage to ... |