In the final match of mixed doubles in Wimbledon 2009, on Sunday,  India's Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe were taken over by Mark Knowles of Bahamas and German Anna-Lena Groenefeld in a 5-7, 3-6 match. 


The world no. 1 pair of Paes and Black has been eyeing the second Grand ...

Roger Federer and Andy Roddick will be facing each other for the third time in the Wimbledon finals. 

Roddick has had a tough time at Wimbledon after he faced Lleyton Hewitt in the quarter finals and Andy Murray in semi. Even though the odds were against him for both these matches, he ...

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 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 Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas lost to South African Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman of Belgium in a marathon five-setter in the Wimbledon men's doubles quarterfinals on Wednesday.

Bhupathi and Knowles who areseeded fourth, lost 6-7(9), 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-5, 4-6 in almost three ...

Roger Federer had a smooth sail in the quarter final match of Wimbledon 2009. The World No. 2 defeated Croatia’s 22nd seed, Ivo Karlovic, to reach the semi final match. This win indicates that the second seed has reached the semi final match in the 4 grand slams for the 21st time. He ...

The five-time winner Venus Williams marched into the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Championships Tuesday without the loss of a set so far, pounding out a 6-1, 6-2 defeat of 11th seed Agnieszka Radwanska.
The American winner will face the winner from top seeded world number one Dinara Safina and ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...