Category: Tennis

Federer Overcomes Dimitrov to Claim 300th Grand Slam Win

Melbourne, Jan 22 (IANS) Seventeen-time major winner Roger Federer became the first man to claim a 300th Grand Slam match…

9 years ago

Shuttlers Used Pbl to Prepare for Olympics: Gopichand

New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Although some have questioned the timing of the tournament, chief national coach Pullela Gopichand believes…

9 years ago

Djokovic Denies Match-Fixing Allegations

Melbourne, Jan 21 (IANS) Tennis World No.1 Novak Djokovic has dismissed media allegations that he deliberately threw a match as…

9 years ago

Kokkinakis Says He Was Asked to Fix Tennis Matches

Melbourne, Jan 19 (IANS) Young Australian tennis player Thanasi Kokkinakis on Tuesday said he was offered money via social media…

9 years ago

St. Petersburg Open Organisers Deny Involvement in Fixing Offer to Djokovic

St. Petersburg (Russia), Jan 19 (IANS) The organisers of the 2007 St. Petersburg Open tennis tournament had nothing to do…

9 years ago

Murray Calls on ATP to Educate Young Players About Graft

Melbourne, Jan 19 (IANS) World No.2 Andy Murray has called on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) to ramp up…

9 years ago

Nadal Stunned by Verdasco in Five Set Thriller

Melbourne, Jan 19 (IANS) Fernando Verdasco stunned World No.5 Rafael Nadal 7-6(6), 4-6, 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 in the first round…

9 years ago

Venus Williams Suffers Shock Upset

Melbourne, Jan 19 (IANS) Eighth seed Venus Williams has provided Australian Open fans with the shock of the tournament so…

9 years ago

Arnaud Clement Admits Being Approached to Forfeit Tennis Match

Paris, Jan 19 (IANS) Retired French tennis player Arnaud Clement has admitted that he was approached with a large sum…

9 years ago

Unaware Of Match-Fixing in Tennis: Sharapova

Melbourne, Jan 18 (IANS) Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova said on Monday she hoped match-fixing does not exist in the…

9 years ago

New Match-Fixing Scandal Embroils Tennis As Australian Open Begins

Melbourne, Jan 18 (IANS) An exhaustive investigation into tennis match-fixing by two prominent media organisations has revealed evidence that 16…

9 years ago

Hingis Joins Sania As World No.1

Melbourne, Jan 16 (IANS) More than 15 years after she reigned supreme at the top of the women's doubles rankings,…

9 years ago

‘Badminton Will Bring India at Least 2 Medals at Rio’

New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) Badminton Association of India (BAI) president Akhilesh Das Gupta said here on Saturday that the…

9 years ago

Sania Wins Sydney International, Bopanna in Final

  Sydney, Jan 15 (IANS) At one stage almost set to lose the final, Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis came…

9 years ago

Sania-Martina Claim 29th Straight Win, in Sydney Final

Sydney, Jan 14 (IANS) Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis survived a scare to win their 29th consecutive match…

9 years ago

Mirza-Hingis Win 25th Doubles Match in a Row

Brisbane, Jan 8 (IANS) World No.1 women's doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won their 25th match in…

9 years ago

Anupam Kher, Leander Paes Share a Light Moment

Mumbai, Jan 3 (IANS) Actor Anupam Kher treated his fans to an image of himself with tennis ace Leander Paes…

9 years ago

At 6’8″, Height Both a Boon and Curse for Kevin Anderson

Chennai, Jan 2 (IANS) Six feet and eight inches tall, South African tennis player Kevin Anderson believes that his height…

9 years ago

When Sania Mirza Made the Year 2015 Her Own

New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) Sania Mirza personified Indian tennis in 2015 with a stupendous rise that catapulted her to…

9 years ago

Djokovic, Federer in Race to Be First $100m Man

Paris, Dec 26 (AFP) Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer are poised to become the first USD 100 million men in…

9 years ago



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