Tag Archives: Tennis

  Andy Murray qualified for the semi-finals and stayed on track to retain the world number one ranking with victory over Stan Wawrinka at the ATP World Tour Finals. The Briton only needed one set to reach the last four, but beat the Swiss 6-4 6-2 to top the John …

Thursday, 27 October 2016   SINGAPORE – Svetlana Kuznetsova claimed her second titanic victory in a row when the Russian outlasted Karolina Pliskova 3-6 6-2 7-6(6) in a thrilling White Group encounter at the WTA Finals to reach the semi-finals on Wednesday. In the second pool match, Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska …

Tuesday, 4 October 2016   BEIJING: Andy Murray is hoping to cap his strong season with a late-season run at Novak Djokovic’s long-held number one ranking as he arrived in Beijing on Sunday. Six-time China Open winner Djokovic is not in the Chinese capital to defend his almost flawless tournament …

Saturday, 1 October 2016   BELGRADE: Novak Djokovic, yet to play since defeat to Stan Wawrinka at the US Open, wanted to rediscover the pleasure of playing tennis. Djokovic has been forced to pull out of next week’s China Open because of an elbow injury. Since his victory at Roland …

Wednesday, 28 September 2016   WELLINGTON: Serena Williams will headline the Auckland Classic in January, organisers said Wednesday, hailing her appearance as a major coup for the New Zealand tournament. The 22-time Grand Slam winner has never played in the January 2-7 tournament before, preferring to warm-up for the Australian …

Friday, 9 September 2016   NEW YORK (Reuters) – Reaching top of the world seems to agree with Angelique Kerber, who celebrated her ascension to the number one ranking with a 6-4 6-3 win over Caroline Wozniacki on Thursday to advance to Saturday’s U.S. Open final. The German left-hander was …

Friday, 9 September 2016   NEW YORK (Reuters) – No one can accuse Karolina Pliskova of taking the easy route to her first grand slam final, the lanky Czech pulling off the rare Williams family double beating both Serena and Venus to reach the U.S. Open title clash. While 40 …

Friday, 9 September 2016   NEW YORK (Reuters) – For the second straight year Serena Williams saw her bid for a seventh U.S. Open title halted in the semi-finals with a 6-2 7-6(5) loss to Karolina Pliskova on Thursday that also ended her long reign as world number one. A …

Thursday, 8 September 2016 NEW YORK – Simona Halep did something no one else was able to do against Serena Williams at the U.S. Open on Wednesday but still could not stop the world number one from advancing to the semi-finals of the year’s final grand slam. The scrappy fifth …

Wednesday, 7 September 2016   NEW YORK (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic’s strange U.S. Open took another bizarre turn as he advanced to the semi-finals on Tuesday when Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga retired at the start of the third set, trailing 6-3 6-2. Tsonga took a medical timeout during the changeover at …