Category: Tennis

Five-time champion Venus Williams swept into her first Wimbledon semi-final since 2009 with a 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 victory over Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedovaon Tuesday.

Elena Vesnina is through to her first Grand Slam singles semi-final after routing a weary Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 6-2 on No.1 Court. “It feels amazing,” Vesnina said. “I still can’t believe I won this match – whatever the score, it was an intense match. I held the same level for the whole game, and I’m just so happy.”

An incredible 13 breaks of serve and at the end it was the German left-hander Angelique Kerber who emerged, part joyful, part shell shocked, as a 7-5, 7-6(2) winner of a memorable quarter-final against Simona Halep of Romania. There will be much head-scratching among the statisticians searching for any previous occasion which featured eight consecutive breaks of serve, as happened in the […]

Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis demolished the challenge of Christina Mchale and Jelena Ostapenko to move into the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon Championships on Monday. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair of Sania and Martina overpowered the American-Latvia combination 6-1, 6-0 in the third round contest that lasted just 46 minutes.  

Roger Federer powered into his 14th Wimbledon quarter-final with a 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Steve Johnson on Monday.

Serena Williams powered into her 12th Wimbledon quarter-final as the defending champion celebrated American Independence Day with a 7-5, 6-0 victory over Russian 13th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova on Monday.