Category: Tennis

Andy Murray set up the first all-British Queen’s Club quarter-final in the Open era as the defending champion cruised to a 6-3, 6-4 victory over another compatriot, Aljaz Bedene on Thursday. Murray will face British wildcard Kyle Edmund for a place in the semi-finals after brushing aside Bedene in the second round of the Wimbledon warm-up event. The last time […]

ZURICH: Russian former number one Maria Sharapova has lodged an appeal of her two-year suspension from tennis with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), seeking to have the ban either lifted completely or reduced. Sharapova, 29, was banned by the International Tennis Federation this month following her positive test for the banned drug meldonium. A decision is expected by […]

Second-seeded Stan Wawrinka was beaten 6-2, 7-6 (3) by Spanish left-hander Fernando Verdasco on Tuesday in the first round at Queen’s Club, a Wimbledon warm-up tournament. Wawrinka is working with 1996 Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek during the grasscourt season, but their partnership got off to a rocky start as Verdasco broke serve in the opening game and took control of […]

Roger Federer turned on the style to win 10 of the last 11 points in a 7-6(2), 7-6(1) defeat of Germany’s Florian Mayer and reach the semi-finals of the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart on Friday. World number 226 Mayer had three set points in the second set when Federer served at 5-6 but the Swiss 17-times grand slam champion found another […]

Rafael Nadal will miss Wimbledon after failing to recover from the wrist injury which also forced his early withdrawal from the French Open, the Spanish star announced on his Facebook page. “Hi everybody. I’m sad to announce that after talking to my doctors, and receiving the results of my last medical revision, I won’t be able to play at Wimbledon […]

Roger Federer had no sympathy for Maria Sharapova , saying on Thursday he backs a “zero tolerance” stance against doping. Russian star Sharapova was handed a two-year doping ban on Wednesday after testing positive for the banned medication meldonium at January’s Australian Open. The 29-year-old admitted in March that she simply hadn’t realised meldonium, which was added to the World Antio-Doping […]