Category: Tennis

Samantha Stosur extended her perfect record against Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan to reach the quarterfinals of the Strasbourg International on Tuesday.

Novak Djokovic claimed a record 29th Masters title when he defeated Andy Murray 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 on Sunday to win the Madrid crown for a second time. The world number one captured his fifth trophy of 2016 as he defeated defending champion Murray for the 12th time in their last 1ast 13 matches to stand at an overwhelming 23-9 in […]

India’s top doubles player Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea could not defend their Madrid Open title as they lost the summit clash to Jean-Julien Roger and Horia Tecau on Sunday. The sixth seeded defending champions lost the closely fought final 4-6, 6-7 (5) to the third seed Dutch-Romanian combination in one hour and 11 minutes.

Andy Murray reached the final of the Madrid Open for the second year running by beating Rafael Nadal in straight sets 7-5, 6-4 on Saturday. Murray, who beat Nadal to win last year’s final, will meet the winner of Saturday’s other semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Kei Nishikori on Sunday. World number two Murray broke Nadal in the Spaniard’s second […]

Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal made their way into the Madrid Open quarter-finals on Thursday, each with straight-set wins. The top-ranked Djokovic beat Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain 6-2, 6-1 for his 30th win of the season, the most on tour. Defending champion Murray defeated Gilles Simon of France 6-4, 6-2, and Nadal topped Sam Querrey of the […]

Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic came from a set down to win the Prague Open, overcoming Sam Stosur of Australia 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the final on Saturday. Safarova broke Stosur for 4-3 in the final set and served out with her 14th ace to claim her seventh WTA title, and first in 14 months. She improved her record […]