Category: Tennis

Veteran Indian star Leander Paes and French partner Jeremy Chardy fought off a strong challenge from Marcel Granollers and Sam Groth in the quarter-finals of the $514,065 Delray Beach Open being held at the Delray Beach Tennis Center here. The Indo-French combination squandered an early lead before staging a superb comeback to carve out a 6-3, 4-6, 10-6 win and […]

Mahesh Bhupathi and Yuki Bhambri, playing for the first time together as a team, stormed into the men’s doubles final of Delhi Open tennis tournament with an easy victory over their opponents on Friday. Bhupathi and Yuki hardly broke a sweat in their 6-1, 6-3 victory over the pair of Jimmy Wang of Chinese Taipei and Ze Zhang of China […]

France’s new Davis Cup captain Yannick Noah has retained Gael Monfils in his team to play Canada in a World Group first round match next month despite the player’s criticisms over staging the tie in Guadeloupe. Monfils was named along with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Richard Gasquet and Gilles Simon for the singles berths with Edouard Roger-Vasselin an option for the doubles. […]

Former top-ranked Ana Ivanovic swept past Daria Gavrilova 6-1, 6-0 on Tuesday to advance to the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships. The 17th-ranked Ivanovic came to Dubai after having reached the semi-finals in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she lost to eventual champion Roberta Vinci. Ivanovic will play defending champion and top-seeded Simona Halep in the second round. “You […]

Germany’s Julia Goerges crushed double Grand Slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-0, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Monday. The 55-minute demolition was eight-seeded Kuznetsova’s heaviest defeat since suffering a similar scoreline last October in Wuhan, China.

WTA world top 20 (as of February 15) S.No Name Points 1 Serena Williams (USA) 9,245 2 Angelique Kerber (GER) 5,700 3 Simona Halep (ROM) 5,545 4 Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 5,210 5 Garbine Muguruza (ESP) 4,991 6 Maria Sharapova (RUS) 3,672 7 Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 3,611 8 Petra Kvitova (CZE) 3,582 9 Belinda Bencic (SUI) 3,505 10 Lucie Safarova (CZE) […]