Category: Tennis

Roger Federer is expected to play mixed doubles with fellow Swiss national Martina Hingis at the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, Le Matin Dimanche newspaper reported, revealing what the paper called a “Dream Team”. There had been widespread speculation that the two Swiss stars would team up. Hingis had reportedly made the offer to play with Federer and was waiting for […]

Punjab Marshalls won the Champions Tennis League (CTL) 2015 title after they scored a hard-fought 22-21 victory over Hyderabad Aces in the final at the Lal Bahadur Stadium here on Sunday. In a format where the winner is decided on the basis of the total number of points obtained in the five-set game, Punjab made 22 points against 21 by […]

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday became a co-owner of the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) team OUE Singapore Slammers. “One of the most well known faces and voices of global cinema, Amitabh Bachchan, announced today that he will be co-owner of the OUE Singapore Slammers alongside the local company UD Group who acquired the team earlier this year,” Singapore Slammers […]

Andy Murray sealed Britain’s first Davis Cup title for 79 years with a brilliant 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 defeat of Belgium’s David Goffin in a fever-pitch atmosphere at Ghent’s Flanders Expo on Sunday. With hundreds of British fans decked out in union flags and saltires roaring on the Scot and thousands of baying Belgians urging on Goffin, Murray’s nerve held firm […]

Britain’s Andy Murray levelled the Davis Cup final at 1-1 with a comfortable defeat of Ruben Bemelmans after David Goffin had escaped from two sets down to give Belgium the lead at the Flanders Expo on Friday. The 28-year-old world number two Murray, who has almost single-handedly put Britain on the brink of their first title since 1936, duly delivered […]

Feliciano Lopez of Nagpur Orangers held his nerve to beat Fernando Verdasco of V Chennai Warriors, securing a slender 24-23 win for the visitors in the Champions Tennis League (CTL) on Thursday. The final match of the Chennai leg was the battle between Spaniards, Lopez and Verdasco, in the men’s singles and it went right down to the wire. Verdasco […]