Category: Tennis

World number one duo of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis, after beating Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chan 6-4, 6-2 today, stormed into WTA finals.

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal stayed on course for a blockbuster Swiss Indoors final clash on Friday after battling through tough three-set quarter-finals. Top seed and six-time champion Federer held off David Goffin 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 to win a re-run of his 2014 final victory over the Belgian. Nadal, the third seed, scored a hard-fought 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 triumph over […]

He refuses to mourn poor results of the year going by, instead Somdev Devvarman has carefully planned a way “to get back his identity on the tennis courts” by hiring a new coach, cutting down on junk food and putting more hours on honing his serve. Disappointment was writ large when he came out of the Centre Court following a […]

Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis defeated Czech pair of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka in straight sets to virtually seal a women’s doubles semifinal spot in the WTA Tennis Finals on Wednesday. The Indo-Swiss combine beat the Czech seventh seeds 6-3, 6-4 in an hour and 17 minutes at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. This was their second consecutive win in […]

Eighth-ranked David Ferrer clinched his 26th career win after rallying to defeat Steve Johnson of the United States 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 at the Erste Bank Open on Sunday. The top-seeded Spaniard improved to 5-0 in finals this season after also winning in Doha, Rio de Janeiro, Acapulco, and Kuala Lumpur. The victory has all but secured him a spot at […]

James Ward of Great Britain played the best tennis of the week to clinch the AirAsia Open, $50,000 Challenger title as he defeated Spanish top seed Adrian Menendez-Madeira 6-2, 7-5 at the KSLTA Courts here on Sunday. Watched by a packed crowd, the English player was all over his Spanish opponent breaking the World No.137 in the sixth and eighth […]