Category: Sports

New York: In a double delight for Indian fans, veteran tennis star Leander Paes and Sania Mirza stormed into the finals of the US Open mixed Doubles and women’s doubles draw respectively with common partner Martina Hingis. Fourth seeds Paes and Hingis were in top form as they staved off a tough challenge from the second-seeded pair of Rohan Bopanna and […]

New York: Rohan Boapanna’s campaign in the men’s doubles ended after he and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea suffered a straight set loss in the quarterfinals of US Open here on Wednesday. The sixth seeded Indo-Romanian duo lost 6-7, 3-6 to unseeded pair of Dominic Inglot of Great Britain and Sweden’s Robert Lindstedt in a contest that lasted 80 minutes […]

Serena Williams continued her march towards Grand Slam history by beating sister Venus in the quarter-finals of the US Open. The world No 1 and defending champion won 6-2 1-6 6-3 to move to within two victories of securing the Calendar Grand Slam. During a topsy-turvy opening two sets, Serena broke serve twice in the first set while 35-year-old Venus […]

Italian Roberta Vinci became the first woman through to the semi-finals of the U.S. Open on Tuesday, outlasting Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic 6-3 5-7 6-4 on another sizzling hot day at Flushing Meadows. The 32-year-old veteran showed off her fighting spirit while Mladenovic, a decade younger, wilted in the punishing conditions using up all of her medical timeouts during the two-hour, […]

Top seeds Sania and Hingis, the Wimbledon champions, saw off the challenge of Taipei girls Yung-Jan Chan and Hao-Ching Chan 7-6(5) 6-1 in the quarterfinals of the last Grand Slam tournament of the season. In the 85-minute contest, Sania and Hingis converted all the four breakpoints they earned and lost their serve twice to their ninth seed opponents. They next […]