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Aus Open: Sania seals a perfect Saturday with twin wins

Melbourne: It was the perfect day for Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, who won both her women's and mixed doubles matches to progress at the Australian Open here on Saturday.Playing on Show Court 2,...

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Tomic hits back at 'motivational' Federer barb

Melbourne: Australian Bernard Tomic has hit back at Roger Federer's suggestion that he is a long way from being a top 10 player, saying the 17-times grand slam champion faced a quality deficit of his...

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Aus Open: Paes, Bopanna advance in mixed doubles

Melbourne: India's Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna won their respective mixed doubles openers to advance to the second round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park here on Sunday.Defending champions...

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Sania, Saina get Padma Bhushan; Padma Shri for Deepika

New Delhi: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and badminton ace Saina Nehwal were on Monday named for the prestigious Padma Bhushan, the country's third highest civilian award.Apart from the celebrated...

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Australian Open: Raonic shocks Wawrinka

Melbourne: Milos Raonic struck a blow for the next generation of men's tennis by flooring former champion Stan Wawrinka on Monday before China's Zhang Shuai became the first qualifier to reach the...

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Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis storm into Aus Open semis

Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis continued their winning streak as they defeated the German-American pair of Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Coco Vandeweghe to storm into...

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Serena maintains hex on Sharapova to reach semis

Melbourne: Reigning champion Serena Williams ramped up the power in the second set to vanquish fifth seed Maria Sharapova for the 18th match in a row and reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open...

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Federer ramps game up to move into 39th Grand Slam semis

Melbourne: Roger Federer ramped his game up another level in a clinically efficient 7-6(4) 6-2 6-4 win over sixth seed Tomas Berdych on Tuesday and advance to his 12th Australian Open...

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Aus Open: Easy does it as Djokovic sets up date with Federer

Melbourne: Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams faced what were supposed to be their biggest challenges to date at this year's Australian Open on Tuesday but both rattled off comfortable victories to...

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Steffi taught me to believe in myself: Kerber after stunning Azarenka

Melbourne: Angelique Kerber picked the perfect time to earn her first win over Victoria Azarenka, outgunning the big-hitting Belarusian 6-3 7-5 on Wednesday to advance to her first Australian Open...

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Aus Open: Murray subdues Ferrer to continue British charge

Melbourne: Andy Murray continued Britain's Australian Open success when he overcame David Ferrer 6-3 6-7(5) 6-2 6-3 in a gruelling tussle to reach the semi-finals for the sixth time in seven years on...

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Aus Open: Sania Mirza knocks out Leander Paes

Melbourne: The top seeded tennis pair of Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig totally outclassed defending champions Leander Paes and Martina Hingis to march into the mixed doubles semifinals of the Australian...

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Djokovic silences Federer to reach Australian Open final

Melbourne: Like Serena Williams before him, Novak Djokovic moved into another Australian Open championship decider with a relatively untroubled semifinal win.Top-ranked Djokovic had a 6-1, 6-2, 3-6,...

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Sania-Martina win Australian Open women's doubles crown

Top seeded women's doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis overwhelmed Czech seventh seeds Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka 7-6 (1), 6-3 to win the Australian Open crown here on Friday.It...

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Federer sidelined for a month after knee surgery

London: Roger Federer will be out of action for up to a month after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery in Switzerland to repair a torn meniscus, his agent at TEAM8 Tony Godsick told Reuters on...

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Sania Mirza loses, Japan beat India 2-1 in Fed Cup

Hua Hin (Thailand): Tennis star Sania Mirza suffered a shock defeat in the women's doubles as India went down 1-2 to Japan in their second match of the Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I at the True...

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Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis storm to 37th straight win

Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis extended their winning streak to 37 games with a straight sets victory in the opening round of the women's doubles event at the St....

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Bhupathi-Bhambri enter Delhi Open final

Indian tennis star Yuki Bhambri along with veteran Mahesh Bhupathi continued their rampaging form as they stormed into the doubles final of the Delhi Open on Friday. The Indian pair swept aside...

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Delhi Open: Bhupathi wins first title in 3 years!

New Delhi: Mahesh Bhupathi, who is making acomeback to competitive tennis after an injury lay-off, wonhis first title in three years as he combined with YukiBhambri to clinch the Delhi Open while...

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Sania-Hingis 41-match winning streak comes to a halt

Doha: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis' 41-match winning streak came to halt after the world number one womne's doubles pair went down fighting in the quarterfinals of the Qatar...

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