Tennis

Former world No.1, tennis player, Ana Ivanovic has left everyone stunned by her game and looks but these days people are wondering what's dropping at faster pace, her ranking or her clothes?
 
Recently, the sensuous Serbian starlet, posed in a pink bikini on a bed of matching tennis balls ...

Apart from the Tinsel Town celebrities, sports icons have also stepped into extra relationships. Recently, Bhupathi’s infuriated wife imposed something similar on him.


Shvetha Jaishankar, the wife of Tennis star Bhupathi has blatantly blamed her hubby for moving around with Bollywood ...

Former Miss World Pakistan Ayesha Gilani supporting Shoaib-Sania marriage has said that both the sport stars suit each other. The ex-beauty queen addressing Sania as her bhabhi said both the stars make a great couple. She furthur said that both of them had a similar cultural background as Shoaib ...

Sania Mirza of India has failed to enter the main draw of the $2 million Rogers Cup women's tennis tournament after she was defeated by Heidi El Tbakh for a 1-6, 6-3, 4-6 on Sunday in Toronto.
 
Out of the 56 players in the main draw, 44 were given direct entries, which included the top 16 ...

Top seed Tommy Haas entered the Los Angeles Open semi-finals on Saturday defeating Marat Safin by 7-6 (7-3), 6-2. 
The German with two titles at UCLA from 2004 and 2006 overcame 24 unforced errors in the 64-minute opener, hanging on after saving three set points for the soon-to-retire ...

The double Grand Slam champion and former number one tennis star Marat Safin holds no regrets on ending his tennis career in November despite reaching the quarter-finals of the Los Angeles Open for a third consecutive year. He entered the quarter finals with a stunning win over Latvian Ernests ...

Marat Safin and Marcos Baghdatis reached the second round of Los Angeles Open tennis after lengthy dry spells on the court.
 
Eighth-seed Safin, the former number one and two-time Grand Slam champion is set to retire at age 29 in November. He put out last week's Indianapolis winner Robby ...

Rafael Nadal confessed that he is doubtful about his chances of making a successful return to tennis in August after missing two months with knee pain.
 
"I'm in a sea of doubt," said the world number two, who lost his top ranking after crashing out of the French Open in the fourth ...

India's Somdev Devvarman failed to make headway after reaching the main draw of the LA Tennis Open and lost to fifth-seeded Russian Igor Kunitsyn 5-7, 2-6 in the first round.
 
Devvarman, who turned pro a year ago, should have won the first set, having broken the Russian's service twice, but ...

Indians had a mixed day in the qualifiers at the LA Tennis Open as Somdev Devvarman made it to the main draw while his US-based compatriot Prakash Amritraj lost out in a tight contest.
 
Somdev, ranked second in the qualifiers, won his final qualifying round on Monday against fifth-seeded ...

India's Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj have entered the final round of the $630,500 LA Tennis Open qualifiers.
 
The 152nd-ranked Somdev overcame a late challenge from 175th-ranked Slovak Luka Gregorc, 6-1, 7-6(1), while 263rd-ranked Prakash beat German Frank Moser 6-0, 7-6(3) to ...

Somdev Devevarman, India's No.1 tennis player has dropped 25 places to 152nd position in the recent Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings, released on Monday.
 
Somdev, who is playing in the LA Tennis Open qualifiers, had touched his career best ranking of 127 last week. ...

Sania Mirza, India’s tennis player who is seeded second, continued her good show as she upset top-seed Frenchwoman Julie Coin 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 to secure the ITF Lexington Challenger title.
 
Sania kept herself cool in the dazzling final in front of sizeable Indian community as she ...

Robby Ginepri on Sunday turned the formbook on its head again with a second career title at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships 2009. He is seeded 95.
 
Ginepri, a one-time top 20 player set to advance back into the top 60 as a result of his third trophy, achieved a 6-2, 6-4 victory over ...

Indian female tennis player, Sania Mirza has moved into the final of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Lexington Challenger with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 win over Chinese Yuan Meng.
 
In Sunday's final of the $50,000 event, second seeded Sania will clash with top seed Julie Coin of France, ...

World's top tennis player Roger Federer and wife Mirka have become proud parents of twin girls on Thursday night.
 
Federer called it the best day of his life.
 
In a statement released on his personal website he announced the girls had been named Charlene Riva and Myla ...

Rafael Nadal pronounced himself quite pleased with his return to the court after a month and a half ,due to the knee tendinitis that forced him to miss Wimbledon after losing his French Open crown.
 
"I'm happy to be back on court doing what I like with a racket in my hand," said ...

The Spanish tennis player, Rafael Nadal is all set to return to action in the Montreal Masters next month to defend his title. He lost his World No. 1 to The Swiss roger Federer, after he developed tendinitis in his knees and was unable to be the part of Wimbledon 2009.
 
Roger Federer won ...

Wimbledon champion Roger Federer stayed ahead of Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray at the top of the men's tennis rankings, issued by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) on Monday.
 
The leading ten positions were largely unchanged, with losing Wimbledon finalist Andy Roddick of the ...

The Russian female tennis player, Dinara Safina maintained her top spot on the women's tennis rankings issued by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on Monday.
 
Safina, who was beaten in straight sets by Venus Williams in the Wimbledon semi-finals earlier this month, leads an unchanged top ...

The Women Tennis Association (WTA) will be headed by Stacey Allaster who was promoted on Monday from president to CEO, 5 months after the head Larry Scott announced that he was stepping down.
 
Allaster, 46, a former boss of Tennis Canada is credited with revitalising tennis in her home ...

Croatia will line up in the Davis Cup World Group semi-finals against the Czech Republic after chasing the 32 times champions United States out of the competition with a 3-1 scoreline.
 
Marin Cilic gave the Croats the winning point beating James Blake 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, on an indoor clay ...

The Association of Tennis Professional (ATP) has banned the teenaged Australian tennis player Brydan Klein for six months for racially abusing an opponent last month. 
The ban follows Klein being fined $14,000 by ATP, and his suspension from the Australian Institute of Sport. 


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While Mahesh Bhupathi gained one spot to eighth, Leander Paes stayed in the sixth place in he Association of Tennis Professional (ATP) doubles rankings released on Monday.

French Open champions Paes and Czech Republic's Lukas Dlouhy had a disastrous Wimbledon outing, stunned by American James ...

Serena and Venus Williams will face each other in the finals of Wimbledon for the fourth time. The sisters won the semi-finals in contrasting styles. 

Serena reached her fifth final with a 6-7 (4/7), 7-5, 8-6 win over Elena Dementieva of Russia in the longest semifinal in the tournament's ...

India's Leander Paes and Zimbabwean Cara Black defeated Brazil's Andre Sa and Japanese Ai Sugiyama 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday to storm into the semi-finals of Wimbledon mixed doubles.

The top seeded Paes and Black took just over an hour to beat the opponents.

Paes and Black broke the opponents ...

India’s Leander Paes and Zimbabwe’s Cara Black beat the Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza in their mixed doubles match of Wimbledon.

The Indo-Zimbabwean pair won 6-2, 6-7 (2) 6-3 to move into the quarter-finals. Top seeded Paes and Black with a double break pocketed the ...

India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Bahamas’ Mark Knowles entered the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon men's doubles with a 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-0 win over India's Prakash Amritraj and Pakistan's Qureshi.

Fourth seeded Bhupathi and Knowles took the first set, breaking their unseeded opponents ...

After a two-week stint at the prestigious Nick Bollettieri Academy at Florida, Yuki Bhambri feels he is well prepared for the two back-to-back $15,000 International Tennis Federation (ITF) men's Futures that begin at the DLTA complex here Monday.
 

Yuki, who won successive ITF titles here ...

The usually reliable forecasts about weather during Wimbledon went wrong completely on Friday even as Roger Federer breezed into second week on the grass court of Wimbledon in a smooth fashion.
The All England Club opened its gates for the spectators on Friday with a booming announcement from the ...