Zheng Jie and Li Na welcomed home in Beijing

Chinese tennis stars Zheng Jie and Li Na have arrived home after their enormous success in Australia and were welcomed by crowds of fans and media.

Zheng and Li made history for China when they reached the 2010 Australian Open semifinals. Actually, never before had two Chinese players been in the second week [...]

 
 

Courier to lead US Davis Cup hopes

NEW YORK: The Davis Cup’s preparations are in full swing and US Tennis Association has announced the man who will lead their team in the Davis Cup. Jim Courier, former world number one has been given the responsibility to captain the United States Davis Cup team.
 
 
 

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Pakistan upbeat on return of int’l tennis

KARACHI: Pakistan is very confident and optimistic at the fact that International Tennis will definitely make a comeback and will return to Pakistan after the thorough examination by the International Tennis Federation’s (ITF) security personnel.

Aisam-new

These comments were put forth by Dilawar Abbas, President Pakistan Tennis Federation.
Abbas also apprised [...]

 
 

Flying start for Wozniacki, Zvonareva at Doha

DOHA: WTA’s women’s championship event being held in Doha is in its full motion and is energizing the fans of tennis. Caroline Wozniacki, World number 1 showed her critics that she is the rightful and genuine owner of her current number one position by demolishing the Russian World no 9 Elena Dementieva 6-1 6-1. [...]

 
 

Federer meets Murray in Toronto final

TORONTO: Roger Federer exhibited the game of a champion in the semi-final of the Toronto Masters to defeat Novak Djokovic of Serbia in just under two and a half hours here Saturday, a win that will lift the former world number one to World No.2.

Federer downs Djokovic to storm into Rogers Cup [...]

 
 

Kuznetsova storms into US Open 3rd round

NEW YORK: Former US Open champion, Svetlana Kuznetsova showed her class in the second round clash against Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia at the US Open on Thursday winning the match by 6-2 6-3 at Flushing Meadows.

Svetlana Kuznetsova at US Open
Sevastova never looked confident enough against the Russian tennis ace and [...]

 
 

Clijsters downs Sharapova to claim Cincinnati Open

MASON: Maria Sharapova of Russia almost defeated Kim Clijsters of Belgium but failed to overpower intermittent rains in the Cincinnati Open final on late Sunday as she missed three championship points to had the Cincinnati title to her Belgian opponent.
 

 
 

Kim Clijsters of Belgium celebrates after defeating [...]

 
 

Juan Martin Del Potro out of US Open 2010

NEW YORK: Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentine has failed to defeat his wrist injury which means he would not be available for his US Open title defence.

Juan Martin Del Potro

The wrist injury has kept the US Open title holder from action since January this year.
Juan [...]

 
 

Safina downs Bondarenko in San Diego

SAN DIEGO: Once the World No. 1, Russian Dinara Safina, finally edged out the misery of defeats as she beat Alona Bondarenko by 6-1 7-6 in the first round match of the San Diego Open here late Monday.
 
 

 
 

 
 
This was Safina’s [...]

 
 

Injured Serena ruled out of 3 WTA events

LONDON: The World No. 1 tennis player in the world, Serena Williams of the United States will not feature in at least three of the WTA events before the US Open.

Serena Williams to miss three WTA events for US Open. Courtesy: Getty Images
WTA said in a statement on Saturday that [...]

 
 
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