Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:32 by Prince damin
Linz, Austria -- World No. 1 Serena Williams, who hasn't played competitive tennis since winning Wimbledon, said Thursday she'll return to tournament play next week in Austria.
Williams announced she would participate in the Generali Ladies Linz tournament, a $220,000 event in Austria that begins Monday. She is also expected to participate in the WTA Championships in Qatar the last week of October and the Fed Cup final Nov. 6-7 in San Diego when the United States goes against Italy.
Williams hasn't played competitive tennis since she cut a foot on broken glass, an injury that required surgery, shortly after winning Wimbledon.
Her announcement about Austria comes one day after Venus Williams said a leg injury would keep her out action for the rest of the year.
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Mon, 08/09/2010 - 22:39 by Prince damin
Daytona Beach, Fla. -- Agnieszka Radwanska lost a tough three-set match in a WTA tournament final Sunday bit still moved up in the women's world rankings.
Radwanska fell to Svetlana Kuznetsova 4-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-3 at the WTA stop in San Diego. She is 10-3 in her last three tournaments and slipped past Vera Zvonareva and into ninth in rankings, which were updated Monday.
Zvonareva, who was a second-round loser in San Diego, is 10th but fewer than 100 rankings points ahead of Li Na, who was a semifinalist last week's Danish Open.
Kuznetsova's tournament win moved her from 21st to 14th in the rankings.
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Fri, 05/28/2010 - 10:38 by Pankaj Damin
Arlington, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced Thursday his team's new stadium will host its first tennis event this year.
Maria Sharapova will play Serena Williams and Andy Roddick fill face John Isner in a pair of exhibition matches July 10.
Jones has lured a variety of sporting events to his stadium in an attempt to create long-range revenue for the mammoth building. The NBA All-Star Game was held there this year and the Super Bowl will be played in the stadium next season.
The 2014 NCAA Neb's Basketball Final Four is on the schedule for the stadium.
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Sat, 04/10/2010 - 15:40 by Samia Sehgal
Tennis great Martina Navratilova is going through what is possibly the toughest phase in her life, but she is not prepared to give in to it.
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Sun, 02/07/2010 - 09:57 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Belgrade, Serbia -- Jelena Jankovic's 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 win over Alisa Kleybanova Saturday pulled Serbia into a 1-1 tie with Russia at the Fed Cup quarterfinal in Belgrade.
Svetlana Kuznetsova had given Russia a 1-0 advantage with a 6-1, 6-4 rout of Ana Ivanovic, but Jankovic bounced back after losing the first set against Kleybanova.
Sunday's doubles match pits the duo of Ivanovic-Jankovic against Vera Dushevina-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, and if needed, Jankovic battles Kuznetsova, while Ivanovic battles Kleybanova.
The winner plays either France of the United States in the semifinals.
Russia has won the event four times since 2004, and is 2-0 all-time against the Serbs in Fed Cup play.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Thu, 06/25/2009 - 21:10 by Inderjit Singh
London, June 25-- French Open winners Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic crashed out of the Wimbledon tennis championships, overpowered by American James Blake and Mardy Fish 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 in a sensational first-round men's doubles match here Thursday.
Third seeded Paes and Dlouhy were drowned in a sea of errors to lose in an hour and 49 minutes.
Paes and Dlouhy had 19 break points against their opponents, but they could convert only three. They squandered four break points in the first set and a whopping 13 in the second.
To add to their misery, they had 11 double faults and 12 unforced errors. To top it all, they had problems holding their serve.
Blake and Fish broke them once in the first set and thrice in the second. All together, they converted six of their 12 break points.
--IANS
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Mon, 05/04/2009 - 19:55 by Inderjit Singh
London -- Advancing to Rome's quarterfinals paid off for Fernando Verdasco and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who each moved up one spot in the latest men's world tennis rankings.
Verdasco lost in the quarters to eventual champion Rafael Nadal and Tsonga fell in the same round to eventual runner-up Novak Djokovic to bring about a shuffling of the lower half of the men's Top 10.
Verdasco switched rankings with Gilles Simon, who lost in the Rome round of 16, and is now No. 7 with Simon eighth. Tsonga is the new No. 9, knocking Gael Monfils, a first-round loser in Rome, to 10th.
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Wed, 04/29/2009 - 16:33 by Salinder Kumar
Stuttgart (Germany), April 29: Dinara Safina clobbered Sara Errani 6-0, 6-1 in her first match as world number one tennis player for a place in the second round of the Porsche Grand Prix.
Safina took just 51 minutes here Tuesday to win the lopsided contest, clinching victory with an ace against the 37th-ranked Errani. It was her first match on clay of the season.
Safina, who turned 23 Monday, dethroned Serena Williams at the top of the rankings last week.
Fellow-Russian Olympic champion Elena Dementieva had to fight harder before also advancing, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 against Anna-Lena Groenefeld.
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Wed, 04/29/2009 - 05:52 by Inderjit Singh
Stuttgart -- Top seeded Russians Dinara Safina and Elena Dementieva were among Tuesday's winners at the women's Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.
Safina, the world No. 1 Australian Open and French Open runner-up who turned 23 Monday, raced by Italian Sara Errani 6-0, 6-1. Olympic gold medalist Dementieva had it a little tougher, eliminating German Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the first WTA Tour event played on indoor clay.
Two other seeds reached the second round. No. 7 Dane Caroline Wozniacki beat Czech Iveta Benesova 6-3, 7-5 and No. 8 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland beat Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada 7-6 (7-2), 6-0.
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Tue, 04/28/2009 - 20:03 by Inderjit Singh
Sydney, April 28-- Former Australian Davis Cupper Geoff Masters Tuesday supported Tennis Australia's (TA) decision not to send the team to India, while recalling how his team decided to play the tie in Madras in 1973 despite a death threat.
Masters said they were informed of a life threat issued by a group called 'Black September' two days before the start of the tie.
On their arrival at the team hotel after the practice in Madras, Masters remembers being greeted by captain Neale Fraser and a small but serious looking policeman.
"He (policeman) was introduced to us as the head of Interpol for Asia and told us that there had been a death threat issued against the team by a group known as Black September," Masters was quoted as saying in The Australian Tuesday.
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Sun, 04/26/2009 - 09:31 by admin
BARCELONA, Spain, April 25 -- Rafael Nadal beat Nikolay Davydenko in the Barcelona Open semifinals Saturday and will meet fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in Sunday's final.
Nadal -- who beat Ferrer 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 in last year's title match -- posted a 6-3, 6-2 victory over third-seeded Russian Davydenko Saturday. The fourth-seeded Ferrer had to rally from a set down to take a 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5) victory over Fernando Gonzalez of Chile.
Nadal, 22, will play for his fifth straight Barcelona title. He improved to 24-1 all-time in the tournament, losing only to fellow countryman Alex Corretja in the second round of in 2003.
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Mon, 02/09/2009 - 08:53 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
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