[ad_1] INDIAN WELLS: Reigning Grand Slam champions Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz turned in dominating performances on Sunday to roll into the fourth round of the ATP-WTA Indian Wells Masters. The two hottest young racquets in the sport showed no mercy in quick-fire victories, with Australian Open champion Sinner overwhelming Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3, 6-4. “Almost…
[ad_1] INDIAN WELLS: Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka saved four match points and needed four of her own to earn a 6-7 (2/7), 6-2, 7-6 (8/6) victory over Payton Stearns on Saturday at the Indian Wells Masters. The world number two was pushed to the limit in her opening match by the American outsider ranked…
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES: Britain’s Katie Boulter won the biggest title of her career on Sunday, beating Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 to claim the WTA San Diego Open title. The 27-year-old, whose only previous WTA crown came at Nottingham last June, moves into the world rankings top 30 for the first time in her…
[ad_1] DUBAI: Reigning Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka suffered an opening round upset at the hands of familiar foe Donna Vekic, going down 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-0 in Dubai on Tuesday. Contesting her first match since her successful title defence at Melbourne Park, Sabalenka blew a 7-6, 2-0 lead to succumb to her Croatian opponent…
[ad_1] KARACHI: Much like last weekend, Aisamul Haq Qureshi is preparing for another battle after the Davis Cup World Group-I play-offs against India. This weekend he is to contest the elections of the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF). The score in favour of India 4-0 does not truly represent the tennis that Pakistan played, with Aisam…
[ad_1] LAUSANNE: The top court in global sport began hearing former Wimbledon and French Open champion Simona Halep’s appeal against a doping suspension that could end her career. The 32-year-old Romanian arrived on Wednesday at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne for three-day proceedings that she hopes will see her provisional suspension…
[ad_1] RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington on Tuesday said she was disappointed by recent criticism from tennis legends Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova about Saudi money flowing into the sport. The retired players, winners of 18 Grand Slam singles titles each, wrote an opinion column in The Washington Post last week saying the Women’s…
[ad_1] MELBOURNE: Jannik Sinner stormed back from two sets down on Sunday to beat Daniil Medvedev in a gruelling five-set Australian Open final and win his first Grand Slam title. The Italian fourth seed had no answer to the Russian’s aggression in the first two sets but dug deep to win 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4,…
[ad_1] MELBOURNE: Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner go head-to-head in the Australian Open men’s final on Sunday, with the only guarantee being that there will be a new name on the trophy.Since Stan Wawrinka won his only title in Melbourne in 2014, Novak Djokovic has picked up six trophies, Roger Federer won two and Rafael…
[ad_1] MELBOURNE: Rohan Bopanna’s worn out knees have not stopped him from climbing the world doubles rankings and the 43-year-old Indian became the oldest player to reach number one after making the Australian Open semi-finals with Matthew Ebden on Wednesday. Bopanna and Australian Ebden beat Argentine pair Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni 6-4 7-6(5) to…
