Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Tennis

Naomi Osaka’s huge US open win

Naomi Osaka demonstrated her growing maturity to fight back against Victoria Azarenka in a compelling US Open final and claim her third Grand Slam title. Japanese fourth seed Osaka, 22, won 1-6 6-3 6-3 for her second US Open...

Serena Williams pleased with comeback

The first tennis grand slam tournament of the year, the Australian Open is set to kick off in one week and after two weeks of hard or soft quarantine, players are in search of match minutes and tournament organizers...

Djokovic wins Australian Open men’s final

Novak Djokovic secured his 18th grand slam title with a resounding straight-sets win over Daniil Medvedev in the Australian Open final on Sunday (February 21).The Serbian star closed to within two major crowns of men's record holders Roger Federer...

Osaka powers past veteran Hsieh into Australian Open semis

World number three Naomi Osaka stormed past Hsieh Su-wei in straight sets Tuesday (February 16) to book an Australian Open semi-final against either Serena Williams or Simona Halep.   The Japanese three-time Grand Slam champion overcame the Taiwanese world number 71's...

Djokovic in line judge drama at French Open

Serbia Tennis star, Novak Djokovic was involved in a moment of drama as he accidentally hit a line judge with an errant shot in his fourth round match against Russian, Karen Khachanov. Djokovic progressed into his 14th Roland Garros quarter-final...

Djokovic secures 2020 Rome Masters title

Serbian tennis star, Novak Djokovic won a record-breaking title at the Internazionali d'Italia on Monday (September 21) with a straight sets victory over Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman. The world number one defeated Diego Schwartzman 7-5 6-3 in Monday's final, the same...

Spain mull tennis tournament featuring Nadal

Royal Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET) has announced that it is mulling over the possibility of organizing a domestic men's tour which will help in keeping country's top players in a position to build match fitness.Leading Spanish publication, Marca reported...

Osaka sad as winning run ends

Japanese tennis star, Naomi Osaka says her defeat to Maria Sakkari at the Miami Open did not come to her as a surprise as she has not been playing well recently.Osaka's 23-match winning streak came to a shuddering halt...

Nadal and Djokovic make progress at Rome Masters

Spanish tennis great, Rafael Nadal is on course for a 10th Internazionali d'Italia title as he comfortably beat Dusan Lajovic to join top seed Novak Djokovic in the last eight. Competing in his first tournament since February, Nadal has...

2021 French Open may be postponed

Next month's French Open could be postponed amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to France's minister of sports.  France entered its third national lockdown on Saturday in a bid to halt another surge of COVID-19 cases, which had threatened...
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