There is a familiar but deceiving look about the main contenders set to battle for the US Open men’s singles title when the year’s final grand slam gets underway tomorrow. If history and current form are any guide, only five men – Roger Federer, Rafa...
Third-seeded Russian Maria Sharapova has pulled out of next week’s US Open due to a shoulder injury, tournament organisers said yesterday. The four-times grand slam winner, who triumphed at Flushing Meadows in 2006, fired coach Jimmy Connors last week...
Rafael Nadal... great build-up for the US Open. The undisputed King of Clay, Rafa Nadal, could soon extend his reign to the hardcourt after establishing himself as the red-hot favourite for the US Open with back-to-back wins in Montreal and...
Rafa Nadal continued his sizzling hardcourt form beating John Isner 7-6 7-6 in the final of the Western and Southern Open last night, setting up the Spaniard as favourite heading into the US Open. Unbeaten on the surface in 15 matches this year and...
Farewell... Marion Bartoli has retired from tennis just six weeks after winning the Wimbledon title. Having realised a lifelong dream by claiming the Wimbledon title, Marion Bartoli decided she had nothing left to give yesterday, shocking the world of...
Roger Federer got his delayed hardcourt season off to a positive start with a straightforward 6-3 7-6 win over Germany’s Phillip Kohlschreiber to ease into the third round of the Western and Southern Open on Tuesday. Struggling with a sore back,...
Former US Open champion Samantha Stosur continued her build-up to the season’s final grand slam with a convincing 6-1 7-5 win over Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova in first round action at the Western and Southern Open. The Australian 11th seed is among a...
Even though she did not drop a set in winning her eighth title of the season at the Rogers Cup on Sunday, Serena Williams believes she can play even better heading into the US Open. “Definitely can do a lot more,” she said after her 6-2 6-0 victory...
For the second year running, the Vittoriosa Lawn Tennis Club (VLTC) hosted the European Under-16 tournament which was sponsored by NexiaBT, a local consultancy and auditing firm which forms part of Nexia International. The competition, staged in...
Andy Murray felt he took a step forward in the build-up to his US Open title defence despite a surprise exit from the Rogers Cup yesterday at the hands of Latvia’s mercurial Ernests Gulbis. Murray suffered his first defeat in his second match back from...
Andy Murray shook off some early rust to beat Marcel Granollers 6-4 7-6 in his first match since winning Wimbledon and Rafael Nadal blazed past Canadian wildcard Jesse Levine in the second round of the Rogers Cup on Wednesday. Murray struggled to find...
World number one Novak Djokovic powered to a 6-2 6-1 win over Florian Mayer in his first match since Wimbledon while Canadian players upstaged Rafa Nadal with a string of surprise victories at the Rogers Cup on Tuesday. A fit and fresh looking...
Serena Williams has already achieved her stated goal of winning a second French Open title this year but the top-ranked American is still not satisfied with her season despite having more fun than ever on tour. Six other titles have been won this year...
Australian Sam Stosur, who had failed to reach a semi-final this season, believes she has turned the corner after beating world number two Victoria Azarenka 6-3 6-2 in the Carlsbad Open final on Sunday to earn her a first title in nearly two...
Meets Stosur in the final
Switzerland’s former world number one Martina Hingis said her renewed hunger for competition inspired her comeback in doubles but she has no plans to return in singles. Hingis made a winning return to competitive tennis in the Southern California Open...
To appeal to CAS against suspension
Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska, 24, is upset and surprised about the negative reaction in her home country after posing nude for ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue.” The world number four, who was photographed naked while sitting beside a swimming pool...
VLTC hosted a Green Tennis event recently to launch the NexiaBT U-16 European tournament which is going to be played here between August 5 and 10. Boys and girls between the ages of nine and 12 took part under the guidance of John Cassar, a VLTC...
Think Spanish sport and images that spring to mind include the nation’s all-conquering football team, Rafa Nadal hoisting aloft the French Open trophy or Fernando Alonso burning up a Formula One track in his Ferrari. While these are some of the...
The European tournament for Under-14 players at the Vittoriosa Lawn Tennis Club (VLTC), sponsored by Kettle Chips, came to a close recently with the two finals in the categories for boys and girls. The boys’ singles event was characterised by two...
Andy Murray is unsure whether winning Wimbledon makes him worthy of a knighthood. The Scot returned to the All England Club bleary-eyed yesterday morning after celebrating his stunning victory over Novak Djokovic at the Champions’ Ball late...
Home favourite Andy Murray wiped out 77 years of pain and hurt as he became the first British player since 1936 to win the men’s title at Wimbledon with a 6-4 7-5 6-4 victory over the world number one Novak Djokovic yesterday. Great Britain’s Andy...
Marion Bartoli described the circumstances of her Wimbledon triumph as “beyond perfection” as she landed her first grand slam at the expense of a tearful Sabine Lisicki. After beating Serena Williams and Agnieszka Radwanska en route to the final,...
Marion Bartoli... a tennis dream come true. Marion Bartoli would not have been high on any list of likely Wimbledon champions a fortnight ago but yesterday the quirky Frenchwoman overwhelmed Sabine Lisicki 6-1 6-4 to claim her first grand slam...
Tim Henman is backing Andy Murray to defeat Novak Djokovic this afternoon and win his first Wimbledon title. Henman, a four-time semi-finalist at the All England Club, has been impressed by the way Murray has negotiated the draw under great pressure...
Novak Djokovic withstood a ferocious onslaught from Juan Martin Del Potro to subdue the Argentine 7-5 4-6 7-6(2) 6-7(6) 6-3 in a titanic Wimbledon semi-final yesterday. The world no.1 will now face Andy Murray in tomorrow’s final after the Briton beat...
No one would have guessed that Sabine Lisicki is allergic to grass as she joyfully rolled on the most famous rectangle of turf after surviving a heart-pumping, nerve-jangling epic to set up a mind-boggling Wimbledon final against Marion Bartoli. A...
Djokovic, Del Potro through
The leading ladies have exited stage but the understudies kept this most volatile of Wimbledon scripts bubbling along yesterday to ensure a new name will be engraved on the trophy on Saturday. Emerging from a quarter-final line-up featuring women from...
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