America’s Sofia Kenin stunned two-time Major champion Garbine Muguruza to win the Australian Open on Saturday, completing a surprise run where she has come from nowhere to win her first Grand Slam title. Despite making her debut in a Major final Kenin, 21, showed all her trademark aggression as she fought back from a set…
Stuns World No.1 Ash Barty Feisty American 14th seed Sofia Kenin stunned world number one and home hope Ashleigh Barty to reach her first Grand Slam final at the Australian Open on Thursday. Kenin will play unseeded Garbine Muguruza, who defeated Romania’s fourth seed Simona Halep in the second semi-final, in Saturday’s final after her…
First Grand Slam of the season to begin in January All the world’s top 50 men and women players, bar Victoria Azarenka, have confirmed they will start the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season, at Melbourne Park in January, organisers said Saturday. Top-ranked Rafael Nadal and Ashleigh Barty lead the field at…
Novak Djokovic claimed a record seventh Australian Open crown on Sunday as he demolished Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in his most dominant Grand Slam win in his long rivalry with the Spaniard. The peerless Serb broke Nadal five times at a stunned Rod Laver Arena while conceding only a single break point to clinch…
Melbourne: India’s challenge in Men’s Doubles came to an early end at Australian Open on Wednesday, with the three pairs involving Indian players losing in the first round itself. The biggest upset was the new partnership of the Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan, seeded 15th, who lost to Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia…
Roger Federer won his sixth Australian Open and 20th Grand Slam title with a five-set victory over Marin Cilic here yesterday. The Swiss lost five games in a row as he dropped the fourth set but recovered to win 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 3-6 6-1. Federer, 36, becomes only the fourth player after Margaret Court,…
Indo-Hungarian tennis pair Rohan Bopanna and Timea Babos went down in a closely contested Australian Open mixed doubles final, losing 6-2, 4-6, 9-11 to eighth seeded Croatian-Canadian pairing of Mate Pavic and Gabriela Dabrowski at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne this morning. This was Bopanna’s third Grand Slam final, only to lose it in…
Fifth seeds Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic took out the Australian Open Women’s Doubles title on Friday to be crowned Grand Slam champions for the first time. The Hungarian-French pairing battled past second seeded Russians Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-3 on Rod Laver Arena, to foil the Russian pair’s quest for a career…
India’s Rohan Bopanna and Timea Babos of Hungary entered the mixed doubles semifinals at the Australian Open with a straight-set win over Colombian Juan Sebastian Cabal and Abigail Spears of USA, here yesterday. The fifth seeded Indo-Hungarian pair took one hour and 15 minutes to get the better of Cabal-Spears duo 6-4 7-6 (5) in…
India shuttler Kidambi Srikanth has been on a roll in the past two weeks — he has beaten the World No. 1 Son Wan Ho twice and beaten the top-ranked Chinese shuttler Shi Yuqi twice. Overall, he has now reached three straight Super Series finals that he’s played — Singapore, Indonesia and now Australia. He…
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