Posts Tagged ‘Tennis’

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) India's Prakash Amritraj and Somdev Dev Varman are fighting a close race to occupy the position of country's top singles player in Association of Tennis Professional (ATP) rankings. Though Somdev is still ahead of Prakash by six places at 204, he ... Full story

Pune, Nov 12 (IANS) Qualifier Shalini Sahoo continued her fine run, knocking out Uzbekistan wildcard Alexendra Kolesnichenko in straight sets to enter the quarterfinals of the $25,000 NECC-ITF women's tennis Championships here Wednesday. The Delhi girl outplayed the 662 ranked ... Full story

Basel, Oct 23 (DPA) James Blake stayed cool under fire, defeating Nicolas Kiefer 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the Swiss Indoors tennis to remain in contention for a place in the season-ending Masters Cup in Shanghai. "For the past three years ... Full story

New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) Top seed Shalini Sahoo had little difficulty in beating her one-time sparring partner Arantxa Andrady, 6-0, 6-2, at the DSCL women's tennis nationals to enter the quarter-final at the DLTA complex here Wednesday. Shalini, 19, ... Full story

Leander paes and Mahesh Bhupathi beat Melo-Sa 6-4, 6-2 in the Pre-Quarterfinals on Wednesday to Reach Quarterfinals.In Quartersfinals They will meet the winner of the match between fourth seeds Roger Federer/Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland and Russia's Dmitry Tursunov/Mikhail Youzhny. Full story