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Second-seeded Serb Novak Djokovic has tumbled out of the Indian Wells ATP tournament, upset 7-5, 6-3 by big-serving Croat Ivan Ljubicic in the fourth round.
While holder Rafa Nadal took three sets to overcame towering American John Isner 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, second seed Djokovic was eliminated in a match lasting one hour and 44 minutes.
The Serbian [...]

London, Mar 15 (ANI): Tennis legends Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi renewed their age old rivalry on the court during a charity match to raise money for the Haiti relief fund.
The tennis legends joined Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal in raising cash for Haiti earthquake victims.
They have been bickering since Agassi claimed in his autobiography [...]

Novak Djokovic climbed to a career-high second in the world rankings last month but the Serbian is reluctant to dream about usurping Roger Federer at the top.
Djokovic prefers instead to reflect on the consistency he has produced at the highest level over the last three years and is prepared to bide his time.
“I try not [...]

Novak Djokovic climbed to a career-high second in the world rankings last month but the Serbian is reluctant to dream about usurping Roger Federer at the top.
Djokovic prefers instead to reflect on the consistency he has produced at the highest level over the last three years and is prepared to bide his time.
“I try not [...]

Rafael Nadal says the worst thing about the injury that forced him out of the Australian Open quarter-finals was that it came just as he was playing great tennis.
Nadal is the defending champion and third seed – behind Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic – in the first Masters 1000 tournament of the season at Indian [...]

WASHINGTON: Sanjay Gupta, an Indian-American senior executive, has been chosen by the World Economic Forum for its 2010 class of Young Global Leaders.
Gupta, a second-generation Indian-American, is the senior vice president and advisor to the executive chairman of Abraxis BioScience, a leading pharmaceutical and health-care innovator based in the US with offices throughout the world.
Commenting [...]

MADRID — With Rafael Nadal sidelined, defending champion Spain picked Juan Carlos Ferrero, David Ferrer, Tommy Robredo and Marcel Granollers on Tuesday to face Switzerland in their Davis Cup opener.
Captain Albert Costa said Nadal and Fernando Verdasco will miss the event because of injury, as expected. They helped Spain sweep the Czech Republic 5-0 [...]

CINCINNATI — The CEO of the Procter & Gamble Co. says he doesn’t know whether golfer Tiger Woods will ever appear in another Gillette commercial, and everyone else wonders when he’ll next appear in a televised golf tournament.
Bob McDonald, who is also chairman of the Cincinnati-based consumer products company, says P&G wishes Woods the [...]

London, Sep.17 (ANI): World Number three Andy Murray is of the view that winning a Grand Slam title in the present day and age is far more tougher than it was before, given the kind of talent on show in the tennis circuit.

He said that when players [...]

New York, Sep.16 (ANI): Argentine tennis player Juan Martin Del Potro still can’t believe he has won this US Open, but now believes he is the biggest new star in tennis.

“It’s my best sensation,” he said. “Since my childhood I have dreamed of this trophy. I have realised my dream. It is an incredible moment. [...]

Flushing Meadows (New York, US), Sep.15 (ANI): Argentine sixth seed Juan Martin del Potro upset five-time defending champion Roger Federer 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 to win the 2009 US Open men’s final on Monday night.

Del Potro is the first South American to win the US Open men’s crown since countryman Guillermo [...]

Washington, September 12 (ANI): Top tennis players like Roger Federer are simply better in certain visual perception skills than others, and they are very fast at creating an internal simulation of a ball’s flight that helps position them for a winning return, suggest new studies by Swiss and British experts.

An article on these studies [...]

New York, Sep 4 (ANI): Tennis star Roger Federer has finally praised World No. 2 and counterpart Andy Murray, and said that Murray is a young player and can win Slams in the years to follow.

“It does not irritate me when experts and former players pick other players. Not everybody can pick me, so [...]

London, Sep.1 (ANI): Former British tennis star Tim Henman has told Andy Murray he can win the US Open if he gets aggressive.

Henman reckons Murray can go one better than last year, when he lost the final in straight sets to Roger Federer.

“Federer is the favourite, but Murray is No.2 now – I think he [...]

London, Sep.1 (ANI): British tennis champion Andy Murray, who is hoping to be World Number One, soon, took a break from the game to do a rap number for an album.

But he admits he is unlikely to be a top 10 success in the music charts.

The British star has been fine-tuning his US Open plans [...]

London, Aug. 24 (ANI): Andy Murray is hoping to break his Grand Slam duck at next week’s US Open.

Murray, who won the Montreal Masters last week, will be seeded No 2 in New York – with Roger Federer taking top spot at the Billie Jean King Tennis Centre.

“I’ve won eight tournaments since last year’s US [...]

Mason (Ohio, US), Aug.22 (ANI): Lleyton Hewitt bowed out of the Cincinnati Masters quarter-finals, but said his performance had whet his appetite for the US Open.

“The US Open is somewhere I’ve played extremely well in the past,” said Hewitt after losing to Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4.

“I’d like to think if things fall [...]

London, July 8 (ANI): Beyonce Knowles has been named the Best-Paid Celebrity Under 30 in a new Forbes magazine poll.

The R and B superstar earned an estimated 58 million dollars in the last 12 months to top the survey, reports the Daily Express.

The 27-year-old’s money came from a variety of projects as a singer, actress, [...]

London, July 7 (ANI): Male tennis players work far harder than their female counterparts to earn the same amount of cash, it has emerged.

Men’s runner-up Andy Roddick had to work three times as hard as losing women’s finalist Venus Williams at Wimbledon. He flogged himself through a gruelling 331 games, while Venus jetted home having [...]

London, July 7 (ANI): Six-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer flew home Monday with the gift of the Centre Court net.

Having made history with a 15th Grand Slam win in beating Andy Roddick, the Daily Express quoted Federer as saying that he had no intention of slowing up even though he is soon to become a [...]