Former world number one Maria Sharapova cruised into the fourth round of the French Open with a hard-hitting 6-2 6-3 victory over Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan on Saturday. 7th seed Maria Sharapova posted a dominant win over Chinese Taipei’s Yung-Jan Chan and entered the pre-quarterfinals of the 2011 French Open, season’s second Grand Slam event [...]
Kim Clijsters was bounced out of the French Open Thursday with a second-round to unseeded Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1. Kim Clijsters, seeded second and the winner of the past two Grand Slam tournaments, breezed through the first set against Rus, and had two match points in the second. But Rus, [...]
Kim Clijsters claimed her fourth grand slam title with a 3-6 6-3 6-3 victory over China’s Li Na in a thrilling Australian Open final in Melbourne Saturday. Li was bidding to become the first Asian player to win a grand slam singles title but after taking the first set and a 3-2 lead in the [...]
Andy Roddick’s Grand Slam drought continues after the American was beaten 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 by Stanislas Wawrinka in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Sunday. Roddick, who was the last American in either the men’s or women’s singles draw this year, won his first major at the 2003 U.S. Open. Since then, the [...]
Novak Djokovic plays Tomas Berdych in the opening Group B match at the Barclays ATP World Finals on Monday afternoon. It’s a rematch of the Wimbledon semi-final back in the summer where Berdych sealed a convincing straight sets win to reach his first Grand Slam final. However their individual fortunes have followed very different paths [...]