The only real marker as one searches for a winner of the women’s singles at the French Open is the match Francesca Schiavone and Li Na played here last year in the third round. The Italian won 6-4, 6-2. But don’t get carried away by that. The Australian Open runner-up celebrated by falling flat [...]
Five-times champion Rafa Nadal sparked off his 25th birthday celebrations on Friday by blowing Andy Murray off court with a 6-4 7-5 6-4 win to reach the French Open final. The Spaniard, bidding to equal Bjorn Borg’s record of 6 titles at Roland Garros, outplayed the British 4th seed in a 3-hour-17-minute display of [...]
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer reached the BNP Paribas Open quarter-finals courtesy of straight-sets wins. Spanish top seed Nadal saw off Somdev Devvarman of India 7-5 6-4, while Swiss second seed Federer beat American Ryan Harrison 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 in California. Third seed Novak Djokovic cruised into the quarter-finals, demolishing fellow Serb Viktor Troicki 6-0 [...]
Novak Djokovic won his second Australian Open title, breezing past Andy Murray 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday to extend Britain’s near 75-year drought in men’s singles Grand Slams. Djokovic also won the 2008 Australian title. Murray has lost three Grand Slam finals, also falling to Roger Federer in the 2008 U.S. Open and 2010 Australian [...]
Maria Sharapova suffered a fourth round shock at the Australian Open on Sunday when she was bundled out 6-2 6-3 by Germany’s Andrea Petkovic on Sunday. On the back foot from the start, Sharapova committed 30 unforced errors in a performance which underlined her struggles since her shoulder surgery in late 2008, the year she [...]