Shares News Defending champion Rafael Nadal faced an anxious night after rain intervened with him trailing Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman in his French Open quarter-final on Wednesday. PARIS: Defending champion Rafael Nadal faced an anxious night after rain intervened with him trailing Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman in his French Open quarter-final on Wednesday. Eleventh seed Schwartzman snapped […]
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Diego Schwartzman become the first player to take a set off Rafael Nadal at the French Open for three years before rain halted play. Rafael Nadal was 30-15 up in the second set of his French Open quarter-final vs Diego Schwartzman and serving to make it a set apiece when the heavens opened again and […]
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Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin shocked top seeded Marcelo Melo and Lukasz Kubot in straight sets to reach the men’s doubles quarterfinals of the French Open, in Paris on Saturday. The 13th seeded Indo-French team beat the Brazilian-Polish combo 6-4, 7-6(1) in one hour and 30 minutes in the third round. Rohan […]
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‘I have definitely always had that will to win. It was something I was born with. I want to be able to do my best and one day tell my daughter that I tried my best.’ When Serena Williams was asked what she thought of Novak Djokovic’s declaration that she was “the greatest female athlete […]
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The head-to-head history is overwhelmingly in Williams’ favour as the American has won 19 of 21 meetings against Sharapova, including 18 in a row. If the upcoming French Open showdown between Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova provides any of the sort of animus and back-and-forth they manage to stir up away from the court, look […]
Continue ReadingIt has been almost 2-1/2 years since Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova last faced off across the net but when it comes to these two great on-court foes, absence does not make the heart grow fonder. While Sharapova’s quarter-final defeat by Williams at the 2016 Australian Open ended up being the last competitive match the […]
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सर्बिया के टेनिस स्टार नोवाक जोकोविच ने एक बेहद संघर्षपूर्ण मुकाबले में स्पेन के रोबर्टो बतिस्ता अगुट को हराकर साल के दूसरे ग्रैंड स्लैम फ्रेंच ओपन टेनिस टूर्नमेंट के पुरुष एकल के अंतिम-16 में शुक्रवार को प्रवेश कर लिया। लेकिन, इस दौरान एक ऐसी घटना घटी, जिसने सभी को चौंका दिया। दरअसल, इस मुश्किल जीत […]
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