Maria Sharapova to feature in Birmingham tourney
April 19, 2018 16:42 ISTSharapova, who has won five Grand Slam titles, had to pull out of Birmingham last year due to an injury.
Sharapova, who has won five Grand Slam titles, had to pull out of Birmingham last year due to an injury.
Novak Djokovic and defending champion Rafael Nadal needed a combined 14 match points to reach the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday.
Rafael Nadal recently returned from a right hip injury which forced him to retire during the fifth set of his Australian Open quarterfinal against Marin Cilic.
Djokovic came to the tournament with a 3-3 match record this year, losing his last three since the Australian Open.
Nadal, who certainly enjoys playing on clay and has amassed an incredible 53 clay court titles in his career, teased Roger Federer for being `contradictory` over his decision.
Yuki earned 125 ranking points and a prize purse of USD 21,600 while Ramkumar got 75 points and USD 12,720 for his effort.
Sania Mirza said that pay disparity between men and women players existed in sports and a way out of it was to change the mindsets of people towards women players.
Leander Paes is 44 now, with a world record 43 doubles wins in Davis Cup to his credit.
Djokovic has struggled on the court this season as he deals with a right elbow problem that just won't seem to go away, even though he took the second half of last year off and then had a medical procedure in February.
Rafael Nadal hadn't played since the Australian Open quarterfinals because of a right hip injury, and was never challenged by the 34th-ranked Kohlschreiber at the bullring staging the clay-court tie in Valencia.
First, Isner beat Joris De Loore 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (8), 6-4, and Querrey followed with a straight sets victory, beating Ruben Bemelmans 6-1, 7-6 (5), 7-5 to put the US a victory away from reaching the semifinals.
Leander Paes, India's Davis Cup hero for years, was tied on 42 wins with Italian great Nicola Pietrangeli for long but finally surpassed him, albeit, in a foreign land.
The 44-year-old Paes is tied on 42 wins with Italian great Nicola Pietrangeli and one more win will make him the most successful doubles player in the history of Davis Cup.
The American had just won the biggest title of his 14-year career, holding every service game and rallying past Alexander Zverev in the finals.
The 25-year old Stephens had beaten three former Grand Slam champions - Garbine Muguruza, Angelique Kerber and Victoria Azarenka - to make it to the finals of Miami Open.
Stephens' opponent in Saturday's final will be sixth-seeded Jelena Ostapenko, who beat American qualifier Danielle Collins 7-6 (1), 6-3 in the other semifinal of Miami Open.
Dominating with his serve and aggressive baseline strokes, the 6-foot-10 Isner ended a 15-match winning streak for del Potro, who won Indian Wells two weeks ago by beating Roger Federer in the final.
Collins got the biggest win of her pro career Wednesday night, shocking the eighth-seeded Williams 6-2, 6-3 in the Miami Open quarterfinals.
Del Potro will play 20th-seeded Milos Raonic for a semifinal berth whereas Isner will face Hyeon Chung.
Stephens earned her biggest victory since winning last year's Open, beating No. 3-ranked Garbine Muguruza 6-3, 6-4 Monday to reach the quarterfinals at the Miami Open.
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