Injured Maria Sharapova pulls out of Miami Open
March 17, 2018 15:05 ISTSharapova's withdrawal comes after her disappointing campaign at the Indian Wells Masters this week, where she slumped to a straight-sets defeat.
Sharapova's withdrawal comes after her disappointing campaign at the Indian Wells Masters this week, where she slumped to a straight-sets defeat.
Williams, who was on a brilliant run after knocking out some big names, was taken for a drive from the 20-year old as her skills exhausted the 37-year old American.
In the women's semis on Friday night, Venus Williams was to meet Daria Kasatkina of Russia and top-ranked Simona Halep of Romania faced Naomi Osaka of Japan.
Haas, also a tournament director at the Indian Wells event, has 15 career titles in his 28 final appearances, including one silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Federer saved a handful of break points in the first game of the second set and then broke Chung twice, including on a double fault to take a 5-1 lead.
Williams has never reached the final of the desert tournament and to do she'll have to get by 20-year-old Russian Daria Kasatkina who is yet to drop a set.
Halep took time out to head to the stands and watch the Williams sisters face off for the 29th time in their career in the ongoing Indian Wells WTA tournament.
Federer can equal his season-best start of 16-0 with a win in the quarterfinals, where he will meet Chung Hyeon of South Korea in a rematch of their Australian Open semifinal.
It has been a great tournament for Bhambri, who knocked out players of the calibre of two-time doubles Grand Slam winner Nicolas Mahut and world number 12 Lucas Pouille en route the third round.
Wozniacki blew a 3-0 lead in the first set and was on the run most of the match before losing for the second time this year to Daria Kasatkina.
Flach reached No. 1 in the men's doubles rankings and paired with Robert Seguso to form one of the world's top teams in the 1980s.
Venus Williams defeated sister Serena 6-3, 6-4 in the third round for her first win over her younger sibling since 2014.
In a stunning performance, the 110th ranked Yuki, who qualified for the main draw, dispatched the ninth seed Frenchman 6-4 6-4 in one hour and 19 minutes.
It was yet another disappointing return for the 30-year old as he admitted that he was out of sorts while playing in just his second event of 2018.
Federer, who earned his fifth title at Indian Wells last year, saved a set point in the second-set tiebreaker and advanced to face Filip Krajinovic on Monday.
Serena leads Venus 17-11 all-time and has won eight of their last nine meetings, most recently the Australian Open final last year.
Paes has returned to Top-50 and is placed 46 in the rankings after his stupendous show at the ATP 500 event in Dubai where he ended runners-up.
Sharapova announced the mutual parting with Sven Groeneveld on Friday, two days after she was beaten in straight sets by Naomi Osaka of Japan in her return to Indian Wells.
Williams' only competitive appearances since the birth came in December at an exhibition in Abu Dhabi, a Fed Cup doubles match with sister Venus last month and an exhibition in New York on Monday.
In his opening round in the main draw, Yuki will fight it out with fellow qualifier Nicolas Mahut, ranked 101, and if he manages to cross the first hurdle he will be up against world number 12 Lucas Pouille.
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