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  Australian Open: Errani, Vinci defend Women's doubles title

  Tennis | January 24, 2014 16:08 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Top-ranked Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci rallied to win the last five games and successfully defended their Australian Open women's doubles title with a 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 victory over Russian pair Ekaterina Makarova

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  Australian Open: Li Na's new approach to final

  Tennis | January 24, 2014 15:58 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: When Li Na thinks back to her first Australian Open final, she doesn't recall feeling nervous. Just very excited.   The 31-year-old Chinese star makes her third attempt at winning the championship in Melbourne

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  Australian Open: Sania a win away from third Grand Slam mixed doubles title

  Tennis | January 24, 2014 13:53 IST

  Melbourne: India's Sania Mirza and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau beat defending champions Jarmila Gajdosova and Matthew Ebden of Australia to enter the final of the Australian Open mixed doubles final at the Melbourne Park

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  Australian Open: Results, day 12

  Tennis | January 24, 2014 12:37 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Results Friday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses):Mixed DoublesSemifinalsSania Mirza, India, and Horia Tecau (6), Romania, def. Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, and Matthew Ebden, Australia, 2-6, 6-3, 10-2.Kristina Mladenovic, France,

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  Australian Open: Wawrinka reaches his first Slam final

  Tennis | January 23, 2014 19:01 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Stanislas Wawrinka backed up his upset of four-time champion Novak Djokovic by reaching his first Grand Slam final with a 6-3, 7-6 (1), 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4) win over Tomas Berdych in the

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  Know about Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulkova

  Tennis | January 24, 2014 6:58 IST

  New Delhi: Dominika Cibulkova is a Slovakian tennis sensation who defeated Russian top female player Maria Sharapova in the 4th round and is now the finalist of Australian open. Cibulkova had never advanced beyond the

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  Australian Open: Results, day 11

  Tennis | January 23, 2014 18:07 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Results Thursday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses):Men's SinglesSemifinalsStanislas Wawrinka (8), Switzerland, def. Tomas Berdych (7), Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4).Women's SinglesSemifinalsLi Na (4), China,

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  Australian Open: Li Na, Cibulkova to meet in the final

  Tennis | January 23, 2014 12:58 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Li Na has advanced to her third Australian Open final and will have to beat Dominika Cibulkova to win her first title at Melbourne Park.   No. 4-seeded Li won the first give games

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  Australian Open 2014: Sania-Horia sail into the mixed doubles semifinals

  Tennis | January 23, 2014 16:38 IST

  Melbourne: India's Sania Mirza and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau stormed into the semifinals of the mixed doubles event at the Australian Open with straight sets victory over Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Julia Georges, here on

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  Australian Open 2014: Li Na beats Bouchard, reaches final

  Tennis | January 23, 2014 10:43 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Li Na has her third and probably best chance to win the Australian Open final after advancing with a 6-2, 6-4 win over 19-year-old Canadian Eugenie Bouchard.   No. 4-seeded Li, the 2011 French

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  Australian Open: Rohan Bopanna/ Katarina Srebotnik lost in mixed doubles Q/F

  Tennis | January 22, 2014 21:55 IST

  Melbourne: India's Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek lost their men's doubles quarterfinals while Rohan Bopanna went down in his last-eight match in the mixed doubles at the Australia Open here on Wednesday.Paes-Stepanek

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  Australian Open: Defending champ Azarenka booed

  Tennis | January 22, 2014 18:25 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Victoria Azarenka's tumultuous reign as the Australian Open's two-time champion ended Wednesday with a lot of shouting from her and some boos from the crowd.Australian fans love their champions but dislike bad sportsmanship,

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  Australian Open: Federer beats Murray, reaches semi

  Tennis | January 22, 2014 20:04 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Roger Federer rekindled his dominance over Andy Murray in Grand Slam matches and advanced to his 11th consecutive Australian Open semifinal with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 win Wednesday.   Federer clinched it

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  Australian Open: Results, day 10

  Tennis | January 22, 2014 19:52 IST

  Melborne, Australia: Results Wednesday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses):Results Wednesday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses):Men's SinglesQuarterfinalsRafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Grigor Dimitrov (22), Bulgaria, 3-6,

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  Australian Open: Paes-Stepanek out in Men's doubles

  Tennis | January 22, 2014 12:00 IST

  Melbourne: India's Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek were knocked out of the Australian Open men's doubles with a straight set loss to Michael Llodra and Nicholas Mahut in the quarterfinals at the

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  Australian Open 2014: Radwanska ends Victoria Azarenka's run in quarterfinal

  Tennis | January 22, 2014 9:55 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Victoria Azarenka's 18-match winning streak at the Australian Open ended in an upset 6-1, 5-7, 6-0 quarterfinal loss to Agnieszka Radwanska on Wednesday to continue the flow of stars tumbling out of the

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  Australian Open: Djokovic upset by Wawrinka in quarterfinals

  Tennis | January 21, 2014 20:01 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Novak Djokovic's bid for a fourth consecutive Australian Open title ended in a dramatic five-set quarterfinal loss to Stanislas Wawrinka that opens up the prospects of a new major champion.   No. 8-seeded Wawrinka

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  Australian Open: Bouchard, 19, into 1st major semi

  Tennis | January 21, 2014 16:52 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard is amassing quite a collection of stuffed animals at the Australian Open, all gifts from her own personal cheering section nicknamed the "Genie Army."   With nearly every victory this

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  Australian Open 2014: Sania-Black go down in quarterfinals

  Tennis | January 21, 2014 14:22 IST

  Melbourne: Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black lost to No.1 seeds Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci of Italy in the quarterfinals of the women's doubles tennis competition at the Australian Open here Tuesday.The

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  Australian Open 2014: Federer vs Murray, a quarterfinal worthy of a major final

  Tennis | January 21, 2014 13:56 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: As Roger Federer sees it, he and Andy Murray are making a comeback from a year of ups and downs.   That's putting it mildly.   For 32-year-old Federer, the winner of 17 Grand Slam