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  US Open: Eugenie Bouchard reaches 4th round for 1st time

  August 31, 2014 11:07 IST

  NEW YORK :  Wimbledon runner-up Eugenie Bouchard pulled out a suddenly tight match Saturday night, edging 30th-seeded Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-4 to reach the U.S. Open's fourth round

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  US Open: Isner loses to Kohlschreiber in 3rd round

  August 31, 2014 10:56 IST

  NEW YORK :  Once again, John Isner's trip to Flushing Meadows ended in the third round. Once again, it happened with a loss to Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber at that stage.   And once again, there are

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  US Open: Wimbledon champ Kvitova out in third round

  August 30, 2014 23:37 IST

  NEW YORK: Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova was stunned in the third round of the U.S. Open by a scrambling, moon-balling qualifier ranked No. 145.   Aleksandra Krunic, a 21-year-old Serb who until this week had not

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  US Open: Paes-Stepanek advance to third round

  August 30, 2014 14:04 IST

  New York:Defending champions Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek progressed to the men's doubles third round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows here.The Indo-Czech tennis pair needed only an hour and 23 minutes to move

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  US Open: Sara Errani outlasts Venus Williams

  August 30, 2014 10:56 IST

  New York: Sara Errani wagged her finger and cupped her hand to her ear for the U.S. Open fans who tried to will Venus Williams to victory.   "I think I will remember forever that moment,"

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  US Open: Many happy returns for Roger Federer

  August 30, 2014 10:44 IST

  New York: When Roger Federer smacked a backhand return winner off his opponent's 142 mph (229 kph) serve Friday night, he glanced at the speed readout, just to find out exactly how difficult what he'd

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  US Open: How Sara Errani proved the pundits wrong

  August 30, 2014 7:39 IST

  New York: A day before facing Venus Williams -- and a partisan crowd -- at the U.S. Open, Italy's Sara Errani came across a video posted on Twitter that gave her a little extra motivation. 

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  US Open: Paes-Cara, Bopanna-Katarina advance in mixed doubles

  August 29, 2014 14:52 IST

  New York:  India's Leander Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black, seeded third, along with the sixth seeds Rohan Bopanna and his Slovenian teammate Katarina Srebotnik advanced to the second round of the mixed doubles

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  US Open: Stan Wawrinka gets into tiff with fan

  August 29, 2014 12:13 IST

  NEW YORK :  In the heat of the moment, locked in a suddenly tight match after midnight at Flushing Meadows, Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka snapped at a rowdy spectator, telling him to "Shut up."  

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  US Open: Ana Ivanovic lone upset in 2nd round

  August 29, 2014 11:37 IST

  NEW YORK : Ana Ivanovic's comeback tour has ended with yet another early exit at the U.S. Open. Ivanovic, who had been having her best season since winning the French Open in 2008, looked out

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  US Open: Andy Murray moves easily into third round

  August 29, 2014 10:38 IST

  NEW YORK:  Cramp-free on a cool summer's night, Andy Murray moved easily into the third round of the U.S. Open on Thursday with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Matthias Bachinger.   The eighth-seeded Murray, who

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  US Open:Serena Williams overcomes 3 early double-faults to win

  August 29, 2014 10:10 IST

  NEW YORK:  Good as she is, even Serena Williams can find it tough to deal with swirling wind, so much so that she double-faulted three times in her first service game Thursday at the U.S.

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  US Open: 15-year-old Bellis loses in 2nd round

  August 29, 2014 9:29 IST

  NEW YORK: CiCi Bellis, the first 15-year-old since 1996 to win a U.S. Open match, could not follow that up with another victory, losing in the second round Thursday night.   Bellis, a Californian who is

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  Meet CiCi Bellis, 15, youngest US Open winner since 1996

  September 13, 2014 10:14 IST

  NEW YORK :  While 15-year-old American CiCi Bellis was in the process of stunning a Grand Slam finalist to become the youngest player to win a U.S. Open match since 1996, her father did his

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  US Open: Paes, Sania advance to the second round

  August 28, 2014 12:07 IST

  New York: Indian tennis players Leander Paes and Sania Mirza won their respective doubles matches to advance to the second round of the US Open at the Flushing Meadows here Wednesday.Men's doubles defending champions Paes

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  US Open: Peng Shuai upsets 4th-seeded Radwanska

  August 28, 2014 10:56 IST

  NEW YORK : Peng Shuai upset fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, the first top-10 player knocked out of this year's U.S. Open.   The 39th-ranked Peng won 6-3, 6-4 in the second round Wednesday, giving China a big

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  US Open: Maria Sharapova comes through in 3 sets tussle

  August 28, 2014 10:38 IST

  NEW YORK :  A year ago at this time, Maria Sharapova was sitting out the U.S. Open, getting checked by doctors and having tests on the surgically repaired right shoulder that has troubled her off

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  US Open: 4 years later, Venus Williams enters 3rd round

  August 28, 2014 10:11 IST

  NEW YORK :  Two-time champion Venus Williams is back in the third round of the U.S. Open for the first time since 2010, a year before she announced she had been diagnosed with an autoimmune

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  What to watch at Open: Will Sharapova foe take TO?

  August 27, 2014 16:20 IST

  New York: If Maria Sharapova's opponent Wednesday at the U.S. Open takes a medical timeout, the five-time major champion wouldn't mind seeing that come at a cost.   Sharapova was asked after her first-round victory at

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  US Open: With MJ on his side, Federer wins opener

  August 27, 2014 12:19 IST

  NEW YORK :  Growing up as a basketball fan, Roger Federer had a poster of Michael Jordan hanging on his bedroom wall. On Tuesday night, Federer won a first-round match at the U.S. Open with

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  Bopanna-Qureshi suffer first round defeat in US Open

  August 27, 2014 11:51 IST

  New York:  India's Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam Qureshi suffered a first round defeat in the men's doubles of the US Open tennis here at the Flushing Meadows.Bopanna and Qureshi, who were seeded

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  Defending champion Wawrinka confirms participation for Chennai Open

  August 26, 2014 18:46 IST

  Chennai:  Switzerland's World No.4 tennis player Stan Wawrinka Tuesday confirmed his participation for the 20th edition of the Chennai Open to be held at the SDAT Stadium here Jan 5-11, next year.The 2008 Beijing Olympics

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  US Open:Maria Sharapova wins 1st-rounder

  August 26, 2014 18:15 IST

  NEW YORK :  A year after a most painful absence, Maria Sharapova returned to her winning ways at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The fifth-seeded Sharapova overcame a few wobbles with her serve tosses and took the

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  US Open: Top-seeded Novak Djokovic coasts in opener

  August 26, 2014 11:26 IST

  NEW YORK: Top-seeded Novak Djokovic breezed past a U.S. Open novice in the first round Monday, beating Diego Schwartzman 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 in a match that finished a few minutes before midnight.   Djokovic was never

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  US Open: Andy Murray grits through cramps to win

  August 26, 2014 11:08 IST

  NEW YORK : Spinning in 70 mph second serves, grabbing at his hamstring during points, Andy Murray gritted his way through head-to-toe cramps to win at the U.S. Open.   Murray outlasted Robin Haase 6-3, 7-6

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  US Open: Halep rallies from set down in 1st round

  August 25, 2014 23:29 IST

  NEW YORK: Second-seeded Simona Halep rallied from a set down to beat a young American making her Grand Slam debut in the first round of the U.S. Open.   The Romanian won 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-2

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  Chance for players other than Big 4 at US Open

  August 25, 2014 12:23 IST

  New York: Two 23-year-olds, Milos Raonic and Grigor Dimitrov, broke through to their first major semifinals at Wimbledon.   Perhaps this year's U.S. Open will be the tipping point for the rise of a new generation.

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  Petra Kvitova takes 2nd Connecticut Open title

  August 24, 2014 14:16 IST

  NEW HAVEN, Conn. : Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova beat Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia 6-4, 6-2 Saturday to win her second Connecticut Open title in the past three years.   The No. 4 player in the world