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  Djokovic beats Ferrer to win Abu Dhabi final

  December 28, 2013 23:04 IST

  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Novak Djokovic maintained his unbeaten record in Abu Dhabi by beating David Ferrer 7-5, 6-2 Saturday to win his third straight World Tennis Championship title.Djokovic, who finished the year with

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  Ferrer, Djokovic win semifinal in Abu Dhabi

  December 28, 2013 14:06 IST

  Dubai: David Ferrer won the semifinal against his fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal clear in two sets, while Serbia's Novak Djokovic was victorious over Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Friday, the second day of the Mubadala World Championship

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  Federer arrives for Brisbane International

  December 28, 2013 6:48 IST

  Brisbane: Roger Federer arrived in Australia on Saturday for the Brisbane International injury-free and with a refreshed attitude for 2014.Federer, who will use the Brisbane event as his only warm-up tournament ahead of the Australian

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  Tsonga beats Andy Murray in UAE

  December 27, 2013 16:26 IST

  Abu Dhabi: Back from 3-month injury, Andy Murray lost in straight sets to French Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Mudabala World Tennis Championship here on Thursday. Murray, the 2013 Wimbledon champion and world number 4 lost

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  Ferrer begins new season with easy win over Wawrinka

  December 27, 2013 14:30 IST

  Madrid: Spain's David Ferrer kicked off the new season with a convincing 7-5, 6-1 victory Thursday over Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship, a hard-court exhibition event in Abu Dhabi.Wawrinka grabbed a

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  Venus Williams feeling fit, healthy for new season

  December 27, 2013 6:40 IST

  Auckland: Venus Williams says she's as fit and healthy as she has been in years and hopes to turn a dream into reality when she starts her season at the Auckland WTA tournament from Monday.The

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  Injured Tipsarevic pulls out of Chennai Open

  December 26, 2013 6:36 IST

  Chennai: Defending champion Janko Tipsarevic from Serbia has withdrawn from the Aircel ATP Chennai Open Tennis tournament due to a rupture on the heel tendon he sustained in Valencia in October this year.The World No.36

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  Roger Federer says another child on the way in 2014

  December 25, 2013 7:31 IST

  Madrid: Already in the swing of parenting, Roger Federer is getting ready for a larger family.The tennis star says on Twitter that he and his wife, Mirka, are expecting another child next year.Twins Charlene and

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  World's top 10 highest earning tennis players in 2013

  December 26, 2013 7:01 IST

  New Delhi: The world over, players who play good tennis get better payouts. They make their country proud as well as earn hefty prize money of the tournaments they win. Apart from tournament's prize money,

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  Chennai Open wild cards for Bhambri, Nedunchezhiyan

  December 24, 2013 19:32 IST

  Chennai: India's Yuki Bhambri (No.195) and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (312) along with Kyle Edmund (377) from Britain have been granted wild card entry into the main draw of the singles at the ATP Chennai Open tennis

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  Spanish tennis player receives 5-year fixing ban

  December 24, 2013 6:25 IST

  London: The Tennis Integrity Unit says Spanish player Guillermo Olaso has been banned from the sport for five years and fined $25,000 for match-fixing.   Olaso was found guilty of three corruption offenses in 2010, including

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  Vishnu most expensive buy at Maharashtra tennis league auction

  December 23, 2013 6:42 IST

  Pune: Hyderabad's Vishnu Vardhan, who partnered Leander Paes in the London Olympic Games last year, and Sowjanya Bavisetti became the most expensive male andfemale players respectively at the auction conducted for the second edition of

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  Bernard Tomic, the bad boy of Tennis, strips and dances in a club

  January 10, 2014 6:45 IST

  New Delhi: Tennis bad boy Bernard Tomic has the neck of  courting controversy again and over again. On November 19 he threw a party at Sin City nightclub during Schoolies in Surfers Paradise and did

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  Novak Djokovic hires Boris Becker as coach

  December 18, 2013 23:28 IST

  Monaco: Novak Djokovic is turning to Boris Becker for help in 2014.   The second-ranked Serb said Wednesday that Becker will join his staff for next season as head coach.   "He is a true legend, someone

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  Djokovic, SWilliams win ITF awards for 2013

  December 18, 2013 17:28 IST

  London: Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams are the International Tennis Federation's world champions for 2013.   Djokovic captured the men's award for the third successive year, and Williams took the honor for the fourth time.   Djokovic

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  Somdev gets Chennai Open main draw berth

  December 18, 2013 16:59 IST

  Chennai: India's Somdev Devvarman was included in the main draw of the Aircel ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament to be held here from Dec 30 Jan 5 after Estonia's Jurgen Zopp pulled out with a

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  Murray to return to court next week in Abu Dhabi

  December 18, 2013 6:42 IST

  London: Andy Murray will play his first competitive tennis match since September against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi next week.   Mubadala World Tennis Championship organizers confirmed on Tuesday the Wimbledon champion,

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  Rohan Bopanna happy to be reunited with Qureshi

  December 17, 2013 21:50 IST

  Bangalore: Happy to be reunited with doubles partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan, Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna on Tuesday exuded confidence of doing “extremely well” in the upcoming season, starting in January next year.“It is

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  Andy Murray voted BBC sports personality of 2013

  December 16, 2013 7:35 IST

  London: Wimbledon champion Andy Murray was voted the BBC's 60th Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday, winning the accolade after becoming the first British man to lift the trophy at the All England Club

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  Nikshep, Abhinikka emerge champions

  December 15, 2013 18:50 IST

  Bangalore: B.R. Nikshep of Karnataka and R. Abhinikka of Tamil Nadu emerged champions in the boys and girls singles, respectively on the concluding day of the RT Narayan Memorial AITA National Series Under-16 Tennis Tournament

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  Australian Open: Dellacqua gets wildcard entry

  December 16, 2013 10:51 IST

  Melbourne, Australia: Casey Dellacqua defeated Arina Rodionova 5-7, 6-1, 6-0 Sunday to win a wildcard tournament to qualify for January's Australian Open.   Dellacqua, the Australian No. 2 behind Samantha Stosur, will be making her 11th

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  WTA to add extra grass court tournament from 2015

  December 13, 2013 6:25 IST

  London: The WTA says it will add an extra grass-court tournament in Nottingham, England, to its calendar from 2015 to give players more time to gear up for Wimbledon.   The ATP and WTA tours had

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  Ankita-Prarthana enter semis of ITF tennis

  December 12, 2013 19:49 IST

  Vashi: Wildcard entrants Ankita Raina and Prarthana Thombare kept the Indian interest alive in the doubles event as they entered the semi-finals of the $25000 Ganesh Naik ITF women's tennis tournament here Thursday.In the quarter-finals,

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  Asian Games, CWG important to gauge India's standing: Sania

  December 12, 2013 18:37 IST

  Panaji: Indian Tennis star Sania Mirza feels that events like the Asian and Commonwealth Games are important in understanding India's standing in sportsother than cricket."Events like Lusofonia Games, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games are important

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  1st female president for Lawn Tennis Association

  December 12, 2013 6:40 IST

  London: A woman has been appointed to head the Lawn Tennis Association for the first time in the British organization's 125-year history.   Cathie Sabin assumed the presidency at the LTA's annual general meeting on Wednesday. 

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  Know about the famous spat between Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams

  April 14, 2014 14:57 IST

  New Delhi: Wimbledon is known for its electrifying matches inside the court but what made headlines in 2013 was the catfight  between  two tennis sensations - Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams.The two best players of

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  AITA National Series: Adil ousts seeded Mayukh

  December 10, 2013 19:20 IST

  Bangalore: Wild card Adil Kalyanpur of Karnataka pulled off the first upset of the tournament when he beat seventh seed Mayukh Rawat 6-2, 6-1 and entered the last 16 round of the RT Naayan memorial

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  Top seeds win at ITF Women's Championships

  December 10, 2013 6:40 IST

  Navi Mumbai:  Second seeded Diana Marcinkevica of Latvia and third seeded Gioia Barbieri of Italy scored contrasting wins to enter the singles second round at the $25,000 Ganesh Naik ITF Women's Tennis Championships being played