Italian Open
-
Simona Halep beats Garbine Muguruza to reach 3rd Italian Open final
Tennis | Sep 20, 2020, 08:23 PM ISTMuguruza struggled with her serve and double faulted on the final two points of the 2 hour, 16-minute match.
-
Italian Open 2020: Rafael Nadal loses in quarterfinals; Novak Djokovic enters semis
Tennis | Sep 20, 2020, 10:13 AM ISTNadal’s first tournament back ended with a 6-2, 7-5 loss to Diego Schwartzman while Djokovic earned a verbal warning for smashing his racquet through a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win over Dominik Koepfer.
-
Novak Djokovic loses his cool again during win at Italian Open
Tennis | Sep 19, 2020, 09:50 PM ISTWhen Djokovic was broken at love to even the second set at 3-3, he slammed his racket to the red clay in anger.
-
Italian Open: Rohan Bopanna-Denis Shapovalov bow out with defeat in quarterfinals
Tennis | Sep 19, 2020, 11:06 AM ISTThe unseeded Indo-Canadian pair fought hard before going down 6-4 5-7 7-10 to Chardy-Martin pair in the tie-breaker late on Friday.
-
Italian Open: Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic enter quarterfinals
Tennis | Sep 19, 2020, 09:34 AM ISTOn Friday, Djokovic defeated his fellow Serb Filip Krajinovic 7-6 (7), 6-3 to enter the last eight of the tournament for the 14th straight year.
-
Italian Open: Pushed to the limit, Novak Djokovic finds a way to win in Rome
Tennis | Sep 18, 2020, 10:10 PM ISTIt would take Djokovic quite a bit more work before he finally closed out the first set in 1 hour, 28 minutes and went on to finish off a 7-6 (7), 6-3 victory for a spot in the Italian Open quarterfinals for the 14th straight year on Friday.
-
Simona Halep extends her perfect record in tennis' restart to 7-0, reaches Italian Open quarters
Tennis | Sep 18, 2020, 07:03 PM ISTHalep, who is actually on an 11-0 run overall stretching back to February, recovered an early break in the opening set and then overpowered her 29th-ranked opponent the rest of the way.
-
Up to 1000 fans to be allowed to watch semifinals and finals of Italian Open
Tennis | Sep 18, 2020, 03:43 PM ISTThe tournament, which features nine-time champion Rafael Nadal and top-ranked Novak Djokovic, has so far been played without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic.
-
Rohan Bopanna-Denis Shapovalov enters quarterfinals of Italian Open
Tennis | Sep 17, 2020, 10:06 PM ISTStuns top seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah of Colombia in a hard-fought second-round encounter at the ATP Masters 1000 event.
-
Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal reach third round of Italian Open
Tennis | Sep 17, 2020, 10:29 AM ISTOn Wednesday, Djokovic dispatched Italian wild card entry Salvatore Caruso 6-3, 6-2 to continue with his quest for a fifth Rome title and set up a third-round against countryman Filip Krajinovic.
-
Italian Open: Novak Djokovic behaves better in 1st match since US Open default
Tennis | Sep 16, 2020, 06:59 PM ISTThe top-ranked Serb was mostly courteous with the chair umpire during a 6-3, 6-2 win over local wild-card entry Salvatore Caruso in his opening match at the Italian Open
-
Italian teenager Lorenzo Musetti stuns Stan Wawrinka in Rome
Tennis | Sep 16, 2020, 08:56 AM ISTOut-hitting Wawrinka’s famed backhand with a one-handed version of his own, the 18-year-old qualifier moved the three-time Grand Slam champion from corner to corner and displayed an all-court game that belied his years.
-
Italian Open: Caruso beats Sandgren to set up meeting with Djokovic
Tennis | Sep 15, 2020, 08:52 PM ISTThe 87th-ranked Caruso defeated American qualifier Tennys Sandgren 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4) Tuesday in the opening round at the empty Foro Italico
-
Serena Williams withdraws from Italian Open with Achilles injury
Tennis | Sep 12, 2020, 08:01 PM ISTWilliams took a medical timeout for a tape job on her Achilles during her three-set loss on Thursday.
-
Rafael Nadal to return to tennis at next week's Italian Open
Tennis | Sep 08, 2020, 07:41 PM ISTBecause of concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic, Nadal preferred not to travel to New York for the ongoing U.S. Open. He last played in February, when he won a tournament in Acapulco, Mexico.
-
Italian Open to start from September 14, health rules set
Tennis | Aug 18, 2020, 10:18 AM ISTThe Italian Open normally takes place during the second week in May, but the pandemic required the professional tennis calendar to be reshuffled, with several events suspended or reduced in scope.
-
Italian Open tennis tournament to begin on September 14
Tennis | Aug 14, 2020, 02:20 PM ISTThis year's edition of the tournament had been scheduled to start at the Foro Italico on May 11, but was called off because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
-
Italian Open tournament could be expanded from 64 to 96 players
Tennis | Aug 05, 2020, 11:37 PM ISTThe ATP Tour approached Rome organizers with an expansion proposal and offered to cover the extra prize money that would be required, Italian Tennis Federation president Angelo Binaghi said Wednesday.
-
Karolina Pliskova beats Johanna Konta to win 2019 Italian Open title
Tennis | May 19, 2019, 10:42 PM ISTPliskova needed one hour and 25 minutes to defeat Konta 6-3, 6-4 and win her first ever trophy at the Foro Italico.
-
King of Clay: Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic for 9th Italian Open title
Tennis | May 19, 2019, 10:45 PM ISTIt marked the first time in an Open Era-record 54 meetings, and in their 142nd set against each other, that Nadal won a set against Djokovic without conceding a game — otherwise known as a bagel.