India’s Sania Mirza failed to grab her second Australian Open mixed doubles title as she and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau lost 3-6, 2-6 to Daniel Nestor of Canada and Kristina Mladenovic of France in the final at the Rod Laver Arena here Sunday. Nestor and Mladenovic, who won the Wimbledon title last year, fended […]
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 Melbourne Park Wednesday. The Indo-Czech pair, who were seeded fifth, went down 2-6, 6-7 to the 13th seeded French duo. Both […]
Two-time finalist Li Na of China beat Italian Flavia Pennetta with an impressive 6-2, 6-2 victory in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open here Tuesday. Li was rarely troubled in the one-sided match, outclassing her opponent in 67 minutes to reach the final four after last year’s final loss to Victoria Azarenka, Xinhua reported. Li […]
Women’s top seed and world’s No.1 Serena Williams was knocked out of the Australian Open in the fourth round losing to Serbia’s 14th-seeded Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 3-6, 3-6 here Sunday. Williams, who was also the top seed in 2013, was eliminated by then-19-year-old fellow American Sloane Stephens in last year’s quarterfinals, which was the biggest […]
Two-time finalist Li Na took less than an hour to beat Russia’s 22nd-seeded Ekaterina Makarova 6-2, 6-0 and to reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open here Sunday. The Chinese broke Makarova’s serve five times to set up a quarterfinal clash with Italy’s Flavia Pennetta, Xinhua reported. Pennetta beat Germany’s ninth-seeded Angelique Kerber in three […]