Twenty nine years after winning her first grand slam title, Martina Navratilova swept to her 57th on Sunday.
Upbeat Venus ready to 'kill it' after loss to little sister
Former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic says players are being hounded like 'serial killers' and demanded proof of the match-fixing allegations that have rocked the sport at the Australian Open.
They beat the third seeded pair of Mark Knowles of Bahamas and Elena Likhovtseva of Russia 6-2, 6-4 in a second round match.
Paes and his former partner Mahesh Bhupathi also advanced into the mixed doubles at the Australian Open.
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The 58-times Grand Slam winner says from now on whatever she achieves will be the icing on the cake.
The fifth seeded Indo-American pair defeated Spain's Alex Lopez Moron and Rossana Neffa-De Los Rios of Parma 6-0 6-1 in the second round.
Leander's father said tennis legend Martina Navratilova has rekindled his son's zest for the game.\n\n
British player Dan Evans has been provisionally suspended after admitting on Friday that he had failed a doping test for cocaine at the Barcelona Open in April.
She becomes only the fifth woman to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time.
It is totally possible that I won't play top tennis again, because my feet will not allow it, Blick newspaper quoted her as saying.
It was Kristyna's first win over a top-five ranked player and she will go on to play fellow Czech Barbora Strycova in the quarter-finals.
Impressive wins by world number six Agnieszka Radwanska and seasoned Marcos Baghdatis paved the way for Pune Marathas's close 26-25 victory over Hyderabad Aces in the Champions Tennis League (CTL) at the LB Stadium on Tuesday.
Serena Williams won her eighth Miami Open title with little trouble, enjoying a 6-2, 6-0 win over Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro in just 56 minutes on Saturday.
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni could barely contain her joy after continuing her remarkable run at the Australian Open to reach her first grand slam quarter-final since the 1999 Wimbledon championships on Monday.
The world number 181 is the first mother since 1980 champion Evonne Goolagong to reach the Wimbledon final.
Be it some scintillating action from the Australia Open or Diego Costa's strike sealing the points for Chelsea against Arsenal. In cricket, The Indian team finally tasted success on the back of strong performances from two youngsters. A sensational debut by Jasprit Bumrah followed by a match-winning century by Manish Paney. Be ready to be amazed as Rediff.com encapsulates all the sporting action from the past week in this super photo feature.
Regaining the world's top ranking in women's tennis is less important to Maria Sharapova.
Karolina Pliskova suffered a narrow US Open defeat at the hands of Angelique Kerber on Saturday, but the Czech 10th seed also proved her mettle as one of the most dangerous attacking players in women's tennis.
Sania won the 2016 Australian Open women's doubles title with Martina Hingis before announcing their split in August.
As the year 2016 draws to a close, vote for the best Indian sportsperson of the year.
Sania and her American partner Bethanie-Mattek Sands shocked second seeds Martina Hingis and Flavia Penneta, winning 6-3, 6-3 in the quarter-finals of Apia International. Rohan Bopanna and Daniel Nestor beat the Italian pair of Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini.
What a year Sania Mirza, Leander Paes, Saina Nehwal, Vijender Singh and Anirban Lahiri had!
Venus Williams will try to become the oldest woman to win Wimbledon for 109 years on Saturday although, ominously for her the last time a 37-year-old reached the final, it was a Spaniard who ruined the script.
It was end of US Open campaign for Somdev Devvarman and Mahesh Bhupathi after they lost their respective hard-fought matches even as Rohan Bopanna had a mixed day.
Participants at the Indian Wheelchair Tennis Tour held in Chennai did not let adversity affect their outlook on life. A Ganesh Nadar presents some of their stories.
'Ms Williams has had multiple on-court implosions in the past and got penalised for them, too.' 'She cried sexism this time perhaps because she knew the atmosphere was ripe for it,' notes Shuma Raha.
Most expressed shock and a degree of sympathy for Maria Sharapova others were less charitable.
Venus Williams accused Wimbledon officials of discriminating against its women champions and wants "equality" when it comes to scheduling matches on its two biggest showcourts.
Indian ace Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black ended the season and their partnership on a remarkable high by clinching the WTA finals women's doubles title with a comprehensive triumph in the summit clash in Singapore.
After two weeks of intriguing tennis where the world's best fought hard to assert their dominance on clay, we have the champions out there.
'He will always be an enigma.' 'But it's because of players like him that some people still watch doubles matches.'
With Serena bidding to become just the fourth woman to win all four grand slams in the same year, the US Open hype machine that already had been in top gear is now set to crank into overdrive.
With a 6-2, 6-1 3rd round win over Swedish Johanna Larsson at the US Open at Flushing Meadows on Saturday, Serena recorded her 307th Grand Slam victory and in doing so went past legendary Martina Novratilova to record the most wins in a major by a woman.
India on Monday got the backing of Switzerland in its bid to become a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday.
Italian tennis ace Francesca Schiavone has said that she regards Serena Williams better than Steffi Graf after she drew within four Grand Slam titles of the former German great's Open-era record.
A rampaging Madison Keys completed an American sweep of the US Open women's quarter-finals on Wednesday, dismissing Estonia's Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 6-3 to guarantee an American champion at the year's final Grand Slam.
Arsene Wenger acknowledged Southampton were the sharper team as they crushed Arsenal 4-0 on Saturday but he also blamed the defeat on bad luck.
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