To watch Dada standing on the steps of the airplane ladder with a glittering trophy in hand was exhilarating, recalls Hemant Kenkre.
From Sania Mirza to Virat Kohli, even the likes of Virender Sehwag has shown that swagger on the runway.
Images from Day 3 of the 2022 Australian Open in Melbourne on Wednesday.
Images from Day 4 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday.
Angelique Kerber produced a stunning display of defensive tennis to see off the big-hitting Naomi Osaka 6-4 5-7 6-4 in a classic Red Group encounter between the last two Grand Slam champions at the WTA Finals on Wednesday. The victory evens up Kerber's record at 1-1 in round robin play as Osaka slumped to her second straight defeat at the season ending event, leaving the U.S. Open champion on the brink of elimination from the eight-woman tournament.
China's Zhang Yining dispatched old schoolmate Li Jia Wei, now of Singapore, in the women's Olympic table tennis semi-final on Friday. Zhang's 9-11, 11-8, 12-10, 11-8, 11-5 win guaranteed that China would maintain its stranglehold on the women's table tennis gold, having won every one since the sport debuted at the Olympics two decades ago. She will meet compatriot Wang Nan in the final. Nan beat Guo Yue 3-11, 11-8, 4-11, 11-7 11-3, 11-6.
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Images from the action on Day 2 at the Australian Open.
Images from Day 1 of the US Open in New York, on Monday.
Factbox on Rafael Nadal's French Open final wins
After a flawless first set from Mertens the tide turned in Andreescu's direction in the second when she fired a cross-court forehand winner to break the Belgian at love and take a 4-2 lead.
Americans Bob and Mike Bryan, the most successful doubles team in men's tennis history, have pulled out of the defence of their title at the Rio Games saying their family's health is their top priority.
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Images from the 2022 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club in London on Sunday.
Sofia Kenin lifted her first Grand Slam trophy in Melbourne at the start of the year and then added a WTA title in Lyon, days before the circuit came to a halt due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
India's tennis legend Leander Paes is gearing up for a new challenge in life as he gets set for his debut in Bollywood with his movie Rajdhani Express.
Images from Day 1 of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, on Monday.
Former French Open champion Ana Ivanovic beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 7-6 in the first round of the Dubai tennis championships on Monday while US teenager Sloane Stephens was eliminated in three sets to cap a miserable debut trip to the Gulf.
India, with players of the caliber of Sumit Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan and veteran Leander Paes, were already expected to win easy but pulling out of Pakistan top players Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Aqeel Khan has made it a no-contest.
Tennis line judges might grimace when they hear it, but players reacted positively to them being replaced by computerised calls on the opening day of the Next Gen ATP Finals on Tuesday.
Indian Davis Cupper Karan Rastogi has bagged a sponsorship deal with that will cover his expenses for the year.
Roger Federer has confirmed that he will play in Switzerland's Davis Cup playoff tie away to Netherlands at the weekend, the Swiss Tennis Federation said on Tuesday.
Rediff.com encapsulates all the sporting action from the past week in this eye-catching photo feature.
As a new and unique brand of tennis makes its debut in the country with a mix of Indian and international stars, veteran Leander Paes says the Champions Tennis League, for him, is about building bonds and new friendships.
Serbia's Novak Djokovic, who beat Switzerland's Roger Federer to win his 16th Grand Slam title on Sunday:
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The jury deliberated for less than an hour before ruling in Bouchard's favour in the lawsuit against the USTA.
The pair of Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthi bowed out of the women's doubles tennis competition at the London Olympic, losing to the Chinese Taipei pair of Su Wei Hsieh and Chia-Jung Chuang on Saturday. The Indians fought their way back after losing the first set tamely, but were beaten 1-6, 6-3, 1-6 in 91 minutes.
He managed to hold serve just once in the entire match but an unfazed V M Ranjeet said he played his best game in what turned out to be a nightmarish Davis Cup debut against South Korea's Min Hyeok Cho in New Delhi on Friday.
In the absence of big names of Indian table tennis, the onus will be on the teenaged duo of Soumyajit Ghosh and Ankita Das to deliver the goods at the London Olympics.
Images from Day 1 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Monday.
Given a chance national women's table tennis champion Manika Batra is keen to get tips from her idol, ace shuttler Saina Nehwal, ahead of her debut in next month's Rio Olympic Games.
Pete Sampras made his World Team Tennis (WTT) debut on Monday but denied he was going to come back on the tour
Images from Day 8 of the 2021 US Open in New York on Monday.
Stefanos Tsitsipas confirmed his meteoric rise into the highest echelon of men's tennis by battling back to beat Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-7(6) 6-2 7-6(4) in a compelling title duel at the ATP Finals on Sunday.
In the career spanning half a century, the actor featured in many critically-acclaimed and commercial blockbusters such as The Hunt for Red October, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Murder on the Orient Express and The Rock.
Factbox on Russia's Maria Sharapova who was banned until January 2018 on Wednesday after testing positive for the banned drug meldonium at this year's Australian Open.
Factbox on Rafael Nadal, who beat Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 to win his 11th French Open title on Sunday:
Images from Day 2 of the French Open matches played at Roland Garros on Monday
'When you looked at him even at that age, you could make out he was special.'
The third-seeded Indo-Kiwi combination prevailed 6-4, 5-7, 14-12 over the Australian-Swede combine of Matthew Ebden and Robert Lindsted, in the quarter-finals after saving three match points.
