Scores at end of Day 4 India    10-0 (3)    Runs    Balls    4s    6s    SR D Karthik    not out    6     13    1    0    46.15 W Jaffer    not out    3     5    0    0    60.00 Extras: 1 ( b:0 lb:1 [...]
England 43-0 (16) Runs Balls 4s 6s SR A Strauss not out 21 58 1 0 36.21 A Cook not out 17 39 1 0 43.59 Extras: 5 ( b:2 lb:1 nb:1 w:1) Total: 43-0 (16) | Curr. RR: 2.69 FOW: India O M R W Nb Wd RPO Zaheer Khan 5 2 14 0 [...]
Sania had something to smile when she partnering Israel’s Shahar Peer won the doubles title beating Chakvetadze and Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 7-6 (5) in the final. Both Sania and Chakvetadze had also reached the doubles final with different partners and played in Cincinatti last week where Chakvetadze won the title. Share and Enjoy:
Top seed Anna Chakvetadze defeated India’s Sania Mirza 6-3, 6-2 to win her first Stanford classic title in Stanford on Sunday. Recording her 10th win in the United States in 2-1/2 weeks, the 20-year-old Russian was the far more consistent player, pushing Sania around the court with razor-sharp groundstrokes. It was a breakthrough week for [...]
England 169-7 (55) Runs Balls 4s 6s SR A Strauss c Tendulkar b Zaheer 4 9 1 0 44.44 A Cook lbw b Ganguly 43 111 6 0 38.74 *M Vaughan c Tendulkar b Zaheer 9 24 1 0 37.50 K Pietersen lbw b RP Singh 13 18 3 0 72.22 [...]
Sania Mirza and her Israeli partner Shahar Peer fought back after dropping the first set to get past unseeded Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan and Angelika Bachmann of Germany 5-7, 6-3, 10-6 and storm into doubles semi-finals of the Bank of the West Classic tennis tournament in Stanford. The third seeded Indo-Isreali pair failed to coordinate [...]
Sania Mirza registered her second big upset in successive days as she packed off fourth-seeded Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in straight sets to storm into the semi-finals of the US $600,000 Bank of the West of Classic. Unseeded Sania beat Schnyder 7-6 (7/2), 6-1 and set up a semi-final clash with eighth seed Austrian Sybille Bammer. [...]
Sania Mirza breezed into the quarter-finals of the Stanford Classic, scoring an upset 6-4, 6-1 victory over French sixth seed Tatiana Golovin on Thursday. The victory set up a quarter-final showdown with fourth seed Patty Schnyder of Switzerland, who registered a 7-5 6-2 win against Russian qualifier Yaroslava Shvedova. Mirza tore apart Golovin, whom she [...]
Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Australian Paul Hanley were shocked by Americans Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish in the first round of the men’s doubles at the US $525,000 Indianapolis Tennis Championships on Monday. Bhupathi and his new doubles partner, Hanley, lost 7-6(2), 4-6, 8-10 after starting well in the opener. Share and Enjoy:
Sania Mirza overcame leg cramps in the third set as she rallied to beat Japan’s Akiko Morigami 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(5) to enter the second round of the US $600,000 Bank of West Classic tournament in Stanford, USA, on Tuesday. The Indian ace will take on sixth seed Tatiana Golovin of France in the second round [...]
Bad light, then rain came to India’s rescue on the final day of the first Test. India, set 380 for victory, reached 282 for nine before the weather saved India as the match was called off. Share and Enjoy:
The Indians offered no resistance today and fell like a deck of cards. The scorecard below says it all. India 201-10 (77.2) Runs Balls 4s 6s SR D Karthik lbw b Sidebottom 5 25 0 0 20.00 W Jaffer c and b Tremlett 58 156 7 0 37.18 *R Dravid c Prior [...]
Third seeded Sania Mirza made short work of Olga Govortsova of Belarus to book her first-ever singles semi-final berth at the US $175,000 Cincinnati Open tennis tournament on Friday. The Indian ace, who was eliminated in the quarter-finals of last two editions of the event, thrashed Govortsova 6-1, 6-1 in just 51 minutes in a [...]
Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss shared a solid second-wicket stand for England on Thursday before India took three wickets in the last session to redress the balance by stumps on the opening day of the first Test.Helped by a 142-run partnership by Vaughan and Strauss, England reached 268 for four wickets by the close at [...]
Sania Mirza made it to her third consecutive quarter-final at the Cincinnati Open after defeating Uzbekistan’s Varvara Lepchenko 6-2, 6-2 at the US $175,000 WTA tournament on Wednesday. The third seeded Indian ace was particularly effective with her returns, breaking Lepchenko five times during the one hour and eight minutes Tier III match. Share and [...]
When Anil Kumble had Andrew Strauss snapped by Rahul Dravid, his 150th catch, on the opening day of Lord’s Test, the leg spinner achieved a world record of different type against his name. This was the tenth time Kumble was dismissing a batsman in his nineties – most by any bowler in Test annals. He [...]
Top seeds Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mettack cruised into the quarter-finals of US $175,000 Cincinnati Open after a straight sets victory over the Colombian-Chinese pair of Catalina Castano and Meng Yuan. The Indo-American pair overwhelmed their unseeded opponents 6-4, 6-0 in a first round match of the Tier 3 hard court tournament in Cincinnati on [...]
Sania’s second round exit from the ladies singles at the just-concluded Wimbledon championships notwithstanding, she climbed six rungs up the ladder to 38th in the latest WTA rankings, released on 9th July. Sania was previously placed 44th in the rankings. Below are a few links to wallpapers/pictures of Sania : Share and Enjoy:
Prakash Amritraj’s run in the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, at Newport, Rhode Island, came to an end on Friday when he was beaten by fifth seed Nicolas Mahut of France in the quarter-finals. The US-based Indian Davis Cup player, who received a wild card, was beaten 6-4, 7-6(4) by the Frenchman. Share and Enjoy:
A leading Indian weightlifter could face a life ban after being caught for a second doping offence during this year’s National Games. Satheesha Rai, stripped of two gold medals and a bronze at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games for using a stimulant, tested positive for the banned steroid ‘stanozolol’, the Indian Olympic Association said on [...]