Dhaka – Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber moved a step closer to her second straight Volvo Car Open title, reaching the semifinals with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Irina Camelia Begu on Friday.”I’m feeling like home,” the 28-year-old German told…
Chittagong – BAF Base Bashar team clinched the Bangladesh Air Force Inter-Base Lawn Tennis title beating BAF Base Zahurul Haque team by 2-0 sets in the final at BAF Base Zahurul Haque Tennis ground here on Thursday.Squadron Leader Zaky Anwar…
DHAKA- The Independence Day Runner Open Tennis competition will begin on Thursday (April 7) at the National Tennis Court Complex in the city’s Ramna area.Sponsored by Runner Group, Bangladesh Tennis Federation (BTF) organised the five-day event. A total of 250…
Dhaka – World number one and defending champion Novak Djokovic will face Japan’s Kei Nishikori in the ATP and WTA Miami Open final after straight-set triumphs Friday in which both were tested.Djokovic, an 11-time Grand Slam champion whose three titles…
Dhaka – World number one Novak Djokovic advanced to the fourth round of the ATP and WTA Miami Open on Sunday, defeating Portugal’s 38th-ranked Joao Sousa 6-4, 6-1.Two-time defending champion Djokovic, trying to match Andre Agassi’s record of six career…
Dhaka- World number one Novak Djokovic advanced to the third round of the ATP and WTA Miami Open on Friday by defeating Britain’s 87th-ranked Kyle Edmund 6-3, 6-3.The 28-year-old Serbian star, seeking his third Miami crown in a row and…
Dhaka – World number one Serena Williams was forced to regroup but launched her bid for a ninth Miami Open crown Thursday by defeating US compatriot Christina McHale 6-3, 5-7, 6-2.Three-time defending champion Williams had the match on her racquet…
Dhaka – Juan Martin Del Potro, only three events into his comeback from left wrist surgery, has booked a second-round date Friday with fellow on-the-mend star Roger Federer at the Miami Open.Argentina’s Del Potro defeated countryman Guido Pella 6-0, 7-6…
Dhaka – Novak Djokovic continued his recent mastery of Rafael Nadal on hard courts, winning 7-6 (5), 6-2 on his sixth match point Saturday to reach the BNP Paribas Open final for the third straight year.The world’s top-ranked player will…
Dhaka – World number one Novak Djokovic booked his third round spot in the Indian Wells hardcourt tennis tournament Sunday, fending off Bjorn Fratangelo in three sets, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2.The defending two-time champ Djokovic has now won 12 consecutive matches…
World No. 2 Andy Murray got his Indian Wells campaign off to a flying start Saturday with a 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) victory over Spaniard Marcel Granollers.Murray is playing in his fifth ATP Tour tournament since losing to Novak Djokovic in…
Maria Sharapova failing an Australian Open doping test for a substance banned only weeks before was “reckless beyond description,” former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Dick Pound told the BBC.The 28-year-old Russian, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion, revealed Monday…
Five-time Grand Slam tennis champion Maria Sharapova said Monday she failed a dope test at the Australian Open, and isn’t sure what punishment she’ll face for her “huge mistake.”The former world number one from Russia said a change in the…
Veteran Lleyton Hewitt is on standby to break his short-lived retirement if Australia need their new captain against the United States in this weekend’s Davis Cup World Group tie in Melbourne.World number 27 Nick Kyrgios withdrew before Thursday’s draw with…
Former world number one Rafael Nadal reached the Rio Open semi-finals without even hitting a ball Friday as Aleksandr Dolgopolov withdrew injured from their last-eight tie.Nadal is playing at the low-key clay court event in a bid to find his…
The 1st Beach Tennis competition begins tomorrow (Saturday) at the world longest sandy sea beach in Cox’s Bazar.
Rafael Nadal won through to the quarter-finals of the clay-court event in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, beating compatriot Nicolas Almagro in straight sets 6-3, 7-5.The troubled Mallorcan is the top seed in what is his second tournament since being…
The 1st Beach Tennis competition begins tomorrow (Saturday) at the world longest sandy sea beach in Cox’s Bazar.
Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, who will play this week in the Rio Open, downplayed public concerns over risks linked to the Zika virus in the Brazilian city that will host the Olympics in August, saying “people are living completely…
Defending champion Rafael Nadal suffered another setback Saturday when he squandered a match point before losing 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7/4) to Austria’s Dominic Thiem in the Argentina Open semi-finals.Top seed Nadal, playing on his favourite clay surface, finally wilted in…
Angelique Kerber stunned Serena Williams in a 6-4 3-6 6-4 thriller to open her grand slam account and deprive the American of a 22nd title at a major that would have tied Steffi Graf for the Open Era lead.Just how…
Serena Williams will take aim at Steffi Graf’s Open-era record of 22 Grand Slam titles on Saturday when she plays the Australian Open final against Germany’s Angelique Kerber, who is hoping to pull off a major upset.The world number one…
Britain have two Grand Slam singles semi-finalists for the first time since 1977 after victories for Johanna Konta and Andy Murray at the Australian Open.Konta continued her remarkable run with a 6-4 6-1 win over China’s Zhang Shuai in the…
Fired-up fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska blasted into her fifth career Grand Slam semi-final Tuesday with a dominant straight-sets mauling of Carla Suarez at the Australian Open.The Spanish 10th seed was no match for the popular and composed Pole whose never-say-die…
World number one Novak Djokovic needed five sets before putting away Frenchman Gilles Simon to reach his 27th consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final at the Australian Open on Sunday.The 10-time Grand Slam champion fought for four hours, 32 minutes before winning…
Dominant world number one and defending champion Serena Williams powered into the Australian Open third round Wednesday with a straight-sets demolition of Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei.The six-time Melbourne Park winner, who is gunning to equal Steffi Graf’s Open-era record of 22…
The first-round exit was the 2009 champion’s first at Melbourne Park and only his second at such an early stage in a grand slam.Down 2-0 in the final set, world number 45 Verdasco dragged himself off the canvas with a…
The opening day of the Australian Open was overshadowed by reports in the BBC and online BuzzFeed News accusing tennis authorities of failing to deal with 16 players repeatedly flagged up to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over suspicions of…
Tennis was rocked on Monday by allegations that the game’s authorities have failed to deal with widespread match-fixing, just as the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, kicked off in Melbourne.Multiple sources told Reuters that the…
By Simon Cox Secret files exposing evidence of widespread suspected match-fixing at the top level of world tennis, including at Wimbledon, can be revealed by the BBC and BuzzFeed News. Over the last decade, 16 players who have ranked in…