Tennis

The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) is pleased to announce the nomination of the Captain (non-playing) of the Davis Cup team, for the World Group 1 tie to be played Vs Japan, in Islamabad, in the first week of March 2021. Muzhaf Zia, former Davis Cupper, having served in this role in the past, including the tie against Slovenia in March ...

Former world number one Roger Federer has withdrawn from the Australian Open due to fitness issues. The six-time champion did not fully recover after undergoing two knee surgeries. The Australian Open Grand Slam will start on February 8 with a three-week delay due to the corona virus.

LAHORE (Nov 17, 2020): Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh inaugurated the 4th Sheheryar Malik Memorial National Grass Court Tennis Championship at the Punjab Lawn Tennis Academy Bagh-e-Jinnah on Tuesday. It may be noted here that the tennis championship is conducted every year in the memory of Pakistan’s former Davis Cup skipper Rashid Malik’s late son Sheheryar Malik. The ...

The red-hot Russian beat Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday after one hour and 19 minutes to win the Erste Bank Open, lifting his ATP Tour-leading fifth title of the season. The 23-year-old is now tied with World No. 1 Novak Djokovic atop the 2020 match wins leaderboard with 39. “This tournament is really special for me because my grandma ...

Iga Swiatek became the first player from Poland to win a Grand Slam title Saturday at the French Open as the unseeded 19-year-old completed her dominant run at Roland Garros by sweeping Sofia Kenin in straight sets. “I wasn’t expecting to win this trophy,” the Pole said after her dominant 6-4 6-1 win over American fourth seed Sofia Kenin in ...

Rafael Nadal of Spain won the French Open title for the 13th time, equaling Roger Federer’s record of winning 20 Grand Slam titles. Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the final of the French Open men’s singles in Paris. In the final of the French Open title, Nadal dominated from the beginning and in the first set, Djokovic could ...

Top seed Simona Halep suffered an upset defeat at the French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament. Romania’s Simona Halep was the favorite to win the French Open this time, but surprisingly in the fourth round she lost to young Polish player Iga Svetic. After a 6-1, 6-2 defeat Iga Sweetik reached the quarterfinals of any Grand Slam tennis tournament for ...

paris:Former world number one Victoria Azarenka reached the French Open second round Sunday .The 31-year-old 10th seed eased past Danka Kovinic, the world number 74 from Montenegro, 6-1, 6-2. In anohter match top seed Simona Halep of Romania celebrated her 29th birthday in style with a 6-4, 6-0 victory over Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo in the first round of Roland ...

At the US Open, Alexander ZVEREV of Germany defeated Borna CORIC of Croatia to advance to the semifinals. In the women’s singles, Naomi Oska and Jennifer Brady reached the semifinals. In the quarter finals of the US Open men’s singles event, there was a good match between Alexander ZVEREV and Borna of Croatia. Alexander ZVEREV is the first German player ...

Losing the match, Djokovic, apparently frustrated, hit the ball with the tennis racket without even looking, hitting the female judge who was behind his back. 17-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic has been disqualified from the US Open 4th round for inappropriate behaviour. Footage from the scene shows Djokovic hitting a line judge aggressively with a tennis ball, after which ...