Canberra: World No.1 Ash Barty had a perfect start to the new season ahead of the home Grand Slam — the Australian Open –, winning the Adelaide International in dominant fashion by crushing world No. 14 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-2 in Sunday night’s final. This was Barty’s 14th career singles title and second […]
Adelaide: India’s Rohan Bopanna and Ramkumar Ramanathan upstaged fourth seeds Tomislav Brkic and Santiago Gonzalez in straight sets to reach the final of the Adelaide International, here on Saturday. The unseeded Indian duo ousted the Bosnian-Mexican duo 6-2,6-4 in the doubles semifinals. The Indians will now lock horns with top seeds Ivan Dodig of Croatia […]
Adelaide: India’s Rohan Bopanna and Ramkumar Ramanathan registered a resounding straight-set win to cruise into the semifinals but it was the end of the road for compatriot Sania Mirza in their respective ATP and WTA tournaments here on Friday. Bopanna and Ramkumar trounced the French-Monegasque duo of Benjamin Bonzi and Hugo Nys 6-1,6-3 in the […]
Melbourne: Top-ranked Ash Barty has advanced to the Adelaide International WTA womens singles semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin while Rafael Nadal advanced via a walkover in tune-up tournaments ahead of the year’s first Grand Slam event. Barty used her usual backhand slice and powerful forehand drive but […]
Adelaide: India’s Sania Mirza and her Ukrainian partner Nadiia Kichenok entered the women’s doubles semifinals of the Adelaide International 1 WTA event after beating American Shelby Rogers and Heather Watson of Great Britain in a hard-fought contest here on Thursday. Sania and Nadiia got the better of their rivals 6-0 1-6 10-5 in a quarterfinal […]
