Tennis

World No.32 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia on Friday upset No.3 seed Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 2-6, 6-0 to reach the pre-quarterfinals of the French Open for the second time.Aryna was the highest-ranked seed remaining in the…

No.11 seed Petra Kvitova played some of her best tennis as she saved a match point in a first-round French Open match against Belgian qualifier Greet Minnen, and won 6-7(3), 7-6(5), 6-1 to stay afloat on Sunday.Had the Czech player lost it…

Spaniard Pablo Andujar made a remarkable recovery from being two sets down, for the first time in his career, to beat a top-5 player when he shocked fourth seed Austrian Dominic Thiem 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the first-round of French…

India's ace woman tennis player Ankita Raina defeated Australian Arina Rodionova 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in first round of French Open qualifiers and will face Greet Minnen of Belgium in second round on Wednesday.Ankita lost the first set but came…

American tennis player Coco Gauff made a clean sweep of the titles at the Emilia-Romagna Open, as she paired with compatriot Caty McNally to win the doubles championship in Parma.The fourth-seeded team defeated the No. 2 seeds Darija Jurak…

 Ace India table tennis players Manika Batra and Sutirtha Mukherjee began their quest for a berth at this year's Tokyo Olympics on a winning note with comfortable straight-set victories in their respective women's singles knockout stage-I…

Manika Batra's run at the World Singles Qualification Tournament, an Olympic qualification event in table tennis, came to an end after she suffered a 4-1 defeat to Monaco's Xiaoxin Yang in the women's singles knockout stage-I semi-final…

Swiss tennis great Roger Federer returned from injury to beat Britain's Dan Evans at the Qatar Open 7-6 (8), 3-6, 7-5. It was Federer's first match in 13 months.The 39-year-old Federer underwent two knee surgeries last year following the…

Ace shuttler Sania Mirza says she has always been very particular about the skincare products she uses. "But it's definitely way more now that I'm a mother," she reveals."I wouldn't want to think twice before hugging or kissing my son…

Serena Williams, in search for a record-tying 24th Grand Slam title, started her Australian Open campaign in an emphatic manner as she zipped past Laura Siegemund of Germany, 6-1, 6-1, on to notch her opening-round win on Monday.With the…