Paes-Vesnina beat top seeds to enter Wimbledon final
July 8th, 2012 - 1:27 am ICT by IANS
London, July 7 (IANS) Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina upstaged top seeds Bob Bryan and Liezel Huber to enter the mixed doubles final at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships here Saturday.The ... Read more...
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Paes-Vesnina in Wimbledon mixed doubles semis (Lead)
July 6th, 2012 - 11:00 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 6 (IANS) India's Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina beat unseeded Paul Hanley and Alla Kudryavtseva to stroll into the mixed doubles semifinals of the ... Read more...
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Paes-Vesnina in Wimbledon mixed doubles quarters
July 6th, 2012 - 5:04 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 6 (IANS) India's Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina beat the formidable Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka for a place in the mixed doubles quarter-finals ... Read more...
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Radwanska beats Kerber to enter Wimbledon final
July 5th, 2012 - 8:33 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 5 (IANS) Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska defeated German Angelique Kerber to enter the women's singles finals of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships here Thursday.The third seed got past Kerber ... Read more...
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Williams survives scare to beat Shvedova
July 2nd, 2012 - 9:33 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 2 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Serena Williams fended off a second set comeback to defeat wild card Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan in the fourth round of the Wimbledon tennis ... Read more...
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Wimbledon: Sania-Bhupathi lose, Paes-Stepanek surge ahead (Lead)
June 30th, 2012 - 8:54 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 30 (IANS) Indias's Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi made an early exit from the mixed doubles event at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships here Saturday while their ... Read more...
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Sania-Bethanie enter third round at Wimbledon
June 29th, 2012 - 8:43 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 29 (IANS) Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands advanced to women's doubles third round at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, easing past Stephanie Foretz Gacon and Kristina Mladenovic here Friday.The ... Read more...
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Wimbledon: Paes, Stepanek cruise into second round
June 29th, 2012 - 2:30 am ICT by IANS
London, June 29 (IANS) India's Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek cruised to the second round of the men's doubles at the Wimbledon tennis championships here Thursday beating ... Read more...
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Bhupathi-Bopanna clear first hurdle at Wimbledon
June 27th, 2012 - 8:10 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 27 (IANS) India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna entered the men's doubles second round at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships defeating Marcel Felder and Malek Jaziri here Wednesday.
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Schiavone fights back to oust Robson (Lead)
June 26th, 2012 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 26 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone was forced to fight back from a set down to beat British youngster Laura Robson in the Wimbledon tennis ... Read more...
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Wimbledon: Venus Williams crashes out, Djokovic advances (Second Lead)
June 25th, 2012 - 9:51 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia's Elena Vesnina demolished Venus Williams in the first round of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships here Monday while men's World No.1 Novak Djokovic had ... Read more...
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Radwanska advances at Wimbledon, Penetta knocked out (Lead)
June 25th, 2012 - 9:17 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Poland's World No.3 Agnieszka Radwanska beat Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova while Flavia Pennetta was stunned by fellow Italian Camilia Giorgi on opening day of ... Read more...
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Stella McCartney to make tennis dress
June 16th, 2011 - 6:07 am ICT by IANS
London, June 16 (IANS) Fashion designer Stella McCartney will customise dress for female tennis stars to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.The British designer has tied up ... Read more...
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Paes-Black in Wimbledon final
July 4th, 2009 - 1:01 am ICT by IANS
London, July 3 (IANS) India's Leander Paes was in sight of his second Grand Slam title of the year after he along with Zimbabwe's Cara Black booked a final berth in the ... Read more...
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Somdev surprised his Grand Slam debut came in doubles
July 2nd, 2009 - 9:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Somdev Devvarman, back from his maiden stint at the Wimbledon tennis championships, says he is amused that his Grand Slam debut happened to be in the ... Read more...
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Prakash-Qureshi run into Bhupathi-Knowles in third round (Roundup)
June 26th, 2009 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 26 (IANS) India's Prakash Amritraj and Pakistan's Aisam Ul-Haq Qureshi Friday setup a third round meeting with fourth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi (India) and Mark Knowles (The Bahamas) in the men's ... Read more...
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Paes crashes out, Sania stays afloat in doubles (Lead)
June 25th, 2009 - 11:07 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 25 (IANS) French Open champions Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic crashed out of the Wimbledon tennis championships in a sensational first-round loss to American James Blake ... Read more...
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Paes and Dlouhy stunned by Blake and Fish
June 25th, 2009 - 10:46 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 25 (IANS) French Open winners Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic crashed out of the Wimbledon tennis championships, overpowered by American James Blake and Mardy Fish 6-4, ... Read more...
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Sania-Chuang clear first round hurdle in doubles
June 25th, 2009 - 9:36 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 25 (IANS) India's Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei defeated American Jill Craybas and Carly Gullickson 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the women's doubles at the ... Read more...
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Bhupathi, Prakash in doubles second round
June 24th, 2009 - 11:28 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 24 (IANS) Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowels of Bahamas had to dig deep to move into the second round with a tough 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-5, 7-5 victory over ... Read more...
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Sania out of Wimbledon singles
June 24th, 2009 - 10:02 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 24 (IANS) Sania Mirza lost to Sorana Cirstea of Romania 4-6, 4-6 in the second round to bow out of the singles competition of the Wimbledon tennis championships here Wednesday. Read more...
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Bailed-out bank won’t cut champagne hospitality (Wimbledon diary)
June 23rd, 2009 - 6:36 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 23 (DPA) The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), bailed out by billions in British taxpayer money just keeps on spending, with an estimated $500,000 hospitality bill being run up at ... Read more...
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Sania overcomes Groenefeld to reach Wimbledon second round (Lead)
June 22nd, 2009 - 9:06 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 22 (IANS) India's Sania Mirza made light of the second set loss to outlast German Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 in the opening round at the Wimbledon tennis championships here ... Read more...
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Sania Mirza advances to second round
June 22nd, 2009 - 8:32 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 22 (IANS) India's Sania Mirza defeated Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 to advance to the singles second round of the Wimbledon tennis championships here Monday. Read more...
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Sania advances in Wimbledon doubles.
June 27th, 2008 - 5:46 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 27 (IANS) It might be the end of the road for Sania Mirza in the singles, but the Indian, along with her American partner Bethanie Mattek, made an impressive start ... Read more...
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Sania muffs four match points, crashes out of Wimbledon
June 26th, 2008 - 9:02 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 26 (IANS) Sania Mirza squandered chances galore as she went down to Spaniard Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez in the second round of the Wimbledon tennis Championships here at the All ... Read more...
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