US Open 2012: Djokovic and Kvitova to play for tennis’s biggest prize
The Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre is a blaze of noise, colour and excitement, filled with families, children, and bands of dayglo-clad school groups.…
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US Open 2012: Williams set fair as Azarenka draws three former champs
One wonders whether anything could make Serena Williams’ summer of 2012 any better: a fifth Wimbledon title followed by Olympic gold sealed her ‘Golden Slam’,…
US Open 2012: Azarenka tops Radwanska & Sharapova in seedings
Despite her consecutive losses to Serena Williams in the semis of Wimbledon and the Olympics, Victoria Azarenka’s consistency since she opened 2012 with four straight…
London 2012 Olympic tennis: Murray and Robson settle for silver
Great Britain’s mixed doubles duo Andy Murray and Laura Robson were beaten by Victoria Azarenka and Max Mirnyi of Belarus in the Olympic final at…
London 2012 Olympic tennis: Serena Williams seals Golden Slam
Serena Williams had the look of the queen of the court even before the women’s final of the London 2012 Olympics had begun at the…
London 2012 Olympic tennis: Who can stop Serena Williams’ progress?
It seems as though the tennis storyline for London 2012 was preordained. Perhaps it is only right that two of the greatest players of their…
For Federer, Williams & the rest, it’s goodbye Wimbledon, hello Olympics
One door closes and another opens—to the very same sporting arena: the All England Lawn Tennis Club. In the blink of an eye, the same…
Wimbledon 2012: Radwanska targets first Major against Williams
Only one of the women’s semi-finalists may have lifted the Wimbledon trophy before, and only two of them may have experienced Grand Slam victory and…
Wimbledon 2012: Serena Williams storms past Petra Kvitova into semis
The women’s quarter-final line-up was a truly intriguing mix of styles, talent and storylines. The top seed and world No1, Maria Sharapova, was gone and…
Wimbledon 2012: Will Sharapova’s rise dash Clijsters’ last hope?
Kim Clijsters and Maria Sharapova are two of the most popular women not just in tennis but in sport across the board. Both have been…
French Open 2012: Azarenka plans to rest up ahead of Wimbledon
Victoria Azarenka plans to take a break ahead of Wimbledon after she was dumped out of the French Open by 15th seed Dominika Cibulkova in…
French Open 2012: Sharapova and Williams will vie for Azarenka test
The rankings say it like it is. The more you win, the higher you go. Whether the points come from a few big tournaments or…
French Open 2012: The winning ways of Petra Kvitova
Much of the attention and much of the expectation, going into the second Grand Slam of the year at Roland Garros, has been on three…
Rome Masters 2012: Falling seeds ease paths of Federer and Williams
For the two champions who high-tailed it to Rome from Madrid with winners’ trophies, the sun began to shine on their campaigns as well as…
Madrid Open: Can Sharapova upset the Azarenka/Kvitova party?
Last year in Madrid, two women who would become the players of the year went head to head in the final. The winner was Petra…
Miami Masters 2012: Bartoli and Radwanska beat queens of tennis
The women’s quarter-finals at the Sony Ericsson Open read like a roll call of this Premier event’s previous champions. Three names had, between them, won…
Williams & Watson, Clijsters & Azarenka light up Miami Masters
It could, in truth, be a Grand Slam, such is the line-up in Miami for the Sony Ericsson Open—one of the biggest, brightest and most…
Half-way at Indian Wells: Champions and rivalries
The women are down to the last eight, the men to the last 16—perhaps the tennis fan’s best stage of a tournament. There are top-class…
Indian Wells 2012: Azarenka survives, Djokovic falls in doubles
It was a day when former champions and World No1s took centre stage at the BNP Paribas Open and it was day when one of…
Indian Wells 2012: Djokovic, Nadal and more from the bleachers
The men’s main draw may only just have begun—and none of the women’s or men’s seeds have yet played a match—but the big names have…
Tennis’s Oasis: Indian Wells launches 2012’s Masters Series
The jewels in tennis’s ATP calendar, its nine Masters events, are here at last. And as if to celebrate, March is given over entirely to…