Tennis Players News

Charlottesville , Nov 7: India's No.1 Somdev Devvarman stormed into the semifinals while compatriot Sanam Singh went down fighting in the $50,000 Association of Tennis Professionals challenger.

Caption: Serena Williams outside the GMTV studios London, England .... WILLIAMS EYES ACTION ROLE Tennis ace SERENA WILLIAMS is eyeing a move into acting when her sporting career ends.

The Scottish Government has branded the Tories "utter hypocrites" over their opposition to an independence referendum.

The last two tickets to the World Tour finals are still to play for at the Paris Masters tournament starting on Sunday, with Russia's Nikolay Davydenko and Spaniard Fernando Verdasco ideally placed to grab them.

Tennis player Richard Gasquet will go before the highest court in sports Tuesday for what he says was a cocaine-tainted kiss in a nightclub.

NO ONE could ever accuse Andy Murray of not planning ahead. With three tournaments to play before the end of the year and the Christmas training schedule to negotiate, British No1 Murray is already plotting his path to the Australian Open in January.

A ruling on Serena Williams' U.S. Open tirade is expected in the next two weeks.

Veteran Japanese Kimiko Date Krumm upset fifth-seeded Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues in Thursday's round-robin action at the $600,000 Tournament of Champions tennis event.

Second seed Nikolay Davydenko remained on course for his fifth ATP Tour title of the season today with a straight-sets win against Argentinian Juan Monaco at the Valencia Open.

Andre Agassi responded to criticism of his crystal meth use with a plea for compassion, telling "60 Minutes" he needed help when he took the drug while depressed in 1997.

U.S. Open semifinalist Yanina Wickmayer was suspended for one year by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal Thursday, accused of failing to report her whereabouts to drug-testing officials three times.

Without Serena and Venus Williams, the United States is relying on 18-year-old Melanie Oudin and a veteran doubles specialist in the Fed Cup final against Italy.

MARK Philippoussis hopes his appearance at London's Masters Tennis next month will spark a comeback that allows him to exit the sport on his own terms.

Staff Report PARIS: Pakistan's tennis prodigy Aisamul Haq Qureshi and his partner James Cerritani brushed aside tennis great and world number one Roger Federer and his Swiss compatriot Marco Chiudinelli in the doubles event of the Basel Open on Tuesday in Switzerland.

BASEL: Novak Djokovic made a winning debut on Tuesday at the Swiss Indoors as the Serbian claimed a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Andreas Beck in the tennis stronghold of Roger Federer.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga bowed out of the Valencia Open after being forced to retire while trailing Mikhail Youzhny 6-7 6-0 3-0 in round one.

Marion Bartoli made a strong start on the opening day of the Bali Tournament of Champions with the No.1 seed winning a group match over Slovak Magdalena Rybarikova 6-4 6-4. "I'm really happy to win in two sets,'' Bartoli said.

Maria Sharapova, the tennis star, was recently spotted at a U2 concert with Sasha Vujacic of the Lakers.

Andy Murray breezed through his first match for six weeks as he began his Valencia Open campaign and admitted he hopes to "get more rhythm" back in his game.

Former champions Marat Safin and Sebastien Grosjean have been given wild-card entries for the upcoming Paris Masters.