Here is Sportzwiki’s daily news round-up, featuring top sports news from around the world, on 5th November 2017. Here’s all the news from sporting events as cricket, football and tennis which took over the attention of all the sports enthusiasts. New Zealand thrash India to level series: Riding on Colin Munro’s blistering century, New Zealand […]
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Venus Advances To WTA Finals Semis
Singapore, Oct 26 (IANS) United States’ tennis player Venus Williams on Thursday defeated Spaniard Garbiñe Muguruza 7-5, 6-4, to book a place in Singapore’s WTA Finals last four for the fifth time in her career. In her first appearance in the season-ending tournament since 2009, Venus ended Muguruza’s run in the event, reports Efe. Caracas-born Spaniard […]
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World’s Best Tennis Players Set To Attend 2018 Australian Open
Canberra, Oct 10 (IANS) The 2018 Australian Open has been officially launched with the world’s top tennis players committed to playing in the tournament. Australian Open Tournament Director Craig Tiley on Tuesday announced that the top 100 men’s and women’s players would compete at the first Grand Slam of the year despite many having suffered injuries […]
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Muguruza Says Topping WTA Ranking Makes Her Calmer
Tokyo, Sep 18 (IANS) Spanish tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza on Monday said topping the Women’s Tennis Association rankings made her feel calmer but it weighed heavy on her at the same time. Despite an early loss to Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the US Open last 16, Muguruza topped the rankings for the first […]
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Stephens Routs Keys To Win US Open
New York, Sep 10 (IANS) Sloane Stephens brushed aside Madison Keys 6-3, 6-0 here to win her first US Open women’s singles title, putting an exclamation mark on her stunningly successful return to the WTA Tour this summer. Stephens, who suffered a stress fracture in her left foot last year that kept her off the circuit […]
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US Open 2017: Day Nine Belongs to Americans At The Flushing Meadows
US Open has reached its business end, and after all the upsets and shock exits this season some of the top seeded players have managed to reach the quarter finals of the tournament. Two quarterfinals from men’s and women’s singles have been done and dusted. In women’s singles, the two American crowd favorites won their […]
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US Open 2017: Maria Sharapova Stuns World Number Two On Grand Slam Return
Maria Sharapova made a fairytale comeback to Grand Slam tennis by beating second seed Simona Halep in the first round of 2017 US Open. Sharapova made a competitive comeback on the Grand Slam front after serving a 15 months ban for a banned blood booster meldonium. The 30-year-old Russian was handed a ban after the […]
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Spain’s Nadal Named Top Seed At US Open Tennis
New York, Aug 25 (IANS) Spanish World No.1 Rafael Nadal, who will learn his first-round opponent when the draw is made on Friday, has been named the top seed at the US Open, tournament organisers said. The 31-year-old Nadal, who earlier this season won an unprecedented 10th title at the French Open and on Monday reclaimed […]
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ITF Hands Ilie Nastase 3-Year Ban For Fed Cup Remarks
The International Tennis Federation handed Romania’s Fed Cup captain Ilie Nastase a three-year ban and a fine for his recent conduct. ITF said on Friday it found Nastase guilty of breaching many of its welfare policy articles during a Fed Cup tie between Romania and Great Britain in April, reports Efe. “Nastase is suspended from […]
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Carolina, Nadal Lead Congratulatory Messages For Muguruza
Madrid, July 15 (IANS) Rio Olympics gold medallist shuttler Carolina Marin led the congratulatory messages for fellow Spaniard Garbine Muguruza, who on Saturday hammered veteran Venus Williams in straight sets 7-5, 6-0 to clinch the women’s singles final of Wimbledon in London. “Increíble Garbiñe!!! Exhibición total!!! Incredible @GarbiMuguruza!!! What an exhibition!!” Marin tweeted after Muguruza clinched […]