Nov 29, 2019 NUR-SULTAN — Leander Paes bettered his own Davis Cup record by winning his 44th doubles match along with debutant Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan as India took an unassailable 3-0 lead against Pakistan with victory in the third rubber in Nur-Sultan on Saturday. The reverse singles rubbers were cancelled after India secured the tie. Pakistani
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12:37 AM ET Associated Press Tennis Australia has confirmed it plans to honor Margaret Court’s 50th anniversary of her 1970 Grand Slam during January’s Australian Open but has stressed her controversial anti-gay views “do not align with our values of equality, diversity and inclusion.” Court won 24 Grand Slam singles titles, including the French Open,
6:37 AM ET Nur-Sultan — India raced to a 2-0 lead in their Davis Cup tie against Pakistan, losing just two games in the process, as Ramkumar Ramanathan and Sumit Nagal both picked up easy wins. Ramkumar double-bageled 17-year-old Muhammed Shoaib in just 42 minutes in the opening singles. The only time Shoaib made it
10:03 AM ET The bad news from the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan is that the weather is still scarily chilly at -17 degree Celsius. The good news is that four members of the Indian Davis Cup team managed tickets to Thursday’s Europa League clash between Manchester United and FC Astana despite the host club receiving
10:03 AM ET The bad news from the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan is that the weather is still scarily chilly at -17 degree Celsius. The good news is that four members of the Indian Davis Cup team managed tickets to Thursday’s Europa League clash between Manchester United and FC Astana despite the host club receiving
11:13 AM ET What do you do when you have a Davis Cup tie in three days against a bunch of teens in a Central Asian city that’s currently experiencing temperatures of around -10 degrees Celsius in the daytime? Blow smoke rings into the air with your breath, flaunt your moonwalk moves and talk about
Nov 26, 2019 What do you do when you have a Davis Cup tie in three days against a bunch of teens in a freezing Central Asian city currently experiencing daytime temperatures of -12 degree Celsius? Blow smoke rings into the air with your breath, flaunt your moonwalk moves and talk about what else but
3:06 AM ET Former world No. 1 Andy Murray has said he can finally play without worrying about his hip following career-saving surgery in January, but expects next year’s Australian Open to be the biggest test of his progress. The 32-year-old looked on the verge of ending his career at the start of 2019 after
9:17 AM ET The mood in the press room at the Davis Cup in Madrid on Friday was maudlin. The Serbians looked more like mourners at a funeral than elite athletes, their eyes raw and red, their visages grim. They had just lost to Russia in the quarterfinals of the first edition of the revamped
8:37 AM ET Associated Press PRAGUE — World No. 2 Karolina Pliskova has hired Daniel Vallverdu as coach to replace Conchita Martinez. Vallverdu, who previously was part of the coaching teams of Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych and Juan Martin del Potro, will aim to help Pliskova succeed at Grand Slams. Her best so