London: Seventh seed Simona Halep crushed eight-time winner Serena Williams in straight sets to win her maiden Wimbledon title here on Saturday. The 27-year-old Romanian took only 56 minutes to upset the 37-year-old Williams 6-2, 6-2, thus winning her second Grand Slam title after the French Open victory in 2018. Williams, who won her first […]
Melbourne, Jan 25 : World No.1 Simona Halep justified her ranking by defeating Germany’s Angelique Kerber 6-3, 4-6, 9-7 in a gruelling Australian Open semi-final here on Thursday. The Romanian top seed battled for two hours and 20 minutes to eventually subdue 21st seed Kerber, becoming the first Romanian woman to reach the Australian Open final, […]
Melbourne, Jan 20 : In what was described by commentators as the match of the Australian Open 2018, World No.1 Simona Halep narrowly made it through to the round of 16 on Saturday after edging out American Lauren Davis in an epic 3-set contest that ended 4-6, 6-4, 15-13. Up in the first set, the world […]
Melbourne, Jan 16 : World No.1 Simona Halep of Romania and former top-ranked women tennis players, Maria Sharapova of Russia, Angelique Kerber of Germany, Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain and Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic progressed to the second round of the Australian Open here on Tuesday. Two-time French Open runner-up Halep of Romania had to […]
Shenzhen (China), Jan 6 : World No. 1 Simona Halep won her first title of the new tennis season after defeating Katerina Siniakova in the final of Shenzhen Open here on Saturday. Heavy rain forced the match to be played at an indoor court, but that was no trouble for Halep to have a good start, […]
Shenzhen, Jan 1 Maria Sharapova and top-ranked Simona Halep opened the 2018 season on a victorious note scoring straight-set wins at the Shenzhen Open on Monday. Russian ace Sharapova eased to a 6-3, 6-0 win over Mihaela Buzarnescu of Romania with a powerful forehand winner, while Romanian Halep advanced into the next round after a […]
