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Djokovic has always looked to his team to find an edge. He is now potentially going through another transitional moment with younger challengers like Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner
India completed a 4-0 win over Pakistan on Sunday to win promotion to the Davis Cup World Group 1.
N Sriram Balaji followed up Ramkumar's win by defeating 44-year-old veteran Aqeel Khan as India took charge of the Davis Cup tie in Islamabad.
He might have seen the darkest day of his sparkling career at Australia Open but the Serb is capable of fueling his old competitive anger.
The Indian team does not feature either Sumit Nagal - fresh off a confidence-boosting second-round finish at the Australian Open - or Sasikumar Mukund, but instead will be led by World No. 461 Ramkumar Ramanathan and N Sriram Balaji
'A match like this does not really happen very often. The focus remains on winning the tie for India this weekend': Zeeshan Ali-led India get ready for the Davis Cup tie in Pakistan.
It’s the first Indian tennis team to travel to Pakistan in 60 years after the All India Tennis Association failed to get the tie moved to a neutral venue
Players born in the 2000s - Alcaraz and Sinner - now have more Majors than players born in the 1990s - Medvedev, Thiem.
The tie from February 3-4 will be the first time that an Indian tennis team travels to Pakistan since 1964
Dropping just 31 games, and no sets, on her way to retaining the title, the Belarusian's power game has taken her to the summit of the sport.
Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden beat Italian pair of Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori 7-6 (0), 7-5 to win the men's doubles title at the Australian Open.
An expressionless match-face and an elegant mind that never gets clouded with thoughts of defeat, is something that only champions are blessed with.
Baseline strategy has been central to Jannik Sinner's game and he has been working on it with his new coaching team since the start of 2022 – led by Darren Cahill, Andre Agassi’s former coach.
Sinner defeated Djokovic 6-1, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3 in the semfinals of the Australian Open.
Italian has beaten World No.1 in two their last three meetings, but the legend is usually at his best late in a Grand Slam.
Rohan Bopanna has never won a men's doubles title at a Grand Slam tournament despite reaching the final twice before. He has a Grand Slam title in mixed doubles.
Bopanna would become the fourth Indian - after Sania Mirza, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi - to become doubles World No.1.
Bopanna will thus become only the fourth Indian after Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza to take the world number one rank in doubles.
The 22-year-old Italian continued his flawless tournament with a straight-sets win over Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinal
China has overhauled the tennis system at home and results are showing; Eight players, seven women and one man, are currently in the top 100. Nine Chinese players were in the singles main draw of the Australian Open this year.
A couple of days ago, Sania Mirza shared a cryptic quote post on her Instagram stories, saying, “Divorce is hard.”
This was the latest in a string of upsets in this edition of the Australian Open with Elena Rybakina, Naomi Osaka, Ons Jabeur and Andy Murray already eliminated from the tournament.
Djokovic says he wants to work on the mission of empowering more kids to take up tennis in India.
The World No.1 Serb needs to learn from the German legend who regarded crowd validation, adulation and love as a big MEH, while she swept the four Slams and Seoul Olympics gold medal in 1988.
The India No 1 player had made history by defeating Alexander Bublik in the first round: it made him the first Indian since Ramesh Krishnan in 1989 to beat a seeded player in the singles main draw of a Grand Slam.