Wimbledon 2012 News

India will host the first Wimbledon tennis event outside the UK as 11-time-Tour winner Tim Henman will be in Delhi and Mumbai later this month to launch 'The Road to Wimbledon' with a series of coaching clinics.

Tennis legend Rod Laver says 17-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer will not quit the sport just because he had a bad season in 2013.

Monica Puig, seeded eighth in the event and ranked 48th in the world, outlasted 92nd-placed Watson 6-4, 6-4 in 94 minutes.

The first all-Czech duo to win the US Open crown took home $460,000. They also won the 2011 French Open title.

This 2013 championship comes 15 years after Mirnyi teamed with Serena Williams to win his first two mixed-doubles majors, at Wimbledon and the US Open

Sania and her Chinese partner Jie Zheng lost to Australian pair of Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua 6-2 6-2 in the last-4 clash.

The Indo-Chinese pair will now take on 8th seeded Australian pair of Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua in the semi finals on Thursday.

Playing just their fourth event together, third seeds Sania and Jie pipped the second-seeded pair of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Katarina Srebotnik 6-3, 6-4 in the summit clash.

Sania Mirza, the only Indian female to win Grand Slam title, has won two titles so far this season. Both the titles came with American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who now plays only singles.

Sabine Lisicki, who lost to Marion Bartoli in the final of Wimbledon, defeated Kristina Mladenovic of France 7-5, 6-1 in the first round.

Sania had played with American Lizel Huber at the Wimbledon where she made a third round exit.

A Taiwanese tennis champion

The win for Nestor was his third major mixed doubles title. The Canadian also won the Australian Open in 2007 and '11.

The world number two, whose only other major crown came at the US Open last year, admitted the pressure of closing out the win was almost unbearable.

Marion Bartoli, beaten by Venus Williams in her only previous Grand Slam final at Wimbledon in 2007, is the fifth oldest woman to become a first-time major winner in the Open Era.

Hsieh became the first player from Taiwan to win a Grand Slam title while Peng gave China its first doubles title at a major in seven years.

In a titanic struggle played out over four hours and 43 minutes, Serbia's Djokovic squandered two match points in the fourth set tiebreak before going on to finally subdue the Argentine eighth seed thanks to a remarkable 80 winners and 22 aces. Murray's seventh Grand Slam final on Sunday will be his fourth meeting with Djokovic with a major title on the line.

Murray will play world number one Djokovic, the 2011 champion, on Sunday in his fourth Grand Slam final meeting with the Serb.