The best Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic failed to reach the quarterfinals of the Paris Masters, losing to no.13 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in three sets, 4:6, 6:1, 3:6, in 1 hour and 53 minutes.
That’s more like it. Partizan played well enough in the first 60 minute to earn a 1:0 lead, but after that it was Turbo time. Partizan turned the pressure on, scored a second goal, and missed at least 5 more great chances. Goals were scored by Diarra in 12th minute, and Moreira in 66th. Bogunović [...]
Partizan 81-77 Real Partizan has finally defeated Real, and after two Euroleague games has a score 1/1. Partizan started well, created a nice 12 point lead but gave it all away in the third period as Real came on strong. Spaniards took a eight point lead before Partizan came storming back, tied the game and [...]
This season five Serbs will play in the NBA league. It’s been known to happen that a two-figure number of players represents Serbia on the basketball courts all over the United States, while this season only those who are granted first team action are expected to appear for NBA teams.
An Eastern Conference clash between Boston and Cleveland opens the 63rd season of the NBA league on Monday evening. The competition in the world’s toughest basketball league starts with a familiar burning question: who will end up on top, the Boston Celtics or the LA Lakers? Last season’s finalists and the winners of 31 championship [...]
Serbian tennis stars Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic have begun their preparations for the last tournament of 2008 – the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Championships in Doha, Qatar, to start next Tuesday. Both domestic players hold high hopes ahead of the $4.45m event.
French Open champion Ana Ivanovic clinched her first title since Roland Garros with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Vera Zvonareva in the Linz Open. The battle of the top seeds proved a one-sided affair with the Serb breaking her Russian opponent on no fewer than six occasions, completing the win in 50 minutes.
Top-seeded Andy Murray beat Andrey Golubev 6-1, 6-1 Sunday to win the St. Petersburg Open for the second straight year.Murray, who also won at the Madrid Masters last Sunday, became the first British player to win back-to-back tour-level titles since Mark Cox won in London and Washington, D.C., in March 1975.
Samuel Eto’o’s hat trick led FC Barcelona to a 5-0 rout of Almeria and the top of the Spanish league after a ninth straight victory. Barcelona led 4-0 by the time Eto’o completed the feat with his league-leading ninth goal, thanks to an earlier strike from Thierry Henry on Saturday.
LINZ, Austria (AP) — Top-seeded Ana Ivanovic routed No 2. Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-1 Sunday in the final of the Generali Ladies to win her first title since the French Open in June.
Ana continued her fine form at the Generali Ladies Linz event with a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 victory over world No.10 Agnieszka Radwanska. She will meet second seed Vera Zvonareva in Sunday’s final.
Linz, Austria (Sports Network) – Top-seeded Ana Ivanovic started strong and finished just as well in a three-set victory over third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, moving her into the final against Russian Vera Zvonareva at the $600,000 Generali Ladies Linz tennis event.
