tennis

First Round Flameout

Akshay Sawai

Why Li Na made it and Sania Mirza didn’t

Andy Murray’s Breakthrough Season

arindam

Andy Murray said that no one had ever spoken to him the way Ivan Lendl did

Steel Beneath the Silk

Akshay Sawai

Grit won it for Federer, beauty came along for the ride

That Girl Next to Sania

Akshay Sawai

Rushmi Chakravarthi’s quiet perseverance playing mainly in India has earned her a priceless reward—her first Olympic trip as Sania Mirza’s doubles partner

Advantage Nobody

Akshay Sawai

The long stormy marriage of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi

Rafael Nadal’s Clay Reign

arindam

He has won 48 titles in his career so far, and 34 of them have been on clay

The Many Moods of Leander Paes

Akshay Sawai

A star sportsman and his talent for theatre

Tale of Two Fans

Deepika Sharma

Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open in a historic final. But Federer versus Nadal was still the match to watch. Two diehards present their account of the tense afternoon

Heir Apparent

Akshay Sawai

Novak Djokovic is throwing a serious challenge to not just his two greatest court adversaries but also tennis historians and writers trying to assess his place in the game’s Hall of Fame