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Manchester (England): Cristiano Ronaldo has dismissed the latest speculation linking him with Real Madrid and says he plans to stay at Manchester United.

Although the Portuguese winger repeatedly said at the end of last season he wanted a move to Madrid, he says it is untrue that the two clubs made an agreement that he would switch clubs at the end of the current campaign.

“There’s always speculation, not just about me, but about the future of players all around the world,” the 23-year-old star told Manchester United TV. “People were speaking about me this summer but that was normal because of what I did during the season.”
Ronaldo scored 42 goals for the Red Devils last term and helped the team win both the Premier League and Champions League titles. After weeks of speculation he did little to deny, Madrid ended its efforts to sign the star.

“What people are saying now is not true,” he said about reports that the clubs agreed to a deal. “I am happy at the club, I want to stay here. I feel at home here. I feel very happy here.”

Roger Federer returned from a five-week layoff to beat Radek Stepanek in the second round of the Madrid Masters. The 2006 champion rallied from a 5-3 deficit in the tiebreaker with some excellent shot making, including a backhand that landed in the far corner on match point.

Federer, playing his first ATP event since winning the US Open last month, will face Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfred Tsonga. Top-ranked Rafael Nadal pulled out of doubles with Carlos Moya because of a slight upper leg injury.

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Saurav Ghosal climbed six places to 39th in the latest PSA world squash rankings released on Wednesday. India No.1Ghosal achieved the career – high ranking after his good run in France last month, where he clinched his first PSA title outside of India at the Oramano Open, followed by an entry into the main draw of the prestigious International de France de Squash in Paris.

Ghosal is the highest ranked Indian on the list with Ritwik, the only other Indian in the top 100, lying 57th.

Ominous clouds overhead, the sort of hard court that troubled him this season underfoot, Roger Federer sensed something on Saturday he hadn’t in quite a while. He was playing exactly like that guy named Roger Federer.

India’s Leander Paes won his second US Open and fourth Grand Slam mixed doubles title  at the Flushing Meadows on Thursday when he and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black beat Scotland’s Jamie Murray and American Liezel Huber in the final 7-6 (8-6) and 6-4.

Serena Williams won the 17th meeting with her sister Venus, an epic match with a final result 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (9-7), and moved into the semifinals of the US Open where she’ll face Dinara Safina.

Serena, the fourth seed, suffered an early break of serve, but when serving for the set at 5-3 and 40-15 Venus handed the momentum to Serena. Having already seen two set points go begging in the first set, seventh-seeded Venus wasted a further eight in the second set tie-break.

Serena, who now has 9-8 record against Venus (6-5 in Grand Slams) is looking for her 12th Grand Slam final.

In the other semifinal, Jelena Jankovic and Elena Dementieva will face each other.

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Number 16 seed Flavia Pennetta of Italy eased through to a match up with Russian sixth seed Dinara Safina with a 6-3 6-0 victory over Amelie Mauresmo in the fourth round of the US Open.

Former world number one Mauresmo was struggling to find form for a long time, but has recently shown signs of getting back on track. In the match against Pennetta, however, Mauresmo produced 14 doubles and 40 unforced errors, and eased the Italian’s way into her first Grand Slam quarterfinals.

Safina and Pennetta have played each other four times, and all the encounters were won by the Russian.

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World number one and top seed Ana Ivanovic was thrashed out by 188th-ranked Julie Coin in the second round of the US Open and it’s the earliest exit by women’s top seed at the US Open .

The 20-year-old Serb Ivanovic didn’t blame her recent thumb injury for the defeat, but rather her lack of match practice. She told her right thumb had totally recovered and now she felt no pain in her thumb.

Ivanovic is aware of the fact that she hasn’t justified her top ranking: “If you are asking if I’m playing like a number one, no.” However, she denies the pressure of being top ranked player was the problem.

Source : US Open

Womens Tennis player (Second seed) Jelena Jankovic advanced to the fourth round of the US Open with a hard-fought victory over Wimbledon semifinalist Jie Zheng of China, ranked 37th in the world.

As always, Jankovic had problems with holding her serve so being a break up wasn’t a big deal for the world No.2. You see, Jankovic converted eight break points, Zheng six. The Serb finished the match on her fifth match point with a final score 7-5 7-5. All those match points were in the final game of the second set which featured 11 deuces.

In the fourth round Jankovic will meet 14th seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus or Caroline Wozniacki, the Danish 21st seed.