Wimbledon: Indo-Swiss tennis pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis came out with a clinical performance to enter the women’s doubles semi-finals of Wimbledon here. The top seeds needed only an hour and 19 minutes to win 7-5, 6-3 in a quarter-final tie against ninth seeds Australia’s Casey Dellacqua and Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova on Court […]
London: Frenchman Richard Gasquet upset Swiss No. 4 seed Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-4, 11-9 here to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals for the second time in his career. Yesterday in a clash pitting two players best known for their powerful and stylish one-handed backhands, Gasquet proved to be more solid and consistent than the […]
Bengaluru: A brilliant half-century by Thirush Kamini lifted India to a nine-wicket win over New Zealand and enabled them to take the five-match women’s One-Day International (ODI) series 3-2 at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Wednesday. After bundling out New Zealand for 118 in 41 overs, India, spearheaded by Kamini (62 not out, 78b, […]
New Delhi: The All India Football Federation (AIFF) will organise a three-day scouting workshop starting from Sunday in Goa under renowned scout Derek Bragg, it was announced on Wednesday. All of AIFF’s regional scouts will attend the workshop and apart from them, Under-17 team head coach Nicolai Adam and U-19 head coach Lee Johnson would […]
London: A British Tamil batsman died after being hit by a ball on the chest while turning up for Manipay Parish Sports Club in division three of the British Tamil League. Bavalan Pathmanathan was playing at the Long Ditton recreation grounds on Sunday when he received the blow. “We were called to Windmill Lane, Long […]
Buenos Aires: Argentina Football Association (AFA) President, Luis Segura called for an end to the mistreatment of star playmaker Lionel Messi after Argentina were defeated in the 2015 Copa America final by hosts Chile. “I don’t understand people. One can have preferences, make comparisons but to mistreat Messi the way they did is an immense […]
Bengaluru: Mithali Raj will lead India in the three-match women’s T20 cricket series against visiting New Zealand commencing here on Saturday. The squad, as announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), here on Tuesday is: Mithali Raj (captain), Jhulan Goswami, Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Sushma Verma, Vanitha […]
Bengaluru: The gloves are off as India take on New Zealand in the fifth and final game of the women’s One-Day International (ODI) five-match series here on Wednesday with the teams locked 2-2. The series decider is likely to be a battle of nerves as both teams will be going all out to clinch the […]
Rio de Janeiro: Ronaldinho is considering an offer to join a club in Argentina, his brother and agent said. The two-time FIFA World Player of the Year and World Cup winner is a free agent after terminating his contract with Mexico’s Queretaro last month, Xinhua news agency reported. In an interview with Brazil’s Blog do […]
Wimbledon: Indian tennis players Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza entered the men’s and women’s doubles quarter-finals, while Leander Paes was knocked out in the men’s doubles of the Wimbledon Championships here on Monday. Bopanna with his Romanian partner Florin Mergea earned a hard fought victory against the Polish-Belarusian pair of Lukasz Kubot and Max Mirnyi […]
Vancouver: Carli Lloyd scored three goals in the first 16 minutes as the US beat Japan 5-2 in the Women’s World Cup final yesterday. Lloyd’s flash of genius devastated Japan in a re-match of last World Cup final where Japan beat the American side in shootout, reports Xinhua. Inspired Lloyd drew the first blood with […]
New Delhi: The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) selection committee will conduct trials at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here on Tuesday to pick male grapplers who will represent the country at the World Championships in Las Vegas from September 7 to 14. However, two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar will not take part in the […]
Wimbledon: India’s Leander Paes and Canada’s Daniel Nestor entered the third round of the men’s doubles event at the Wimbledon tennis championships overcoming a stiff challenge from the Russian-Chinese Taipei duo of Teymuraz Gabashvili and Yen-Hsun Lu 5-7, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 7-5 here on Saturday. The Indo-Canadian duo took three hours and 15 minutes […]
London: Spain’s Rafael Nadal, whose dismal season continued with a second-round loss this week at Wimbledon, needs a new coach to overcome his struggles, American former tennis great John McEnroe said in an interview with BBC Radio 5. “Nadal is one of the great champions, a class act. He plays with a lot of effort […]
Antwerp: India eves rode on valiant saves from goalkeeper Savita Punia to beat Italy 5-4 in the penalty shootout after the game ended at 1-1 in the Hockey World League (HWL) Semi-Final here on Thursday. In the shoot-out, Vandana Katariya, Navjot Kaur, Anuradha Thokchom, Rani Rampal and Deepika scored for India while for Italy, Valentina […]
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