New Delhi : Somdev Devvarman will on Monday become the first Indian men’s singles player since Leander Paes to break into the top 100 rankings. This is the first time in 11 years that Indian men’s singles tennis player will make it to the elite club since Paes dropped out of that race in 1999. [...]
IT IS a sheer wastage of money to spend so much on ‘beautifying Delhi’ in the name of Commonwealth Games, which are proving to be nuisance for Delhites instead of entertainment! Only political rulers, bureaucrats and others entitled for bulk of free passes are going to benefit from these games being held in Delhi apart [...]
Atlanta : Mardy Fish won his second straight tournament and 10th straight match, beating John Isner 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) in the final of the Atlanta Tennis Championships on Sunday. Fish, who won in Newport earlier this month, took the first four points of the tiebreaker. Isner rallied to win the next three points but [...]
Portoroz, Slovenia :- Anna Chakvetadze of Russia beat Johanna Larsson of Sweden 6-1, 6-2 in the Slovenia Open final on Sunday to win her first WTA Tour title in almost 2 1/2 years. Chakvetadze broke twice in each set against Larsson, who was playing in her first final and who missed all three breakpoint [...]
Paris : Lance Armstrong didn’t want to go out this way. In his final Tour de France, the seven-time champion popped a tire, crashed and struggled up the mountains. Worse, he seems to be the target of a U.S. federal doping investigation, accused of cheating while a cyclist on the US Postal team midway through [...]
New Delhi : Rohan Bopanna and Kristof Vliegen overcame a first set deficit to beat Jonathan Erlich and Janko Tipsarevic and book a semifinal berth in the Atlanta Tennis Championships in the USA. Bopanna and his Belgian partner scored a 3-6 7-6(7) 10-8 win over the Israeli-Serbian pair in the quarter-finals of the USD 531,000 [...]
Ontario : Jeev Milkha Singh slipped 16 places to tied 53rd after returning a modest even-par 70 while Arjun Atwal also just about managed to make the cut with an identical card in the second round of the RBC Canadian Open golf tournament here. A 10th tee starter, Jeev’s two birdies against an equal number [...]
Atlanta : Andy Roddick resumed where he left off nearly a decade ago, advancing with a 6-1, 6-7 (1/7), 6-3 win over Rajeev Ram at the Atlanta Tennis Championships nine years after his last appearance at the venue. Third seed Lleyton Hewitt fell victim to Slovak Lukas Lacko, who stunned the Australian with five breaks [...]
Hamburg, Germany : Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan upset defending champion Nikolay Davydenko of Russia 6-4, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals of the German Open on Thursday. The 82nd-ranked Golubev lost the only previous meeting against No. 6 Davydenko, who was coming back after breaking his left wrist. Third-seeded Juergen Melzer of Austria, the French Open [...]
New Delhi : Former Indian skipper Mohammad Azharuddin on Friday sought to scotch speculation of his romantic relationship with Jwala Gutta, saying the ace badminton doubles player is just a “good friend.” According to media reports, Azharuddin has been dating 26-year-old Jwala and is on the verge of filing for divorce from his wife of [...]
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