Stan Wawrinka won his ninth straight final with a 6-4, 7-6 (15/13) defeat of Marcos Baghdatis to clinch the Dubai ATP title on Saturday after a “crazy tiebreaker”. The French Open champion from Switzerland claimed the 13th title of his career and second of the season after Chennai, improving to 13-2 in 2016. The match lasted for almost two hours, […]
» Read morePoonam Rani struck twice as the Indian women’s hockey team notched up a dominating 3-0 win over Scotland in the last match of their tour to South Africa. The Indian eves recovered well from the 2-3 defeat against Germany in their last outing on Sunday to end the tour on a high.
» Read moreIndian tennis star Sania Mirza on Wednesday said that French Open is going to be the “toughest” for her and Swiss partner Martina Hingis as clay court is not among their favourite surfaces. Having won three Grand Slam titles in a row, Sania and Martina would hope to maintain the winning streak at the French Open, to be held in […]
» Read moreIndian skipper M.S. Dhoni won the toss and elected to bowl first against arch-rivals Pakistan, led by Shahid Afridi, in the fourth match of the Asia cup 2016. Pakistan s batting proved to be lack lustrous as not one batsman out of the 11 was able to stick to the crease for some overs and make any significant contribution. Indian bowlers striked […]
» Read moreThe Indian women’s hockey team continued its winning streak on its tour to South Africa by routing Scotland national team 5-0 here. The first period of the match started with the Indian eves looking for an early goal but the Scottish defence refused to give away any clear short at the goal. The Scottish girls tried to make a comeback […]
» Read moreWorld number one doubles pairing Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza lost for the first time in 41 matches, at the Qatar Open on Thursday. They went down 2-6, 6-4, 10-5 to Russian pair Elena Vesnina and Daria Kasatkina in the quarter-finals. Prior to the defeat in Doha, the last time the pair, who have won three doubles Grand Slams in a […]
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