Defending champions Ranchi Rays will play host to the semifinals and final of the fourth edition of the Coal India Hockey India League on February 20 and 21 respectively at the Birsa Munda hockey stadium. The Hockey India League (HIL), the flagship event of Hockey India, is scheduled to be played across six venues in the country starting January 18. The […]
» Read moreIndian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis continued their stupendous run by clinching their 25th victory in a row together to enter the final of the Brisbane International tennis tournament here on Friday. The top-seeded Indo-Swiss duo defeated the Slovak-Russian combination of Andreja Klepac and Alla Kudryavtseva 6-3, 7-5 to make the summit clash. Sania and […]
» Read moreAngelique Kerber brushed aside the challenge of Carla Suarez Navarro to move into the final of the season-opening Brisbane International on Friday. The German fourth seed was simply too strong for her Spanish opponent, taking 75 minutes to win 6-2, 6-3. Kerber is the highest seed left in the tournament after the injury withdrawals of Simona Halep, Garbine Muguruza and […]
» Read moreWorld number nine Lucie Safarova will miss this month’s Australian Open as she has yet to regain full fitness following a bacterial infection last year, the Czech said on Friday. “As an athlete I’m used to fight, usually on the court to get a win, today it’s off court to get my health back,” the 28-year-old, who was runner-up at […]
» Read moreAustralia’s upcoming One-Day Internationals (ODI) campaign against India should be as feisty as ever, coach Darren Lehmann said on Friday (January 8), adding the dynamic would be a good challenge for his young squad. Asked about the mood of the five-match ODI series, which gets under way at Perth’s WACA ground on Tuesday, Lehmann said he expected it would be […]
» Read moreFrom despair to delight, this is the story of ASS Siril Verma, the new world No. 1 among junior men. He was hounded, accused of age fudging and even offloaded from the Indian team in October. The moment his name was announced as one of the four age fraudsters, Siril ran out of the hotel in disbelief, his mother followed […]
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