New York, September 9 Serena Williams crashed out of the US Open, her semi-final defeat to Karolina Pliskova costing her a shot at a 23rd Grand Slam title and a record 187th straight week at number one. Pliskova, the 10th-seeded Czech playing in her first Grand Slam semi-final, triumphed 6-2,Read More

New Delhi, September 9 Athletes have not been spared the blame in Sports Authority of India’s review of the country’s “lacklustre” Olympic performance, even as it suggested a three-pronged strategy, including a thorough evaluation of coaches, for an improved performance in the 2020 Tokyo Games. The report prepared by SAIRead More

NEW YORK, September 8 Japan’s Kei Nishikori overcame second seed Andy Murray for a gruelling 1-6 6-4 4-6 6-1 7-5 see-saw victory on Wednesday to reach the US Open semifinals. Nishikori, who became the first Asian man to reach a Grand Slam final when he finished runner-up here in 2014,Read More

Brisbane, Manish Pandey blasted a quick-fire 76-ball 77 before Mitchell Swepson struck with a four-wicket haul to dismiss India A for 230 in their first innings against Australia A in the opening four-day day-night Test here today. Middle-order batsman Pandey cracked 13 boundaries and one six to take the visitors closeRead More

New York, September 8 Serena Williams fended off a determined challenge from Simona Halep, downing the fifth-seeded Romanian 6-2 4-6 6-3 to reach the US Open semi-finals. World number one Williams, seeking a record seventh US Open title and 23rd Grand Slam crown, fired 18 aces en route to theRead More

Chandigarh, Have you recently caught Chris Gayle or Dwayne Bravo dancing away in Chennai? Or spotted Dean Jones, Brett Lee and Matthew Hayden, wearing mundus (lungis, or sarongs), in Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu? Well, they’re there, braving heat and humidity, testifying to the economic magnetism of T20 cricket. They’re here forRead More

Ayana produced an astounding run to clock 29:17.45 and take 14 seconds off the 23-year-old 10,000m record, set by China’s Wang Junxia in Beijing in 1993. No woman had broken the 30-minute barrier in the previous seven years and Wang’s time was also 22 seconds faster than anything that hadRead More

Rio de Janeiro,  Thousands of fans and athletes will open the 2016 Rio Paralympics at a gala ceremony where organisers hope to draw a line under a chaotic build-up. A Russian doping scandal and claims that the athletes’ classification system is being manipulated have made for a rocky start for theRead More

Montevideo, Brazil’s march towards the 2018 World Cup gathered pace with a Neymar-inspired win over Colombia as Uruguay surged to the top of the South American qualification standings with a 4-0 rout of Paraguay. Just four days after their first ever victory over Ecuador in Quito, Brazil dug deep to beatRead More

New Delhi: Former Indian women’s team captain Anjum Chopra has been awarded an honourary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) along with former men’s team stalwarts Zaheer Khan and Virender Sehwag. She is the first Indian woman cricketer to get the prestigious life membership of MCC. The 39-year-oldRead More