New York: Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal get their US Open campaigns under way, on Monday, in the shadow of Arthur Ashe Stadium’s spectacular $150 million retractable roof and alongside rock music legend Phil Collins. Defending champion Djokovic and fellow two-time winner Nadal come into the season’s final Grand SlamRead More

New Haven (USA): Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza received a confidence booster ahead of the US Open Grand Slam tournament beginning on Monday with a doubles title victory at the Connecticut Open with Monica Niculescu of Romania here. Sania and Niculescu capped off their newly rekindled doubles partnership with theirRead More

Karachi: Describing swashbuckling batsman Virat Kohli as ‘consistent’, Pakistan’s Sami Aslam has revealed that he looks to the Indian Test skipper for inspiration to perform at the highest level. The 20-year-old pointed out that the Indian cricketer takes nothing for granted and plays every innings with same determination as theRead More

  New Delhi: He is ready to take “moral responsibility” for India’s medal-less boxing campaign in Rio Olympics but national coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu says the four-year-long administrative logjam cannot escape blame for all that has gone wrong with the once flourishing sport. “I am personally hurt and I takeRead More

Johannesburg: Twenty20 skipper Faf du Plessis on Friday backed the longer format of the game and said South Africa should emulate India, who will be playing as many as 13 Tests this season at home. World No 6 in ICC rankings, South Africa will be playing 11 Tests this season,Read More

Florida: West Indies head coach Phil Simmons believes that the reigning World T20 champions need to be fully prepared to tackle India, whom he believes will seek to avenge the World T20 semifinal loss in the forthcoming two-match series in Lauderhill, Florida. Two-time champions West Indies, meanwhile, can leapfrog second-rankedRead More

New Delhi: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking urgent hearing on his application challenging the two-year ban imposed on the IPL franchisee, Chennai Super Kings (CSK), over the 2013 betting scam involving its top official Gurunath Meiyappan. Swamy told a bench headed by Chief JusticeRead More

New York: At last year’s U.S. Open, Serena Williams was trying to rewrite the record book and fell short, but starting on Monday at Flushing Meadows winning is getting personal. Williams’ 184-week reign as world number one is under attack, and the American will be loathe to relinquish it, accordingRead More

London: England are to go ahead with their tour of Bangladesh, the England and Wales Cricket Board confirmed Thursday. “We can confirm that @englandcricket’s tour of Bangladesh will continue as planned,” said a statement on the ECB’s official Twitter feed. The future of the tour was thrown into doubt whenRead More

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan will quit international cricket after the ongoing limited overs series against Australia, the swashbuckling opener announced on Thursday. “I have decided to retire from the ODIs after the third match in Dambulla (on Sunday) and will play the two Twenty20s and then retire completely,” DilshanRead More