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Madrid Open: Sania, Martina inch closer to fifth title of 2016 season

Madrid Open: Sania, Martina inch closer to fifth title of 2016 season

Sports May 7, 2016 at 10:47 am 0 comments

Madrid: Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis reached the Madrid Open doubles final with a crushing 6-2, 6-0 win over Vania King and Alla Kudryavtseva in the lop-sided semifinal, here on Friday. It will be second consecutive final for the Indo-Swiss team after ending runners-up in Stuttgart. After theirRead More

IPL 9: I better go home, says Usman Khawaja

IPL 9: I better go home, says Usman Khawaja

Sports May 7, 2016 at 10:46 am 0 comments

Mumbai: IPL is not only about cricket. There are cheerleaders, sponsors and jerseys and international players whose names are spelt wrong. Australia batsman Usman Khawaja – Rising Pune Supergiants’ latest recruit – is a victim. His jersey, number 100, printed his name as ‘Khwaja’ and not ‘Khawaja’ which is hisRead More

Shahid Afridi should say goodbye to cricket, says Qadir

Shahid Afridi should say goodbye to cricket, says Qadir

Sports May 7, 2016 at 10:46 am 0 comments

Karachi: Former leg-spin great, Abdul Qadir has advised flamboyant Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi to say goodbye to cricket and slammed Umar Akmal, saying he lost his place in the national team because of his own mistakes. Qadir, known for his candid comments, said at a function in Lahore that AfridiRead More

Unfair to compare Kohli with Tendulkar: Yuvraj

Unfair to compare Kohli with Tendulkar: Yuvraj

Sports May 7, 2016 at 10:45 am 0 comments

New Delhi: Veteran left-hander Yuvraj Singh feels India Test captain Virat Kohli is the best batsman of this generation but deemed it unfair to compare him with Sachin Tendulkar as he feels that it will take a lot more hardwork from the Delhi lad to match the maestro’s legacy.Yuvraj saidRead More

Yuvraj Singh likely to play against Gujarat Lions

Yuvraj Singh likely to play against Gujarat Lions

Sports May 7, 2016 at 10:44 am 0 comments

Hyderabad: Star cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who has recovered from an ankle injury, is likely to play his first IPL match of the season on Friday when Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) takes on Gujarat Lions (GL) here. “He (Yuvraj Singh) is available. When we finalise our XI, he is very much inRead More

Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponappa rise one spot in BWF rankings

Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponappa rise one spot in BWF rankings

Sports May 7, 2016 at 10:43 am 0 comments

New Delhi: Olympic-bound men’s singles shuttler K Srikanth of India slipped a place to be ranked World No 12 in the latest BWF rankings issued on Thursday. 2010 Commonwealth Games champion duo of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa, who made the cut for their second Olympics, rose one rung toRead More

Andy Murray mauls Gilles Simon at Madrid Open

Andy Murray mauls Gilles Simon at Madrid Open

Sports May 7, 2016 at 10:42 am 0 comments

Madrid: Defending champion Andy Murray sealed his place in the quarterfinals of the Madrid Masters on Thursday with a 6-4, 6-2 win over 16th seed Gilles Simon. Murray will face Thomas Berdych or David Ferrer in the last eight on Friday. “After the first six or seven games I reallyRead More

Can’t control if someone chooses to do wrong: Kohli on fixing

Can’t control if someone chooses to do wrong: Kohli on fixing

Sports May 6, 2016 at 11:39 am 0 comments

New Delhi: India’s Test captain Virat Kohli is of the opinion that as much as you put systems in place to curb match-fixing it will always depend on an individual player as to what kind of choices he makes. Asked about whether enough is being done by cricketing authorities toRead More

Real edge past City to set up all-Madrid final

Real edge past City to set up all-Madrid final

Sports May 6, 2016 at 11:38 am 0 comments

Madrid: Real Madrid will face Atletico Madrid in the Champions League final for the second time in three years after overcoming Manchester City 1-0 in their semifinal second leg on Wednesday. Brazilian midfielder Fernando deflected Gareth Bale’s cross into his own net after 20 minutes at the Santiago Bernabeu forRead More

Gearing up for another ace: Sania Mirza’s biography to be launched soon

Gearing up for another ace: Sania Mirza’s biography to be launched soon

Sports May 6, 2016 at 11:37 am 0 comments

New Delhi: After having written a page in the history of women’s tennis in India, Sania Mirza is all set to serve another ace. Ace Against Odds, her biography that encapsulates her modest beginnings and the surge to the top, is set to be launched in the first week ofRead More