Top seeded Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy won the Thailand Open doubles title beating unseeded American duo of Scott Lipsky and David Martin 6-4, 7-6 on Sunday. Earlier, Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy stormed into the summit clash of the Thailand Open after inflicting a straight-set defeat on Fabrice Santoro and Jo-Wilfred Tsonga [...]

India’s newly-appointed national selectors, the first set to be paid by the BCCI, will be on a four-year contract which will be reviewed annually, according to Shashank Manohar, the board’s new president. Manohar was confirmed as Sharad Pawar’s successor at the annual general meeting in Mumbai, while Kris Srikkanth was appointed the new chairman of [...]

Champion batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday agreed with the likes of Adam Gilchrist and rated the current rivalry between India and Australia as bigger than that of the traditional one between India and Pakistan because of the “competitiveness” exhibited by the two teams over the last eight years. “I think India v Australia has become bigger [...]

Cricket Australia’s National Selection Panel (NSP) on Friday announced a 15–man squad to tour India for a four-Test series next month. The big news was the exclusion of Andrew Symonds from the squad. Symonds is currently undergoing counselling after he was sent back from Darwin where Australia were playing a one-day series against Bangladesh. Symonds had [...]

Vijay Singh, helped by three monster birdie putts, eased to his third PGA Tour title in five weeks with a commanding five-shot victory at the Deutsche Bank Championship on Monday. Three off the pace overnight, the Fijian world number five fired a superb eight-under-par 63 in difficult, sun-drenched conditions at the TPC Boston for a 22-under [...]