India’s Leander Paes and partner Martin Damm of the Czech Republic stormed into the second round of the doubles event at Wimbledon, scoring a straight-set victory over South Africa’s Chris Haggard and Marcin Matkowski of Poland on Thursday. The fifth seeds won the first round match on Court 16, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, 7-5. Share and [...]
Sania Mirza crashed out of the singles competition at Wimbledon after being thrashed by Russia’s Nadia Petrova in a second round match on Thursday. The 20-year-old Indian ace was outplayed by the 11th seeded Russian, losing 2-6, 2-6. The victory was revenge of sorts for Petrova, who was shocked by Sania two years back in [...]
Sachin Tendulkar’s valiant 99-run knock went in vain as a rock-solid Jacques Kallis, a known Team India nemesis, led South Africa to a four-wicket win in the first cricket one-dayer here today. After Tendulkar (99) and Rahul Dravid (74) helped India post a modest total of 242 for eight in their allotted 50 overs, South [...]
Sania Mirza beat Russian Yaroslava Shvedova in straight sets to reach the second round of women’s singles in Wimbledon tennis championship here on Tuesday. The Indian needed less than an hour to trounce her rival 6-0, 6-3. Sania now faces a tough task in the second round where the Hyderabadi is pitted against another Russian, [...]
India revived their hopes with a hard-fought 3-2 victory over England for their first success in two matches in the Champions Challenge men’s hockey tournament in Boom, Belgium, on Sunday. The Indians saw off a determined bid by England, who equalised twice before Prabhjot Singh scored the match-winner in the 53rd minute. Share and Enjoy:
India warmed up for the long season ahead with a comprehensive nine-wicket victory over Ireland in the first one-day international in Belfast on Saturday. Chasing a revised target of 171 from 39 overs, following a more than two-and-half-hour rain interruption, the Indians cruised through an unbroken century partnership between former captain Sourav Ganguly and Gautam [...]
Defending champions and top seeds Leander Paes and Martin Damm eased into the final of the Ordina Open in the Netherlands on Friday. The Indo-Czech duo beat Germany’s Michael Kohlmann and Robert Lindstedt of Sweden 6-2, 6-3 in an hour in the semi-final. Share and Enjoy:
India have withdrawn from the race to stage the 2011 Asian Cup soccer tournament because they would not be able to meet the huge infrastructure requirements, a senior federation official said on Thursday. Qatar on Tuesday submitted their bid to stage the competition ahead of the Thursday deadline. Qatar are expected to be joined by [...]
Leander Paes and his Czech comrade-in-arms Martin Damm came up with a clinical show as they thrashed the Danish-German pair of Kristian Pless and Benjamin Becker in straight sets to advance into the semi-final of the 353,450 euro Ordina Open here. The Indo-Czech combine did not gave their rivals any chance and cruised to a [...]
The city of Indore awoke to heavy rain and the revving of engines as the final leg of the Castrol Power1 Throttle Max challenge for motorcycles was held on Saturday. Thirty-six hardcore bikers from across the country battled it out in adverse conditions on a specially designed track at the Nehru stadium for the title [...]
Thailand’s Supoj Saenia swamped India’s Yasin Merchant 7-0 to win the Asian Snooker Championship title in Karachi on Sunday. Merchant, who had won the championship in 1989 and 1991, could do little as the Thai youngster completely dominated the best-of-13-frames final before an appreciative crowd. Saenia won 77-26, 69-68, 78-60, 63-29, 59-26, 64-52, 99-26. Share [...]
Leander Paes and Martin Damm bowled out of the Gerry Weber Open, losing in the semi-finals, in Halle, Germany, on Saturday. The Indo-Czech pair lost 3-6, 6-2, 6-10 to Sweden’s Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle of Austria. Share and Enjoy:
Indian cueists Yasin Merchant and Alok Kumar recorded contrasting victories to enter the quarter-finals in the 23rd Asian Snooker Championships in Karachi on Thursday. Merchant, one of India’s most experienced players, looked in prime form as he comprehensibly beat Mohsin Aziz of Qatar 5-2 in the pre-quarter-finals. Compatriot Alok Kumar, however, had to toil for [...]
Mahesh Bhupathi and Radek Stepanek’s campaign in the Artois Championship was cut short in the second round by third seeds Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyet, who inflicted a straight set defeat on the Indo-Czech duo in the Euro 680,250 ATP event. Bhupathi and Stepanek went down 1-6, 4-6 to Australian Hanley and his Zimbabwean partner [...]
Leander Paes along with his partner Martin Damm of the Czech Republic entered the semi-finals of the Gerry Webber Open tennis tournament in Halle, Germany on Thursday. They beat the Swedish-German pair of Robin Soderling and Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-7, 7-6, 10-7 to set up a clash against Swede Simon Aspelin and his Austrian partner Julian [...]
India have been awarded a Formula One Grand Prix race to be held from 2009, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi announced on Thursday. “We have received a letter in this regard from Bernie Ecclestone, CEO of Formula One. The IOA will be the promoter, the first event of which will be held in [...]
Laxmi Mittal, the ‘Iron Man of India’ has emerged a contender to buy English Premiership football club Birmingham City after making an initial inquiry, The Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday. The 56-year-old Mittal, at 19.25-billion-pounds twice as rich as Roman Abramovich, the Russian millionaire owner of Chelsea, is yet to follow up on his preliminary [...]
Sania Mirza bowed out of the Birmingham DFS Classic women’s singles on Wednesday. The Indian ace was shown the door by eighth seed Mara Santangelo of Italy in the second round after losing 3-6, 6-3, 6-7(6). Share and Enjoy:
Alok Kumar enters round of 16 in 23rd Asian Snooker Championship in Karachi Second seed Alok Kumar of India overturned a 1-3 deficit to beat Pakistan’s Mohd Yousuf 4-3 and enter the round of 16 in the 23rd Asian Snooker Championship in Karachi. Meanwhile, compatriot Yasin Merchant also advanced to the knock-out round despite a [...]
Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, who were rested for last month’s One-Day International Series in Bangladesh, were included in India’s 15-man squad, to be led by Rahul Dravid, for the upcoming matches in Ireland and Scotland. As expected, out-of-form dashing batsman Virender Sehwag and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh were omitted from the ODI and Test teams. [...]