Wimbledon: Defending champion Roger Federer took his streak of consecutive sets won at Wimbledon to 26 on Wednesday, reaching the third round with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-1 victory over Slovakia’s Lukas Lacko. The 36-year-old is now on his joint second longest streak of sets won at Wimbledon — his best was 34 between the third…
Mysuru lad Arnav Pathange hogged the limelight in the AITA National-level Championship Series GBR Club U-16 & U-18 Tennis Tournament held at Hyderabad from June 25 to 29, by winning a grand double by clinching the boys U-16 Singles and Doubles titles. He also emerged runner-up in the boys U-18 Singles event. In the Boys…
India wicket-keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday added another feather to his already illustrious cap as he now holds the record of affecting the maximum number of stumpings in Twenty20 Internationals (T20I). Dhoni achieved the feat during the first T20I of the three-match series against England at Old Trafford in Manchester. Ahead of the first…
Jakarta: Defending champion Kidambi Srikanth’s campaign ended with a narrow opening-round loss but Olympic silver medallist P.V. Sindhu eked out a thrilling win to progress to the women’s Singles pre-quarterfinals of the USD 1,250,000 Indonesia Open BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournament here on Wednesday. Former World No.1 Srikanth suffered his second successive loss to…
Bengaluru: Mysuru veteran TT players fared well in the third edition of ‘Queens Cup’ – Karnataka Veterans Ranking TT Championship organised by Karnataka Veterans Table Tennis Association at Malleshwaram Association TT Hall here on June 16 and 17. This yearly event was sponsored by women veteran TT players. Dr. B.R. Sainath Iyer, formerly Professor and…
Delhi: WCM A.N. Shefali of Mandya, representing India in the Commonwealth Girls U-10 Chess Championship in Delhi, finished sixth with five points from seven rounds in the Tournament which concluded on Tuesday. In the final round, Shefali lost to Sneha Halder of West Bengal. Anupam M. Sreekumar of Kerala won the title with 6.5 points…
London: Maria Sharapova suffered her first opening round Wimbledon defeat and earliest Grand Slam exit in eight years on Tuesday when she was shocked by fellow Russian Vitalia Diatchenko, the world number 132. Sharapova, the 2004 champion, was joined at the exit by 2011 and 2014 winner Petra Kvitova who was stunned by Belarusian world…
Samara, Russia: Brazil reached the World Cup quarterfinals after Neymar scored and assisted in a 2-0 win over a Mexico side that saw their “fifth game” curse continue. Neymar opened the scoring for Brazil with a close-range tap-in on 50 minutes and Roberto Firmino made the game safe two minutes from time. It was another…
Nacer Chadli scored deep into second-half stoppage time to complete Belgium’s 3-2 comeback win against Japan in the World Cup round of 16 on Monday. The win puts Belgium into the quarterfinals, setting up a mouth-watering clash with Brazil in the last-eight. Having rested most of their best players for the 1-0 win over England…
Mandya’s chess player WCM A.N. Shefali representing India and taking part in the Commonwealth chess championship in the girls U-10 category won his sixth round tie against Anjistha Basak of West Bengal and is currently placed third in the ranking with 5 points from six rounds on Monday. In the previous rounds, Shefali had wins…
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