Mysuru lad S.D. Prajwal Dev, representing India in the Sri Lanka F2 Futures Men’s Tennis Tournament in Colombo won his first round singles match in the qualifying round yesterday. Prajwal Dev beat Vibuda Wijebandara (SL) 6-1, 6-2. He will meet Pakistan’s Heera Ashiq in the next round. In another first round match, Suraj R. Prabodh,…
Regular wickets and lack of significant partnerships keep Windies to 204 before defending champion overhauls the target in just 38.1 overs. Ellyse Perry went for 10 runs in her first over. She had bowled loose and short and Hayley Matthews punished her for it with two fours. Australia Women’s premier all-rounder, though, came back strongly…
Swiss legend Roger Federer clinched his ninth Halle Open title after beating hapless Alexander Zverev 6-1, 6-3 in the final. The top seed Roger Federer showed no mercy with fourth seed Alexander Zverev after wrapping up his ninth title in his 11th Halle final within 53 minutes. From the start Federer piled on the pressure…
In a Special General Meeting (SGM) here yesterday, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) decided to form a committee to implement the Lodha reforms at the earliest. The committee will also be looking into issues like ‘one-state, one-vote’, age cap of 70 years, increasing the number of members in the selection panel…
Ahead of IAAF World Championships in London, Usain Bolt has warned his rivals and claimed that he remains the man to beat in the competition, despite what he called a “horrifying” start to his season and some impressive performances from his younger opponents. The event will commence from Aug. 5. Bolt carefully observed the Olympic…
Ace Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth extended his stellar run of form to become the first Indian male shuttler to win two consecutive Super Series title after he won the Australia Open Super Series yesterday and carve his name in the history of Indian badminton. And to celebrate this historic moment, Badminton Association of India has…
India went down 2-3 to a resilient Canada in the fifth-sixth place play-off of the Hockey World League (HWL) Semi-Final here yesterday. By making a fifth finish, Canada have booked their berth for the 2018 Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup in Bhubaneswar. It was goals by Gordon Johnston (3′, 44′), Keegan Pereira (40′) and an…
Indian men’s hockey team will feature at least 4-5 players from Kodagu in a year to come, said Indian team’s former captain V.R. Raghunath. He was speaking to media persons after visiting the Vanabhadrakali temple at Hathur near Gonikoppal along with his wife Surya. The hockey star expressed his happiness over the Indian hockey team’s…
Four years on from its ICC Women’s World Cup success in Mumbai, Australia meets the team it beat in the final, West Indies, as its begins the defence of its title in Taunton. And these two high-quality teams know each other well, having also met in the ICC World T20 Final in Kolkata just last…
India shuttler Kidambi Srikanth has been on a roll in the past two weeks — he has beaten the World No. 1 Son Wan Ho twice and beaten the top-ranked Chinese shuttler Shi Yuqi twice. Overall, he has now reached three straight Super Series finals that he’s played — Singapore, Indonesia and now Australia. He…
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