Third seed Stan Wawrinka booked a place in the quarter-finals of the French Open for the fourth time with a comfortable 7-5, 7-6 (9/7), 6-2 win over Gael Monfils yesterday. Marin Cilic completed the quarter-final line-up when South Africa’s Kevin Anderson retired with a thigh injury trailing 6-3, 3-0. It is Cilic’s first Roland Garros…
68th Junior National Basketball Championship: Karnataka boys score over Tripura
June 6, 2017The Karnataka boys have been impressive in the 68th National Junior Basketball Championship being held at Noida. On the second day of the tournament the team continued their good show with another imposing victory beating Tripura 83-18 yesterday. They stormed out of the gates against an under-matched Tripura side, taking the first quarter 35 to…
Malnad State Ranking Badminton Raghu emerges victorious
June 6, 2017Top seed M. Raghu, of Mysuru, won the men’s singles title in the Malnad State Ranking Badminton Championship held at Bengaluru on Sunday last. In the final, Raghu beat unseeded Sai Prateek 21-19, 21-17. Meanwhile, V. Ruth Misha won the women’s singles title.
Champions Trophy 2017: India crush Pakistan by 124 runs
June 5, 2017An all-round performance by the Men in Blue ensured that they continued their good record against Pakistan in ICC tournaments as they defeated their arch rivals Pakistan by a margin of 124 run in a rain-curtailed match at Edgbaston yesterday. The fortunes changed in the match just like the weather at Birmingham and it was…
French Open 2017: Nadal, Djokovic storm into quarter-final
June 5, 2017Nine-time champion Rafael Nadal surged into the French Open quarter-finals for a record-equalling 11th time yesterday, while reigning women’s title-holder Garbine Muguruza crashed out in the last 16. Nadal continued his ruthless form at Roland Garros by dispatching Spanish 17th seed Roberto Bautista Agut 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 to match Roger Federer’s mark of last-eight appearances…
Malnad State Ranking Badminton City’s Raghu enters men’s singles final
June 5, 2017Mysuru-based M. Raghu sailed into the final in men’s singles in the Malnad State Ranking Badminton Tournament on Saturday. In the men’s singles semi-finals, Raghu scored an upset win over fifth seed Abhilash 21-14, 2-18 and set up a title clash with K. Sai Prateek. Earlier, Raghu scored a good 21-11, 21-15 win over Priyanshu…
68th Junior National Basketball Championship: Karnataka women begin with a win
June 5, 2017Last year’s winners Karnataka women opened with a close 65-64 win over Kerala in the 68th junior National basketball Championships organised by Uttar Pradesh Basketball Association in association at the at Shiv Nadar University in Gautam Budh Nagar here yesterday. Karnataka led early before Kerala stormed back in the second quarter to trail 36-38 at…
French Open 2017: Djokovic survives scare to enter last sixteen
June 3, 2017Defending champion Novak Djokovic struggled into the French Open last 16 on Friday, downing battling Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1. The second seed endured a roller-coaster of an afternoon on Philippe Chatrier court, picking up warnings for his behaviour as his mindset became as gloomy as the weather. The 30-year-old, almost…
Champions Trophy 2017: Australia-New Zealand tie abandoned due to rain
June 3, 2017Rain saw the Champions Trophy one-day international between Australia and New Zealand at Edgbaston on Friday end in a no result. Australia, set a revised target of 235 to win in 33 overs, were 53 for three off nine overs when the last of several rain interruptions took the players off the field. A minimum…
French Open 2017: Andy Murray scores over Martin Klizan
June 2, 2017World number one Andy Murray’s struggle, this season on clay, came back to plague him at the French Open yesterday as he ground out an unconvincing 6-7(3) 6-2 6-2 7-6(3) win against Slovakian power-hitter Martin Klizan. Out-hit and more surprisingly often out-thought in the first set by a player he had described as unpredictable, the…














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