Saurav, Joshana enter semifinals in Hong Kong meet

Leading Indian players Saurav Ghosal and Joshana Chinappa have entered the semifinals of the 25,000 US Dollar HKFC International squash tournament in Hong Kong on Thursday. Second seed Ghosal defeated Nafizwan Adnan of Malaysia11-4, 11-4, 11-7. In the women's section, fourth seeded Joshana ...

Abhinav Bindra becomes 4th Indian shooter to qualify for Rio Olympics

Abhinav Bindra has become the fourth Indian shooter to win a quota place for the Rio Olympics. Bindra earned the place after he finished sixth in the Men's 10 metre Air Rifle final at the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Munich on Thursday. Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold me...

Saina Nehwal enters quarter finals of Australian Open

Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal has entered the quarter-finals of the Women's Singles at the Australian Open Super Series badminton tournament. In Sydney on Thursday, the World Number One defeated 9th ranked Sun Yu of China in three games 21-19 19-21 21-14 in a match that lasted an hour and 18 mi...

Abhinav Bindra becomes 4th Indian shooter to qualify for Rio Olympics

Abhinav Bindra has become the fourth Indian shooter to win a quota place for the Rio Olympics. Bindra earned the place after he finished sixth in the Men's 10 metre Air Rifle final at the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Munich on Thursday. Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold me...

Tulana Nan of West Bengal has stormed into the finals of the ongoing 1st India Bhutan Friendship Tennis Championship, 2015. The event is being held at the synthetic courts of the Bhutan Tennis Federation in Thimphu. In the Women's Singles Semifinal, Nan wiped out Bhutan's Tandin Bi...

Australia Open: Saina Nehwal enters quarter-finals

Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal has entered the quarter-finals of the Women's Singles at the Australian Open Super Series badminton tournament. In Sydney on Thursday, the World Number One defeated 9th ranked Sun Yu of China in three games 21-19 19-21 21-14 in a match that lasted an hour and 18 mi...

Former FIFA VP Jack Warner spends night in jail after corruption arrest

Jack Warner, the former Vice President of Football's World Governing Body, FIFA, is spending the night in jail in Trinidad and Tobago, after being indited by the United States for alleged corruption. US prosecutors accused Warner of being involved in the alleged payment by South African foo...

Simona Halep crashes out of French Open

World number three Simona Halep of Romania has crashed out of the French Open, the second Grand Slam of the season, in Paris. In the second round fixture last night, the last year's runners up lost to the unseeded Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1. This was the second...

Australian Open: Saina, Srikanth, Jwala- Ashwini to play pre-quarterfinal matches today<br/>

In Badminton, Saina Nehwal, K. Srikanth and the pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa will play their pre-quarterfinal matches of the Australian Open Super Series tournament at Sydney today. In the Singles, while defending champion and world number one Saina will take on Yu Sun of China, world nu...

French Open: Sania Mirza, Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna advance to second round <br/>

At the French Open Tennis, the top-seeded pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis has advanced to the second round of the women&apos;s doubles. In the first round in Paris today, the Indo-Swiss pair easily overcame Germany&apos;s Julia Goerges and Barbora Krejcikova of Czech Republic in strai...