Tennis: Li Na reaches Wimbledon 3rd round with<br/>

Chinese second seed Li Na swept into the Wimbledon third round with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Austria&apos;s Yvonne Meusburger today. Li, 32, will now play Russia&apos;s Elena Vesnina or Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic for a place in the last 16. Li had suffered her worst Gran...

New-look Indian cricket team aim for positive start of England tour

A new-look Indian cricket team would be eyeing a positive start to their two-and-a-half-month long tour of England when they take on Leicestershire in a three-day practice game, starting in Leicester tomorrow. The visitors, led by skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, reached London last weekend. This will ...

Praneeth, Thulasi enter 2nd round of Star Australian Super Series

Young Indian shuttlers B Sai Praneeth and P C Thulasi reached the second round of the Star Australian Super Series in Sydney today. World no. 77 Praneeth brushed aside local shuttler Hoe Keat Oon 21-7, 21-11 in a men&apos;s singles match. Thulashi got the better off USA&apos;s Jamie Subandhi...

In the FIFA World Cup tonight, Argentina will clash with Nigeria at Porto Alegre, Bosnia and Herzegovina will take on Iran at Salvador, France will meet Ecuador at Rio de Janeiro, and Switzerland will play Honduras at Manaus. The Argentina-Nigeria and Bosnia-Iran Group-F matches will be played at 9:...

World Cup: Uruguay beats Italy, enters round of 16; Greece earns maiden knock-out stage berth

Djoko, Wozniacki in UAE team of Int'l Tennis Premier League

N Srinivasan unanimously elected as chief of TNCA

BCCI&apos;s president-in-exile N Srinivasan, has been unanimously elected as the chief of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) for the 14th consecutive year.As has been the case for over 10 years, all the sitting office bearers and executive committee members were elected unopposed during t...

World Cup: Uruguay beat Italy, Colombia thrash Japan , Greece in last 16

Somdev crashes out in Wimbledon 1st round

Somdev Devvarman India&apos;s lone challenge in the men&apos;s singles, bowed out of the Wimbledon Tennis Championship at London on Tuesday.He was pitted against 15th seed Jerzy Janowicz of Poland in the opening round. Unseed Somdev Devvarman went down fighting in the fifth set 6-4, 3-6, 3-6...

AP court issues arrest warrant against team India captain MS Dhoni

An Andhra Pradesh court on Tuesday issued arrest warrant against Indian Cricket Captain M.S.Dhoni for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of a community.A local court in Anathapur directed the police to present Dhoni in the court on 16th next month following his lack of response for its three sum...