Sania Mirza and Cara Black have entered the quarter-finals of the Women's Doubles in the French Open Tennis championships. In the pre-quarterfinals in Paris today, the fifth-seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair prevailed over the duo of Jelena Jankovic of Serbia and Russian Alisa Kleybanova in strai...

World Cup Men's Hockey: Germany kick start their campaign by beating S Africa

Olympic champions Germany have kick started their campaign to reclaim the World Cup Men's Hockey title with a 4-0 win against South Africa. The victory at the Kyocera Stadium in The Hague, the Netherlands, today, gave Germany full points in their first Group B outing. Germany were winners o...

Raina, Jeevan end as runners-up in ITF Tennis events

Ankita Raina and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan ended as runners-up in their respective ITF events today. In the final of the 25,000 US dollar event in Balikpapan, Indonesia, India's number one woman singles player Ankita, lost 5-7 6-2 3-6 to seventh seed Chinese Lin Zhu. Ankita was playing her firs...

Kings XI Punjab to clash with KKR today in final of IPL 7

Kings Eleven Punjab to clash with the Kolkata Knight Riders today in the summit clash of the seventh IPL. The match will be played at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore from 8 in the evening. The Knight Riders had advanced to the finals beating the Kings Eleven in the first Qualifier. Punjab, t...

IPL 2014 final: Kings XI Punjab to take on KKR today evening

Kings Eleven Punjab to clash with the Kolkata Knight Riders today in the summit clash of the seventh IPL. The match will be played at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore from 8 in the evening. The Knight Riders had advanced to the finals beating the Kings Eleven in the first Qualifier. Punjab, t...

French Open: Sania Mirza-Horia Tecau lose in mixed doubles

In French Open, Sania Mirza and her Romanian team-mate Horia Tecau have crashed out from the Mixed Doubles. In the pre-quarterfinals last night, the duo lost to the Hungarian-American team of Timea Babos and Eric Butorac, 6-1, 4-6, 7-10. Rohan Bopanna has, however, made it to the Mixed Doubles quart...

Pele's son sentenced to 33 years in jail for laundering money raised from drug trafficking

The son of the Brazilian football legend Pele has been sentenced to 33 years in jail for laundering money raised from drug trafficking. Edinho is a retired footballer who played goalkeeper for Pele's old club, Santos, in the 1990s. He was first arrested in 2005 and has served a sentence for...

Hockey World Cup: India go down 2-3 against Belgium

The Indian Men's team went down fighting to Belgium, 2-3 in it's opening Group match of the Hockey World Cup at The Hague, the Netherlands yesterday. Both teams were locked at 2-2, before John-John Dohmen sounded the board in the last minute to take his Belgium through.In yesterday...

IPL 2014 final: Kings XI Punjab to take on KKR today evening

Kings Eleven Punjab will lock horns with the Kolkata Knight Riders today in the summit clash of the seventh IPL. The match will be played at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore at 8 in the evening. Our correspondent reports that this is Punjab's maiden IPL final appearance, while for th...

Sania Mirza, Cara Black enter pre QFs of French Open<br/>

The Indo-Zimbabwean pair of Sania Mirza and Cara Black entered the pre quarterfinals of the French Open Tennis tournament today. The fifth seeded pair of Mirza and Black registered a straight set victory over the Canadian-Polish duo of Gabriela Dabrowski and Alicja Rosolska 6-1, 6-2. They will now f...