Four-time winner Justine Henin made a winning French Open return yesterday. She beat Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova 6-4, 6-3 to reach the second round. Dinara Safina was stunned in the first round by 39-year-old Japanese veteran Kimiko Date Krumm. Safina crashed out, losing 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.Men...

2 Indian women storms into quarterfinal of 5th Asian women boxing championship

Four-time world champion M C Mary Kom stormed into the quarterfinals of the fifth Asian Women's Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan.Mary Kom, a Khel Ratna awardee, defeated Filipino Josie Gabeuco 8-1 in a lopsided bout to enter the pin weight (46kg) category quarterfinals.The other I...

Two Indian women boxer storms into the quarterfinals of the 5th Asian Women's Boxing Championships

Four-time world champion M C Mary Kom stormed into the quarterfinals of the fifth Asian Women's Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan.Mary Kom, a Khel Ratna awardee, defeated Filipino Josie Gabeuco 8-1 in a lopsided bout to enter the pin weight (46kg) category quarterfinals.The other I...

M.C.Mary Kom storms into Asian Women's Championship quarterfinals

Four-time world champion M C Mary Kom stormed into the quarterfinals with a thumping first-round triumph on an all-win day for the Indians at the fifth Asian Women's Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan.Mary Kom, a Khel Ratna awardee, defeated Filipino Josie Gabeuco 8-1 in a lopsided ...

Sports Ministry seeks early meet with IOC Prez to sort out crisis

The Sports Ministry today sought an early meeting with IOC President Jacques Rogge to solve what it described as a false situation of crisis created by the IOA officials.In his letter to Rogge, Joint Secretary Injeti Srinivas sought an immediate meeting to clear the air, adding that the Sports Minis...

Federer & Serena reach second round of French Open

In French open tennis tournament, Roger Federer of Switzerland and Serena Williams of US have reached second round in Paris. While Federer beat Australia's Peter Luczak 6-4, 6-2, 6-1, Serena defeated Stephanie Ogale 7-6, 6-2. Andy Murray of Britain has also entered the second round of the t...

Federer begins his campaign for Grand Slam title

Top seed and defending champion Roger Federer began his campaign for a 17th Grand Slam title with a comfortable 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 win over Australia's Peter Luczak in the French Open first round. Federer now will face Colombia's Alejandro Falla for a place in the last 32. In womens sin...

India is ready to eliminate the menace of doping from every sports : M.S. Gill

Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs M S Gill today assured that India is ready to eliminate the menace of doping at all levels of sports in the country. Speaking at a function in New Delhi, Dr.Gill lauded the efforts of the governemnt in establishing a state of the art dope testing laboratory in t...

Federer begins his campaign for Grand Slam title

Top seed and defending champion Roger Federer began his campaign for a 17th Grand Slam title with a comfortable 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 win over Australia's Peter Luczak in the French Open first round on today. Federer now will face Colombia's Alejandro Falla for a place in the last 32.In wo...

Somdev achieves career-best 108th spot in ATP?

Somdev rose a rung to career-best 108 while Yuki Bhambri returned to top-400 after a seven place jump to 397th spot in the latest ATP rankings.Vishnu Vardhan also jumped seven places to be at 355. In the doubles chart, Leander Paes (6) and Mahesh Bhupathi (7) remained unchanged. Meanwhile in the WTA...