The first quarter-final in the Euro 2020 championships will be played between Switzerland and Spain from 9:30 pm IST in St Petersburg, Russia, on Friday.
Laxmi Negi/Rediff.com picks the five best matches of the final round.
US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz has become the youngest world number one since the ATP rankings began in 1973.
Nick Kyrgios produced a serve-and-volley masterclass to topple world number one Daniil Medvedev 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-2 for his eighth straight win on a day of upsets, while American Tommy Paul rallied to beat Spanish second seed Carlos Alcaraz.
Anjum went down 12-16 in the gold medal match to Denmark's Rikke Maeng Ibsen.
The Adria Tour tournament, was the brainchild of World No 1 Novak Djokovic, who, along with his wife also tested positive for COVID-19 after the Adria Tour's second leg in Croatia.
Djokovic's father blamed the cancellation of the tour on Dimitrov. There is nothing to suggest that Dimitrov spread the virus to others.
A look at the last 16 team as Euro 2020 enters the knockout phase.
Rediff.com looks at the five best goals from the concluding round in the league stage.
Youngster Rudrankksh Patil has emerged as a hot contender to emulate 2008 Beijing Olympics champion Abhinav Bindra's feat at the 2024 Paris Games.
The Indians will now lock horns with top seeds Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Brazilian Marcelo Melo in the summit clash of the of the ATP 250 event.
The 23-year-old world number 144 (before the final) from Faridabad, however, secured the Paris Olympics quota for the country after topping the second ranking round match with a brilliant 24 out of 25 hits.
It was Spain's first competitive win in Portugal since 1934
Out of these 148 athletes, 17 have got both the doses and 131 have received their first shot.
Norwegian Casper Rudd is the first tennis player from his country to reach the final of any Grand Slam.
Rafael Nadal returns to the US Open for the first time in three years short of match practice and with big question marks about his fitness but few people will dismiss the Spaniard's chances of claiming a record-extending 23rd Grand Slam title.
The world number one had arrived in Tokyo aiming to become the first man to win all four majors and an Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year. But that quest came to an end after he was beaten by fifth-ranked German Alexander Zverev in Friday's semi-final.
The stadiums at Qatar offer plenty of wisdom and chutzpah on how to take our own lives forward.
Sandesh Jhingan will become the first India international footballer to play in the Croatian top-tier league Prva HNL after completing a move from ATK Mohun Bagan to HNK Sibenik.
IMAGES from the FIFA World Cup quarter-final played between Argentina and The Netherlands on Friday.
"Every time Garang touched the ball, he made something happen. The kid's exciting. Everyone can see that. Everyone is buzzing," said Slater, now a media analyst.
The Qatar World Cup has delivered a rich feast of soccer for the past month
Pavic did damage with his powerful serve while Soares did well to force their opponents into difficult shots and they sealed the win
Nadal had arrived in Paris nursing a nagging foot injury and even brought a doctor with him to improve his chances
India's Divij Sharan and his Argentine partner Federico Delbonis crashed out of the French Open after suffering a narrow defeat against Australian duo of Matt Reid and Alex de Minaur.
Croatian midfielder Luka Modric, one of the most promising young players in Europe, has agreed terms to join Tottenham Hotspur.
Images from the FIFA World Cup qualifier matches played on Tuesday night.
England head into Euro 2020 with a new factor for manager Gareth Southgate to deal with -- high expectations.
It was the first Grand Slam triumph for Polasek, 35, who came out of retirement in 2018
Serbia had their backs to the wall when Kazakh veteran Mikhail Kukushkin beat debutant Miomir Kecmanovic in a three-hour epic in the first singles rubber. But Djokovic calmly levelled the tie with a straight-sets defeat of Alexander Bublik before returning to court to team up with Nikola Cacic and beat Kazakh pair Andrey Golubev and Aleksandr Nedovyesov 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.
Sweden and Novak Djokovic's Serbia took the two best runners-up spots and a place in the last eight by virtue of their better match win-loss records among the second placed sides throughout the group stages.
Manchester United's interim manager Ralf Rangnick has been appointed as the Austrian national team coach on a two-year deal tasked with qualifying for Euro 2024.
Luka Modric has signed a one-year contract extension with Real Madrid
'We wanted to protect every player and fan after learning that Dimitrov tested positive. It was a charity event and all we wanted was to play tennis and give the fans a good show'
France forward Kylian Mbappe has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and will miss this week's Nations League international against Croatia.
The Indo-Croat combination took just an hour and one minute to dispose off their rivals 6-4, 6-2 in their tournament opener.
India's Rohan Bopanna and his Croatian partner Ivan Dodig advanced to the men's doubles pre-quarter-finals of the US Open with a three-set victory over the pair of Hugo Nys of Monaco and Arthur Rinderknech of France, in New York.
A round-up of Tuesday's action in the UEFA Champions League.
The Indian shooters will begin training at the venue from July 19, having got their rooms allotted at the games village after arriving in Tokyo in the wee hours of Saturday.
Eight years is a long time in the life of an athlete. But just like Messi, Di Maria has preserved and persisted towards his childhood dream, points out Deepti Patwardhan.
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