Dinara Safina proved she could keep a lid on her emotions when it mattered by beating Martina Hingis 6-3 3-6 7-5 in the final of the Australian women's hardcourt championships on the Gold Coast on Saturday.
Konstas, 20, misses out after a poor tour with the bat in the West Indies, while Weatherald has been included after topping the Sheffield Shield runs list
Things are heating up at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) chief David Sharpe said a preventative task force funded to the tune of millions of dollars by the Australian government had conducted tests on 2,600 local athletes and 500 from overseas.
India will play three ODIs and five T20Is during their tour of Australia, starting on October 19.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated the Indian blind women's cricket team for winning the inaugural T20 World Cup.
Washington Sundar enhanced his reputation as a T20 hitter with India batting in top gear through the innings to comfortably chase down a target of 187 for a series levelling five-wicket win over Australia.
Tickets for Sydney ODI, Canberra T20I of India's white-ball tour of Australia sold out: CA
The Aussies also named a 14-player group for the first two T20I matches against India, with Nathan Ellis and Josh Inglis earning recalls after they missed the recent T20I series with South Africa.
Northern Ireland boxer Sean McComb has been fined and banned from the Gold Coast's nightclub districts for the rest of the Commonwealth Games after being involved in an altercation with bouncers at a local bar.
Ramdev heaped praise on Sushil Kumar's CWG feat
Here are some highlights -- in pictures -- from Day 2 of the events at Gold Coast...
Australian star all-rounder Glenn Maxwell is hopeful of regaining fitness in time for the latter half of the upcoming T20 International series against India after undergoing surgery on his fractured right wrist.
The Indian team will tour Australia later this year for a multi-format limited overs series comprising three ODIs and five T20 Internationals.
Games are well-captured and here we document all the action from Day 10, in pictures...
A relay gold medallist at the 2014 Commonwealths in Glasgow, the Jamaican said he was busier than ever after last year's retirement and focused, in the sporting arena at least, entirely on his nascent career as a footballer.
Aus ODIs: Bumrah, Gill workload to be discussed, battle between Jaiswal and Abhishek
The events on Day 1 and Day 2 of the Games were well captured and here we document all the action from Day 3, in pictures...
Memories of a path-breaking gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games are still fresh in her mind as Saina Nehwal embarks on a quest to regain the title at the Gold Coast Games starting next week.
Former Commonwealth Games gold medalist boxer Manoj Kumar has announced his retirement from the sport to pursue a coaching career.
Four 20km race walkers -- two men and two women -- have already been named from the separate national championships held in New Delhi in February.
Organisers have urged athletes in Australia for the Commonwealth Games to respect the terms of their entry visas after Cameroon reported that a third of their team had gone missing on Wednesday.
When not facing the arc lights or gracing the red carpet, stars love to catch their breath far away from the maddening crowds in the lap of nature.
Former World No 1 doubles shuttler Chirag Shetty termed the exclusion of badminton from the 2026 Commonwealth Games curriculum a wrong decision.
The Normandy landings on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- began the end to World War II.
German double Olympic biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier has died after a mountaineering accident in Pakistan, her management and local authorities confirmed on Wednesday.
The bilingual -- Hindi and English -- invitation cards for I-Day anniversary celebrations carry this image on the top right corner of the invite, while the silhouetted image of the Chenab bridge, the world's tallest railway arch bridge, sits at the lower side of the cards, which have largely being issued online via 'Aamantran' website of the Ministry of Defence.
China's Li Na continued her giant-killing run at the Australian Hardcourt Championships, beating fourth seed Patty Schnyder to reach the final.
The Japanese battled from a set down to beat Russia's Nadia Petrova 1-6, 6-1, 6-4.
He had taken charge as the 25th director general of the Indian Coast Guard on July 19 last year.
Yohan Blake had to settle for a second bronze and Elaine Thompson a single silver as Jamaica's vaunted sprinters failed to fire in the relays on the final day of athletics at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
CWG are well-captured and here we document all the action from the LAST DAY, in pictures...
Priyanka Chopra shares pictures from Gold Coast, Australia where is filming for The Bluff.
The bubbly 23-year-old Alexa Leary was in a coma in hospital in 2021 after sustaining permanent brain and leg injuries in a high-speed bike crash that left her with a punctured lung and multiple broken bones.
But Morgan turned the match on its head as he got a wicket from each off his six deliveries to bowl out Surfers Paradise for 174. Five batsmen were out for golden ducks.
Ace Indian paddler and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Manika Batra will take on Great Britain's Anna Hursey in the women's singles opening round
In the first singles, Sharath went down 7-11, 14-12, 3-11,9-11 against Clarence.
Jaspal Rana questions Sports Ministry, NRAI for ignoring Manu's credentials for Khel Ratna
From stunning animal portraits to captivating glimpses of behaviour in their natural habitat, the World Nature Photography Awards contest showcases the intricate relationship between animals, plants, fungi, and humans.
Gagan Narang lauded the Indian shooting contingent for their fantastic performances
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