Results of the Indian athletes on Day 1 at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Indian tennis pair of Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna was pitted against the Polish team of Marcin Matkowski and Lukasz Kubot in the first round of the men's doubles event of the Rio Olympic Games.
Serena and Venus Williams both booked their places in the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open with victories at Key Biscayne in Miami on Saturday. World number one Serena did not sparkle but still had little trouble in her 6-2, 6-3 victory over compatriot Alexa Glatch. Serena's sister Venus got off to a slow start but found her form to defeat spirited Israeli Shahar Peer 6-3, 6-3.
Teenage shuttler Lakshya Sen reaffirmed his status as one of India's rising talent as he gave legendary Lin Dan a scare before losing in three games at the Auckland Open Badminton Championship, in Auckland, on Thursday.
Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on the fifth day of the Asian Games.
Defending champion Rohan Bopanna went down fighting in the thrilling doubles opening round game at the third edition of Tata Open Maharashtra, in Pune, on Wednesday. Playing alongside local boy Arjun Kadhe, the ace Indian player Bopanna dominated the game initially. However, after winning the first set convincingly, the Indian duo couldn't manage to continue the momentum further in the games against French pair of Benoit Paire and Antoine Hoang as they lost the match 3-6, 7-5, 10-7.
Serena Williams eased her way into the fourth round of the Australian open on Saturday with a 6-1, 6-4 win over China's Peng Shuai. She will meet Victoria Azarenka, who knocked out former champion Amelie Mauresmo.
The authorities have mounted massive containment measures including mass testing of about 90,000 people
Seven soccer players from former S.League club Liaoning Guangyuan have been charged with match-fixing, the Singaporean league said on Wednesday. The Chinese club, who played just one season in Singapore, was kicked out at the end of the 2007 season.
China reached the Fed Cup semi-finals for the first time with a 3-2 victory over France.
The charges, which relates to exporting of sensitive technology that can be used in civilian and military aircraft to the Engine Division of the Bangalore-based HAL, were filed in the US District Court in Santa Ana, California, Monday.
A 46-year-old man who was rescued almost 100 hours after the devastating earthquake hit China, said he lived on cigarettes and paper napkins and drank his urine to survive those critical moments, state media reported. "I searched my pockets and found half a pack of cigarettes and a few sheets of paper napkins. I broke the cigarettes into pieces and ate them. After the cigarettes, I turned to the paper napkins," Peng Zhijun was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua news a
Holders Russia will play Spain in the Fed Cup final after both teams made light work of their semi-final opponents on Sunday.
They beat wild cards Svetlana Kuznetsova and Amelie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-4 in the first round at the Dubai Open.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films from the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
The ace golfer produced a decisive eagle on the 16th hole to retain the Indian Open Asian Tour title by three shots.
Thailand's rising star Chapchai Nirat and Chinese Taipei's Chang Tse-peng jointly lead the field in the Hero Honda Indian Open golf tournament.
Lindsay Davenport tasted defeat for the first time in a year on Saturday, losing 6-3 7-5 to second seed Jelena Jankovic in the China Open semi-finals.
Amelie Mauresmo made an unspectacular return to tennis after a two-month layoff with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Romania's Ioana Raluca Olaru at the China Open.
China's top two Li Na and Zheng Jie will miss next month's Fed Cup tie against holders Italy to help other players qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, according to a senior China Tennis Association (CTA) official.
The Chinese capital reported 106 domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases since June 11 and a senior city official warned that the situation is "extremely severe" in Beijing where authorities have mounted massive containment measures including mass testing of about 90,000 people.
The Olympic committees of both countries signed an agreement that will pave the way for the \nexchange of sports experts and technical information.
The world number one beat China's Peng Shuai 7-5, 6-2 in the third round.
The Tata Group and Singapore's Changi Airports International have agreed to jointly bid for the modernisation works of airports at Chennai and Kolkata as also vie for similar projects in non-metro airports.
In the semi-finals of the ITF tournament, unseeded Ashutosh beat Chinese Davis Cupper Yu Jr Wang, while Sun accounted for top seed Aqeel Khan of Pakistan.
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Sania Mirza played without pressure, and insisted there was no secret to the swift success on comeback.
The Indian ace was beaten by Argentine Gisela Dulko in the semi-finals of the WTA Tour event in Pattaya.
Olympic champions Li Ting and Sun Tiantian are to be split up in a bid to ensure China have the best possible tennis pairings for the Beijing Games.
Rohan Bopanna lost 3-6, 3-6 to China Peng Sun in the second round of the men's singles competition at the Asian Games.
In the men's draw, HS Prannoy, went down to giant-killer Anthony Sinisuka Ginting.
Top seed Saina Nehwal and her compatriot B Sai Praneeth crashed out of their respective quarter-final matches to draw curtains on India's challenge at the the Macau Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament on Friday.
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal survived an early scare from Indonesia's Dinar Dyah Ayustine to book her place in the quarter-finals of the Macau Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament here on Thursday. After going down in the first game, the London Olympics bronze medallist rebounded strongly to register a 17-21, 21-18, 21-12 win over her Indonesian opponent in the women's singles clash that lasted about an hour.
China and Spain played out a 0-0 draw in their final World Cup Group B match on Monday and the result was good enough for both teams to advance to the last 16 after Germany beat South Africa 4-0 in the other game in the section.
Achanta Sharath Kamal became the India's first paddler to reach the semi-finals of an ITTF pro-tour event, at the Brazil Open.
Milestones in the progress of Chinese women's tennis after Li Na, the first Asian to win Grand Slam singles titles, announced her retirement from the sport on Friday.
He leads the men's seedings ahead of defending champ Roger Federer, with Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov seeded third.
