Having failed to book a ticket for Beijing, Indian eves beat France 7-0 in their last league game of the Olympic qualifiers.
There were close matches, acrobatic fielding, some sharp bowling and big runs scored in the round-robin phase. Here are some memorable moments from the World Cup so far
Roger Federer will complete his preparations for next year's Australian Open at the Kooyong Classic.
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the ninth and penultimate round of the Bilbao Grand Slam chess tournament to stay joint fifth. With his seventh draw in nine games Anand, playing with white, took his points tally to seven points in the soccer-like scoring system with just one round to come in the super-category tournament.
It proved a happy Halloween for Czech Petra Kvitova after she made the most of coming back from the dead to set up a title-match showdown with Agnieszka Radwanksa at the WTA Finals.
There was also the exciting Rugby Union match that added that much more excitement to the past week. Rediff.com has that and more snapped right here. We bring you a glance of all the action from the week gone by
Maria Sharapova continued her mastery of Romania's Simona Halep with a high quality 6-4, 6-4 victory filled with bruising baseline rallies to edge closer to a last four berth at the WTA Finals on Tuesday.
A world title in the current format is something that will add to the glittering cupboard of the world number one.
Hosts Mumbai City FC suffered their third defeat in a row after going down 0-2 to North East United FC in a lop-sided Indian Super League game, in Mumbai, on Wednesday.
The Indian Grandmaster celebrated his Arjuna award in great style and moved to joint third after the fifth round in the Marx Gyorgy memorial International chess tournament in Paks, Hungary.
Grandmaster P Harikrishna got the better of David Navara's defence and tamed the Czech to leapfrog to the lead after the fourth round of the 50th Reggio Emilia Chess tournament.
The Indian ace played it save and drew with former European champion Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in the third Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
The Indo-Czech duo was beaten 3-6, 4-6 their final round-robin match at the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai.
Andy Roddick beat Nikolay Davydenko in his opening round-robin match at the Shanghai Masters Cup.
India conceded an extra time goal to lose 1-2 to China and sign off fourth in the Four Nation Hockey tournament in Perth on Sunday.
The world number one will start with white pieces against Boris Gelfand of Israel in the opener of the World Chess Championship.
South Korea's Chung Hyeon said he hopes the shot clock being tested out at the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan will become a regular feature on the Tour because it allows him to clean his spectacles without worrying.
A dominant India hammered arch-rivals Pakistan 5-1 with SV Sunil striking twice in a round-robin league match of the Sultan Azlan Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh on Tuesday. The highlight of the match was four fantastic field goals from India while the other came from a penalty corner conversion. After their scrappy win over Canada in the last match, the Indians rose to the occasion and looked more organised and purposeful against Pakistan. It took India just four minute to take the lead through Manpreet Singh, who scored with a fierce reverse shot from a tight angle after being fed by Sunil. But Pakistan equalised three minutes later when skipper Muhammad Irfan (7th minute) converted the second of their successive penalty corners. India restored their lead in the 10th minute through Sunil, who scored with a deft touch off Manpreet's shot from outside the circle.
Chennai Superstars remained the champion side in the Indian Cricket League as they won the 50-over-a-side final of the competition in Chennai at the Mayajaal ground.
Chennai Superstars gained valuable points from their 83-run win over Mumbai Champs in their round robin league match of the Indian Cricket League domestic tournament in Chennai on Monday.
P Harikrishna split points with Ferenc Berkes in the third round at the Marx Gyorgy Memorial chess.
Riding on the century stand by openers RF Morris and DS Jadav, Mumbai Champs romped home to a four-wicket win over Chandigarh Lions in the round robin league one-day encounter of the Indian Cricket League's domestic tournament in Chennai on Thursday.
Electing to bat the Kolkata Tigers managed to put on 279 in their 50 overs.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
India's campaign at the Sudirman Cup ended after they went down 0-3 against top seed and 10-time champions China in the quarter-finals of the mixed team championship in Gold Coast.
Grandmaster P Harikrishna took unwarranted risks but finally drew with Romanian GM Mihail Marin in the sixth round of the 50th Reggio Emilia International Chess tournament in Italy. With three draws, two wins and a loss against Zoltan Almasi of Hungary, Harikrishna took his tally to 3.5 points out of a possible six and remained in joint second spot.
Australia thrashed the already qualified Germany 5-0 to secure their place in the final.
The Indian ace beat International Master Falco Bindrich to forge ahead after the third round in the World Youth star chess tournament.
The Swiss beat Nikolay Davydenko 6-4, 6-3 to stay alive in the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, while American Andy Roddick became the first player to book a semi-final spot at the season-ending event in Shanghai after crushing Chile's Fernando Gonzalez 6-1, 6-4.
David Ferrer defeated Rafael Nadal while Novsk Djokovic was knocked out of the Shanghai Masters Cup.
World number one Roger Federer suffered a shock 3-6, 7-6, 7-5 defeat by Chile's Fernando Gonzalez in his opening match at Tennis Masters Cup on Monday. The Swiss, who had never previously been beaten in round-robin play at the season-ending championships, is chasing his fourth Masters Cup title.
Spain's Rafael Nadal charged back from a set down to beat Frenchman Richard Gasquet 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the opening match of the Tennis Masters Cup, while David Ferrer made it a perfect day for Spain with an impressive 6-4 6-4 victory over Serbia's Novak Djokovic in the second Gold Group match.
Maria Sharapova looked back to her best as she overwhelmed Ana Ivanovic 6-1, 6-2 in her final round-robin match at the WTA Championships to set up a semi-final showdown with Russian compatriot Anna Chakvetadze.
The world number one began the defence of her WTA Championships singles title with a 6-1, 7-6 win over Russian Anna Chakvetadze.
The world number one was virtually guaranteed a semi-final berth before walking on court at the O2 Arena, but made doubly sure by cruising past Tomas Berdych in little more than an hour.
Saurashtra whipped Maharashtra by seven wickets with 4.3 overs to spare in the inaugural West Zone Twenty20 round robin tournament in Mumbai.
Teenager Jemimah Rodrigues struck an unbeaten 77 to help Supernovas beat Velocity by 12 runs and enter the final of the Women's T20 Challenge.
Divya won all four bouts in five-wrestler 68kg category, as the competition was fought in the round robin format.
The first day at the World Championships witnessed drawn games. All the eight players in the double round-robin event are tied on a half point each.
New Zealand scored a three-wicket win against India while Australia beat England to register their first win in the Quadrangular tournament.
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