Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
IMAGES from Day 8 of the matches played at the US Open at Flushing Meadows on Monday
Akash Malik won India's first silver medal in archery at the Youth Olympic Games, providing a fitting finale to the country's best-ever campaign at the marquee event, in Buenos Aires. The 15-year-old son of a farmer lost a one-sided final to Trenton Cowles of the USA 0-6 as India concluded its campaign with three gold, nine silver and one bronze medal at the event, launched in 2010.
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Images from Day 10 of the 2020 French Open, at Roland Garros, in Paris.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
Spain, Germany and England all chalked up victories in their qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup on Saturday.
Indian shuttlers had a field day in the KLRC Bulgarian Grand Prix in Sofia. Aditi Mutatkar, in the women's singles, Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas, in the men's doubles, and the mixed doubles pair of V Diju and Jwala Gutta entered the quarter-finals on Thursday.
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Images from the Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday.
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In an embarrassment for India, ace female wrestler Vinesh Phogat was, on Saturday, disqualified from the 1st World Olympic Qualifying event for being overweight on a day when other women grapplers also failed to book Rio Games berth.
Last year's runner-up Ana Ivanovic of Serbia reached the second round of the French Open with a 6-2, 7-5 defeat of Swede Sofia Arvidsson on Sunday. Australian Open champion Djokovic stood firm to record a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2 win over Germany's Denis Gremelmayr.
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Shrugging off the controversy surrounding their partnership, Sania Mirza and Israeli Shahar Peer displayed a resolute performance to advance to the second round of Wimbledon women's doubles competition.
Novak Djokovic wore down Lucas Pouille after an even first set, dispatching the Frenchman 7-6(2), 6-1 in a Cincinnati Masters quarter-final in Ohio on Friday.
The Indian Grandmaster beat Shakriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan in the seventh round, in the Mtel Masters chess tournament.
The Indian ace played it save and drew with former European champion Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in the third Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
Former world champion Veselin Topalov handed Krishnan Sasikiran his first defeat of the tournament in Sofia.
IMAGES from the matches played at the Miami Open on Thursday
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Denis Shapovalov may not be old enough to drink in New York but is quickly becoming the toast of the Big Apple and the 18-year-old Canadian will again have a chance to light up the U.S. Open when he takes on Briton Kyle Edmund.
Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho said his team's comfortable 2-0 victory over Levski Sofia on Tuesday, felt more like a friendly than a Champions League match.
The Indian Grandmaster split the point with the Romanian GM to maintain a half point lead after the penultimate round in the third Mtel Masters.
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Viswanathan Anand now lies in second place with four points after the seventh round of Mtel Masters international chess tournament.
The Belarus lass won her first round match at the Sunfeast Open in straight sets.
World number one Naomi Osaka was beaten in her opening match at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Tuesday, losing to France's Kristina Mladenovic 6-3, 6-3 on her return to competitive action after winning last month's Australian Open.
Novak Djokovic destroyed a woeful Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-1, 6-2 to book his place in the semi-finals of the Paris Masters.
Two South Korean speed skaters are facing growing calls for them to be banned from the national team after they appeared to blame a team mate for their failure to reach the semi-finals of the women's team pursuit at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Sania Mirza and her Israeli partner Shahar Peer's second round women's doubles match at Wimbledon was suspended due to rain.
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The Indian Grandmaster shared the second place in the Mtel chess tournament with Gata Kamsky, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu.
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