Petra Kvitova takes on Naomi Osaka in Saturday's Australian Open final with one of them set to emerge as a fresh champion at Melbourne Park.
Seven-times European champions AC Milan eased some of the pressure on coach Carlo Ancelotti with a 3-1 UEFA Cup win at home to FC Zurich on Thursday.
Ana Ivanovic beat Petra Kvitova 6-3, 7-5 on Sunday to keep alive Serbia's hopes of winning their debut Fed Cup title.
IMAGES from the Euro 2020 round of 16 match against Wales and Denmark played at the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam on Saturday.
World Number one Simona Halep and Japan's Naomi Osaka are among the players nominated for the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Player of the Year award.
Top seed Maria Sharapova delivered an enigmatic performance but still advanced to the quarter-finals of the Auckland Classic with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Renata Voracova of the Czech Republic on Wednesday.
Guus Hiddink has quit as coach of the Netherlands after spending less than one year in his second spell in the job, the Football Association (KNVB) has announced.
Bianca Andreescu rolls to first-round win at Strasbourg.
India, who tallied 173 points, are ranked 22nd among Asian countries, above teams like Yemen and Lebanon, to whom Bob Houghton's boys lost in the first round of qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup.
World champion and season leader Anderson Peters of Grenada won the competition with a best throw of 90.31m which he came up with in this third attempt.
Serbia reached the Davis Cup semi-finals for the first time when they completed a 4-1 victory over Croatia in Split on Sunday.
Serbia reached the Davis Cup semi-finals for the first time when they completed a 4-1 victory over Croatia in Split Sunday. World number two Novak Djokovic silenced a partisan crowd with a straight-sets win over Marin Cilic to give Serbia an unassailable 3-1 lead and set up a home tie against the Czech Republic, who dispatched Chile 4-1.
Former world record holder Asafa Powell clocked the fastest time of the year when winning the 100 metres in 9.83 seconds at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting on Thursday.
Somdev Devvarman has been seeded sixth in the French Open qualifying event and has got an easy opener against Jiri Vanek of Czech Republic.
Suranjoy Singh clinched the lone gold as Indian boxers rounded off their campaign at the European Grand Prix event in Usti Nad Labem, Czech Republic with four medals. Suranjoy bagged the flyweight gold after beating Armenia's H Danielyan 4-1 on Saturday night.
Somdev Devvarman's struggle on the ATP circuit continued as the fifth seed Indian crashed out of the Zagreb Challenger event after suffering a first round defeat against unseeded Yuri Schukin.
India's second-best woman tennis player defeated higher ranked Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in straight sets to advance to the second round of the US $200,000 WTA DFS Classic tournament in Birmingham on Monday. The US-based Indian, who is placed 100 rungs below Kvitova in the WTA charts, won the first round contest 7-6(6), 6-4 in little under two hours.
Muguruza seals semi-final berth, Pliskova beats Krejcikova at WTA Finals.
The third-seeded pair was defeated by the unseeded Canadian-Chinese duo 6-4, 6-3.
Serbia's World No 2 Novak Djokovic has been left out of Saturday's doubles in the Davis Cup final against holders CzechRepublic, with Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac named to play against Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek.
The sixth seed burnt the midnight oil in her all-Czech fourth round grudge match against Barbara Strycova, finally clinching a 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory at 1.35 a.m. local time on Tuesday morning.
Images from the second day's play of the 2016 French Open at the Roland Garros
Neeraj has won gold medals in Olympics (Tokyo in 2021), Asian Games (2018) and Commonwealth Games (2018), besides becoming the Diamond League champion last year.
India's top ranked player Somdev Devvarman and number two Prakash Amritraj have been awarded wildcards for the men's singles main draw at the $ 450,000 ATP Chennai Open to be held at the SDAT, Nungambakkam Stadium, from January 5-11 next year.
Rafael Nadal thanked his team-mates for giving him the chance to end a troubled season on a sweet note after Spain sealed victory in the Davis Cup final against Czech Republic on Saturday.
Spain playing Davis Cup tennis on clay in front of a home crowd is about as close to a sure thing as sport provides, and just because Rafael Nadal suddenly looks vulnerable the Czech Republic are not about to forget it.
Denmark's Christian Eriksen was given CPR by medical staff on the pitch during the Euro 2020 match against Finland before being rushed to a nearby hospital.
The 19-year old Indian and Ana Ivanovic of Serbia beat Italy's Maria Elena Camerin and Tathiana Garbin at the Nasdaq 100 Open.
Top 10 duo Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco have returned to the Spain side for next month's Davis Cup final against Czech Republic, captain Albert Costa said on Monday.
They beat David Skoch of Czech Republic and Janette Husarova of Slovakia in their first round match at Wimbledon.
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.
Petra Kvitova raced to a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Dominika Cibulkova in the Wuhan Open final on Saturday to capture her first title of the year with a ruthless display of power hitting.
The Manchester United and Wales winger will retire from international football after Saturday's Euro 2008 qualifier against the Czech Republic.
Bhanwala dedicated the medal to his personal coach Harpreet Singh.
The Indian went down fighting 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3) to Czech Republic's seventh seed Jan Hernych.
The Czech Republic's Frantisek Cermak and Slovakia's Michal Mertinak became the latest players to be banned and fined for betting on tennis matches, the ATP said on Monday. As the governing body of men's tennis continues to crack down on gambling in the sport, the two Eastern European doubles specialists became the first non-Italians to be sanctioned under the ATP's anti-corruption programme.
His first throw of 88.39 metres earned him automatic qualification for the final.
They beat South Africa's Chris Haggard and Marcin Matkowski of Poland in their first round match at Wimbledon.
Take a swimwear style tip from the contestants of the first-ever Miss Euro soccer beauty contest held in West Germany last week.
David Nalbandian has undergone hip surgery and is expected to be out of action for at least four months.
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