The Indian women's recurve team earned Olympic quota for the 2016 Rio Games by entering the final, while the men's trio failed to advance after giving away a handsome lead, at the Archery World Championships, in Copenhagen, on Tuesda
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday.
With just two rounds left in the World Youth chess championship, the Indian lass need just a victory and a draw to secure the girls' under-14 title.
WGM Dronavalli Harika was held to a draw by Anna Muzychuk of Slovenia in the 8th round of the under 14 girls section of the World youth Chess Championships.
WGM Dronavalli Harika took the seventh round honours with a brilliant victory to emerge the sole leader in the under-14 girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Greece.
With first round exit, the Indian challenge in the WTA singles event came to an end.
The second seed beat Mary Pierce of France 6-3, 6-1 at the Amelia Island WTA championship in Florida.
But the Belgian will not need more surgery on her wrist after suffering an injury in the Belgian Open.
U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Australian Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals.
Svetlana Kuznetsova powered to her first Grand Slam title by beating fellow Russian Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5 in the final of the U.S. Open.
The defending champions will take on Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Elena Bovina of Russia in the mixed doubles final.
A complete round-up of the morning session of play at the Australian Open.
The second seed advanced to the quarter-finals of the $1.3 million Montreal Cup with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 over Elena Bovina of Russia.
The French Open champion outlasted fellow Russian Vera Zvonareva in a thriller at the Acura Classic.
The top seeds were beaten by Bob Bryan and Lindsay Davenport in the mixed doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
They play Daniel Nestor of Canada and Lina Krasnoroutskaya of Russia for a berth in the quarter-finals.
India's Sania Mirza and her partner Martina Hingis staged a superb comeback to clinch the women's doubles title after a thrilling victory against Russian duo of Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova in the final, on Saturday.
The Argentine realised some of her tennis dreams in Paris but was upset after her French Open semi-final loss to Elena Dementieva.
The Spanish teenager reached the second round of the Estoril Open even as second seed Nicolas Massu of Chile bowed out.
It will be the earliest meeting between the two since their first professional match in the second round of the 1998 Australian Open.
Putin asks to send the puppy which will be trained to replace Diesel, the French police dog that died during St Denis raid.
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