The 36-year-old Swiss master needs only to reach the semi-finals at the ABN Amro tennis event to overtake Rafael Nadal at the top of the ATP rankings and become world number one for the first time since November 2012.
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Ana Ivanovic beat the Russian 6-2, 6-1 the enter the French Open final.
Thousands of women are sharing their personal stories using the #MeToo hashtag.
Fall in ideological standards in the BJP,the suspended leader wrote.
Russia on Wednesday carried out intense rocket strikes targeting the Islamic State in Syria from warships in the Caspian Sea, 1500 km away.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The judge also further extended judicial remand of Salem's companion Monica Bedi till January 25.
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American Zack Fleishman produced the biggest upset of the Los Angeles Classic when he knocked out top seed Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 7-6, 6-4 in the opening round on Tuesday.
Rafael Nadal reached the Olympic Games quarter-finals on Thursday, winning the first of 10 matches he will need to sweep in just four days if he is to secure triple Rio gold. The 2008 champion defeated Gilles Simon 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 for his eighth win over the Frenchman in nine meetings. Nadal, a 14-time major winner, is playing in his first tournament in two months after a wrist injury caused an early withdrawal from the French Open.
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Brazil got off to a winning start in their home Olympics on Wednesday when the women's soccer team beat China 3-0 in host city Rio de Janeiro. Although the opening ceremony takes place on Friday, the soccer competitions began ahead of time with six women's matches on Wednesday and another eight men's games on Thursday.
If political relations and the security situation improve, if there is movement forward on the issue of Kashmir, trade will automatically pick up, says Pakistan Commerce Secretary, Syed Asif Shah.
Indian eves thrashed Ireland by 106 runs to win the second and final one-day international, clean sweeping the series 2-0.
Karuna Jain and Mithali Raj scored half-centuries to guide the Indian women's cricket team to a convincing 107-run win.
'You'll find more wisdom on such matters in a Sara Ali Khan interview,' says Sukanya Verma.
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The delegation will participate at the American Film Market.
'Climbing up a ranking seems to be easier than stabilising a position in the top-20,' says teen tennis sensation Ana Ivanovic.
Portugal's supreme court has stayed a trial court order rejecting an Indian government request to extradite underworld don Abu Salem's girlfriend Monica Bedi.
photographer Jin-Woo Prensena goes to extreme lengths to ensure he gets the best images from the top. The daredevil lensman takes spectacular shots of the world from above -- hanging out of a helicopter -- suspended in the air, often more than 7,500 feet above ground.
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The Swiss re-entered the upper echelon of women's tennis at number 14 after winning the Italian Open
Underworld don Abu Salem's girlfriend has written to the PMO requesting the charges against her be dropped.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza fought through a gruelling schedule to enter the last 16 of women's doubles and quarterfinals of mixed doubles by winning both her respective second-round matches on an all-win day for Indians in the US Open in New York.
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The tourists won the second match of the India tour by 37 runs.
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