Indian freestyle wrestlers claim Asian team title in U-17 category
Thiem knocked out by Andujar in French Open first round
Rediff.com encapsulates all the sporting action from the past week in this eye-catching photo feature.
The 2020 Ryder Cup is scheduled to take place from Sept. 25-27 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin but there are doubts that it can go ahead as planned. ROry McIlroy said the absence of spectators would ruin the spectacle.
Images from Monday's action at the Australian Open.
Images from Day 4 of the 2021 French Open in Paris on Wednesday.
The cool days of late September, with damp courts expected, will level the playing field and for the first time, other than when Rafael Nadal has been injured, he looks vulnerable on his beloved clay.
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Iran were banned from an Olympic football qualifying match against Jordan later that year after refusing to remove their hijabs before kick-off.
Rafael Nadal's announcement on Friday that he will miss the ATP World Tour Finals because of appendicitis ended a difficult year for the Spaniard during which he has endured injury, illness and worrying defeats.
'Every religion is sacred and beautiful. There's no reason for people to hate each other because they practise different faiths.'
There is a world that Satyajit Ray created in his films that I wanted to be a part of -- as Durga bathed in the rain to Ravi Shankar's music; when Charulata sat on the swing regretting she never had a child; and Aarti stood up in defence of her colleague. Aseem Chhabra shares interesting memoris of Satyajit Ray on the latter's birth centenary on May 2.
BWF said that Finland will host the Sudirman Cup Finals in September-October while the season-ending World Tour Finals will be staged in Indonesia.
Novak Djokovic will be favourite to reach his 27th Grand Slam final when he faces Stefanos Tsitsipas in the French Open semis on Friday but what had been a smooth path through the draw has suddenly got a little rocky.
The Thai capital headed the 2013 list based on total projected visits by foreigners, followed by London, Paris, Singapore and New York. Istanbul and Dubai showed the strongest expected growth in the number of visitors.
Belgium and Australia are two world-class teams we saw in the final (in Tokyo). I think they are the benchmark and that's what we need to be aiming for, says India's chief coach Graham Reid.
An unlikely romance, a terrible tragedy, a search for a fairy tale, a witch in the making and a legally dead guy fighting to reclaim his life, Sukanya Verma recommends all this on OTT this week.
Images from Day 9 of the 2021 French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Monday.
Wawrinka's last ATP title came in 2017 before the former world number three underwent knee surgery.
Murray to practise with Djokovic in Rome before return from injury.
The Big Four were always going to come into the year's first Grand Slam knowing fully well that their days of dominance are drawing to a close, if not already a thing of the past, says Dhruv Munjal.
The PSG striker came second to tennis legend Borg on a list of Sweden's all-time sporting greats.
Images from Day 4 of the French Open, at Roland Garros, in Paris.
'When I look at my journey in Bollywood, I realise that all of those things were small pieces towards a larger sort of plan, which just had to fall in place the way it did.'
India was fooled into believing that Communist China wanted a 'negotiated' settlement with the Tibetans; it was never the case, says Claude Arpi.
Legendary painter Ganesh Pyne died early on Tuesday at a city hospital where he was admitted after he suffered a heart attack.
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Wawrinka splits with long-time coach Norman
Federer dismisses Nadal's suggestion to play ATP Finals on clay
Nadal committed 30 unforced errors to Schwartzman's 17 and had his serve broken five times.
Japan's Kei Nishikori surged to a three-set victory over alternate David Ferrer at the ATP World Tour Finals on Thursday before sitting back to watch his fate unfold in the night match.
MIT, in a release, said the 'work of Duflo and Banerjee has emphasised the use of field experiments in research, to bring the principles of laboratory-style randomised, controlled trials to empirical economics'.
Rafael Nadal won a record 34th ATP Masters 1000 title with a 6-0, 4-6, 6-1 victory over Novak Djokovic in the Italian Open final on Sunday.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
Veteran tennis player Rohan Bopanna said he plans to team up with Divij Sharan and represent India in the men's doubles event in next year's Tokyo Olympics.
Dominic Thiem, the only player to beat claycourt giant Rafael Nadal on the red dirt this season, is one of the dark horses at the French Open - and the Austrian feels he deserves the tag.
Here are eight men to watch on the Roland Garros clay.
Images from Day 2 of the French Open matches played at Roland Garros on Monday
He is the first player to win an ATP tournament three times in succession on seven different occasions!
