News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
They won their first Grand Slam title by defeating Czechs Lukas Dlouhy and Pavel Vizner 7-5, 6-4 to win the US Open.
Andre Agassi has had another injection in his troublesome back before his clash against Marcos Baghdatis.
The Indo-Czech duo lost 3-6, 6-0, 10-7 to top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan in the Cincinnati Masters semi-final.
Juventus began the season with a 3-0 win over third division Martina Franca in the Italian Cup first round.
The duo joined overnight leaders Pavel Kotsur, Saidali Iuldachev and Serik Temirbaev at the top after the penultimate round in the Parsvanath chess tournament.
They remained in joint lead with 6.5 points each after the seventh round of the Parsvanath International Chess tournament.
The decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), imposed a four-year ban on Russia participating in a range of top-flight sporting tournaments, a period covering the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup.
The Indo-Czech pair beat Arnaud Clement and Chris Haggard 6-1, 7-6 (3) to claim their first title of the season
The Juventus midfielder will return to the Czech Republic squad for their World Cup play-off against Norway, ending a 16-month absence from the team.
Juventus coach Marcello Lippi will field a largely second-string side for Tuesday's re-arranged Champions League Group D match against Turkey's Galatasaray in Dortmund.
Both Anand and Sethuraman inched themselves up to five points out of a possible seven and shared the joint eighth spot after a rather dull day that witnessed several draws on the top tables.
Werder Bremen scored two late goals to snatch a 3-2 win at home to Juventus and give themselves a chance of making the Champions League quarter-finals.
The US Open champions beat Andrei Pavel of Romania and Alexander Waske of Germany in the final 6-3, 6-7(5), 10-7.
Indian GM Krishnan Sasikiran slipped to joint second after drawing with GM Artashes Minasian of Armenia in the seventh round of the Dubai International Chess Championship.
The seventh seeds overcame the Czech pair of Lukas Dlouhy and Pavel Vizner 7-5, 6-3
She became the fifth Woman Grandmaster of the country after settling for a quick draw with Vishal Sareen at the Commonwealth Chess Championships.
The 15-year old held Grandmaster Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan in the seventh round of the Dubai International chess championship.
Juventus midfielder Pavel Nedved has been named European Footballer of the Year, France Football magazine confirmed on Monday.
Juventus midfielder Pavel Nedved is almost certain to miss his club's Champions League second leg match with Real Madrid.
The Juventus playmaker won the award for the fourth time.
The captain of the Czech national team and 2003 European Footballer of the Year topped a poll of local sports journalists.
The Uzbek Grandmaster edged out Pavel Kotsur and Surya Shekhar Ganguly after a tie for the top spot.
Petr Cech won the Golden Ball award as the Czech Republic's player of the season
Joint leaders Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan and Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan split points in the sixth round of the Parsvanath International Chess tournament.
The defending champion shares the lead with top seed Pavel Kotsur, Saidali Iuldachev and Nassir Wajih after the fourth round in the Parsvanath International Chess tournament.
Market grew 15% YoY in June quarter, sharply lower from 23% in previous quarter and 34% in the same quarter of 2015
The Indian men succumbed to their first defeat going down 1.5-2.5 to slip to joint sixth spot after the seventh round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Holders Barcelona will play Premier League leaders Arsenal in the last 16 of the Champions League, 10 years after the sides faced each other in the final, following Monday's draw for the first knockout stage.
Last year's finalists Juventus will face-off against Bundesliga champs Bayern.
The 32-year-old midfielder retired from international football because of persistent injury, the Czech soccer federation said.
Leander Paes-David Rikl and Mahesh Bhupathi-Max Miryni scored contrasting wins to make the quarters.
For the first time the Best Player award had been shared in its seven-year history.
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy scored a stunning straight games victory over world No. 18 Li Wenmei and Zheng Yu to make it to the second round in the women's doubles at the US $350,000 India Open, in Delhi, on Tuesday.
The Indian ace and Elena Likhovtseva beat 15th seeds Daniel Nestor of Canada and Lina Krasnoroutskaya of Russia in the third round at Wimbledon.
A look at the Czech Republic squad ahead of their Euro 2004 semi-final against Greece.
Russian referee Valentin Ivanov punished Nedved for little more than incidental contact with Danish winger Jesper Gronkjaer.
