Just 24 hours after UEFA told Russia it would be expelled from the tournament if their fans caused more crowd trouble, the Slovaks outplayed them for large parts of a match contested under a closed roof because of forecasts of heavy rain.
The Indo-Aussie pair was beaten by fifth seeds Wayne Black and Kevin Ulleytt of Zimbabwe 7-6(7-3), 6-3 in the quarter-finals.
Mercurial forward Ricardo Quaresma scored twice and set up three more goals in a sparkling individual performance as Portugal demolished Estonia 7-0 in their final friendly before Euro 2016 on Wednesday. The charismatic but erratic forward, given a chance to stake his place in the team for France when he replaced Nani in the starting line-up, even upstaged Cristiano Ronaldo who scored twice before being taken off at halftime. Quaresma, whom critics say has failed to make the most of his talent in a career punctuated by tantrums, produced his full repertoire of tricks in one of the best international performances of his topsy-turvy career. The 32-year-old opened the floodgates with two moments of brilliance just before halftime. This first was a stunning "trivela", an outswinging cross hit with the outside of his right foot, to pick out Ronaldo who got in front of his marker and scored with a bullet header at the far post in the 36th minute.
Saurabh Chaudhary claimed the gold medal in the 10m air pistol event at the Youth Olympic Games, in Buenos Aires, on Wednesday, capping off the Indian shooting team's best-ever outing in the mega event on a rousing note.
The Indo-Belarussian pair beat Andrei Pavel of Romania and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia Monetnegro in straight sets in the first round of the Paris Masters.
The Indian aces beat Jared Palmer of the United States and Pavel Vizner of the Czech Republic in the quarter-finals of the ATP Masters Series.
Goals from David Trezeguet and Pavel Nedved gave them a 2-0 win at Modena on Saturday.
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The second seeded Indo-Belarusian pair beat Jiri Novak and Pavel Vizner in the quarter-finals of the ATP Masters event.
They easily beat Bulgaria's Todor Enev and Russian qualifier Pavel\n\nLobanov respectively in the quarter-finals of the ITF Futures tournament.
The Argentine beat Andre Pavel 6-4, 6-1 victory in Sunday's final to win the Munich Open.
He and Donald Johnson made a first round exit from the $800,000 grass court tournament in Halle, Germany.
He and Elena Likhovtseva won their second round match against Liezel Huber and Pavel Vizner at the French Open.
Andriy Shevchenko scoring both goals in an impressive 2-1 victory in the Serie A league.
Tim Henman capped the finest week of his tennis career by winning the Paris Masters title with a straight sets defeat of Andrei Pavel.
The Briton inflicted the American his first defeat since he became world No. 1, winning their Paris Masters semi-final.\n\n
It was also a bad day for India's juniors at US Open on Sunday.
Barcelona will meet Manchester United in the Champions League quarter-finals following the draw on Friday while Manchester City face Tottenham Hotspur in an all-Premier League clash.
The Tu-154 model plane, which belonged to the Russian defence ministry, crashed shortly after take-off from the southern city of Adler.
Sanam Singh enjoyed a good day in office, reaching the men'[s singles quarter-finals and doubles semi-finals in the US $15,000 ITF men's Futures tournament in Toronto, Canada.
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These architectural masterpieces have retained the flair of the era gone by and they still remain part of commuters' daily life.
World champions Germany are to meet Ukraine, Poland and Northern Ireland in Group C.
Grandmaster B Adhiban finished tied third at the Chess.com Isle of Man International tournament after beating the highly-regarded Michael Adams of England in the ninth and final round, in Isle of Man (UK) on Monday.
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Kazakhstan's Astana fought back to beat a youthful Manchester United side 2-1 at home, Arsenal's woes continued as Frankfurt's Daichi Kamada scored twice to secure a 2-1 win.
NorthEast United FC played out a 1-1 draw against Mumbay City FC in an inconsequential Hero Indian Super League match to end at the bottom position.
Mumbai City FC and FC Goa played out an action-packed goalless draw in the Hero Indian Super League clash after both the teams failed to score on many occasions at the D Y Patil Stadium on Monday.
Reigning champions Spain left it late but Gerard Pique's 87th-minute header earned them a deserved 1-0 victory over a dogged Czech Republic in their Euro 2016 Group D opener on Monday.
'I did work with him for few a days because my Federation asked me, saying 'just give him a chance and see if it works for you'. But it was sort of miserable. I don't want to work with him. I don't find him competent enough'
It is the first time every athlete has been disqualified from a heat at a major championships.
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But Saturday's Champions League final against his former club Juventus is a reminder that the Frenchman hasn't quite had it all his own way.
