World No 2 Andy Murray's three-point contribution to Britain's defeat of Belgium in the Davis Cup final concluded one of the most remarkable years ever achieved in the competition by an individual player. Below are the key facts:
With the French Open starting on Sunday, Murray has accrued 1,210 to the 4,915 of Rafael Nadal and looks a pale imitation of the player who won his last 24 matches of 2016 to knock Novak Djokovic off his pedestal and seize power in men's tennis.
Pete Sampras made his World Team Tennis (WTT) debut on Monday but denied he was going to come back on the tour
Twitter was flooded with photos of dads with their daughters after PM Modi's Mann ki Baat.
Pete Sampras said he knew what it would take to derail world number one Roger Federer.
Roger Federer lost his first tiebreak this year before beating Arnaud Clement as he began his title defence at the Nasdaq-100 Open.
The world number two retained the RCA Championship title with a comfortable 6-2, 6-3 victory over Germany's Nicolas Kiefer.
The by-elections are being held to fill the vacancies caused by the disqualification of 17 rebel Congress and Janata Dal-Secular MLAs, whose rebellion led to the collapse of the H D Kumaraswamy-led coalition government in July and paved the way for the BJP to come to power.
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Anand has 5.5 points and is tied for third with Alexander Morozevich in the tenth round of the FIDE World Chess championships.
Earlier in the day, India's Ambassador to Russia Kanwal Sibal had said that Moscow had denied visa to a group of young entrepreneurs led by Anil Ambani and Anand Mahindra for a meeting in St. Petersburg.
Only an early shock can prevent the runaway world number one from adding to his Grand Slam haul, according to former champion Jim Courier.
Robby Ginepri triumphed 4-6, 6-0, 3-0 after fellow American Taylor Dent quit with heat exhaustion in the third set.
Taylor Dent and Robby Ginepri will contest the first all-American final in Indianapolis since Pete Sampras beat Jim Courier 13 years ago.\n
or every elite athlete at the business end of their careers, a situation comes where they have to take a hard call, believes former India captain Sourav Ganguly.
Sections in the draft Personal Data Protection Bill are a blatant violation of the Right to Privacy as guaranteed by the Constitution.
He was awarded the distinguished Flying Cross in 1944. This honour is equivalent to today's Param Vir Chakra. The Arjan Singh Trust for needy air force personnel was set up out of the proceeds of his farm house in Delhi being sold. He was a charismatic leader of men and lived up to the fine traditions of soldiering, says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
Only a small contingent of diehard English fans have made the journey to see the start of their team's World Cup campaign in Russia, with many others put off by fears of violence and a diplomatic crisis between London and Moscow.
Australia captain Steve Smith said the all-rounder would be included, probably for Peter Handscomb, if the WACA track is not quick enough.
The arguments will continue to rage over whether Pete Sampras can call himself the greatest ever, but in terms of numbers he has no equal.
Ecuador's Jefferson Perez set a world record in the 20km walk today to win the first gold medal of the world athletics championships in Paris.
For the first time in 15 years the seven-time Wimbledon champion will not be walking through the All England Club gates.
This is for the first time in recent history that the leaders of the two largest democracies would be addressing a joint rally anywhere in the world.
Spain's Garbine Muguruza beat Serena Williams 7-5, 6-4 to win the French Open on Saturday and claim her first Grand Sam title. Take a look at the career of the 22-year-old.
Until the past few years, when the Pete Sampras story resembled a soap opera - the aging warrior under the siege of time and his own records - millions of Americans had no clue about what made this guy such absorbing TV.
