The top seeded Grandmaster recorded his fifth straight victory in the World chess championship.
Korean qualifier Hyeon Chung produced the first upset of the ATP Chennai Open by ousting last year's finalist Borna Coric with a straight-set win in the opening round of the $505730 hard court event in Chennai on Monday.
Claudio Bravo was pictured leaving Barcelona Airport on Tuesday and his expected move to Manchester City is likely to trigger the departure of England goalkeeper Joe Hart. The 33-year-old Bravo is set for a medical this week at the Etihad Stadium where he will team up again with Pep Guardiola, his former manager at Barca. The Spanish champions said on Saturday they had reached a "preliminary agreement with City" for the sale of the Chile captain.
The sixth seeded Indo-US pair lost to Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia and Fabrice Santoro at the French Open.
The Indian ace and partner Katarina Kachlikova of Solvakia lost in the second round of the doubles event.
Both lost in the qualification round of the Grand Slam tournament.
The Indo-Belarusian pair lost to top seeds Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor in the doubles semi-finals at the Madrid Masters.\n\n
Liverpool a dramatic 2-1 victory over Leicester City at Anfield, thus maintaining the league leaders' 100 per cent start
Top-seeded world number ones Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic help launch the US Open tennis championships on Monday's opening day of the year's final Grand Slam.
Mankad progressed after his opponent Jamie Delgado of England retired due to dehydration, while Capkovic beat Karan Rastogi 6-4, 6-2 in the other semi-final.
Spain's Garbine Muguruza reached her second Wimbledon final in three years with a thumping 6-1, 6-1 win over Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova.
Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari named the Brazilian-born midfielder in his 20-man squad for next month's World Cup qualifiers.
Zomato acquired US-based rival Urbanspoon for about $60 million in one of the biggest overseas deals by an Indian startup
Maria Sharapova beat Daniela Hantuchova 6-2, 6-4 in the semi final to set up a title clash with Australian Alicia Molik.
Clijsters and Xavier Malisse gave Belgium a 2-0 winning lead over Slovakia in the Hopman Cup.
Defending champions Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek had to work hard to cross the first round hurdle in the men's doubles even as Sania Mirza advanced in both the mixed and doubles events at the US Open.
World champion Peter Sagan claimed his third 2016 Tour de France stage victory when he pipped Alexander Kristoff on the line at the end of the 16th stage, a 209-km ride from Moirans-en-Montagne on Monday.
The Indian ace surrendered tamely after winning the first set to the US Open doubles champion in the first round of the Medibank International Open.
Chris Froome got a brutal reminder of the unpredictable nature of the Tour de France when he crashed to the ground in Sunday's second stage, recovering to finish with torn shorts as German Marcel Kittel powered to victory at the end of a huge sprint.
India's second seeds Purav Raja and Divij Sharan were upset in straight sets in the final of the Tashkent Challenger by the unseeded Russian pairing of Mikhail Elgin and Teymuraz Gabashvili, in Tashkent, on Saturday.
The Indo-Belarussian pair rallied to beat Slovakia's Karol Kucera and Australia's Todd Perry in the second round at the French Open.
Russia's Elena Vesnina ousted German second seed Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, California on Tuesday.
UEFA believes the 24-team format introduced for the first time at Euro 2016 is a success and will boost soccer in some of the continent's smaller nations, tournament director Martin Kallen said on Tuesday.
Barcelona crushed Slovakia's Puchov 8-0 at the Nou Camp to go through 9-1 on aggregate.\n\n
Indian eves suffered a disastrous 1-2 loss against 27th seed England in the 14th and final round of the women's section of the Chess Olympiad.
Sania Mirza beat Katarina Kachlikova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-3 to enter the quarter-final of the Rabat ITF Women's World ranking tournament.
Kit manufacturer Puma said it had traced a problem with ripped shirts for the Swiss team at Euro 2016 to a defective batch of material used only in a limited number of home jerseys for the team.
Russia striker Fyodor Smolov insists that English and Welsh fans were guilty of antagonising their Russian counterparts during scuffles that broke out in Lille earlier in Euro 2016.
The British number one will play Croatian Donna Vekic, 7-6(5), 3-6, 7-6(4) victor over Czech Lucie Safarova in the day's second semi-final, in the climax to the Wimbledon warm-up tournament on Sunday.
Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is ready to play the mentor's role irrespective of who leads the team in their Euro 2016 opener against Ukraine on Sunday.
Masato Uchishiba ended an embarrassing run for the Japanese when he won the under 66-kg judo gold at the Olympics on Sunday.
Karol Kucera of Slovakia accused line judges of helping 15th seed Lleyton Hewitt during their second round centre court match.
Here is some good news for Indian tennis fans. India's Somdev Devvarman has qualified for the US Open.
Title-contenders Saina Nehwal and B Sai Praneeth advanced to prequarter-finals of the Thailand Open after notching up straight-game wins in the women's and men's singles competition respectively.
