Viswanathan Anand registered an easy victory in the first round of the Mtel Masters International chess tournament.
Garbine Muguruza stormed back into the Grand Slam big time with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to reach her first Australian Open semi-final. Fourth seed Simona Halep advanced to her second Australian Open semi-final with a 6-1, 6-1 demolition of Estonia's Anett Kontaveit in just 53 minutes on Rod Laver Arena.
The first player to win a Grand Slam, the ATP World Tour Finals, the men's singles at the Olympic Games and a Masters title in the same calendar year.
Images from the Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday.
The Indian under-19 team beat England under-19 by nine wickets to claim the three-match one-day international series 2-0.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
Chelsea secured top spot, above Barcelona, in Group A with a 2-0 home win over Levski Sofia.
The unseeded Indo-Belgian pair beat the Argentine duo of Jose Acasuso and Sebastian Prieto in the men's doubles at the French Open.
The seventh seeds were subdued 6-1, 7-6 (4) by Janko Tipsarevic and Mikhail Youzhny
Denis Shapovalov may not be old enough to drink in New York but is quickly becoming the toast of the Big Apple and the 18-year-old Canadian will again have a chance to light up the U.S. Open when he takes on Briton Kyle Edmund.
Hindustan Unilever, the Indian subsidiary of the consumer goods company, has denied wrongdoing.
Former Russian champion Peter Svidler held the Indian ace in the ninth and penultimate round of the Mtel Masters chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand played out a tense draw against Etienne Bacrot in the sixth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
He played out a safe draw with Russian Peter Svidler to move into joint lead after the fifth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocking defeat in the third round of the Mtel Masters international chess tournament.
The Indian ace beat world champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria to maintain his lead at the Mtel Masters International chess tournament.
Champions Chelsea were held to a 1-1 draw by Aston Villa, Liverpool lost 2-0 at Bolton Wanderers and Arsenal rallied to beat Charlton Athletic 2-1 in Saturday's Premier League matches.
The European champions are likely to play CSKA Sofia in the Champions League third qualifying round.
IMAGES from the matches played at the Miami Open on Thursday
"Kiss of death for Australia," ran one headline, topping a picture of century maker and man-of-the-match Mohammad Ashraful
Kramnik leads the field in the Mtel Masters chess, with Anand, Topalov, Polgar and Adams close behind after two rounds.
India posted an emphatic 4-0 victory over Mongolia in the third round of the 37th Chess Olympiad.
The Indian ace had to be content with a third place finish while Veselin Topalov won the Mtel Masters Chess title
Two South Korean speed skaters are facing growing calls for them to be banned from the national team after they appeared to blame a team mate for their failure to reach the semi-finals of the women's team pursuit at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
IMAGES from Day 8 of the matches played at the US Open at Flushing Meadows on Monday
Novak Djokovic wore down Lucas Pouille after an even first set, dispatching the Frenchman 7-6(2), 6-1 in a Cincinnati Masters quarter-final in Ohio on Friday.
Liverpool will be bidding to win the Super Cup for the third time after previous wins in 1977 and 2001.
World number one Naomi Osaka was beaten in her opening match at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Tuesday, losing to France's Kristina Mladenovic 6-3, 6-3 on her return to competitive action after winning last month's Australian Open.
Images from Day 10 of the 2020 French Open, at Roland Garros, in Paris.
Viswanathan Anand was held to his fifth straight draw by Michael Adams of England in the fifth round of the Mtel Masters.
Miss Honduras 2014 was supposed to fly to London on Wednesday to compete in the Miss World pageant. Instead, she and her sister were found dead near the spa where they disappeared six days ago.
