Images from Day 3 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Wednesday
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India will begin their campaign by locking horns with China on Tuesday. Ankita has been in tremendous form since the start of the season, winning two ITF singles and as many doubles titles.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza, making a comeback from a wrist injury, went down fighting against her nemesis Ana Chakvetadze, resulting in team Asia-Pacific's 0-2 defeat against Team Russia at World Team Challenge tournament in Hong Kong on Thursday.
Ranked fourth in the qualification round, Deepika found the going tough against the second seed, who produced fine shooting, including a flawless third set to clinch the match 6-0 in her favour.
Images from the US Open tennis tournament in New York, on Wednesday.
The Asian Games hammer throw bronze won by India's Manju Bala has been upgraded to silver after one of the two Chinese competitors who finished ahead of her in the women's final, returned positive for dope test.
World number one Serena Williams struggled to a 7-5 5-7 6-3 win over China's Zheng Jie on Monday to earn a place in the quarter-finals of the Sony Ericsson Open.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
India's Sania Mirza and her partner Cara Black of Zimbabwe could not make it to the US Open women's doubles finals after going down in straight sets to Swiss-Italian pair of Martina Hingis and Flavia Pennetta at the Flushing Meadows.
Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi will have to punch above their weight when the battle to qualify for Fed Cup tennis tournament's World Group II,
Nadal set to face Kyrgios clash in second round
Indian ace Sania Mirza crashed out of the Pan Pacific Open with a first-round defeat in a three setter against Chinese Jie Zheng.
An aggravated calf muscle injury forced Mahesh Bhupathi to withdraw from the semi-finals of the French Open mixed doubles.
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Sania Mirza equaled her career-best doubles rank of five, following her stupendous title win at the WTA Apia International with Bethanie Mattek-Sands in Sydney.
Murray was made to fight for two hours and 52 minute
World number four Ana Ivanovic eased past French teenager Alize Cornet 6-1 7-6 to reach the China Open quarter-finals on Thursday, while China's Zheng Jie delighted home fans by thrashing Japan's Ai Sugiyama.
Top seed Jelena Jankovic reached the quarter-finals of the China Open on Wednesday with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak, while Zheng Jie restored some pride for the host nation.
Seven soccer players from former S.League club Liaoning Guangyuan have been charged with match-fixing, the Singaporean league said on Wednesday. The Chinese club, who played just one season in Singapore, was kicked out at the end of the 2007 season.
China reached the Fed Cup semi-finals for the first time with a 3-2 victory over France.
But matches between Venus and Serena are captivating, highly charged yet often disappointing affairs.
Sania Mirza continued her impressive run as she captured her fourth title of the season and 18th overall with Cara Black of Zimbabwe, recording a come-from-behind win over Liezel Huber and Hao Ching Chan to lift the Pan Pacific Open trophy in Tokyo.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
Sania Mirza has received another lift in her already booming career. The Indian tennis ace reached the 25th doubles final of her career at the WTA New Haven Open.
The Indo-American pair went down 6-7, 7-5, 10-4 to Yan Zi and Zheng Jie of China in the semi-final of the Indian Wells tournament.
China's crown at the All England championships in Birmingham slipped at the weekend when they ended with just two of the five titles, their most modest showing since 2002.
Karolina Pliskova showed the steel of a world number one as she fought off a match point to claim a riveting 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 comeback win over Zhang Shuai in the US Open third round.
Seven China under-21 internationals have been sent home early from the Chelsea training centre as the mass brawl with Queens Park Rangers players dominated Chinese media on Friday.
But Saina, who had lost in the quarter-finals last year, is set to gain 3600 points having made it to the World Championships final this year. Saina will therefore, now have 82, 792 points to her tally, giving her the World No 1 title again.
China will fire rockets into the sky to scatter any rainclouds ahead of next year's Beijing Olympics to ensure perfect weather, state media said on Tuesday.
Seventh seed Vivek Shokeen defeated Taipei's Huai-En Chang 6-3, 6-4 while third seed Sunil Kumar Sipaeya easily beat Nai-Zheng Yu of China 6-4, 6-1 in the pre-quarter-finals of the ITF tournament in Lahore.
Australian Nick Kyrgios blasted 15 aces to blow past Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka 6-2, 7-5 on Thursday and reach the quarter-finals at the Citi Open in Washington.
Shi explained that she and a group of researchers obtained samples of coronavirus on December 30 last year and performed high-throughput sequencing of the samples and the isolation of pathogens.
The French Open champion's grounded personality meant she was always going to present a clear contrast to the main Australian men's title hopefuls of recent years but there has been no shortage of compatriots ready to kick up a fuss on her behalf.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
Top seed Nadia Petrova made short work of China's Zheng Jie with a 6-2, 6-3 victory to move into the quarter-finals of the Amelia Island championship on Thursday.
Leander Paes will kickstart his US Open campaign with Czech partner Radek Stepanek against Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia.
The Indian marksman finished fifth in the qualifying round.
