Indian qualifier Sanam Singh brushed aside the challenge of Germany's Nils Langer even as Saketh Myneni failed to recreate the magic of last week as he bowed of the ATP Challenger event in Knoxville, USA.
At one stage Yuki was a break up, serving for the opening set but lost his serve and eventually the set. After drawing parity, Yuki twice lost his serve to fall behind 0-3 in the decisive set and never recovered.
Following his title win at the Traralgon Challenger event, Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri leapfrogged 73 places to 204 in the singles rankings on Monday even as Rohan Bopanna dropped out of the top-10 in the doubles chart.
Dr Sharan Patil and his team of doctors, who performed the marathon 27-hour surgery, said Lakshmi was given milk for the first time after the surgery. Doctors said Lakshmi was sleeping well and responding positively to the treatment.
The Sparsh Hospital, which had performed the complex and one of the rare surgeries free of cost, has created a separate Intensive Care Unit for the child and drafted a medical team exclusively to monitor her health condition round-the-clock.
Divij Sharan, Vivek Shokeen, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya and National champion Ashutosh Singh advanced to the last eight stage in the US $10,000 grass court tournament.
He underwent the surgery for a rare movement disorder affecting guitarists.
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.
Wrestling Federation of India, on Friday, conceded that it was not being able to convince the Court of Arbitration for Sports' panel that grappler Narsingh Yadav was a victim of conspiracy and sabotage, and that was why he lost the case and was ejected from the Rio Olympics with a four-year ban.
The Patna high court on Monday dismissed a PIL challenging continuance of Manmohan Singh as prime minister.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
Diwesh Sharan, a deputy director general of ADB, says beside the PPP model and viability gap funding, there is a 3rd option - value capture - to raise funds for India's ambitious infrastructure projects.
World number 30 Berrettini saved five points in the marathon second set tiebreak and held on to win it 13-11 for his third ATP crown in last 11 months.
India's No 1 singles player Somdev Devvarman on Monday jumped 18 places to become World No 78 in the latest ATP rankings. The tennis star had his Delhi Open triumph to thank.
Bach, IOC President, has been invited to visit India for a meeting with Prime Minister Modi.
The Russian shocked sixth seed Todor Enev of Bulgaria in the final.
In the absence of an injured Yuki, a lot would depend on how the left-handed Prajnesh, who won a singles bronze medal at the Asian Games, performs.
The case files and documents have been sent to the CVC for scrutiny following the Supreme Court's order directing the vigilance body to inquire against Verma.
Ramkumar Ramanathan proved his ascendancy in Indian tennis yet again as he knocked out Yuki Bhambri from the ATP Indore Open even as India's top player Somdev Devvarman also made an early exit, in Indore, on Thursday.
Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) leader K P Sharma Oli has been made deputy premier and foreign minister.
Divij Sharan and Parul Goswami centered away with the men's and women's singles titles at the 33rd National Games in Guwahati.
Delhi won the men's and women's team titles at the 33rd National Games.
The Wrestling Federation of India is likely to pardon temporarily suspended Babita Kumari for forfeiting her bout in a recent qualifying event and allow her to compete at the Rio Games, as she secured an Olympic berth after her rival failed a dope test.
Meanwhile, fourth seed Divij Sharan pipped American George Barth 6-4, 6-4 to advance into the second round.
Keshav Ranjan Banerjee, Dhoni's first coach and the mentor who was instrumental in him taking up the game, is training aspiring cricketers at the DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir in Ranchi, the school which gave wings to the celebrated cricketer's dreams.
Left red-faced by the four-year ban imposed on Narsingh Yadav by the Court of Arbitration (CAS), the Wrestling Federation of India has demanded a CBI probe into the doping scandal that has jeopardised the grappler's entire career.
A police team on Thursday visited the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre here to hold investigations in the wake of Dope scandal allegedly involving embattled Narsingh Yadav ahead of his proposed Olympic run. "A police team had questioned the witnesses, coaches, wardens in view of FIR registered on the complaint of Narsingh Yadav," Crime Investigation Department (CIA) officer Indervir, who had been appointed to probe the matter said. "We are taking statements from witnesses, wardens, coaches and also taken in possession few utensils," he said.
The two sides are expected to come out with a joint declaration later in the day.
As per the report, out of 612 candidates, 168 (27 per cent) are crorepatis.
Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza advanced to the second round of doubles events at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
Karan Rastogi beat Sanam Singh 7-5, 6-3 to advance to the last four of the National Grass Court championship
The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) said that the CBI has started its probe into the doping scandal of dope-tainted wrestler Narsingh Yadav after the PMO referred his case to the investigation agency.
Deputy Chef de Mission Balbir Singh Kushwaha said that facilities at the Games Village were good.
Two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar said it would have been a "disappointing and wrong decision" on the part of the government if the Home Ministry officials had their way in not awarding the India's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna to sportspersons.
Hashmi murder: Nine sentenced to life imprisonment.
Manavaditya Rathore, son of Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Rathore, clinched the gold medal in junior men's trap at the 4th Asian Shotgun Championships in Al Ain, Dubai on Tuesday.
According to police, LPG cylinders exploded at 0325 IST on the ground floor of a building having a diamond unit.
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