Paris, May 27 (IANS) Newly-crowned Australian champion Stan Wawrinka was bundled out of the French Open after he lost to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 in the first round Monday. The third-seeded Swiss led 3-1 in the first set before losing it on the Spaniard’s first set point by hitting long. He pulled […]
Zagreb, May 26 (IANS) Saturday was a day for celebration in Croatian camp in the Austrian resort of Bad Tatzmannsdorf after Luka Modric won UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid and Niko Kranjcar earned a promotion to English Premier League with Queens Park Rangers. Yet, there was some bad news Sunday, as well. Kranjcar started the […]
Paris, May 26 (IANS) Fourth seed Roger Federer advanced to the second round of the French Open with a 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 win over Lukas Lacko Sunday. American Serena Williams, the women’s top seed, also reached the second round after beating 138th-ranked Alize Lim, a wild-card entry from France, Xinhua reported. On a court made hard […]
Strasbourg (France), May 25 (IANS) Puerto Rican No.1 Monica Puig won her first WTA title Saturday, beating Spain’s Silvia Soler-Espinosa in the final of the Strasbourg International. Puig, whose tweets often include the hashtag #PicaPower, went into the match ranked 56, and is considered a rising star of the WTA circuit. She took just one hour […]
Lisbon, May 25 (IANS) Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid 4-1 Saturday at the Estadio da Luz to clinch its 10th European Champions League Cup. Godin put Atletico ahead in the 36th minute, with an effort from the penalty spot that looped over Casillas and went into the bottom-right corner of the net, Xinhua reported. Sergio Ramos […]
St. Petersburg, May 25 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this week in Shanghai marked that Russia-China relations have entered a new stage. Putin made the comment during his meeting with representatives of world leading news agencies at the 18th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Xinhua […]
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Tom Moody Saturday blamed his fielders for their loss to Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens here and attributed inconsistencies behind his team’s failure to secure a berth into the playoffs of the Indian Premier League. Hyderabad dropped KKR batsman Yusuf Pathan twice in the match as he […]
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Often criticised for his failure to live up to the reputation of a big hitter, Kolkata Knight Riders’ batsman Yusuf Pathan Saturday hit back at his critics after scoring the fastest fifty in the Indian Premier League at the Eden Gardens here. Pathan, who scored a 50 of 15 balls to break […]
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The following is the scoreboard in the Indian Premier League match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad here Saturday. Sunrisers Hyderabad DA Warner b Morkel 4 S Dhawan run out (Pandey/Uthappa) 29 V Ojha c & b ten Doeschate 26 Y Venugopal Rao run out (Pandey/Uthappa) 27 DJG Sammy c Shakib […]
Madrid, May 21 (IANS) FC Barcelona central defender Gerard Pique have reached an agreement on to renew his contract until 2019. The club announced the contract extension deal Tuesday, Xinhua reported. Pique’s contract finishes at the end of next season, but the deal will keep him at the club till 2019, when the player will be […]