Hungary began their first European Championship since 1972 with an impressive 2-0 victory against 10-man Austria in group stage match here on Tuesday. Both goals were scored in the second half with Adam Szalai breaking the deadlock in the 63rd minute and Zoltan Stieber making it 2-0 three minutes from regulation time. Hungary made the […]
Italy gave their campaign in the Euro Cup football tournament a superb start with a dominant 2-0 win over Belgium here on Monday. Emanuele Giaccherini (32nd minute) put the four-time World Cup winners in the lead with a superb two-touch finish at the Stade de Lyon before Graziano Pelle (90+2) underlined Italy’s dominance in the […]
Austrian tennis player Dominic Thiem came from behind to beat Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 in the rain-delayed Stuttgart Open final here on Monday. Third seeded Thiem reaped his fourth ATP title of the year after edging seventh seeded Kohlschreiber in two hours and 11 minutes. The final had to be suspended due to rain […]
India’s men’s skeet shooters were unable to reach the final round of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup for Shotgun here on Friday. Among the three Indians in the fray, Sheeraz Shaikh and Man Singh shot identical scores of 117 in the qualification round to finish in the 36th and 37th positions, respectively. […]
Tickets to the 2016-17 international cricket season go on sale today, with fans around the country able to secure tickets to see Australia take on South Africa, New Zealand, and Pakistan across a scintillating summer of cricket. As part of James Sutherland’s assurance last season that Cricket Australia would do a wholesale review of ticket […]
Spaniard Albert Ramos became the first to qualify for the quarter-finals of this year’s French Open men’s singles after eliminating Canadian Milos Raonic in their fourth round match on Sunday. Ramos, ranked 55th, managed to defeat World No.9 Raonic 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 in two hours and 20 minutes. After the match, 28-year-old Ramos said he […]
Russian tennis authorities will be able to substitute tennis star Maria Sharapova in their 2016 Olympics entry list before July 18 in case she would be disqualified by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the world’s governing body of tennis said on Friday. Russian Tennis Federation (RTF) president Shamil Tarpishchev said earlier in the week that […]
Sixth-seeded Romanian Simona Halep advanced on Friday to the fourth round of the French Open tennis tournament with a come-from-behind 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka in one hour and 44 minutes. The 2014 finalist, winner of this year’s Madrid Open, got off to a slow start and yielded the first set […]
Skipper David Warner headlined with a fine 73-run knock to pull Sunrisers Hyderabad to 158/7 in 20 overs against Delhi Daredevils in an Indian Premier league (IPL) match here on Friday. Hyderabad got off to a decent start after Delhi skipper Zaheer Khan sent them in. The opening partnership of Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner […]
Fourteen Indigenous cricketers will this week depart for India for a historic 10-day tour of the subcontinent. The squad of 14 will play a series of matches in Delhi and Mumbai against the Yuvraj Singh Cricket Academy, Delhi women’s team and Mumbai Cricket Association women’s team. Selected based on performances at club level and at […]