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Nov 16: Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea started their campaign at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finale with a bang, beating top seeds and defending champions Bob and Mike Bryan in straight sets in their men's doubles opening rubber of Group Ashe/Smith. Making their debut as a team, the eighth seeded Indo-Romanian pair took an hour to register a 6-4 6-3 win over the

New Delhi, Nov 16: Nico Rosberg on Sunday won the Brazilain Grand Prix ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton and compatriot Sebastian Vettel. During the race, Hamilton got close to his Mercedes team-mate on a few occasions, but failed to go past him at the famous Interlagos track. Rosberg converted pole position into victory and finished 7.7secs ahead of Hamilton. The win also guarantees Rosberg of a

Fuzhou (China), Nov 15: Indian ace shuttler Saina Nehwal's dream of defending her women's singles title came crashing as she suffered a straight-game defeat to Olympic champion Li Xuerui in the final of the USD 700,000 China Open Super Series Premier here today. The Olympic bronze medallist Saina, committed a litany of unforced errors to go down 12-21 15-21 against World No. 7 Li in the women's

Fuzhou (China), Nov 14: Another stupendous performance saw defending champion Saina Nehwal enter the women’s singles final of the $700,000 China Open Superseries Premier with a victory over local girl and former World Champion Yihan Wang here on Saturday. The top seed needed just 42 minutes to ease past the former World No.1 Chinese 21-13, 21-18 at the Haixia Olympic Sports Centre. This is Saina’s

New Delhi, Nov 14: As the moment of truth for doping maligned Russian athletics approaches, it's most recognisable champion pleaded the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) not to suspend her country. Yelena Isinbayeva, a double Olympic pole vault champion, on Friday wrote an open letter to the world athletics body not to punish honest Russian athletes in response to doping

Fuzhou (China), Nov 13: Defending champion Saina Nehwal sailed into the semifinals of the USD 700,000 China Open Super Series Premier after she saw off Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in straight games in Fuzhou on Friday. A relaxed Saina didn’t break a sweat and her cool demeanour helped her to stave off the challenge from the World No. 10, notching up a comfortable 21-16, 21-13 win in the women’s singles

Bangalore, Nov 13: India finally tasted victory after five straight losses in their 2018 football World Cup qualifying campaign as they beat Guam by a solitary goal here on Thursday. The victory came despite India playing whole of the second half with 10 men after Sehnaj Singh was sent off for a dangerous tackle in the 41st minute in the Group D match which was played under constant drizzle and

New Delhi, Nov 11: India sensation and top-seeded shuttler Saina Nehwal defeated World No 11 Chinese Sun Yu in 49 minutes to reach the second round of the China Open Super Series Badminton on Wednesday. World No. 2 and defending champion Saina won the game in straight games 22-20, 21-18. Saina now has a 5-1 winning record against localite Sun Yu. In another women's singles match, P.V Sindhu beat

Mumbai, Nov 11: India tennis great Mahesh Bhupathi on Tuesday heaped praise on current women's doubles World No.1 Sania Mirza and her partner Swiss veteran Martina Hingis and for their tremendous season this year which saw them clinch nine doubles titles, including two Grand Slams. Bhupathi said the Indo-Swiss pair will continue to win Grand Slams for the next few years with the form they are

Berlin, Nov 10: Wolfgang Niersbach has stepped down as president of German Football Federation (DFB) over allegations that the country had won the right to host the football World Cup in 2006 by bribing the executive committee members of the International Football Federation (FIFA). Announcing his resignation after an emergency meting of the DFB's standing committee in Frankfurt, Niersbach denied