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Madrid, May 18: Russia's Maria Sharapova on Monday regained second place in the WTA world rankings after winning the Rome Masters on Sunday while Spanish finalist Carla Suarez moved to her highest ranking ever at eighth. Romania's Simona Halep, who lost in the semi-finals against Suarez, moved down to third while American Serena Williams continues to lead the pack with 9,361 points. The current

Madrid, May 18: Treble-chasing Barcelona secured their 23rd La Liga title with a game to spare when Lionel Messi struck to secure a 1-0 win at dethroned champions Atletico Madrid on Sunday. Exactly a year to the day since Atletico won the league in a title decider at Barca’s Nou Camp, the Catalans exacted some measure of revenge to seal the first of a potential treble of trophies this season

Rome, May 16: Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka made an improbable comeback in the first-set tie-breaker and then dominated the action in the second set en route to a 7-6 (9-7), 6-2 victory on Friday in the Italian Open quarterfinals over Rafael Nadal. This is Nadal’s earliest exit from this clay-court event since 2008. The Spanish seven-time champion, who brought a 12-1 record against Wawrinka

New Delhi, May 16: Gagan Narang on Friday won the bronze medal in the 50m Rifle Prone Event of the ISSF World Cup at Fort Benning in USA, earning himself a quota place for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Narang, who won the bronze in 10m Rifle at the London Olympics, shot 185.8 overall to secure third place behind gold medallist Michael McPhail (208.8 points) of USA and Ole Kristian Bryhn (206.3) of Norway

Sydney, May 15: Cricketing legends Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne are set to join hands for a Twenty20 league project that will rope in former stars and will be hosted in non-cricketing venues in the US. Tendulkar and Warne have offered 28 ex-players contracts worth 25,000 US Dollars a match for the league planned in atleast three US cities starting September, according to a report in 'The

New Delhi, May 15: Olympic medallists Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang failed to qualify for the final round of men's 10m Air Rifle event while Jitu Rai progressed to the qualification round in 50m Pistol on the opening day of the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup at Fort Benning, United States on Thursday. Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold medallist in 2008 Beijing Games

Madrid, May 14: Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti said he isn't the man to judge whether he will stay in charge of the Spanish giants next season after Juventus dumped the holders out of the Champions League. The Italian champions will face Madrid's eternal rivals Barcelona in the final on June 6 after former Real striker Alvaro Morata struck the vital away goal to secure a 1-1 draw in the second

London, May 13: England director of cricket Andrew Strauss said Tuesday that Kevin Pietersen was "not part of our plans for the summer", saying there was a "massive trust issue" between the England and Wales Cricket Board and the controversial batsman. However, Strauss stopped short of saying there was no way back into the international set-up for fellow former England captain Pietersen, adding:

Dubai, May 12: India have benefitted from the annual update of ICC Test Rankings as it gained four points and two places to occupy fourth in the latest chart issued on Monday. In the annual update, the results from 2011-12 have been dropped from the calculations and outcomes from the 2013-14 series weighted at 50 per cent. Thus, India’s heavy defeats against England and Australia in 2011-12 no

Mumbai, May 12: The IPL has successfully entered into its 8th season and the craze for the game remained steady in the country from its inception. Though there have been many allegations on the players, betting process and the middle-men, it hasn't effected the game until now. A final report about the bookies role in IPL is long due and Lalit Modi's latest controversial tweets about Supreme Court