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New Delhi, Mar 25: Reigning World Badminton Champion Carolina Marin has set her sights on the World No 1 spot as she enters the $275,000 India Open Superseries as the second seed. The Spaniard is ranked No 4 and will be vying for the top spot this week. "It is my goal to win here and I have to take things match-by-match. Saina Nehwal is a good player and I have to change my tactics accordingly,"

Washington, Mar 24: Sania Mirza jumped to her career-best rank of three in the doubles, following her title win at the Indian Wells with Martina Hingis. Sania now sits at No 3 with 6885 points, behind Italians Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani, who share the top spot with 7640 points each. "It's thrilling to achieve my career-best rank. Being the number one is a dream and I hope I can get there some

Indian Wells (USA), Mar 23: Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer 6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 6-2 to successfully defend his Indian Wells crown and claim his 50th career ATP title on Sunday. The 27-year-old world number one from Serbia also captured his fourth Indian Wells crown and is now tied with world number two Federer for the most men's titles in the California desert. "The trophy is very heavy,"

Indian Wells, Mar23: Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza have completed a dream first tournament together, beating Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 6-3, 6-4 to win the BNP Paribas Open women’s doubles title. The No 1 seeds, Hingis (Switzerland) and Mirza (India) didn’t lose more than four games in any set all fortnight. After cruising through the first set, they fell behind 2-4 in the second to No

Jodhpur, Mar 22: A special jersey which batting great Sachin Tendulkar donned for his farewell 200th Test has fetched a whopping Rs 6 lakhs during a gala auction hosted by Christie's at the imposing Umaid Bhawan Palace here. Shiv Raj Singh, son of the host of the second edition of the Jodhpur One World Retreat, the erstwhile ruler of Jodhpur Gaj Singh II, bid for this jersey last night. Tendulkar

New Delhi, March 22: Days before India play Australia in a World Cup semi-final at Sydney, the iconic bat of Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni with which he hit the winning six in the 2011 World Cup final has been put on display at Bengali Market here. The bat entered the Guinness World Records and the Limca Book of Records after it was sold for 100,000 pounds on July 18, 2011. The current

Bengaluru, Mar 21: Manish Pandey’s scintillating century and leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal’s sterling bowling effort helped Ranji champions Karnataka retain the Irani Cup after beating Rest of India by a massive 246 runs on the fourth and penultimate day. The moment of celebration came for the hosts after Pandey managed to uproot a stump as a souvenir after running out Varun Aaron. Karnataka became

Bengaluru, Mar 20: Karnataka put up a much improved batting effort in their second innings to lead Rest of India (ROI) by 321 runs on day three of Irani Cup at Bengaluru on Thursday. Ravikumar Samarth (81), Karun Nair (80) and Manish Pandey (73 not out) guided the Ranji Trophy champions to 341 for six after resuming the day at 39 for no loss at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Rest of India had put

Kathmandu, Mar 19: The Indian football team has managed to find a place in the second round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup football qualifiers by holding off the dominant Nepal team with a draw. The aggregate score is 2-0 in India’s favour. India is now one of the 40 teams in the continent who will battle in the second round of the world cup qualifiers. According to the format, the 40 teams will be

Kolkata, Mar 18: Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit today said his country was working "very hard" to resume the bilateral cricket series with India in December. "Pakistan and Indian cricket team (should be) open to playing against each other in one bilateral series in December this year and so they are working very hard on that. It is happening after a long, long gap," Basit said at an