US Open: Sania-Jie beat Wimbledon champions to enter semis
New York: India's Sania Mirza and her Chinese partner Jie Zheng stormed into the semi-finals of the women's doubles with a straight sets victory over fourth seeds Su-Wei Hsieh and Shuai Peng. The 10th seeded Sania-Zheng pair had little trouble in defeating the current Wimbledon champions Su-Wei Hsieh of Taipei and Peng Shuai of China 6-4 7-6 in exactly an hour and 50 minutes to advance to the last four stage. Sania and Zheng will meet eighth seed
US Open: Paes-Stepanek end Bryans quest of Calender Grand Slam
New York: Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek stunned top seeded and hot favourite pair of Mike and Bob Bryan, who were chasing a rare Calendar Grand Slam, in a gripping contest to storm into the US Open men's doubles final, here on Thrusday. The fourth
Paes enters US Open men's doubles semis
New York: Veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek advanced to the US Open men's doubles' semifinals after a hard-fought win in the last-eight stage.
The fourth-seeded Indo-Czech pair defeated the fifth seed
Federer dumped out of US Open
New York: Roger Federer suffered a shock loss to Tommy Robredo at the US Open on Monday, ruining the prospect of meeting Rafa Nadal at the only grand slam where the two greats have never played each other.
In the biggest upset of the tournament, Rob
Sachin to play 200th Test at home
Kolkata: Sachin Tendulkar is all set to play his 200th Test match on home soil with the BCCI trying to squeeze in a series against the West Indies ahead of the year-end tour of South Africa. The decision to invite West Indies for two Tests and f
Warner, Starc out of Australia squad for ODIs
Melbourne: David Warner has been dropped from the Australia squad for the forthcoming one-day international matches against Scotland and England, Cricket Australia (CA) announced Sunday. Meanwhile CA also said left-arm fast medium bowler Mi
After retaining the urn, Flower now eyes series win
London: England will bid to complete the second half of their Ashes mission when they face arch-rivals Australia in the fourth Test at Chester-le-Street starting on Friday. The drawn third Test at Old Trafford left England an unassailable 2-0 up
World Badminton Championships: Sindhu packs off defending champ
Guangzhou: Tenth seed PV Sindhu packed off defending champion and local favourite Yihan Wang to reach the quarterfinals of the World Badminton Championships along with compatriots Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap in their respective categories here
Panesar fined for pissing in public
London: Cricketer Monty Panesar has been fined by police for urinating in public following a nightclub brawl in the beach town of Brighton in southern England. The 31-year-old spinner has since apologised after it emerged that he was drunk and disord
