Rising star Yuki Bhambri will spearhead the Indian challenge in a fairly strong field, comprising defending champion and world number four Stanislas Wawrinka among others, for the Aircel Chennai Open scheduled from January 4 to 10. Yuki, the country’s leading singles player, broke into the top-100 earlier this year. He reached a career-high of 88 earlier this month, before closing […]
» Read moreA couple of hours after reports emerged that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has given the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) provisional clearance to play India in Sri Lanka, Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Rajeev Shukla all but confirmed that a bilateral series between the two teams has been agreed upon to be hosted by the island nation. […]
» Read moreNovak Djokovic finished the best season of his life in fitting style as the world number one crushed Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4 on Monday to win the ATP Tour Finals title for a record fourth successive year. The 11th title of Djokovic’s astonishingly dominant campaign served as the perfect finale to arguably the best run by any male player in […]
» Read moreRohan Bopanna yet again finished runner-up at the ATP season-end Finale after losing the summit clash with his Romanian partner Florin Mergea on Sunday. The eighth seeds lost 4-6, 3-6 to second seeded team of Jean-Julien Roger and Horia Teacu. Bopanna was appearing in his second season-end Finale, having reached the final with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi in 2012.
» Read moreRafael Nadal emulated Roger Federer by winning a third successive round-robin match at the ATP World Tour Finals on Friday, edging fellow Spaniard David Ferrer at the O2 Arena. With Nadal already in the semi-finals from the Ilie Nastase Group and Ferrer going home after two defeats, it could have been a non-event but the packed arena was treated to […]
» Read moreSpinner Harbhajan Singh on Friday exuded confidence that he will make a comeback to the Indian Test squad in near future. “Last ODIs I have done well. Whatever is there I am confident that I will get to play in Test matches again,” he said. Talking about being aggressive while playing, he said, “Aggression is looking forward to the challenge. […]
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