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Bopanna and Qureshi duo crashes out

The Indo-Pakistan pair, coming together for the event after many years, shared $7,060 India’s Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan went down 7-6(4), 2-6, to the second seeds Jamie Murray of Great Britain and Bruno Soares…

Tottenham Hotspur sack manager Jose Mourinho

Jose Mourinho was sacked by Tottenham Hotspur six days before his side was set to face Manchester City in the EFL Cup final. UPDATED ON APR 19, 2021 03:56 PM IST Tottenham Hotspur on Monday sacked manager Jose Mourinho. "The Club…

Kundali shocks Mrdhula; Arnav stuns Parav

Kundali Maigaine knocked out fourth seed Mrdhula Palanivel 6-0, 6-3 in the girls’ second round of the AITA National series under-18 tournament on Tuesday. In the boys’ section, Arnav Yadav stunned fifth seed Parav Nage 7-6(3), 6-4. The…

Purav Raja in semifinals – The Hindu

Purav Raja, in partnership with Tristan-Samuel Weissborn of Austria, beat Quentin Halys and Lucas Pouille of France 6-4, 4-6, 10-7 in the doubles quarterfinals of the €44,820 Challenger tennis tournament here on Thursday. The results:…

Wimbledon to scrap queues

Wimbledon’s famous queue will not operate at this year’s championships because of coronavirus measures, the All England Club announced on Thursday.The snake of tennis fans waiting to gain access to the event in leafy southwest London has…

Lotlikar shocks top seed Niranjan

Ronin Lotlikar knocked out top seed Nikhil Niranjan 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the boys’ quarterfinals of the ITF grade-5 junior tennis tournament at the SAIL tennis complex on Thursday. Lotlikar will face third seed Yuvan Nandal in the…

Niki overcomes Fardeep to enter last eight

Defending champion Niki Poonacha grappled with qualifier Fardeep Qamar before winning 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 in the men’s pre-quarterfinals of the National hard court tennis championship at the Tennis Project, Baliawas, on Thursday.Niki, who had…

All England: Lakshya and Sindhu in last eight

Lakshya Sen on Thursday became the youngest Indian male shuttler to reach the All England Championship quarterfinals, where Olympic silver medallist P.V. Sindhu joined him with an easy win in the second round.Sindhu, the reigning World…

Karman loses a marathon – The Hindu

Karman Kaur Thandi battled for three hours and 38 minutes before losing 6-7(3), 7-6(5), 6-4 to Salma Djoubri of France in the $15,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Monastir, Tunisia.Karman Kaur served eight aces and converted six of 12…

Prithvi makes the semifinals – The Hindu

Prithvi Sekhar got past defending champion and second seed Niki Poonacha in the men’s quarterfinals of the National hard court championship at the Tennis Project, Baliawas, on Friday.Prithvi led 6-4, 3-0 when Niki retired. The latter…