Ninth seed Dinara Safina survived a first-round scare at the $1.3 million Toronto Cup on Monday before rallying to tame Frenchwoman Camille Pin 7-6, 3-6, 7-5.
Defending champion James Blake and top seed Andy Roddick won their opening matches in straight sets at the Indianapolis Championships on Tuesday.
Five-times European champions Barca, with their trident of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar subdued, have not exited in the last 16 since going out to Liverpool in the 2006/07 season and the score equalled their worst Champions league loss.
The ace golfer stuttered to his second successive round of 76 for a two-day total of 152 and crashed out.
China beat Canada 4-2 in the play-off for seventh and eight places in the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament.
India's golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar romped home to a three-shot victory at the Macao Open to bag his eighth Asian Tour title in Macau on Sunday.
Leonardo Mayer beat Joao Souza in a Davis Cup singles match that lasted a record six hours and 42 minutes.
Malaysia will take on Australia, who beat Korea, in the final of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament.
The pole was the first for Mercedes with their own team since the late Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio at the 1955 Italian Grand Prix.
The Delhi-based golfer lost the overnight lead but stayed within one shot of the joint-leaders Panuwat Muenlek and Chapchai Nirat of Thailand.
A 2-1 victory over cellar team Hindustan Aeronautics put the Goa team clear in the NFL race.
East Bengal rallied to hold Sporting Clube de Goa 1-1 in Margao on Wednesday.
Sakatar Singh's goal gave the Punjab team a 1-1 draw in a 15th round match in the NFL.
United, trailing 1-2 from the first meeting in Rome, won the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final 7-1.
United are 16th in the standings with a game in hand heading into the international break.
Odafe Onyeka Okolie's 78th minute goal earned Churchill Brothers a 1-1 draw.
Lionel Messi marked his 300th La Liga appearance with a record-equalling hat-trick and an assist for Neymar as Barcelona stayed hard on the heels of leaders Real Madrid with a 5-0 romp at home to Levante on Sunday.
IMAGES from Day 7 of the French Open, at Roland Garros, on Saturday.
Cristiano Ronaldo netted his 31st and 32nd La Liga goals of the season to lift Real Madrid to a 3-2 comeback win at Real Betis on Saturday that stretched their lead over second-placed Barcelona to 13 points.
A goal each by Clifford Miranda and Ranty Martins enabled Dempo win the battle between Goa teams.
Virat Kohli and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are India's highest-ranked batsman and bowler in third and 13th positions respectively.
After a week's break, the Indian ace returns to the circuit at the Qatar Open where she takes on Romina Oprandi in the first round.
Images from Day 5 of the French Open, at Roland Garros, in Paris.
Anthony Pereira and Ranty Martins scored two goals each as the Goa side won the NFL match 5-0.
Three-times champions East Bengal were humbled in their opening round match at the Cooperage ground on Sunday.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
The Indian ace, whose not-so-impressive season so far has seen her drop out of the top-50, has 382 points in the singles list.
The ace drag-flicker netted all his goals from penalty-corners as Punjab routed Chhattisgarh in the National Hockey Championship.
Modest Udinese, whose coach Francesco Guidolin's target this season is to avoid relegation, went top of Serie A on Sunday with a 2-1 win over Chievo while AC Milan were held 2-2 at Bologna.
The lowest ranked team in the World Cup won 4-3 for their first victory in Pool A.
Australia chalked up an easy 3-1 win over Japan while Korea were held to a 2-2 draw by South Africa.
Olympic champions Australia turned on the heat and romped to a 4-0 victory over Argentina for their first win in two Pool A matches.
The 28-year-old Kohli scored 62 and six not out to move to 833 points, within 14 points of England's Joe Root in a list led by Australia captain Steve Smith.
The upcoming tri-series affords an opportunity to Sachin Tendulkar to make strides in the ICC rankings after falling out of the top 20.
Germany's Nico Rosberg can win his first Formula One title in Abu Dhabi on Sunday while Lewis Hamilton remains in contention to become Britain's first four times world champion.
The Indian golfing ace fired a one-under 71 in the second round of the Sega Sammy Cup on the\nJapan PGA tour.
The Indian golfer managed a one-over 71 to notch his eighth top-10 placing this year at the UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship.
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