Unseasonal incessant rains washed out the third day's matches at the Chennai Open ATP Tennis tournament on Wednesday even as the event was robbed of its sheen with top seed and world number five Nikolay Davydenko of Russia pulling out owing to a left heel injury.

Hollywood star John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston went through a traumatic weekend when their 16-year-old son Jett passed away on January 2.

Russian top seed Nikolay Davydenko will start favourite in the singles while Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will shoulder local hopes in doubles as the US $450,000 Chennai Open, featuring one of the strongest singles field this year, kicks off in Chennai on Monday. The crowd will see a range of international stars including seven top-50 players competing for the top honour with Swiss Olympic champion Stanislas Wawrinka also throwing his hat in the ring.

India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas defeated South African duo Wesley Moodie and Jeff Coetzee 6-2, 6-3 in their first group league match of the season-ending Masters Cup in Shanghai on Sunday.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles won the euro 891,000 ATP Swiss Indoor tournament in Basel on Sunday beating Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany.

Indian Davis Cupper Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles cruised into the finals of the euro 891,000 ATP Swiss Indoor tournament, defeating Argentine pair Jose Acasuso and Agustin Calleri in straight sets in Basel on Saturday.

Mahesh Bhupathi and partner Mark Knowles of The Bahamas moved into the quarter-finals of the euro 2,270,000 Madrid Masters after their opponents, Spaniards Rafael Nadal and Carlos Moya, opted out of the contest due to a lower back injury to the world No 1.

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After much delay, Sanjay Dutt's film Lamha will go on the floors next month. The film, also starring Bipasha Basu and Kunal Kapoor, had run into problems, as the lead actors did not have dates to dole out for this film.

Kenyan Pamela Jelimo claimed the Golden League's $1 million jackpot on Friday, while fellow Olympic champion Usain Bolt beat Asafa Powell to win the 100 metres at the Memorial Van Damme meeting.

The United States made up for their botched performance in the sprint relays by winning both 4x400 meters events on Saturday to finish the Olympic athletics program on a high.

Portugal's Nelson Evora won gold in the men's triple jump on Thursday to add the Olympic title to the world title he won in Japan last year.

Anju Bobby George broke a billion hearts on Tuesday when she failed to qualify for the final of the women's long jump at the Beijing Olympics after three consecutive foul jumps.

There is a failure in India to encourage fresh blood, and to tell the famous to retire when their time is up.

The US 4x400m relay team that won gold at the Sydney Games in 2000 have been stripped of their medals after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to doping, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Saturday. It was the sixth American medal from the Sydney Games lost to doping in the past eight months after US sprinter Marion Jones was stripped of her five medals due to her doping confession last year.

Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of The Bahamas squandered a match point en route to an agonising three-set loss to top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan in the semi-finals of the ATP Cincinnati Masters. The fourth seeded Indo-Bahamian pair went down 4-6, 7-6 (7), 10-8 to the American brothers, who booked their third successive final berth in the US $ 2,615,000 event.

Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and his American partner James Cerretani crashed out of the $ 2,615,000 Cincinnati Masters tournament after suffering a straight sets defeat in the first round.

The fourth seeded Indo-Bahamas pair got a walkover from the American duo of Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick in the second round of the ATP Rogers Masters.

Usain Bolt, the 100 metres world record holder, ran the fastest time in the 200 this year, winning in 19.67 seconds, at the Athens Grand Prix on Sunday.

Trishala talks about her dad, Sanjay Dutt, and his wife of four months, Manyata.

The first India edition of People magazine carries a touching account by Trishala Dutt of her meeting with her father, Sanjay Dutt, along with his wife, Manyata.

Ex-golfer Greg Norman and tennis legend Chris Evert were married on Saturday in a seaside ceremony held under a veil of tight security on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Evert and Norman, both 53, exchanged vows in front of 140 family and friends, including US television personality Matt Lauer and singer-songwriter Corey Hart.

Sania Mirza earned an easy opener as she was drawn against unseeded Colombian Catalino Castano at the Wimbledon championships, beginning on June 23. Though the Indian ace, seeded 32nd, has struggled since coming back from an injury lay-off, she will start more confident against the 29-year-old Castano, who is ranked more than 100 places behind her and has not gone past the first round in five visits to Wimbledon.

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An aggravated calf muscle injury forced Mahesh Bhupathi to withdraw from the semi-finals of the French Open mixed doubles.

Sanjay Dutt was denied a visa to fly to the Bahamas for a film shooting since he had failed to submit documents relating to his conviction in the 1993 serial blasts along with his application.

Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy on Sunday crashed out of the French Open men's doubles competition after losing 4-6, 4-6 at the hands of Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and Luis Horna of Peru in the pre-quarterfinals in Paris.

Sameer Mishra, 13, of West Lafayette, Indiana, won the 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee, correctly spelling 'guerdon,' which means something one has earned or gained, a reward.Mishra, an eighth-grader at West Lafayette Junior/Senior High School, is appearing in the competition for the fourth time.In second place was Siddharth Chand, 12, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, who was making his debut and went toe-to-toe with Mishra in the 12th,13th, and 14th rounds.

Mahesh Bhupathi and doubles partner Mark Knowles in a combined interview for ATP's DEUCE magazine.

Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi will make their French Open debut against top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan.

Facts and figures from the men's competition at the French Open, which begins from May 25.

India's doubles ace Mahesh Bhupathi tells the AITA he prefers partnering Rohan Bopanna in the doubles event at the Beijing Olympics.

Indian firms, including Tata Steel, in the past have formed SPVs to acquire foreign companies to protect local operations and also to avoid legal hindrances. The SPV may be registered in a tax-haven country, like Mauritius or Bahamas, the sources said. The move to float an SPV will help Bharti Airtel to continue being listed on Indian stock exchanges, while MTN's promoters will be given a stake in the SPV.

Leander Paes and his Spanish partner Tommy Robredo scored a straight set victory over Ivan Ljubicic and R Soderling to storm into the doubles semi-finals of the Euro 2,270,000 Hamburg ATP Masters Series on Friday. The unseeded Indo-Spanish pair won 6-2, 7-6 (3) to set up a semi-final clash with the second seeded duo of Canadian D Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia, who downed fifth seeded combine of S Aspelin (Sweden) and James Knowles (Austria) 6-2 5-7, 10-8.

Rumours were right after all, for it has now been confirmed that Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are indeed married. Family member Linda Cannon has made the confirmation that the couple is, in fact, wedded.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles entered the final of the Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-0, 7-5 win over Jeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie.

Fourth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas stormed into the semi-finals of the men's doubles in the Monte Carlo Masters Series, beating fifth seeds Simon Aspelin of Sweden and Julian Knowles of Austria 6-2, 6-3 in the quarter-finals.

Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi had contrasting results in the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters doubles on Wednesday night.

The Indo-Australian pair beat Argentine duo David Nalbandian and Sebastian Prieto 6-4, 6-3 in the first round.