Top seed Maria Sharapova reached the Amelia Island championships final after Lindsay Davenport withdrew due to illness on Saturday. Sharapova's opponent will be unseeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova, who reached her first WTA Tour final when she beat France's Alize Cornet 6-2, 2-6, 6-4.
World champion Viswanathan Anand started his campaign with a draw in blindfold game against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the first round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament in Nice, France. Bulgarian Veselin Topalov emerged winner against Peter Leko of Hungary.
Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro has been named European Footballer of the Year by France Football magazine, Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon said on Friday.
World champion Viswanathan Anand drew with nearest rival Magnus Carlsen of Norway to maintain his slender lead at the end of the 10th round of the Morelia-Linares tournament. The Indian ace took his tally to 6.5 points, and is placed half-a-point ahead of the Norwegian teenager.
Vishwanathan Anand split points with Levon Aronian to stay in lead after nine rounds at the Morelia-Linares International Chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a rare setback with white pieces and lost to Levon Aronian of Armenia in the second round of the Morelia-Linares chess tournament in Morelia (Mexico).
World number one Serena Williams struggled to a 7-5 5-7 6-3 win over China's Zheng Jie on Monday to earn a place in the quarter-finals of the Sony Ericsson Open.
Jenson Button and Brawn GP team mate Rubens Barrichello rocked Formula One to the core on Saturday by running away with Australian Grand Prix qualifying. The team who arrived in Melbourne with no sponsors, a barely-tested car and two drivers written off as has-beens only a few months earlier, were in a class of their own.
A rare queen blunder against Russian Alexander Morozevich cost World champion Viswanathan Anand dearly as he went down in the blindfold game and lost the lead in the 10th and penultimate round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice. The Indian ace drew the return rapid game and remained in contention for top honours even as Levon Aronian of Armenia jumped in to sole lead at the expense of Chinese Wang Yue by a 1.5-0.5 margin.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out two draws with Bulgarian world number one Veselin Topalov in the ninth round to surrender his sole lead in the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice on Wednesday. Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Levon Aronian of Armenia caught the Indian in lead with an identical 1.5-0.5 victories over Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine and Alexander Morozevich of Russia respectively.
World champion Viswanathan Anand struck form in the rapid game to beat Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk 1.5-0.5 in the fifth round of the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice on Friday. Anand slipped a bit in the blindfold game after getting a few chances but came back strongly to stir tactical complications in the return game and post victory.
The Indian pair first stunned the second seeded US-Swedish pair of Lisa Raymond and Simon Aspelin 6-3, 2-6, 10-7 in the second round to enter the quarter-finals, and then advanced a round further thanks to a walkover from their quarter-final opponents, seventh seeds Kveta Peschke and Martin Damm, who had beaten Galina Voskoboeva and Frantisek Cermak 6-1, 6-1 in their second round match.
Meanwhile, Leander Paes, with partner Agnes Szavay, advanced to the second round of mixed doubles at the Australian Open.
Apollo tyres lines up Rs 1,160 cr investment to set up manufacturing unit in Hungary to produce passenger car radials.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand played out a quick draw, while Parimarjan Negi scored his first victory in the third round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee.
Unable to break through the solid defenses of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, World Champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by the Azerbaijani in the second round of the Group 'A' of Corus International Chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee.
Grandmaster P Harikrishna took unwarranted risks but finally drew with Romanian GM Mihail Marin in the sixth round of the 50th Reggio Emilia International Chess tournament in Italy. With three draws, two wins and a loss against Zoltan Almasi of Hungary, Harikrishna took his tally to 3.5 points out of a possible six and remained in joint second spot.
A late equaliser from Werder Bremen's Brazilian international Diego denied AC Milan victory in their UEFA Cup first knockout round first leg tie in Germany on Wednesday.
One needs to wait for Budget 2010 to see how the best brains in the country are planning to face the immense economic and budgetary issues facing them.
Victory continued to elude World Champion Viswanathan Anand as he settled for his eighth successive draw, signing peace with Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the eighth round in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands on Monday.
McLaren are in no rush to sign a successor to departed double world champion Fernando Alonso.
The defeat saw the Indian Grandmaster slip to fifth place in the Blindfold World Cup chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand replaced Vladimir Kramnik of Russia as champion, when he won the World Chess Championship in Mexico City on Saturday night.
Lewis Hamilton feels McLaren want him to win the Formula One title more than team mate Fernando Alonso.
Formula One champion Fernando Alonso will do his talking on the track now that McLaren team boss Ron Dennis has revealed they are barely on speaking terms, the Spaniard said on Thursday.
Lindsay Davenport tasted defeat for the first time in a year on Saturday, losing 6-3 7-5 to second seed Jelena Jankovic in the China Open semi-finals.
Former world number one Lindsay Davenport won her eighth consecutive match on the comeback trail by beating Russian Elena Dementieva 7-6, 6-1 to reach the semi-finals of the China Open on Friday
Viswanathan Anand split points with the Hungarian to remain in lead after the sixth round of the World Chess Championship.
Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Hungarian teenager Agnes Szavay 6-1 6-4 to reach the U.S. Open semi-finals on Wednesday and believes she is a better player than when she won the title in 2004.
Federer, bidding to become the first man in the Open Era to win the title in four straight years, has not lost to Roddick in four years, a run stretching to 10 matches.
Top seed Svetlana Kuznetsova won the New Haven Open when Hungarian qualifier Agnes Szavay retired with a back injury in the final.
Second seed Daniela Hantuchova suffered a setback before next week's U.S. Open when she was beaten by a Hungarian qualifier in the second round of the WTA event in New Haven on Wednesday.
The Indian had to share the title with Peter Acs after being held to a draw by Csaba Balogh in the final round.
The Indian played an easy draw with home challenge GM Csaba Balogh in the final round of the 5th Marx Gyrogy memorial chess tournament.
The top seed drew his ninth and penultimate round game against Hou Yifan.
The Indian chess ace drew with Ferenc Berkes to retain sole lead at the Marx Gyorgy Memorial Chess title.
P Harikrishna split points with Ferenc Berkes in the third round at the Marx Gyorgy Memorial chess.
Fernando Alonso is no longer on speaking terms with British rookie Lewis Hamilton after the Hungarian GP.
Ferrari castigated Formula One rivals McLaren for making 'serious and false' accusations against them.
Brazil's 1970 World Cup winning team have been voted the best of all time in a global poll of experts conducted by World Soccer magazine.
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