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Battling Clijsters loses first match in tennis comeback
Four-time Grand Slam champion Kim Clijsters lost her first match in her second tennis comeback on Monday following a 6-2, 7-6 (8/6) defeat to Garbine...
Virat Kohli becomes first Indian with 50 million Instagram followers
LANS :Virat Kohli has become the first person from India to have 50 million followers on Instagram.The captain of the Indian men’s cricket team is...
Norway’s Casper Ruud wins 1st title at Argentina Open
AP, Buenos Aires :Casper Ruud clinched his first title by beating lucky loser Pedro Sousa 6-1, 6-4 in the Argentina Open final on Sunday. He...
Sprint queen Fraser-Pryce eyes track farewell at 2021 worlds
Jamaican sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, currently preparing for the Tokyo Olympics, says the defence of her women’s 100m sprint gold at the 2021 world championships...
Duplantis breaks world pole vault record for second time in a week
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis set a world pole vault record of 6.18 metres at an indoor meeting in Glasgow on Saturday, adding one centimetre to the...
I am here to stay, stresses Semenya after comeback victory
South African double Olympic champion Caster Semenya beat seven high school athletes Friday in a 300-metre race, her first outing since being barred last July...
Tokyo holds Olympic torch rehearsal as spectre of virus looms
Tokyo Olympic organisers held a dummy run for the torch relay Saturday as fears over the coronavirus epidemic continue to cast a dark shadow over...
Soumya getting married on Feb 26
Bangladesh’s star cricketer Soumya Sarkar is scheduled to tie the knot on February 26. He will marry 19-year-old Prionti Debnath Puja, daughter of Gopal Debnath....
US speedster Coleman wins 60m heat in Albuquerque
World record holder Christian Coleman opened his world indoor season Friday by finishing first in his heat in the 60 metres at the USA indoor...