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Wimbledon 2021: Magda scalps third seed Elina, Ashleigh advances
World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty of Australia though beat Anna Blinkova of Russia 6-4, 6-3 to enter the third round. Elina was Magda's first-ever top-10 scalp. The Polish player committed three double faults but won three out of nine break-points to send the Ukrainian packing. She won 74 per cent of the points on first serve and 80 per cent on second.
Wimbledon 2021: Zverev cruises to third round, Monfils out
Zverev, who lost in the second round of Halle Open, hammered 13 aces and committed only two double faults. Tennys hit eight aces and committed as many as six double faults. The 24-year-old German, who is yet to win a Grand Slam title, converted five of the 10 break points. Martinez surprised 13th seed Frenchman Monfils 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5) to advance to the third round.
India's opening likely to be the weak link in England
Either Agarwal or Rahul will get to open with Rohit Sharma after Shubman Gill's availability for the first Test against England on August 4 became uncertain due to a leg injury. Sharma himself had failed to go beyond 30 runs in the World Test Championship (WTC) final against New Zealand. There were already questions on the depth of the bench when the squad was announced last month. And Gill's injury has made things worse.
Anand congratulates the world's youngest chess GM
At 12 years, four months and 25 days, Mishra achieved the feat after scoring his third GM norm in the April Vezerkepzo tournament in Budapest on Wednesday, having already crossed the required 2500 Elo rating barrier. In the process, the New Jersey-based Mishra broke the 19-year-old record set by Russian GM Sergey Karjakin in 2002 by two months and five days.
Wimbledon 2021: Sania-Bethanie stun sixth seed in doubles opener
On Thursday, Sania and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Alexa Guarachi of Chile and Desirae Krawczyk of the United States 7-5, 6-3 in a first round encounter played on Court 8 here. Sania, who has bagged three Grand Slam doubles titles and as many mixed doubles titles thus far, had won the Wimbledon ladies doubles title in 2015.
Sad to see bowlers today get tired after four overs: Kapil Dev
"Cricket today is very basic. You either have to bat or bowl. In our time, we had to do everything. So cricket today has changed," said Kapil in an interaction with India Today. "Sometimes it saddens me to see a player getting tired after bowling just four overs and I have heard they are not allowed to bowl more than three or four overs," he added.
Lord's to host full capacity crowd for July 10 ODI
Lord's, which has a capacity of 30,000, was included in the Event Research Programme (ERP) of the UK government which is looking to open up sports venues to crowds after Covid-19. The government had allowed limited capacity in grounds. As many as 17,000 fans attended the first three days of the second Test against New Zealand at Edgbaston last month.
Wimbledon 2021: Andy Murray enters third round after a five-setter
Murray, 34, was granted a wild card for this year's Wimbledon as the three-time Grand Slam champion had been suffering setbacks while trying to return to the tour after hip surgeries. The former world No. 1 spent three-and-a-half hours to see off 24th seed Nikoloz Basilashvili in the first round on Monday and needed to fight 20 minutes longer on Wednesday against Otte, who played at the grass-court Grand Slam for the first time, Xinhua reports.
Lionel Messi not FC Barcelona player for 1st time in over 20 years
Messi could still return to Barcelona but him not signing a contract before the deadline means that this is the first time in 7,504 days that he is not with the club on paper. The 34-year-old wanted to leave Barcelona last year and had even handed a transfer request but the club wasn't willing to let him go. Barca management, in fact, had pointed out a 700 million euro release to the clubs interested in buying the Argentina player.
Shocked by India loss, Australia hire two batting coaches
Former Australia batsman Michael Di Venuto and ex-South Australia batsman Jeff Vaughan have been hired as assistant coaches to help head coach Justin Langer who had to act as batting coach as well ever since Graeme Hick was removed in 2020 due to Cricket Australia's cost-cutting measures.
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