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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.
Wimbledon 2021: Aryna, Elina survive scare; No.7 Bianca ousted
Aryna, who is the world No. 4, committed 30 unforced errors but she converted five of the six break points as against three out of 12 by Katie. She fired 11 aces to Katei's three and won 67 per cent of first service points. No.3 seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine survived a scare in first round as Alison van Uytvanck of Belgium stretched her. Elina won 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.
Rishabh Pant drops in at Wembley to watch England play Germany in Euro 2020
The young star said he enjoyed the experience of watching top-flight football. The 23-year-old, who failed to get going in the World Test Championship (WTC) final that ended on June 23, posted a couple of pictures along with a tweet, saying, "Good experience watching (emoticon: soccer ball), (emoticons: Flag of England vs Flag of Germany)."
India slip in ICC rankings after WTC final loss
No.3 batsman Cheteshwar Pujara, who had poor scores of eight and 15, slipped to 16th. He has had a 2021 peak position of seventh this year following his success in Australia. In the list of bowlers, R Ashwin is the best Indian, having retained his second spot. The other Indian bowlers, who played the WTC final, occupy the spots between 16 to 19.
Wimbledon 2021: Novak Djokovic dispatches Kevin Anderson to enter 3rd round
Djokovic was dominant as he won four out of the eight break points he got and did not face any break point from the South African who seems to have plateaued after a good start to his career. The Serb won 84 per cent of the points on his first serve and 73 per cent of the points on second serve.
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