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Sevilla beat Copenhagen in UEFA Champions League
The first half was short on action, but Copenhagen showed themselves to be a hard-working and well-drilled unit who were able to keep Sevilla at bay with relative ease. The main threat from the home side came from wingers Suso and Papu Gomez, while the best chance of the first 45 minutes fell to Hakon Haraldsson, whose shot on the turn was well turned away by Marco Dmitrovic, who started in Sevilla's goal ahead of Bono, reports Xinhua.
BWF World Rankings: Sindhu breaks into top five, Prannoy moves to 12th
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Sindhu, who has 87,218 points from 26 tournaments, displaced arch-rival Carolina Marin of Spain in the fifth position. The Indian ace boasts a career-high ranking of world No.2, attained back in 2017-18, but ha'n't broken into the top five since September 2019, just following her world championships title win that year. PV Sindhu won the gold medal at the CWG 2022 earlier this year but has been out of action since then because of an ankle injury.
BWF World Junior Championships: Unnati, Anupama advance to round of 32
Anupama, the world No.3 in the junior badminton rankings and top seed at the junior championships, beat Singapore's Yi Ting Elsa Lai 19-21, 21-10, 21-9 in her round of 64 clash. On the other hand, World junior No.5 and also the fifth seed, Unnati eased out Sri Lanka's Ranithma Liyanage 21-11, 19-21, 21-7. Both Anupama and Unnati had received first-round byes.
Sultan of Johor Cup hockey: Indian junior men's team wins 5-1 against Japan
For India, it was captain Uttam Singh (3'), Rohit (12'), Johnson Purty (21'), Boby Singh Dhami (31') and Amandeep Lakra (51') who found the back of the net, while Ikumi Saeki (15') scored the lone goal for Japan.
Swiss Indoors: Murray advances to second round with win over Safiullin
In a hard-fought clash, Murray showcased an abundance of grit as he rallied from 1-4 in the third set to eventually triumph after two hours and 37 minutes at the ATP 500 event. "He was serving huge and any opportunity he was hitting the ball huge from the back of the court. As the match went on, I started to dictate a few more points and served better," Murray said.
Leicestershire agree deal with Ajinkya Rahane to play upcoming County season: Report
Besides playing for Leicestershire Cricket Club in the County Championship, Rahane is likely to play in white-ball cricket for the Royal London Cup too depending on his Indian Premier League (IPL) commitments, the Telegraph newspaper claimed in an exclusive report.
French Open badminton: Saina Nehwal ousted, Satwik/Chirag win on bad day for Indians
The men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty was the only one to survive the opening round as Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto went down in the mixed doubles first round while the women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand too went down to the sixth-seeded Thai pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai.
Hardik Pandya proves once again that he plays a key role in India's fortunes
Pandya played a stellar role both with the ball and the bat in the sensational four-wicket victory as India came roaring back from a disastrous start when chasing Pakistan's 159 for eight and won in a dramatic last over from left arm spinner Mohammed Nawaz.
PKL 9: Meetu Sharma stars in Haryana Steelers' big win against Telugu Titans
A team effort from the Haryana side as Meetu starred in the raiding department, earning 13 points, while Nitin Rawal, Jaideep, and Amirhossein Bastami stole the show in the defence unit. Monu Goyat began the proceedings as he got a raid point for Telugu Titans, but K. Prapanjan levelled the scores immediately with Haryana Steelers' first raid. Minutes later, Manjeet got a touch on Vinay to give Steelers the lead.
T20 World Cup: Playing IPL gave me confidence to tackle Sri Lankan spinners, says Marcus Stoinis
Stoinis' scintillating knock (59 not out from 18) -- the fastest T20I fifty by an Australia batter off 17 balls -- powered Australia to a morale-lifting seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in a Super 12 match at Perth Stadium. During his knock, Stoinis struck some big sixes off the Sri Lankan spinners and admitted that playing in the IPL helped him neutralise Sri Lanka's spin threat.
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