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Kelvin Kiptum of Kenya finished first in the London Marathon men's race here on Sunday with a winning time of 2:01:25, the second quickest in history. In the women's elite race, the 5,000m and 10,000 Olympic champion Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands won her marathon debut in style by clocking in 2:18:33, reports Xinhua. Kiptum, 23, burst onto the stage at the end of last year as he set the fourth-fastest time on the world all-time list of 2:01:53 in his marathon debut in Valencia, Spain.

The 38-year-old Hall exhibited remarkable touch and excellent control as he played some fine in-offs and precision cannons and pots and started with a bang making a 105 break and a few visits he uncorked a stupendous effort of 600 points to take a firm grip of the match and went into the break with a mammoth 730-191 points lead at the end of first one-and-half hour session. Haria had one run of 144 in the opening period.

Advani enjoyed a commanding 576-311 points lead at the end of the first one-and-half hour session in the event being organised at the CCI Sir Wilson Jones billiards hall on Tuesday evening. Advani thus joined Gujarat challengers Rupesh Shah and Dhvaj Haria in the semifinals. Later, they were joined by Englishman Rob Hall, who overcame India's Saurav Kothari in the last quarterfinal.

Inter conceded three consecutive league defeats before Friday's game and were winless in their previous five fixtures, reports Xinhua. The away side broke the deadlock in the opening minutes when a long ball nodded by Romelu Lukaku went into the path of Robin Gosens, who hit in a first-time volley.

Champion at Roland Garros in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2017, Muguruza has not competed since a first-round loss to teenager Linda Noskova in Lyon in February. She has not won a match since defeating Despina Papamichail in the second round of Tokyo last September, and is on a six-match losing streak.Muguruza's ranking has fallen to No.132 this week

At stake in the event organised by the Cricket Club of India at the club's Sir Wilson Jones billiards hall is a whopping winners' cheque of Rs 2.5 lakh and a handsome trophy and a runner-up cheque of Rs 1,50,000 and a trophy, the organisers informed in a release on Monday.

That result on Saturday was their fifth defeat in six league games and saw the club drop into the relegation zone with just ten games left in the season. The decision ends the former Liverpool and Celtic coach's four-year stay at the club, during which he led them to the 2021 FA Cup and consecutive fifth-place finishes in his first two seasons in charge, a Xinhua report said.

This weekend there are two regional derbies, as well as a couple of especially important fixtures in the race for the top four. The teams currently placed between third and sixth will face off against each other, with Villarreal CF vs Real Sociedad and Atletico de Madrid vs Real Betis both coming up on Sunday evening.

The UAE innings was rattled early after skipper Muhammad Waseem fell to Saurabh Netravalkar in the very first over. Not unlike the Namibian approach on Wednesday, Vriitya Aravind (57) and Aryan Lakra (26) looked to keep their foot on the pedal. While their strategy worked perfectly on Ali Khan, the more disciplined Netravalkar kept the.

Bairstow is out of action since breaking his leg on a golf course in September 2022. However, according to Yorkshire head coach Ottis Gibson, he is likely to be available for his county from the middle to the end of May. Bairstow could be hoping to get back into the England team for the opening Ashes Test at Edgbaston from.