Eastbourne: Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska slumped to a 7-6 (2), 6-2 defeat by American qualifier Jamie Hampton in the first round at Eastbourne on Tuesday. Radwanska, who won the title in 2008, struggled throughout the match at the Wimbledon warm-up tournament.
Although the Polish player leveled at 5-5 when Hampton served for the first set at 5-4 and then held a set point at 6-5, she was overwhelmed in the tiebreaker and failed to make much impact in the second set.
"I think playing her in the first match on the grass I think it was tough, and I think, you know, the fact that she played three matches before helped her a little bit," Radwanska said. "I think I was a little bit scared to move. It wasn't slippery. Maybe a little bit in the back, but, yeah, scared. You have to be careful." Hampton was cautious when Radwanska fought back late in the first set, but was determined not to fold.
"I was a little rattled, yeah," Hampton said. "Last time we played something similar happened, so I was like, I'm not going to crack. I'm going to hold on and get to a tiebreak." Second-seeded Li Na of China advanced to the second round, beating Alize Cornet of France 6-2, 6-4 and will next play 2011 champion Marion Bartoli of France....
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09:03 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Milan: Months after the shocking revelations of the AgustaWestland bribery case, Finmeccanica ex-CEO Giuseppe Orsi's trial begins on Wednesday. A CBI team will also be attending the trial in Milan. Orsi and the CEO of its chopper unit Bruno Spagnoli, will go on trial on Wednesday in a Milan court. Orsi was arrested on February 12 on charges of international corruption, bribery and billing fraud over the sale of 12...
08:41 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Kingston, Jamaica: Jamaica's twice Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown was suspended by her national federation on Tuesday following a positive test for a banned diuretic at a meeting last month. "The Jamaican Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) can now confirm that a case concerning Mrs Veronica Campbell-Brown is currently ongoing," the Jamaican governing body said in a statement. "She has been provisionally suspended from competition awaiting the outcome of a...
08:27 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Washington: The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation severely restricting abortions, a move that could alienate women from the conservative party. The bill would ban abortions 20 weeks after fertilization occurs, a time when a fetus begins to feel pain, Republicans said. The legislation makes exceptions for victims of rape and incest as long as they first report the crime to authorities. The bill has no chance...
07:29 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: CBI may record statement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's advisor TKA Nair in the coal block allocation scam though the agency denied any such move officially. The agency, meanwhile, summoned as accused former Coal Secretary HC Gupta and quizzed two former officials in the Prime Minister's Office(PMO). CBI sources said on Tuesday the agency may call Nair to record his statement as witness in connection with the alleged...
03:50 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Mumbai: Reliance Industries on Tuesday toppled state-run oil major ONGC to become the country's second most valued firm after TCS. Shares of ONGC on Tuesday fell by 1.47 per cent, bringing its market valuation down to Rs 2,63,466 crore, which was lower than RIL's m-cap of Rs 2,66,548 crore at close. Reliance Industries dropped by 0.18 per cent on BSE. IT major TCS holds the top slot with a market...
03:24 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday distributed 5,000 mobile phone sets among farmers while launching the scheme. "The farmers can access the market information related to agriculture through the mobile phones," Patnaik said, adding that they would get voice calls and SMS in Odia language. Inaugurating the Digital Bazaar programme at Exhibition ground in Bhubaneswar, Patnaik said about 15,000 beneficiaries will get the free phones in the first...
01:41 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: A government panel on Tuesday proposed raising foreign investment limits in sectors like defence, multi-brand retail and telecommunications, to spur investment in the country and tide over the Current Account Deficit woes. "We have submitted the report to the Finance Minister. Action will be taken on it as and when the government decides. Policy is with DIPP so finally they will take a call. This is just our...
12:08 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Kingston: Twice Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown could avoid a maximum two-year doping ban because she declared a cream containing a banned diuretic, sources close to Jamaican athletics told Reuters on Tuesday. Jamaica's most successful female athlete tested positive for a diuretic, which can be used to mask the use of performance-enhancing drugs, at the International Invitational World Challenge on May 4. The sources said the banned drug was...
11:24 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Bridgetown (Barbados): West Indies middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been forced to withdraw from the first ever Caribbean Premier League (CPL) because of his contractual obligations with English county team Derbyshire. Organisers say Chanderpaul signed a contract with CPL, offering himself for selection but later realised that his commitment to Derbyshire provided for release only if it pertained to West Indies duty, reports CMC. "I am extremely sorry that...
10:53 PM, Jun 18, 2013
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10:46 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: The impasse regarding who will be India's representative at the Annual Conference of the ICC took a new turn as senior vice-president Arun Jaitley's name cropped up as a likely choice for the high-profile meeting in London on June 25. "Mr Jaitley is in London right now. There is a possibility that he might represent BCCI at the Conference on March 25. If Mr Jaitley agrees, he will...
10:31 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New York: Starbucks has a new way to wake up its US customers: showing the calories in its drinks. The Seattle-based coffee chain says it will start posting calorie counts on menu boards nationwide next week, ahead of a federal regulation that would require it to do so. Calorie counts on menus are already required in some parts of the country, including New York City. But starting June 25, Starbucks...
10:23 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: A high level meeting between Defence Secretary, National Disaster Response Force and other agencies has been convened to expedite the relief process after 58 people died in Uttarakhand following heavy rains that have caused massive landslides and floods in the state, Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth told CNN-IBN. "We are going to take Indian Air Force's help to evacuate people from all corners of the state," Singh said. "We...
10:03 PM, Jun 18, 2013
London: England have an Ashes series looming ahead of them and South Africa a lingering history of one-day failures behind them. Both will try and convert those distractions into motivation for Wednesday's first Champions Trophy semi-final at the Oval. There's no doubt that in the scheme of England's busy summer, the Champions Trophy is a distant second in importance to the clash with fierce rival Australia and defending the Ashes....
09:02 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Kolkata: Angry netizens on Tuesday lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and sternly told her to "shut up and do some work", a day after she lost her cool and branded as "CPI-M people" anti-rape protestors as also rapists of a college girl. Facebook users and Twitterati assailed the Trinamool Congress supremo for asking a resident of Kamduni village in North 24 Parganas district to "shut up"...
07:23 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: Former BCCI president and a member of the anti N Srinivasan group, IS Bindra, has lashed out at the Board's interim head Jagmohan Dalmiya for accepting what he termed an "illegitimate stop-gap" arrangement. Bindra, who now regularly writes blogs stated his views to a question posed to him about whether the BCCI has gone a decade back by appointing Dalmiya as the head of the interim group after...
07:19 PM, Jun 18, 2013
London: South Africa skipper AB de Villiers on Tuesday expressed concerns over allegations of ball-tampering against the English side and seemed a bit amazed at the host bowlers' ability to reverse swing the ball "a bit quicker than the rest of the teams" in the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy. The hosts have been hit by allegations of ball-tampering ahead of their high-voltage semi-final, slated to be held here on Wednesday...
07:18 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: Intelligence Bureau Special Director Rajinder Kumar, who was interrogated in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, on Tuesday told the CBI that the inputs generated by the intelligence agency were genuine and based on intercepts of terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba. The interrogation details accessed by CNN-IBN reveal that Rajinder Kumar has denied any involvement in the alleged fake encounter and said that he didn't advice the Gujarat Police to...
07:04 PM, Jun 18, 2013
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