Istanbul: Serena Willliams cruised into the final of the WTA Championships by beating Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-2, 6-1 on Saturday and will play Maria Sharapova for her third title at the event. Sharapova beat Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 6-2 in the second semi-final, a day after Azarenka had made sure of finishing the year as the top-ranked player. Sharapova will finish No. 2 even if she beats Williams in Sunday's...
11:08 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Istanbul: Victoria Azarenka wrapped up the season-ending No. 1 position in the world by beating Li Na 7-6 (4), 6-3 on Friday in the WTA Championships. Azarenka secured a spot in the semi-finals and will next play Maria Sharapova. "It's kind of difficult to believe that a little girl from Belarus is on that list," said Azarenka, from Belarus. "It's really incredible achievement. When I started to play tennis I...
01:00 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Tendulkar, Dhoni, Sehwag and Gambhir are among those to get retainers of Rs. 1 crore for 2012-13. ...
01:55 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Istanbul: American Serena Williams reached the semi-finals at the WTA Tour Championships in Istanbul on Thursday with what is fast becoming a routine defeat of world number one Victoria Azarenka. The Wimbledon and U.S Open champion recorded a 6-4 6-4 win at the season-ending event, her fifth triumph over the Belarusian this year. Williams also owns an 11-1 record in their career head-to-heads. The win was Williams' third at the...
08:14 AM, Oct 26, 2012
Istanbul: Li Na defeated Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday to retain a slim chance of advancing at the WTA Championships. Li's first win in two round-robin matches means she can still reach the semifinals, depending on other results in her Red Group. The fifth-ranked Kerber, making her first appearance in the season finale, bowed out after losing all three of her matches. She played more than three...
12:07 AM, Oct 26, 2012
Istanbul: Victoria Azarenka moved a step closer to securing the year-end number one ranking with a 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 win over Germany's Angelique Kerber at the WTA Championships on Wednesday. Azarenka needed three hours and six minutes to repel Kerber but Maria Sharapova's 5-7, 7-5, 7-5 win over Agnieszka Radwanska took even longer to complete, the three hours and 12 minutes contest ending at 02:12 on Thursday morning. In another...
09:05 AM, Oct 25, 2012
Istanbul: Defending champion Petra Kvitova has withdrawn from the WTA Championships due to a viral illness and will be replaced by Samantha Stosur, tournament officials announced on Wednesday. The world number six was able to play her first match in the White group on Tuesday but was toppled 6-3 6-2 by Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska in a contest that saw the Czech commit a whopping 41 unforced errors. Australian Stosur will...
05:56 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Istanbul: Aggression powered Maria Sharapova to victory over Italy's Sara Errani in her opening match at the USD 4.9 million WTA championships here, the Russian said. In a repeat of their only previous meeting in June's French Open final, Sharapova emerged victorious by a score of 6-3, 6-2 against Errani on Tuesday. Cautious play allowed Errani to control the start of the match, when the first four games all went...
04:12 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Istanbul: With the year-end top ranking out of reach, Serena Williams will settle for the title at the WTA Championships. In her first match since winning the U.S. Open in September, Williams defeated Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-1 Tuesday to start round-robin play in the season-ending event featuring the top eight players in the world. "Obviously, I would rather win majors. I've been No. 1 and I would love to be...
08:35 AM, Oct 24, 2012
Istanbul: Agnieszka Radwanska defeated titleholder Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-2 to start round-robin play at the WTA Championships on Tuesday. Kvitova entered the match with a 25-match winning streak indoors but she was in trouble early, losing the first three games. Although she recovered to tie at 3-all, Radwanska broke serve again and served out the set. Kvitova dropped her first two service games of the second, and broke back once....
09:31 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Itanagar: IPS officer MS Chauhan, who probed the high-profile PDS scam and mysteriously went missing in Arunachal Pradesh's West Kameng district on October 16, has been traced in New Delhi on Sunday. "Chauhan was traced in New Delhi this morning and the Investigating officer will rush there to investigate," IGP (Crime) Arvind Deep said. He declined to give further details. Chauhan, SP of the Special Investigation Cell, who was appointed...
03:10 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Vienna: Top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro and Janko Tipsarevic won in straight sets on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Erste Bank Open. Del Potro defeated Marinko Matosevic of Australia 6-2, 6-2 to line up a match against Gilles Muller of Luxembourg. Second-seeded Tipsarevic was leading 6-2, 4-2 when Aljaz Bedene retired with a left thigh injury. It was Del Potro's second match since returning from a right wrist...
11:37 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Itanagar: The Arunachal Pradesh government on Friday handed over the case of missing IPS officer MS Chauhan to a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the state police, official sources said. Chauhan, who is the SP of the Special Investigation Cell of the state police, went missing mysteriously from Tippi on Tuesday when he was going to Tawang from Itanagar with inspector Mohan Kaye and constable Vikram Singh. He had handed...
07:16 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Chandigarh: A top police officer in Chandigarh caught taking a bribe by the Central Bureau of Investigation has been arrested. IPS officer Desh Raj Singh, was caught by the CBI allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh. Singh who is the Superintendent of Police (City), reportedly demanded Rs 5 lakh from a uniformed serving station house officer, Anokh Singh, but according to the CBI, he settled for 1 lakh....
09:10 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Visiting Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard tripped and fell on the grass during her visit to Mahatma Gandhi's memorial at Rajghat on Wednesday. Gillard's shoe got stuck in the grass but soon got up and carried on with her visit. Gillard is on a three-day visit to India. Gillard, while attending a function on Tuesday, said she would be meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday, adding that her Labor ...
02:59 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Itanagar: An IPS officer has gone missing from Tippi in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh when he was on his way to Tawang from Itanagar. Superintendent of Police of the Special Investigation Cell in the state police, MS Chauhan, went missing from Tippi on Tuesday at around 2.30 pm when he, along with two of his subordinate staff, was going to Tawang. Chauhan asked inspector Mohan Kaye and constable...
12:33 PM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed all state governments and union territories to apprise it about the compliance of its directions passed six years ago for revamping the police machinery in the country. A bench of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and justices SS Nijjar and J Chelameswar asked them to file affidavits stating to what extent the apex court's September 22, 2006 judgement, directing a slew of measures...
07:59 PM, Oct 16, 2012
With less than a month to go for Russia's President Vladimir Putin's visit to Delhi, the two sides appear to have "stabilised" the military relationship ...
12:56 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Surat: A video clipping showing an IPS officer thrashing a thief in the Varaccha area of Surat surfaced on Saturday. The incident happened on Friday evening and was recorded by a bystander on his mobile phone. The video, aired by few TV channels, showed Deputy Commissioner of Police ND Solanki beating up a man with a stick as four other policemen held him. The man was caught by the police...
10:00 PM, Oct 06, 2012
St. Andrews (UK): Shiv Kapur did well to jump 20 places to 56th with a two-under 70 in the second round while fellow Indian Himmat Rai (74) was way behind in 154th place in a field of 168 professionals at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championships. In the second round, Kapur played the Carnoustie course, while Rai was playing at the St. Andrews. The pros play three rounds, one each at...
12:46 PM, Oct 06, 2012
