Monaco: World champion Viswanathan Anand continued with his clinical performance and defeated Russian Alexander Grischuk 1.5-0.5 in the fourth round of 20th Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament here. The triumph over Grischuk came in the rapid game and this was the third mini-match that Anand won following his victory over Boris Gelfand of Israel in the third round. It may be recalled that Anand had beaten Veselin Topalov in...
09:53 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Monaco: World champion Viswanathan Anand played two draws with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the second round to occupy joint fourth spot in the 20th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament here. After a fine victory over Topalov in the first round, Anand could not break the ice against his 2007 World Championship challenger Kramnik and it was in fact the Russian who was seen pressing for advantage. Meanwhile, Magnus...
11:07 PM, Mar 14, 2011
Monaco: World Champion Viswanathan Anand defeated challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria 1.5-0.5 in the first round of the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament here. Anand got off to a flier in the final edition of this unique event winning the blindfold game with white pieces and signed peace in the rapid to get another good result against Topalov, who did not figure in any super tournaments in the past...
12:29 PM, Mar 13, 2011
Rotterdam: Swede Robin Soderling retained his World Indoor Tournament title by outlasting Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3 3-6 6-3 on Sunday. In a serve-dominated final, Tsonga boomed down 20 aces to Soderling's 12 but the Swede produced the greater consistency to triumph again in the Dutch port city. Tsonga, in his first ATP final since October 2009, rallied in the second set by finishing off some neat approach play with point-clinching...
12:55 AM, Feb 14, 2011
Rotterdam: Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will face Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic for a place in the World Indoor tournament final after they had contrasting paths through the quarter-finals on Friday. Tsonga was handed a walkover after fourth seed Tomas Berdych pulled out suffering with flu but Ljubicic had to sweat for two hours and 24 minutes for a 6-4 6-7 7-6 victory over unseeded Marcos Baghdatis. Holder and top seed Robin Soderling...
12:15 AM, Feb 12, 2011
Rotterdam: Marcos Baghdatis beat Feliciano Lopez 7-6 (3), 6-3 on Thursday to advance to a quarterfinal showdown with seventh-seeded Ivan Ljubicic. Baghdatis had a tougher time overcoming the 44th-ranked Lopez than he did dispatching Australian Open finalist Andy Murray 6-4, 6-1 the previous evening as the Scot battled a left wrist injury. Ljubicic downed French qualifier Benoit Paire 6-0, 6-4. In the afternoon's other second-round match, fourth-seeded Tomas Berdych beat...
10:00 PM, Feb 10, 2011
Rotterdam: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga rallied from a set down to beat fellow Frenchman Michael Llodra 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament. In a tight match that saw just one service break in each set, the eighth-seeded Tsonga served nine of his 15 aces in the decisive third set at Rotterdam's Ahoy Stadium. "Michael is one of the best players on this...
11:45 PM, Feb 09, 2011
Wijk Aan Zee: Five times winner Viswanathan Anand had to be content with a second place finish following a draw with Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia in the 13th and final round of 73rd Tata Steel Chess tournament here. The World Champion could draw a big consolation from the fact that he would be the number one ranked player all over again as the results here proved that he will be...
01:12 PM, Jan 31, 2011
Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands: World Champion Viswanathan Anand was easily held to a draw by arch-rival Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the second round of the group 'A' of the ongoing 73rd Tata Steel chess tournament here. After a fine win over Ruslan Ponomariov with black pieces in the super-tournament opener on Saturday, the Indian ace could not keep the momentum ticking in his favour as Kramnik was well...
05:59 PM, Jan 17, 2011
Abu Dhabi: Top-ranked Rafael Nadal started 2011 with a win over rival Roger Federer, beating the Swiss 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) on Saturday to defend his title at the World Tennis Championships exhibition tournament. Both players held serve throughout the match, and Federer had the early momentum in the first tiebreaker, hitting a couple of blistering forehand winners to go up 3-0. But Nadal won the next five points and...
10:52 PM, Jan 01, 2011
CNN-IBN's Himanshu Singhal in conversation with 2010 Indian Open golf winner Rikard Karlberg. ...
12:01 PM, Dec 06, 2010
New Delhi: Off-season rust and a cold putter spoilt the day for star attraction Arjun Atwal even as course familiarity worked to the advantage of some unfancied names such as Sanjay kumar and Shamim Khan in the opening round of the Hero Honda Indian Open Golf Tournament here on Thursday. Sanjay was, in fact, the highest-placed Indian at tied second with a bogey-free four-under 68, comprising a couple of birdies...
07:56 PM, Dec 02, 2010
In the absence of Jeev Milkha Singh, golf pundits in India believe Jyoti Randhawa will start as the favourite at the Indian Open Golf tournament that tees off at Delhi Golf Club on Thursday. Jyoti however believes Arjun Atwal is looking like the biggest contender for the title. ...
10:54 AM, Nov 30, 2010
Nanjing, China: World champion Viswanathan Anand pulled off a fine victory over Etienne Bacrot of France to finish second in the Pearl Spring Chess tournament here. Anand, whose party in the tournament was spoiled by Bacrot in the fourth round earlier, won a satisfying revenge game to finish on a high after mid-way hiccups in this super tournament between six players. Magnus Carlsen of Norway played out a hard-fought draw...
09:01 PM, Oct 30, 2010
Nanjing, China: World Champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan in the ninth and penultimate round of the Pearl Spring Chess tournament here. Meanwhile, Magnus Carlsen of Norway outplayed former world champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria to claim the title and also the winner's cheque of Rs 50 lakh with one round still to come in the six-players double round-robin event. For Anand it...
10:46 PM, Oct 29, 2010
Atlanta: Britain's Paul Casey inched closer to claiming FedExCup honours after charging into a three-way tie for the lead in the first round of the Tour Championship on Thursday. A notable absentee from next week's Ryder Cup, Casey fired a four-under-par 66 at East Lake Golf Club to set the pace with fellow Englishman Luke Donald and Australian Geoff Ogilvy. American world number six Jim Furyk carded a 67 while...
04:01 PM, Sep 24, 2010
New Jersey: Tiger Woods finished strongly at the Barclays tournament on Sunday, a four-under 67 clinching a spot in the second FedExCup series event next week. The world number one, yet to win this season, had to be in the top 50 to remain in the lucrative playoffs and qualified with ease as he closed with a seven-under 277 total. "I'm very pleased," said Woods who felt his ball-striking was...
02:05 PM, Aug 30, 2010
New Jersey: American Matt Kuchar hit a spectacular recovery shot to win a playoff against Martin Laird of Britain at the first hole to claim the Barclays title on Sunday in the opening leg of the FedExCup playoffs. After hitting his drive into heavy rough on the left side, Kuchar punched a low approach shot that landed short of the firm green, hopped on and rolled to the back before...
10:14 AM, Aug 30, 2010
New Jersey: Tiger Woods nearly shot himself out of the FedExCup playoffs on Saturday with a triple-bogey seven on the par-four first hole but the struggling world number one recovered with a back-nine charge. Woods, mired in a dismal season without a win, launched his opening drive dead left into a car park to drop from four under par overall to one-under at Ridgewood Country Club. "I got caught between...
06:01 PM, Aug 29, 2010
New Haven: Continuing their red-hot form, Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi advanced to their third ATP Tour final of the season with an upset win over second seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi at the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament. The unseeded Indo-Pak pair beat the Indo-Belarusian combo 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals of the USD 663,750 hard court US Open series event. They will take on Wimbledon finalists Robert Lindstedt...
11:19 AM, Aug 28, 2010
