Kavarna, Bulgaria: Britain's Graeme McDowell and South African Branden Grace set up a mouth-watering showdown in the semi-finals of the World Match Play Championship by winning on Saturday.
World number eight McDowell, the highest-ranked player in the field, avenged his defeat in last year's final by easing past holder Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium 2 & 1.
Colsaerts was already trailing when his drive at the 10th hole found a hazard after flying over an on-course toilet.
To adhere to the rules he had to first drop his ball on the toilet floor before he was eventually given 'relief' from the immovable obstruction and he spared his blushes by pitching the ball on to the green and holing out from 15 feet for a par four....
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09:22 AM, May 19, 2013
Moscow: Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won the decisive doubles match Sunday as Russia completed a 3-2 comeback victory over Slovakia to reach the Fed Cup final. Slovakia won the first two singles on Saturday to take a 2-0 lead but Maria Kirilenko and Makarova won the reverse matches to level the series before the Russians rallied to beat Dominika Cibulkova and Daniela Hantuchova 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 on indoor clay...
12:38 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Vinci, who beat sixth-ranked Angelique Kerber to reach the quarterfinals, humbled the former US Open champion 6-2 6-4. ...
08:08 PM, Feb 21, 2013
They progressed 6-4 on aggregate after drawing 2-2 in the Nou Camp last week, with goals from Pedro, Pique, Iniesta and Messi putting them through. ...
08:07 AM, Jan 25, 2013
Real went through on a 3-1 aggregate score after making good on their 2-0 win in the first leg. ...
08:22 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Lazio extended their unbeaten run in all competitions to 10 wins and six draws. ...
09:53 AM, Jan 23, 2013
Azarenka will meet the winner of Wednesday's later quarterfinal between Serena Williams and 19-year-old American Sloane Stephens. ...
09:01 AM, Jan 23, 2013
London: Juan Martin del Potro believes he can muscle his way into the world's top four next year after returning to the kind of form that propelled him to the US Open title three years ago. The 1.98 metres tall Argentine saw his bid to win the ATP World Tour Finals ended by world number one Novak Djokovic on Sunday but there was enough evidence in his three-set defeat to...
11:26 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New York: David Ferrer needed a mid-match pedicure of sorts. He seemed bothered when his opponent got a mid-game medical timeout. He was down a break in the fifth set. In the end, though, the indefatigable Spaniard was barely better, as he usually is when matches go the distance. With his high-energy brand of leg-churning, ball-chasing tennis, the fourth-seeded Ferrer outlasted eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-3, 6-7 (5), 2-6,...
08:35 AM, Sep 07, 2012
New York: Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek stormed into the semifinals of the US Open men's doubles event after getting the better of Julian Knowle of Austria and Slovakia's Filip Polasek in straight sets here. The fifth-seeded Indo-Czech combo took just 74 minutes to outplay their opponents 6-2 6-4. Paes and Stepanek, who had won the Australian Open title earlier this year, dominated from the word go...
12:16 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New York: Shortly after crowd favorite and 2003 champion Andy Roddick made an emotional farewell into retirement, Olympic gold medalist Andy Murray completed an improbable recovery to take another step in his quest for a first Grand Slam title. Roddick headed into retirement with a 6-7 (1), 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-4 loss to Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows on Wednesday. It was...
08:21 AM, Sep 06, 2012
London: India's Tintu Luka qualified for the women's 800m semi-finals in the Olympic Games after finishing third in one of the heats here on Wednesday. Luka clocked 2:01.75 to finish third in heat number two behind reigning world champion Mariya Savinova (2:01.56) of Russia and Alice Schmidt (2:01.65) of the United States at the Olympic Stadium here. The top three in each of the six heats and the best six...
05:00 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Estoril: Sania Mirza and her partner Anastasia Rodionova breezed past Megan Moulton-Levy and Lindsay Lee-Waters in straight sets to book a semifinal berth in the Estoril Open, here. The second seeded Indo-Australian pair needed just 55 minutes to defeat their American rivals 6-0, 6-4 in the quarter-finals of the USD 220,000 clay court event. Sania and Rodionova saved four breakpoints in the match and converted five of the chances they...
04:30 PM, May 03, 2012
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11:59 PM, Mar 28, 2011
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Two minor explosions at M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore took place on Saturday. ...
01:00 PM, Apr 19, 2010
B S Yeddyurappa late on Sunday appealed to Indian Premier League (IPL) organisers to reverse the decision. ...
08:49 AM, Apr 19, 2010
Saina says that she is well prepared for the semi-finals. ...
08:17 PM, Dec 04, 2009
Federer struggled to a 6-3 3-6 6-2 victory over Spaniard Nicolas Almagro on Friday to reach the semi-finals. ...
01:34 PM, Aug 18, 2007
Leander Paes and his Czech partner Martin Damm beat German wildcards Benjamin Becker and Christopher Kas. ...
06:07 PM, Jun 15, 2007
Bhupathi and Stepanek stormed into men's doubles semifinals with an upset win over Bjorkman and Mirnyi. ...
02:15 PM, Jun 06, 2007
