Victoria Azarenka has opened the defense of her Australian Open title with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Monica Niculescu. ...
09:21 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Minsk: Pedro set up Jordi Alba for the opening goal before grabbing a hat-trick as Spain extended their winning run in major championship qualifiers to 24 matches with a 4-0 World Cup Group I victory in Belarus on Friday. The world and European champions produced a typically efficient performance in chilly Minsk, dominating possession and quickly snuffing out any forward forays by the outclassed eastern Europeans. It was a useful...
08:19 AM, Oct 13, 2012
London: A club side from Belarus caused one of the biggest surprises in Champions League history last week. Now, the country's national team has a chance to spring another against world champion Spain. Belarus, without a point from two Group I games and the world's 87th-ranked team, hosts Spain in one of the biggest mismatches of Friday's World Cup qualifiers. The Spanish have won their last 23 qualifying matches, stretching...
08:47 AM, Oct 11, 2012
Saint-Denis: Franck Ribery scored a well-taken goal and helped create the other two as France beat Belarus 3-1 in a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. Midfielder Etienne Capoue and right back Christophe Jallet earned their first international goals as France followed up Friday's 1-0 win in Finland with an encouraging performance ahead of next month's crucial match away to European and World Cup champion Spain. After Anton Putilo pulled a...
01:51 AM, Sep 12, 2012
London: Olympic women's shot put champion Nadzeya Ostapchuk has been stripped of the gold medal she won at the London Games a week ago after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid. Two urine samples taken from the Belarussian before and after her win last Monday tested positive for metenolone, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in a statement on Monday, the day after the Games ended. "Ostapchuk is disqualified...
04:50 PM, Aug 13, 2012
London: Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka withdrew from the Rogers Cup on Friday because of a knee injury. Azarenka, who had a first-round bye, was level at 3-3 in her second-round match against Tamira Paszek when it was suspended by rain Thursday night. The 23-year-old Belarusian won two Olympic medals in London, taking gold in mixed doubles and bronze in singles. Meanwhile Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic dispatched Marion Bartoli 6-1,...
02:16 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: World silver medalist Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus won Olympic gold in the women's shot put on Monday. Ostapchuk posted a winning distance of 21.36 in the third round, with defending champion Valerie Adams of New Zealand taking the silver after throwing 20.70. Evgeniia Kolodko of Russia snatched the bronze on her last attempt with a personal best 20.48. Former world bronze medalist Lijao Gong of China was pushed off...
02:21 AM, Aug 07, 2012
London: The Belarusian pair of Victoria Azarenka and Max Mirnyi held their nerve in a tiebreak for the gold medal to beat Britain's Andy Murray and Laura Robson on Sunday. Murray was angling for his second gold of the day after beating Roger Federer to win the men's singles, but he and Robson were defeated 2-6, 6-3, 10-8 on a tiebreak by Mirnyi and women's world No. 1 Azarenka. The...
03:03 AM, Aug 06, 2012
London: Sergei Martynov of Belarus became the second shooter in Olympic history to score the maximum 600 points in qualifying for the final of the men's 50-meter rifle prone at the London Olympics on Friday. The top-ranked Martynov, competing in his sixth Olympics, matched the 16-year-old achievement by Christian Klees of Germany at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Klees went on the set the Olympic finals record at 704.8 points, which...
03:57 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Manchester: Neymar set up two goals and scored from a free kick to help Brazil beat Belarus 3-1 on Sunday, securing the gold-medal favorite a spot in the quarterfinals of the men's Olympic football tournament. Neymar struck a well-placed right-foot shot into the left upper corner of the net in the 65th minute to break a deadlock as Brazil struggled to get near the Belarus goal despite controlling possession at...
09:57 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Coventry: Dmitry Baga scored in the first half to give Belarus a 1-0 win over New Zealand in their Group C opener at the Olympic football tournament on Thursday. Baga scored with a header just before halftime, which proved enough to secure the three points at the City of Coventry Stadium. Belarus dominated the first half, before New Zealand came out stronger for the second but was unable to break...
02:54 AM, Jul 27, 2012
London: World number one players Roger Federer and Victoria Azarenka will head the list of seeded players in the draws for the London Olympics' tennis tournament. The draw will be held at Wimbledon on Thursday for the star-packed tennis competition beginning Saturday, Xinhua reports. Each of the singles tournaments has 64 competitors, with 16 seeds based on the world rankings of June 11. Reigning Wimbledon champion Federer aims to win...
03:40 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Stuttgart: Second-ranked Maria Sharapova cruised past top-ranked Victoria Azarenka 6-1, 6-4 on Sunday to win the Porsche Grand Prix for her first title of the year. Sharapova lost the finals of the Australian Open and Indian Wells this year to Azarenka, and the Russian had never beaten her rival from Belarus in four previous encounters in a final. "I am really pleased to win such a tough tournament, against such...
08:15 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Stuttgart: Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova, the top ranked players in the world, will contest the final of the Porsche Grand Prix on Sunday. No. 1 Azarenka of Belarus cruised past Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 6-3 in the first of Saturday's semifinals. Second-ranked Sharapova then outlasted No. 3 Petra Kvitova, the Wimbledon champion, 6-4, 7-6 (3). Azarenka is seeking a tour-high fifth tournament title of the year. She went...
09:04 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Miami: Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek came from behind to claim the mens doubles title at the Sony Ericsson Open here on Saturday night, giving the Indian veteran his 50th doubles crown. The seventh seeds beat second seeds Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor 3-6, 6-1, 10-8 in a match that lasted almost one and a half hours. With the win, Paes became only the 24th player in...
10:32 AM, Apr 01, 2012
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