Invincible so far, India will eye a rare 5-0 whitewash against a bruised and battered New Zealand in the final T20 International here on Sunday. New Zealand have never lost all games in a bilateral T20I series (three or more matches) at home. Since 2005, they have only once lost all games in a bilateral T20I series at home, going down 2-0 to England back in February 2008.
"King" Novak Djokovic has won all seven Australian Open finals he has contested, he is on a 12-match winning streak and will become world number one if successful in the Melbourne Park decider on Sunday.
Tennis chiefs are committed to merging the Davis Cup and ATP Cup into a single men's world team event and concrete plans could be in place by June, International Tennis Federation (ITF) President David Haggerty said.
India A were left with an arduous task of saving the first unofficial Test after New Zealand A notched up a mammoth 562 in their first innings here on Saturday. Responding to India A's first innings total of 216, the hosts declared shortly after losing their seventh wicket on the third and penultimate day at the Hagley Oval.
China's virus outbreak has forced the country's first badminton tournament of the 2020 world tour season to be postponed, organisers said Saturday. The six-day China Masters was due to start on February 25 at Lingshui, in China's southern Hainan island.
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said on Friday that it would be unfair to compare new signing Bruno Fernandes to Cristiano Ronaldo.
FC Goa took everyone by surprise when they served a termination letter to chief coach Sergio Lobera and two of his trusted assistants, despite the team being at the top of the Indian Super League (ISL) table with just three games left to be played.
Hyderabad Hunters hopes of improving their semifinal chances went up in smoke as they lost their PBL match against Bengaluru Raptors at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium here on Friday.
Pakistan will treat the latest episode in their long cricket rivalry with neighbours India as "a normal game", batsman Mohammad Huraira said Friday ahead of their Under-19 World Cup semi-final. Huraira struck 64 off 76 balls on Friday as Pakistan comfortably chased down 190 to beat Afghanistan. Next up is a clash against India on Tuesday with final at stake.
Dominic Thiem unleashed two of his biggest forehands of the night, in the fourth set tie-break, the ball raced through the air at speeds of 164 and 162 kmph. While it silenced the German fans in the storied Rod Laver Arena, it stirred the capacity crowd to a rousing applause.
Sofia Kenin has been dreaming of this moment since the age of five, being in a Grand Slam final. And beyond. She didn't play with dolls, she was hitting tennis balls in her father's driveway, battering the garage door of the family home in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
Tens of thousands of Kobe Bryant fans flooded the grounds around Staples Center on Friday ahead of his former team's first game since his death in a helicopter crash earlier this week that stunned basketball fans in the city and worldwide.
Borussia Dortmund have signed German international midfielder Emre Can from Italian champions Juventus, the Bundesliga club said on Friday.
Barcelona have signed two promising youngsters in Francisco Trincao from Braga and Matheus Fernandes from Palmeiras, the La Liga club announced on Friday.
West Indies cricket legend Brian Lara on Friday joined the star-studded list of players who have confirmed their participation in the charity cricket match organised to raise funds for Australia's bushfire victims.
A nervous New Zealand threw it away yet again as a perseverant India prevailed in the Super Over for the second successive time to take a 4-0 lead in the T20 International series on Friday. Needing just 11 runs off the last two overs with seven wickets in hand, New Zealand dug a hole for themselves yet again, taking the game to a Super Over two nights after doing the same in Hamilton.
Pakistan's in-form opener Abid Ali says Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar inspires him and his style of play is heavily influenced by the record-breaking icon from across the border.
Zimbabwe's cricketers are set to have their salaries cut as their national board continues to face financial troubles. Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani told The Associated Press this week during the second Test against Sri Lanka that "soon it will be necessary to cut back" and reducing players' salaries are part of the process.
Parupalli Kashyap agrees that shutter Saina Nehwal is skating on thin ice as far as her Tokyo Olympics ambition is concerned, but he believes the 2012 London Games bronze medallist still has it in her to make the cut by doing well in the remaining qualifying tournaments.
India will field a full-strength men's team at the Asia Team Championships but the women's side will be led by young shuttlers Ashmita Chaliha and Malvika Bansod after Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu decided to give it a miss.
France's Kristina Mladenovic and Timea Babos of Hungary upset top seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strycova to win their second Australian Open women's doubles title in three years on Friday.
Garbine Muguruza won only one match between June and December last year. Suffering illness, she was then thrashed 0-6 by a qualifier in her first set at the Australian Open.
Sofia Kenin's father on Friday reflected on their journey from the Soviet Union all the way to Saturday's Australian Open final, saying it helped make his daughter the player she is today.
Cricket Australia is considering sanctions and "cultural sensitivity training" for members of its men's U-19 squad over social media comments seen as mocking non-English speakers.
Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur struck an unbeaten 42 following a fine bowling performance to set up India's thrilling five-wicket win over England in the first match of the women's triangular T20 series here on Friday.
Serena Williams dominated talk before the Australian Open but Saturday's women's final is between unseeded Garbine Muguruza and unheralded Sofia Kenin -- a 750-1 longshot of a championship match that nobody predicted.
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Garbine Muguruza's big-match experience should prove the difference in the Australian Open women's final against American surprise package Sofia Kenin, according to seven-time Grand Slam champion Justine Henin.
Roger Federer's fans call him the Greatest Of All Time; but after defeat at the Australian Open, his hold on the men's record for career Grand Slam titles is growing ever weaker.
After she rocked Melbourne with her heavy hitting to pull off an upset win over the top-seeded Ashleigh Barty, the 21-year-old stepped back between doing her on court interview and gesticulated wildly to her box where her father and coach Alexander stood.
The LPGA has cancelled the 2020 Blue Bay LPGA scheduled for March 5-8 on Hainan Island because of concerns over the new coronavirus and travel restrictions implemented to slow its spread.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, on Tuesday, announced that the Board would host an All Stars game - with two teams to be picked from the pool of registered Indian Premier League (IPL) cricketers - to raise money for charity.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic's progress through the draw has been catlike, just as his run though the first men's semifinal of the Australian Open was against a less-than-100-percent Roger Federer.
Organisers of the women's Olympics soccer qualifying tournament that was hastily moved to Sydney following the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus have been forced to shuffle the matches due to quarantine restrictions on China's players.
Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona hammered Leganes 5-0 on Thursday to advance to the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey and deliver a much-needed boost for new coach Quique Setien.
The NBA honored the late Kobe Bryant by announcing major changes to the All-Star Game format on Thursday. The league is turning every quarter of the All-Star Game into an abbreviated contest for charity and the scores will be reset to zero at the start of the second and third quarters.
Unseeded Garbine Muguruza fought back from behind in both sets to defeat racquet-smashing fourth seed Simona Halep on Thursday and set up an Australian Open final with surprise-package Sofia Kenin.
India will take on England in the women's triangular series opener here on Friday, hoping to put the finishing touches to their T20 World Cup preparations.
World number one Ashleigh Barty said her 12-week-old niece helped put her Australian Open semi-final defeat into perspective on Thursday as she delivered her post-match press conference holding the baby girl.
An unassailable lead has opened up the window for experimentation but there will be no let-up in India's intensity when they face a heartbroken New Zealand team in the fourth T2o International here on Friday.
Shafali Verma once disguised herself as her brother to play cricket, and went on to win "man of the match and series". Now the teen sensation wants to help India win the women's Twenty20 World Cup.
Spirit of Cricket was once again at display during the U-19 World Cup match, as New Zealand players took the injured West Indies' batsman off the field.
Custodian of cricket laws, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), has announced a 12-member squad dominated by English County regulars to play three matches in Pakistan next month under the captaincy of its current president Kumar Sangakkara.
Injuries to frontline fast bowlers have forced New Zealand to opt for fresh blood in their pace attack for the three-match ODI series against India starting February 5 in Hamilton.
Shubman Gill's run-a-ball 83 was the only high point for India A as New Zealand A grabbed the opening day honours in their first unofficial Test on Thursday.
Feisty American 14th seed Sofia Kenin stunned world number one and home hope Ashleigh Barty at the Australian Open to reach her first Grand Slam final on Thursday.
Even as the Indian football community continues to yearn for the day when one of its own will be making strides in Europe, Bayern Munich's Sarpreet Singh may have taken a small step towards doing his bit.
The crash that killed nine people including Kobe Bryant has led to calls for crash-warning systems to be installed in more helicopters, but regulators and pilots worry that the instrument can trigger too many alarms and prove distracting.
Roger Federer has played over 1500 matches as a pro, and owns a 1242-270 win-loss record. The 38-year-old has won 103 titles overall, 20 of them coming in majors.