Category: Sports News

The Australian Open is a major tennis tournament held annually in Melbourne, Australia. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis events of the year – the other three being the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Australian open 2013 has kicked off as expected. Many top seeded players have made it to the next round. Andy Murray had an easy straight-set win…

  India’s top badminton players Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap and PV Sindhu have reached the second round of Korean Open Premier Super Series. Olympic bronze—medallist Saina, seeded third, started a little shaky but gave a tough time to her opponent Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand. The top seed shuttler Li is out of the tournament. Saina will most probably…

In 2012, ace cyclist Lance Armstrong, fell from grace after being stripped of his 7 Tour de France titles over using medication for enhancing strength, which is not allowed in the sporting events. He was proved guilty by US anti doping officials on basis of testimonies from former teammates, laboratory results and various other things. Armstrong didn’t fight the…

Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement from one day cricket. In his 23 year old career, the talented cricketer has played 463 ODIs, scored 18,426 runs and made 49 centuries. Each of them is a world record. “I have decided to retire from the One Day format of the game. I feel blessed to have…

Brazil is supposed to host FIFA world cup in 2014. The country has already started preparing for the event. The Castelao Arena in Fortaleza, after some major renovation, was inaugurated by Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff . The stadium is capable of holding 65,000 spectators. The largest South American country, has to prepare 12 stadiums throughout the country for…

Lionel Messi, extended his deal with the Spanish club FC Barcelona. According to the new contract, Messi will play for Barcelona until 2018. Messi, originally from Argentina, has already scored 90 goals in 2012. He was recently in the news for breaking German great Gerd Mueller’s 40-year-old record for scoring most goals in a year. Mueller had…

England on Monday won the Test series against India. Out of four test matches played between India and England, England won two, lost one and the last one was a draw. England won the series by 2-1. It was a momentous day for England as they won a series in India after a gap of…

Lionel Messi scored a goal for the 86th time in year 2012 on Sunday. So what, you might ask? Here is what it is. He broke German great Gerd Mueller’s 40-year-old record for scoring most goals in a year. Mueller had scored a total of  85 goals in the year 1972. Lionel  Messi  is an Argentine footballer…

International Olympic Committee(IOC) suspended Indian Olympic Association(IOA) because it was not happy with the top officers of the association. The suspension means the IOC will no longer fund India and its officials will not be able to attend its meetings. Indian athletes will not be eligible for IOC scholarships and cannot take part in international meets…

  English cricketer Alastair Cook created history by scoring his 23rd Test century, the most by an Englishman. Cook remained unbeaten on a brilliant score of 136. His team made 216 runs for one at close on the second day on Thursday. This is also skipper Cook’s third consecutive century in the series against India. England seems to…

Bangladesh beat West Indies by 160 runs to register their biggest win in One Day International cricket. West Indies is currently touring Bangladesh for a five-match series. With this win, Bangladesh took a lead of 2-0 in the series. Bangladesh’s previous largest win was by 146 runs against Scotland in 2006.

This Sunday, India’s badminton ace Saina Nehwal defeated  Juliane Schenk of Germany in the Denmark Open final. The triumph added another star for the Indian shuttle queen who had successfully defended her Swiss Open title by defeating world number two Wang Shixian of China  in March. In June, Saina lifted the Thailand Open Grand Prix…