 | Indian trio to the fore INDIAN trio of Aditya Mehta,
Pankaj Advani and Kamal
Chawla maintained their winning
run and led their respective
groups at the Asian Snooker
Championship. Qatar´s top player
Ahmed Saif has kept up his good
run, winning all his three matches
in the group.
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| | Murray records
second career
win in Barcelona | ANDY Murray continued to apply
polish to his claycourt tennis as the
second seed reached the third round
of the Barcelona Open with a comfortable
defeat of Sergiy Stakhovsky
6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday.
Murray, playing the tournament for
only the third time, secured his second
career win at the Real Club de
Tenis in 78 minutes.
The world number four now stands
4-0 over Stakhovsky, a Ukrainian
journeyman ranked 68th.
Murray is working to reach the
form which took him to a Roland
Garros semi-final a year ago, with
hopes of doing even better.
He lost a Monte Carlo quarter-final
last week to Tomas Berdych, who had
to withdraw from this... | | | Sehwag fires Delhi to easy win | CAPTAIN Virender Sehwag
produced an unbeaten knock
of 87 as Delhi Daredevils
scored a comfortable eightwicket
victory over Pune
Warriors to remain on top of
the Indian Premier League on
Tuesday.
The hard-hitting opener
stroked three sixes and 10
fours off 48 balls as Delhi
scored 148-2 in only 16 overs
after restricting Pune to 146-
2 at Subrata Roy Sahara
Stadium.
In Kolkata, the match
between Kolkata Knight
Riders and Deccan Chargers
was abandoned without a
ball being bowled due to
heavy rain showers. Both the
teams shared points. The
Chargers may still be winless
after six games, but it is not
pointless anymore. The
Riders is second in the
league... | | | Aspire teams impress against
Tottenham in friendly |
TWO of Aspire Academy´s
football teams, Aspire 98 and
Aspire 95 performed well
against English Premier
League club Tottenham
Hotspurs in an age group
friendly match at the Aspire
zone recently.
Aspire 98 team won its both
games, winning 2-1 in the
opening game and 1-0 in the
second. Both games were
evenly contested and could
have gone either way.
Tottenham had some very
good individual players and
tried to play out from the back
whenever possible. In the first
game Aspire took the lead
against the run of play before
Tottenham equalised towards
the end of the game, before a
late winner gave Aspire the
victory.
The second game was again
very tight but a ... | |
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