BRISBANE, Australia — The new doubles team of Novak Djokovic and Nick Kyrgios are out of the Brisbane International in the second round. The pair, granted a wild-card entry by tournament organizers, lost 6-2, 3-6, 10-8 Wednesday to the top-seeded team of Nikola Mektic of Croatia and New Zealander Michael Venus. A Djokovic double-fault with the duo leading 8-6 in …
Star Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen entered the men's singles second round of the Indonesia Open Super 1000 tournament with a straight-game win over Japan's Kanta Tsuneyama on Tuesday. Sen, who sneaked into the Olympic qualification with back-to-back semifinal finishes at the French Open and All England Championships, will next be up against the winner of the match between seventh seed …
Former fast bowler Wasim Akram reckoned that Pakistan shouldn’t tinker with their opening pair of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam in the ongoing edition of the Asia Cup. Since 2019, Babar and Rizwan have opened together 30 times, in which they scored 1568 runs at an average of 54.06 with six century and five half-century partnerships. Akram, Pakistan’s leading wicket-taker …
India confirmed its first-ever Thomas Cup medal after beating five-time champion Malaysia 3-2 in a thrilling quarterfinal in Bangkok on Thursday. H S Prannoy beat Leong Jun Hao 21-13, 21-8 in the third and deciding singles after the quarterfinal was tied at 2-2 at the end of both doubles and two singles matches. World championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen had …
Lakshya Sen on Thursday became the youngest Indian male shuttler to reach the All England Championship quarterfinals, where Olympic silver medallist P. V. Sindhu joined him with an easy win at the Super 1000 tournament here. Lakshya, who had claimed the Asian Junior Championships title, the World Junior championships bronze and Youth Olympics Games silver in 2018, will next face …
