Charles Leclerc made local knowledge pay on Friday when he topped the times for Ferrari in opening practice for his home Monaco Formula One Grand Prix ahead of team-mate seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton. The two Ferraris were half a second faster than third-placed four-time champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull ahead of the Mercedes duo of...
Shreyas Iyer is set to replace Suryakumar Yadav as India’s T20I captain, and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is set for his maiden call-up, as the national selectors look ahead to the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028 and the next T20 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand the same year. The T20I squad will be announced on Saturday for the upcoming tour of...
Aryna Sabalenka’s bid for a first French Open title was left in tatters as she fell apart in a bizarre defeat by Russian 25th seed Diana Shnaider in the quarter-finals on Wednesday. The world number one led by a set and a double-break before exiting the tournament in a blaze of unforced errors, collapsing to...
Marta Kostyuk, the best player on clay this season and a vocal supporter of Ukraine amid the war with Russia, will play her first major semifinal at the French Open against a Russian. Kostyuk won an intense all-Ukraine quarterfinal against Elina Svitolina 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 on Tuesday. That set up Kostyuk against Russian teenager Mirra...
Serena Williams confirmed her return to tennis after an absence of nearly four years on Monday, with the American great set to play women’s doubles at Queen’s club later this month. The 44-year-old, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, has not played since a third-round loss at the 2022 US Open. The former world number...
Royal Challengers Bengaluru became only the third team in history to successfully defend the Indian Premier League title as they beat Gujarat Titans by five wickets in the IPL 2026 final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Only two teams – MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (2010 and 2011) and Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians (2019 and 2020) – had successfully defended the IPL...
Star Indian men’s doubles shuttlers Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty on Sunday, May 31, broke their longstanding title drought to win the Singapore Open title, beating third seeds Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Shohibul Fikri 18-21, 21-17, 21-16 in a thrilling encounter. Satwik-Chirag’s last title came at the Thailand Open in 2024. This was their ninth...
Shubman Gill slammed a blistering 1014 while Sai Sudharsan chipped in with 58 as Gujarat Titans demolished Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets in Qualifier 2 at Mullanpur to punch their ticket to the Indian Premier League (IPL) final where Royal Challengers Bengaluru await them on Sunday in Ahmedabad. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi played an innings quite unlike...
Tennis witnessed one of its biggest upsets in recent years after world No 1 Jannik Sinner suffered a stunning defeat at the hands of world No 56 Juan Manuel Cerundolo in the second round of the French Open. Sinner had narrowly missed out on the title after a thrilling defeat at the hands of arch-rival...
Carlos Alcaraz’s hopes of regaining his Wimbledon title have been dashed with the two-time champion announcing Tuesday he is withdrawing as he recovers from a wrist injury. “My recovery is going well and I’m feeling much better, but unfortunately I’m still not ready to play, I am obliged to withdraw from both Queen’s and Wimbledon,”...