Tennis
4 Jun 2016
Second seed, Andy Murray, defeated the defending champion, Stanislas Wawrinka, in the semifinal match of the on-going French Open yesterday and will now face Novak Djokovic ...
3 Jun 2016
Novak Djokovic reached his fourth French Open final with a 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 demolition of Austria's Dominic Thiem on Friday to move one match closer to a career Grand Slam.
3 Jun 2016
World number one tennis player, Novak Djokovic, booked his place in the semifinals of the on-going French Open with a straight set victory over Thomas Berdych.
2 Jun 2016
Serena Williams moved to within two matches of winning a record-equalling 22nd Grand Slam title with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-1 win over Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva in the French Open quarter-finals on Thursday.
2 Jun 2016
Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams target French Open semi-final spots on Thursday as history looms for both of the world's top players.
2 Jun 2016
Suddenly there was the spectacle of the first set, as Gasquet held to level at five all. In the crucial 11th game, Murray was down break point but delivered an ace to deuce.
1 Jun 2016
Rafael Nadal's hopes of winning a third Wimbledon title are in doubt after he withdrew from the key warm-up event Queen's on Wednesday due to the wrist injury that brought to a halt his French Open campaign.
1 Jun 2016
Defending champion Serena Williams powered into the French Open quarter-finals on Wednesday, but Timea Bacsinszky dumped out sister Venus as the Swiss continued her love affair with Paris.
1 Jun 2016
World number one Novak Djokovic became the first player to reach the $100 million prize money mark when he made the French Open quarter-finals for the 10th time Wednesday.
1 Jun 2016
They are close in every aspect. A year apart in age, the one-year-older Novak is only two inches taller than the six-footer from Spain. They are about the same weight (Novak is 172lbs, Agut is 168lbs).
31 May 2016
Novak Djokovic will look to conquer both the weather and last-16 opponent Roberto Bautista Agut on Tuesday with more bleak conditions forecast at Roland Garros.
31 May 2016
In the contribution of the French language to the human lexicon, force majeure has remained for centuries. An anonymous sage once said, “of all sad words of prose and rhyme, the saddest are ‘it might have been.’”
Sport
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Spanish police scuffled with Peru national football players in front of their hotel in Madrid and detained a member of the squad, police and Peruvian officials said Tuesday.
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Anthony Joshua is planning a ‘last run’ at the heavyweight title, saying he hopes to become a three-time champion before he turns 35, writes boxingnews24.com.
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The Jos Beach Volleyball Fiesta, whch started on March 24, ended at the weekend with Kada teams dominating the event that featured over 30 teams from across the country.
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The journey looks arduous. Nigeria has not been to the Olympic Games since it won the bronze medal at the 2016 edition of the global fiesta. Now, it faces the prospect of missing the next edition of the competition. That is, if the Olympic Eagles fail to beat Guinea in their Morocco 2023 African U-23 Cup of Nations qualifier today in the North African country.
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Trustee of Community Sports and Educational Development (CSED) Initiative, and Sport for Change activist, Cornelius Ehimiaghe, as well as members of the Naija Netball Stakeholders, have condemned the actions of Dr Esther Oluwatoyin Aluko and Dr Henry Nzekwu, whom they accuse of illegally registering the Nigeria Netball Federation (NNF).