MIAMI GARDENS: Bayern Munich’s England striker Harry Kane said Friday he is relishing the Club World Cup’s “special” atmosphere and is confident the German team can now go all the way. Kane scored the opener for Bayern in a 2-1 win over Argentina’s Boca Juniors at Hard Rock Stadium that took his side through to…
LEEDS: India spearhead Jasprit Bumrah struck an early blow before England’s Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope kept the tourists at bay on Saturday to leave the first Test at Headingley intriguingly poised. At tea on the second day, England were 107-1 in reply to India’s first innings 471, a deficit of 364 runs. Duckett, dropped…
BENGALURU: Marketa Vondrousova powered past world number one Aryna Sabalenka 6-2 6-4 at the Berlin Open on Saturday to book a place in her first final since she won Wimbledon in 2023. Czech Vondrousova controlled the tempo from the outset with big serving on the grass as she wrapped up the win in one hour…
LONDON: Czech world number 30 Jiri Lehecka stunned Britain’s Jack Draper to reach the Queen’s Club final with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 victory on Saturday. Lehecka blasted 36 winners and hit 16 aces to end Draper’s bid for a maiden final appearance at the Wimbledon warm-up event in west London. The 23-year-old will face French…
HALLE WESTFALEN: World number one Jannik Sinner is looking forward to a bit of unexpected down-time after his second round loss at Halle, to better prepare for Wimbledon. The Italian defending champion went down 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 to the 45th-ranked Kazakh Alexander Bublik in Thursday’s second round in the German grasscourt Wimbledon warm-up. “I have…
LEEDS: India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal marked his first Test innings in England with a superb century and captain Shubman Gill hit an unbeaten fifty as the tourists took control of the series opener at Headingley on Friday. India dominated the bulk of the morning’s play after being sent into bat, only to lose two wickets in…
LONDON: Top seed Carlos Alcaraz was pushed all the way by fellow-Spaniard Jaume Munar in a thrilling contest before clinching a 6-4 6-7(7) 7-5 win and advanced to the Queen’s Club Championships quarter-finals on Thursday. Alcaraz recently came out on top in an epic French Open final against Jannik Sinner, and while this second round…
SYDNEY: Australia on Friday dropped Marnus Labuschagne for the opening match of their three-Test tour of the West Indies after a poor run of form while Steve Smith is out injured. Teenager Sam Konstas and Josh Inglis come into the starting XI for the opening match in Barbados starting on Wednesday. Labuschagne opened the batting…
Keith Birmingham | Getty Images LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Thursday they blocked federal immigration agents from entering their stadium as dozens of anti-ICE protesters gathered outside the sports venue. On social media, the MLB team said that federal agents working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived at the stadium and “requested…
LONDON: British number one Jack Draper survived a scare to reach the Queen’s Club quarter-finals with a gritty 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7/5) win over Australia’s Alexei Popyrin on Wednesday. Draper was rocked by the world number 21 in the first set of the second round tie at the Wimbledon warm-up event. But the 23-year-old hit…
