Category: Sports

Rafael Nadal ramped up his quest for a fourth US Open title on Monday with an impressive win over 2014 champion Marin Cilic to advance to the quarter-finals while Alexander Zverev slumped to a four-set defeat. Second seed Nadal — the winner at Flushing Meadows in 2010, 2013 and 2017 — produced some electrifying moments […]

Australia on Tuesday dropped struggling batsman Usman Khawaja for the fourth Ashes Test against England at Old Trafford, making way for Steve Smith’s return. Selectors named a 12-man squad for the Test beginning on Wednesday, with David Warner and Marcus Harris as openers but leaving out Khawaja, who has averaged just 20.33 in six innings […]

Top-ranked defending champion Novak Djokovic said “life goes on” after a shoulder injury forced him to quit Sunday’s clash with Stan Wawrinka in the last 16 of the US Open. Wawrinka, the 23rd seed and 2016 champion, led Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 2-1 when the Serb quit with a nagging left shoulder problem that had troubled […]

Serena Williams was in pain “acceptable” pain, her coach called it after rolling her right ankle during the second set of a US Open victory. That was the bad news. On a day that defending men’s champion Novak Djokovic pulled out of his match because of a problematic left shoulder, the good news for Williams as she […]

PALLEKELE: Opener Kusal Mendis hit a quickfire 79 to help Sri Lanka post 174 for four in the first Twenty20 International against New Zealand in Pallekele on Sunday. Mendis took charge after the hosts elected to bat first, building crucial partnerships including a 63-run third-wicket stand with Niroshan Dickwella, who made 33. Opener Kusal Perera […]

DERBY: The return of premier batsman Steve Smith in Australia’s easy tour match victory over Derbyshire has made life difficult for selectors ahead of the fourth Ashes Test against England, chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns has said. Smith was ruled out of the third Test due to concussion and Hohns said the form of his […]

KINGSTON: Debutant Rahkeem Cornwall starred in both dismissals as India reached 72 for two at lunch on the opening day of the second and final Test of their series against the West Indies at Sabina Park on Friday. Having wasted no time in putting the tourists in on a green-tinged pitch after winning the toss […]

NEW YORK: Fifteen-year-old American sensation Coco Gauff set up an eye-catching US Open showdown with defending champion Naomi Osaka while Rafael Nadal’s path to the title eased further Thursday as he received a walkover into the third round. Reigning Wimbledon champion Simona Halep, meanwhile, crashed out early in New York for a third year running, […]

PARIS: Celtic cruised into the Europa League group stage on Thursday, the Scottish champions later joined by their fierce rivals Rangers. While Celtic crushed Swedish club AIK 4-1 in their play-off second leg to progress 6-1 on aggregate, Rangers edged Legia Warsaw 1-0 thanks to Alfredo Morelos’ injury-time header after a goalless first leg. Steven […]

MONACO: Last season’s runners-up Arsenal were placed in the same section as Eintracht Frankfurt in the draw for the Europa League group stage in Monaco on Friday, while Manchester United will have a long trip to Kazakhstan as well as flights to Serbia and the Netherlands. Unai Emery’s Arsenal side lost to Chelsea in the […]