Divij-Purav bow out of Challenger event in Mexico

Divij Sharan and Purav Raja made a confident start at the ATP Challenger event in Guadalajara, defeating Marco Chiudinelli and Yuichi Sugita in straight sets. The unseeded Indian pair, runners-up last week at Leon, beat the Swiss-Japanese combo 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the US $100,000 hard court tournament. The Indians pocketed the first set after breaking Sugita's serve in the third game. In the second, they further imposed themselves with back-to-back Breaks in the fifth and seventh ...

Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands made an early exit from the Madrid Open after losing their second round match in straight sets to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova. The fifth seed Indo-American pair lost 5-7, 1-6 ...

Divij Sharan and Purav Raja came from behind to win the first round and then got a walk over to progress to the semifinal of the $125,000 here. The third seeded Indian pair, looking for its second title of the season, carved out a hard fought 4-6 ...

LONDON, April 24: Chelsea are in the last chance saloon as far as a trophy goes and their quest leads to Switzerland on Thursday for a Europa League semi-final first-leg match against FC Basel, where their London rivals Tottenham Hotspur have ...

After a 10-month hiatus, the Rafa & Nole show returned this weekend to rave reviews. An intriguing twist kicked off the season premiere, as Novak Djokovic upended Rafael Nadal in Monte Carlo in what was supposed to be Nadal's triumphant return to ...