dipika Pallikal enters Texas Open final
Houston (USA): India's top woman's squash player Dipika Pallikal marched into the biggest final of her career after getting past higher-ranked Madeline Perry from Ireland in the USD 50,000 Texas Open at the Downtown Club here. The 22-year-old World No.12 battled for 75 minutes, enduring three tie-break games, to beat eighth-ranked Perry 11-7, 11-13, 13-11, 10-12, 11-4 in the Women's Squash Association (WSA) Gold 50 event on Saturday.
liverpool beat City 3-2, on course for EPl title
liverpool: liverpool became the favorite to win the Premier league after beating title rival Manchester City 3-2 on Sunday, with Philippe Coutinho's late goal settling a thrilling and emotionally charged match at Anfield. The Brazilian playmaker pounced on City captain Vincent Kompany's poor clearance to curl home a 78th-minute winner, leaving liverpool seven points clear of third-placed City and needing to win its last four games to guarantee a first championship since 1990. liverpool dominated City early on and went 2-0 ahead, thanks to goals by Raheem Sterling and Martin Skrtel in the opening 26 minutes. City produced a stirring second-half fightback, with David Silva scoring in the 57th before Glen Johnson's own goal five minutes later.
Granada loss dash Barcelona’s title hopes
Madrid: Barcelona's la liga title hopes suffered a huge blow as they lost 1-0 at Granada to slip to a second consecutive defeat. Algerian Yacine Brahimi scored the only goal after 16 minutes as Barca failed to find a way past the inspired Orestis Karnezis in the Granada goal. The Catalans are now third in la liga, a point behind both Real Madrid and Atletico after Real cruised to a 4-0 win over Almeria.
Aditya bows out of World Snooker qualifiers
Sheffield: Aditya Mehta's dream run came to an end at the World Snooker qualifying rounds following a 5-10 defeat against Jamie Jones. Mehta struggled for form as he could not produce even a single break. He was level 3-3 with his opponent but eventually lost 4-108(108) 62-46,38-67, 66-27, 25-108(68) 1-40, 55-73, 38-89,(50) 27-64, 30-80, 75-24, 92-34, 0-82(65), 47-54, 47-59. Jamie, on the contrary started with a 108 break in the 1st frame and followed up with timely breaks of 68, 50 and 65.
Spieth and Watson share Masters lead
Augusta (USA): Jordan Spieth, bidding to become the youngest ever Masters winner at 20, and 2012 champion Bubba Watson will take a share of the lead into the final round at Augusta National. After a gruelling day of jousting atop a packed leaderboard under a hot sun that scorched the already devlish greens, the two Americans emerged tied at five-under par 211 on Saturday.
Santoso shocks lee to win Singapore Open
Singapore: Unseeded Indonesian Simon Santoso pulled off a major shock when he thrashed badminton's world number one lee Chong Wei to win the Singapore Open for the first time on Sunday. TThe former world number three upset the form book in style with an emphatic 21-15, 21-10 victory in just 48 minutes in the final.
AFI decides not to ratify Joseph's 100m effort
Meerut: Athletics Federation of India decided not to ratify Merlin K Joseph's national-record bettering effort in women's 100m dash last year, setting at rest the controversy regarding the matter. Controversy had struck in National Open Athletics Championships in Ranchi in September last as Joseph's new national record timing in women's 100m dash was questioned by Rachita Mistry in whose name the mark had stood since 2000. Joseph ran 11.35 secs in the semifinal heats to shatter Mistry's 13-year-old national record of 11.38 secs created in Trivandrum in 2000. Joseph has a personal best of 11.75 secs before the National Open.