The 47th-ranked Konta battled nerves and a wayward serve at times but overpowered the 133rd-ranked Zhang from the baseline to wrap up the match in one hour and 23 minutes on a warm, sunny afternoon at Rod Laver Arena. After trading service breaks at the start of the ....

She blinked at first, when Japanese qualifier Naomi Osaka broke her at love in the first game of their third-round match, but recovered quickly and responded with a 6-1, 6-1 win in 56 minutes. The 14-seeded Azarenka, back in form after two injury-interrupted seasons, ....

Despite nursing a bruised tendon above his right knee and a sore left hamstring, which rendered him doubtful for the fifth and final ODI in Sydney on Saturday, Maxwell took to social media to clear the air about the reports. “Taken out of context... I also comp ....

All-rounder Maxwell had criticised the Indian batsmen of being more concerned about their personal achievements than the team’s interest. “The talk of Indian players being selfish was obviously Glenn’s view; that’s not my personal view,” ....

Chanderpaul, who was dumped before the home series against Australia last June, said that he felt he deserved the opportunity to play one final series despite a poor return in domestic cricket before the squad was selected. The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) thanke ....

Manish Pandey and Jasprit Bumrah have come in place of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ajinkya Rahane in India’s playing XI, while Shaun Marsh and Scott Boland replaced the rested Glenn Maxwell and Kane Richardson in the Australian team at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Aust ....

The top-seeded pair served past Mariana Duque-Marino and Teliana Pereira 6-2, 6-3 in its opening round of the first Grand Slam of the year. The duo hardly broke a sweat in its 70-minute win against the unseeded Colombian-Brazilian pair. Sania and Hingis, who are slat ....

Statistical highlights of the fourth cricket one-dayer between India and Australia. # Steven Smith’s ninth fifty (51 off 29 balls) in ODIs is his first against India. In six successive innings vs India, Smith has posted forty-plus — his sequence of scores are ....

Chelsea has reportedly reached a verbal agreement to sign Corinthians striker Alexandre Pato on a three-year deal. The Brazilian club has accepted a transfer fee of around nine million pounds after talks with Chelsea officials this week, Xinhua cited Brazilian football p ....

As India’s run chase was unravelling on Wednesday night, Virat Kohli sat just beyond the boundary, watching in despair. At one point, as yet another batsman joined the procession back to the dressing room, he buried his face in his hands. If only he’d stayed out ....