* Tennis
Former world number one Maria Sharapova is to make her comeback from injury by playing doubles at the top tier WTA tournament in Indian Wells next week.
The 21-year-old Russian has been sidelined since last August with a serious shoulder injury that has bothered her for the past two years.
* Tennis
Former world number one Maria Sharapova is to make her comeback from injury by playing doubles at the top tier WTA tournament in Indian Wells next week.
The 21-year-old Russian has been sidelined since last August with a serious shoulder injury that has bothered her for the past two years.
* Cricket
An unbeaten 163 by Sachin Tendulkar led India to a comprehensive 58-run win over New Zealand in the third one-day international here Sunday and ensured they cannot lose the series. Tendulkar, utilising his full array of textbook and improvised shots, was the stand-out figure as India scored 392 for four after being sent into bat first.
* Rugby
The sport of rugby sevens was given another massive boost for inclusion in the 2016 Olympics after the highly successful three-day Rugby World Cup Sevens here.
Twenty-four teams competed in the men’s tournament, rank outsiders Wales trumping Argentina in the final to be crowned champions for the first time.
Australia beat arch rivals New Zealand in the inaugural women’s 16-team competition, which was played alongside the men’s action.
* Athletics
Dope-tainted Dwain Chambers set a new European 60m record at the European indoor championships on Saturday when he won his semi-final in a time of 6.42sec.
Chambers, who missed the Olympic Games despite having served out a two-year drugs ban, improved the previous European best of 6.45sec set by France’s Ronald Pognon in Karlsruhe in 2005.
* Golf
British Open champion Shin Ji-Yai stormed to a two shot victory at the HSBC Women’s Champions yesterday after Australia’s Katherine Hull choked on the back nine.Joint third round leader Hull had a three shot lead at the turn but a bogey on the 10th, a double bogey on the 13th and another dropped shot on 14 blew any hope she had of claimihng the biggest victory of her career.
* Marathon
Japan’s Yoshiko Fujinaga won her debut marathon yesterday, completing the Nagoya international women’s race in two hours, 28 minutes and 13 seconds.
Fujinaga, 27, came back from behind three times to win the race, earning a place in the women’s team for the world championships in Berlin later this year.
* Basketball
LeBron James notched his fourth triple-double of the National Basketball Association season to help lift Cleveland to a 99-89 victory over Miami on Saturday.
James finished with 14 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds in a game that featured the top two scorers in the NBA in James and Miami’s Dwyane Wade.
James is averaging 28.3 points per game and Wade leads the league at 29.5.
– Nampa-AFP
