
Belinda Bencic maintained her winning run at the start of the season, outlasting Elise Mertens 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(0) in dramatic fashion to put Switzerland up 1-0 against Belgium in the semifinals of the United Cup mixed-gender team tennis competition in Sydney on Saturday. ...

Former Champions Borussia Dortmund secured a dramatic 3-3 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt in a pulsating Bundesliga encounter that marked the league's return from the winter break with a six-goal spectacle, on Friday night. ...

Host Morocco won over Cameroon 2-0, and Senegal defeated Mali 1-0 on Friday to book the first two tickets to the semifinals in the CAF Africa Cup of Nations football tournament. ...

P.V. Sindhu acknowledged that she let the game slip away after missing an opportunity to take the lead against her Chinese opponent, Wang Zhiyi, in the women’s singles semifinal of the Malaysia Open. Her impressive run at the tournament came to an end on Saturday after a straight-games defeat ...

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka snapped her three-match losing run against Karolina Muchova with a confident 6-3, 6-4 victory in the Brisbane International semifinal on Saturday, booking her place in the final and extending her unbeaten start to the 2026 season. ...

Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H.D. Kumaraswamy on Saturday thanked Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Mansukh Mandaviya for sanctioning Rs 14 crore for the construction of a multi-purpose sports facility in Karnataka's Mandya district under the 'Khelo India Scheme'. ...

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) head coach Malolan Rangarajan has revealed that Pooja Vastrakar has sustained a hamstring injury, because of which she was unavailable for selection for the team’s opening game of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2026 against the Mumbai Indians (MI) on Frida...

The Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue was inaugurated on Friday at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, by Union Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports and Labour & Employment, Mansukh Mandaviya, along with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, marking a significant step towards empowering India’s...

Till two years back, there was no opportunity for lakhs of talented youngsters around the country to participate in major beach games. The Khelo India Beach Games, currently being held in Daman and Diu, has come out as a great opportunity for these sportspersons to sho...

Federico Valverde and Rodrygo scored and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made a series of fine saves as Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 to qualify for Sunday's Spanish Super Cup final against FC Barcelona. ...