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Pakistan entered the second round of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group II after defeating home side Hong Kong, China 3-1 in a tie that concluded on Sunday.
The win came with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi’s straight-set drubbing of Hiu-Tung Yu and gave Pakistan an unassailable lead in the rubber.
Qureshi beat Yu 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the reverse singles [...]
MADRID: Doubles specialists Michael Llodra and Julien Benneteau combined to fire France into the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup on Saturday with a battling four-set win over Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber and Christopher Kas in Toulon.
The victory gave the nine-times winners an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five tie and set up a last-eight clash against [...]
NEW DELHI: Captain Barry Middleton and Jonty Clarke scored twice each to lead England over Pakistan 5-2 in the field hockey World Cup.
Ashley Jackson also scored for England, which blew a 2-0 halftime lead when Shakeel Abbasi and Rehan Butt scored in a four-minute span to level.
Middleton broke the deadlock in the 52nd minute to [...]
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first Winter Olympian returned home on Wednesday to a warm welcome after participating in the 2010 Vancouver Games. Skier Muhammad
MEMPHIS: Top seed Maria Sharapova dismantled Shenay Perry 6-0 6-2 in the opening round of the Memphis Championships to record her first victory on tour this year.
The former world number one needed just 51 minutes to dispatch her American challenger, breaking Perry’s service six times.
The Russian will play American Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the next round.
Sharapova [...]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday appointed gold-winning Pakistan women athletes Naseem Hamid and Sara Nasir sports ambassadors to honour their extraordinary success.
The 22-year-old Hamid became South Asia’s fastest woman by winning the 100-metre in the South Asian Federation Games (SAF) in Dhaka, while Nasir returned with a gold medal in Karate.
“President Zardari has [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan’s Naimatullah clinched the bantam-weight gold medal by beating his Bhutanese opponent Sigyel on points in the final of the 11th South Asian Games boxing event at Muhammad Ali Boxing Stadium on Monday.
The 20-year-old from Quetta, displayed superb technique and punching power to grab gold. He dominated the bout throughout the three rounds to [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan’s Naseem Akhtar created history on Monday by becoming the fastest woman of the region when she won the 100-metre sprint gold medal at the South Asian Games.
The 22-year-old from Rawalpindi clocked 11.81seconds, 0.12seconds ahead of Sri Lanka’s Pramila Priyadarshani, to bag her first gold medal before a strong crowd at Bangabandhu National Stadium.
Wearing [...]
DHAKA: Indian showed their firepower in the kabbadi final on Thursday when they outplayed Pakistan 29-11 at the 11th South Asian Games at Kabbadi Stadium here.
Playing before a jampacked arena, Indians showed superior technique and powerplay to overcome Pakistan without facing any real challenge.
Like their men, Indian women also won the kabbadi gold when they [...]
DHAKA: Pakistani wrestler Muhammad Ali, who is strong contender for gold medal in South Asian Games, had to spend an agonizing night in detention at Zia International Airport after being for mistaken for a wanted Bangladeshi criminal.
Chief of Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) Lt.Gen. (Retd) Syed Arif Hasan when contacted on Thursday told APP that he [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan chances of winning a volleyball gold in the 11th South Asian Games were shattered on Thursday when they were beaten 1-3 at the hands of arch-rivals India at the Mirpur Shaheed Sohrawardy Indoor Stadium.
Pakistan got off to a brilliant start by winning the opening game but the Indians came bouncing back by snatching [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan’s top squash player Aamir Atlas Khan clinched gold in South Asian Games when he beat his compatriot Farhan Mehboob in three straight games in the final before a jam-packed crowd at Dhaka Club’s centre court.
Twenty-year-old Aamir, who contented with a silver medal in Colombo Games after losing to compatriot Mansoor Zaman in 2006, [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan quartet of Nasrullah, Azhar Khan, Muhammad Shahid Pervez and Naseer Ahmed shared 25 goals between them to lead Pakistan to stunning 33-31 victory over India and a place in the semi final in the handball event of 11th South Asian Games at the newly raised Dhaka Handball Stadium.
Shooter Nasrullah and Azhar emerged as [...]
DHAKA: Defending champion Pakistan strengthened their position to retain the gold medal by beating a strong Bangladesh team 17-11 in the Kabbadi event of the 11th South Asian Games at the Kabbadi Stadium on Tuesday.
Pakistan, which won the Kabbadi gold in Colombo in 2006, put up another fine display and kept their opponents under pressure [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan will take on holders India in the gold medal match of 11th South Asian Games Kaddadi event on Thursday after defeating Nepal 44-16 in the last league match at the Kabbadi Stadium here on Wednesday.
Pakistan, who lost to India in their league encounter 19-15 will be pitted against their arch-rivals for regional supremacy [...]
Dashing the hopes of a British win in over seven decades, Swiss legend Roger Federer beat Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (13-11) to win the 2010 Australian Open Men’s title on Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Sydney Sunday.
This was 28-year-old Federer’s fourth Australian Open crown and 16th Grand Slam title. Federer had defeated Murray in [...]
MELBOURNE: Zimbabwe’s Cara Black and Leander Paes of India won the Australian Open mixed doubles title Sunday, defeating Russian Ekaterina Makarova and Czech Republic’s Jaroslav Levinsky 7-5 6-3.
Laes led the top-seeded pair Sunday with a dominant presence at the net and quick footwork. Paes, from India, and Black, from Zimbabwe, won their second Grand Slam [...]
MELBOURNE: Defending champion and top seed Serena Williams won her fifth Australian Open title when she beat a brave Justine Henin 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 on Saturday.
Williams won a tight first set then had to hold off a charging Henin to deny the Belgian a fairytale ending to her tennis comeback in a thrilling two hours [...]
MELBOURNE: Venus and Serena Williams coasted to their 11th Grand Slam doubles title on Friday when they beat top seeds Cara Black of Zimbabwe and American Liezel Huber to be crowned Australian Open champions.
The American pair won 6-4, 6-3 for their second successive Australian title and their fourth overall in an 86-minute victory over the [...]
KARACHI: Former Pakistan sports captains Thursday demanded a boycott of the hockey World Cup in India next month to protest at Pakistani cricketers being snubbed by the Indian Premier League.
None of Pakistan’s 11 players included in the IPL auction in Mumbai on Tuesday were sold despite their national team being the reigning World Twenty20 champions, [...]
Razzaq & Salman running for captainship in T20 World Cup
Pakistan sees a massive 36.3 per cent rise in inflation
Oil crisis awaits as PSO faces default for providing cheap fuel to US-led NATO froces in Afghanistan
PCB spins again: Yousuf, Younis may be considered for selection
Muhammad Yousuf & Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily fined
Eight powerful cartels refuse to cough up Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties
Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram & Ijaz Ahmed are being utilized after clearance: Ijaz Butt
