ISLAMABAD- Defending champion Murad Ali retained his title in the All Pakistan Invitational Ranking Badminton Tournament after defeating Rizwan Azam in the final Wednesday. Murad won the first game 21-13 and maintained same pace in the second game winning in by 21-11. It was single-sided affair ...

ISLAMABAD - Palwasha Bashir and Sara Mohmand both from NBP won the women's doubles discipline of the ongoing All-Pakistan National Ranking Badminton Tournament by beating Sidra Hameed and Khizra Rasheed both from Wapda 2-0 here at Rodham Hall, Pakistan Sports Complex on Tuesday. The winners played ...

SAN ANTONIO - Saul "Canelo" Alvarez notched a 12-round unanimous decision victory over Austin Trout Saturday to unify the World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association light middleweight titles. Mexico's Alvarez remained unbeaten, improving to 42-0-1 with 30 knockouts as he retained his WBC ...

LAHORE – Iman Qureshi, Ahmad Babar, Hafiz Arbab and Huzaifa Abdul Rehman clinched titles in the first Lahore Hotel Junior’s Tennis Tournament which concluded here at the PLTA Academy Bagh-e-Jinnah on Saturday. In under-18 men’s singles, Ahmad Abrar thrashed Ahmad Chaudhry in ...

RAWALPINDI - It was a day of upsets as first Under-18 top seed M Mudassar was humiliated in the semi-final by relatively new player on the circuit Raja Shahid 6-3, 6-0 and Under-14 top seed Syed Nofil Kaleem Imam also lost the final in straight sets 7-5, 6-4 in the National Juniors Ranking Tennis ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - James Willstrop proved himself the in-form player of the PSA Tour by following his World Series title in Hong Kong just over a week ago by reaching the final of the World Series event here in the Kuwait PSA Cup on Monday. Winning front line titles back-to-back is increasingly ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Serbia's top seed Janko Tipsarevic won the ATP title of the joint WTA/ATP 1.5-million-dollar Kremlin Cup tournament here Sunday, beating second seed and his compatriot Viktor Troicki. Earlier, eighth seed Slovak Dominika Cibulkova battled back from a set down to win her first ever ...

MOBILE (US) (Agencies) - Jose Ramirez scored 21-16 win over 2008 Olympian Raynell Williams in a lightweight bout at the team trials on Friday night. That alone was big, but the win was the icing on the cake for a young man who has won 10 national championships and five consecutive USA boxing ...

ISLAMABAD - Raja Shahid Mehmood and Nofel Kaleem Imam won the Islamabad Tennis Complex League Cup beating their opponents here at Islamabad Tennis Complex on Monday and became champions in mens and Under-14 categories respectively. Raja Shahid defeated Afraz in straight sets against Afraz with 6-2, ...

KARACHI - Houd Azher won under-11 singles final while Maheen Dada clinched ladies single title in the Sindh Ranking Tennis here on Friday. Houd Azher won under-11 singles final defeating Bilal Imran Lohya 8-2 in the best of ones final of the event. He also won under-9 singles defeating M Dada 8-4 ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Malaysias world number one Lee Chong Wei put his Asian Games disappointment behind him to smash his way to the Hong Kong Open Super Series title Sunday, while Saina Nehwal won the womens crown. Top seed Lee, beaten by Chinas Lin Dan in the final last month at the Games in ...

NEW YORK (AFP) Meb Keflezighi became the first US man in more than two decades to win the New York City Marathon on Sunday, while Derartu Tulu ended Paula Radcliffes two-year grip on the womens title. Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic silver medalist, earned his first major marathon with a time of 2hr ...

LAHORE - Waqas Mahboob and Zoya Khalid won the Jashn-e-Azadi National Bank of Pakistan Punjab National Junior Squash Championship here on Thursday. Though both won their matches but interestingly they were stretched to full length by their rivals. They came back into the game after one game each ...

PESHAWAR (APP) - Nasir Iqbal of PAF and Ali Bokhari of Punjab clinched Under-17 and Under-15 titles respectively in the All-Pakistan National Junior Squash Championship played here at Hashim Khan Squash Complex on Sunday. NWFP Minister for Sports Syed Aqil Shah was the chief guest on this occasion. ...

KARACHI - Top seeds Maliha Khursheed and Usman Ahmed won the girls and boy's singles crown respectively of the KTTA Junior Championships which concluded here Monday night at the Sindh Sports Complex Nazimabad. Maliha beat second seed Abeera Ali in the final 11-9,11-6,11-7. Usman Ahmed edged out ...

KARACHI - Habiba Khan of Sindh and Ali Bukhari of Punjab won individual crowns in girls and boys events respectively in the inaugural Hasan Musa Junior (under-15) Squash Championships at Hyderabad Gymkhana courts on Monday, according to information available here. Zahid Ali Bhurgari, Sindh ...