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The International Olympic Committee talked with Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai last week and will meet her in Beijing during next month’s Winter Olympics, it said on Wednesday. Peng’...

Stefanos Tsitsipas will be hoping it is third time lucky in an Australian Open semi-final following his scintillating performance against Jannik Sinner in the last eight on Wednesday. A semi-finalist ...

French Open winner Iga Swiatek rallied from a set and a break down in brutal heat to overpower Estonian Kaia Kanepi 4-6 7-6(2) 6-3 on Wednesday and reach her first ...

World number one Ash Barty is within two victories of winning her home Grand Slam after another dominant display. The 25-year-old reached the semi-finals at Melbourne Park for the second ...

By Lanting Liu Alpine skier Yiannos Kouyoumdjian will be Cyprus’ sole representative at the Winter Olympics next month in Beijing, the Cyprus Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday. The games will ...

At least eight fans died and 38 people were injured in a stampede at the Yaounde Olembe Stadium in Cameroon on Monday before the host nation’s round of 16 game in ...

Watford have sacked boss Claudio Ranieri after just 16 weeks in the hot seat. The well-travelled Italian signed a two-year deal at Vicarage Road in October, replacing Xisco Munoz with the ...

– Fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas survived an attritional fourth-round battle with American Taylor Fritz on Monday, twice coming from a set behind to win 4-6 6-4 4-6 6-3 6-4 and reach ...

Highlights of the eighth day of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Monday, times local (GMT +11): 0004 TSITSIPAS HOLDS ON AGAINST FRITZ Fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas came back from a ...

Liverpool took advantage of Manchester City’s dropped points with a 3-1 victory at Crystal Palace on Sunday, taking a small bite out of City’s commanding lead of the ...

By Ian Ransom Denis Shapovalov upset an out-of-sorts Alexander Zverev 6-3 7-6(5) 6-3 in broiling heat on Sunday to reach his first Australian Open quarter-final and set up a showdown ...

By Courtney Walsh The “Special K’s” circus rolled on in the Australian Open doubles on Sunday, and according to ring-leader Nick Kyrgios and fellow showman Thanasi Kokkinakis, tennis should ...

Ash Barty will play an Australian Open quarter-final for the fourth straight year after defeating emerging talent Amanda Anisimova 6-4 6-3 in Melbourne on Sunday. The world number one was ...

Manchester United‘s Marcus Rashford scored a last-second winner as they beat West Ham United 1-0 at Old Trafford in the Premier League on Saturday to move up to fourth ...

Everton’s first match of the post-Rafa Benitez era began with a 1-0 Premier League defeat by Aston Villa on Saturday amid a tense atmosphere at Goodison Park where the ...

China’s capital Beijing urged all its local districts on Saturday to maintain “full emergency mode” as the city continued to report new local coronavirus cases, less than two weeks ...

Brazilian soccer great Pele was discharged from hospital on Thursday after undergoing two days of treatment for cancer, the Sao Paulo clinic that treated him said. Pele, who had a ...

When Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte was asked what he was hoping for in the January transfer window he said his first priority was maximising the squad he inherited after ...

Highlights of the sixth day of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Saturday, all times local (GMT +11): 1605 SABALENKA SURVIVES VONDROUSOVA TEST World number two Aryna Sabalenka found her range ...

American Amanda Anisimova, ranked 60th in the world, saved two matchpoints and smashed winners at will to beat reigning champion Naomi Osaka 4-6 6-3 7-6 (10-5) in the third round ...

The Ivory Coast dumped defending champions Algeria out of the Africa Cup of Nations, Mali topped Group F and minnows Comoros Islands, Equatorial Guinea and Gambia advanced to the last 16 ...

Jurgen Klopp praised the mentality and quality of “world-class” Diogo Jota after the forward hit a brace to send Liverpool into the Carabao Cup final at the expense of 10-man ...

Highlights on Friday, all times local (GMT +11): 1620 KEYS HOLDS ON TO BEAT WANG Madison Keys came from a set down to claim a 4-6 6-3 7-6(10-2) win over China’...

The pandemic has blocked Novak Djokovic’s march to tennis history, so the 34-year-old may be pinning his hopes on a cure for COVID to get his hands on another ...