Friday, March 29, 2024

Sharapova tops Forbes rich list of female athletes

Tennis stars dominated the list of the world’s 10 best-paid female athletes, Forbes magazine said on Tuesday, but highlighted the yawning earnings gap with their male counterparts in most sports. Russia’s Maria Sharapova headed the list, published on forbes.com, earning a total of $29 million (£18.9 million, 21.9 million euros) between June 2012 and June ... Read more

Bangladesh TT team depart for India today

Bangladesh will participate in the South Asian Junior table tennis championship, which is scheduled to start from July 20 in New Delhi, India. A 12-member national side including nine players will leave Dhaka today. Famous Group of Company will provide

TT World C’ship qualification debacle for Bangladesh

The Bangladesh national table tennis team crashed out from the Table Tennis World Championship qualification round which is being held in France. The Bangladesh team participated in three events and were defeated in all three. In the men’s doubles event, Mahbub Billah and Manash Chowdhury

Two golds each for Army, Ansar in taekwondo

The taekwondo discipline ended on Monday with Bangladesh Ansar and Bangladesh Army winning two gold medals each at the National Sports Council gymnasium. Moslem Mia and Mizanur Rahman of Bangladesh Army grabbed gold medals while Shahnaz Parvin and Sushmita of Bangladesh Ansar clinched

Electricity goes AWOL

Despite a delightful opening ceremony, the second day of the ongoing eighth Bangladesh Games received an unceremonious interruption when the events of taekwondo and table tennis could not be finished in time on Sunday due to load-shedding. Electricity was disrupted several times at the National

Amal, Prithul win first gold in tennis doubles

Amal Roy and Henry Prithul Mandol won the first gold medal in the eighth Bangladesh Games after the duo beat Ranjan Ram and Mizanur Rahman by straight 6-2 and 6-1 sets in the men’s tennis doubles final on Friday, a day before the formal opening of the Games. Top seeded Amal Roy of Engineers Recreation ... Read more

Amal reaches tennis final

Top seed Amal Roy and second seed Alamgir Hossain moved into the singles final of Tennis event of the 8th Bangladesh Games after winning their respective semi-final matches at the National Tennis Complex on Tuesday. The men’s tennis events began early to facilitate

Serena’s dream comes true

Serena Williams annihilated Maria Sharapova to win the women’s tennis singles gold medal here at the All England Club yesterday. When it was over, Williams, who owns 14 major championships as a professional and has earned more prize money than any other female player danced like a 6-year-old in

Feel it the Federer way

Even by his lofty standard it was big. On his way to 17 grand slam wins, Roger Federer has attended many press conferences, handled umpteenth media sessions, but perhaps he has never seen so much enthusiasm about him. Around 500 journalists waited for him for more than 45 minutes, but none

French Open from today

None is an outright favourite The Roland Garros Grand Slam event (colloquially and more commonly known as the French Open) begins today and this one offers all kinds of interesting possibilities for the world’s top three men — Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. Nadal already has a jointly-held record six titles on the ... Read more

Serena lifts Madrid Open

A fired-up Serena Williams sent out a warning to the young pretenders of women’s tennis when she powered to a crushing 6-1 6-3 victory over world number one Victoria Azarenka to win the Madrid Open on Sunday. The 30-year-old former number one, seeded ninth at the premier clay event in the Spanish capital, made the ... Read more

Novak Djokovic wins US Open

Novak Djokovic confirmed his status as the world’s best player with a stunning victory over defending champion Rafael Nadal to lift his first US Open title. The top seed from Serbia gave a display of breathtaking quality to triumph 6-2 6-4 6-7 (3-7) 6-1 in four hours and 10 minutes on Arthur Ashe Stadium

Wimbledon title goes to Kvitova

Petra Kvitova stunned favourite Maria Sharapova to win her first Grand Slam title with a 6-3, 6-4 victory in the women’s singles final at Wimbledon here Saturday. The 21-year-old eighth seed became only the third Czech woman to triumph at Wimbledon after nine-time champion Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotna, who were both in Centre Court’s ... Read more

Double delight for Amol, Sarda

Amol Roy and Sarda Alam lifted the men’s and women’s singles titles of the Sony National Tennis Tournament beating their respective rivals at the National Tennis Complex in Ramna yesterday. Amol defeated Alamgir Hossain 6-1 and 6-2 in the men’s singles final while Sarda crushed Sathi Sarkar 6-2 and 6-0 to clinch the women’s singles ... Read more

Nat’l Tennis

Shathi Sarker overcame Victory Day Tennis title holder Ishita Afroze 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in a three-and-a-half-hour semi-final battle to confirm her place in the final of the Sony National Tennis Championship at the Ramna Tennis Complex on Wednesday. In the men’s singles, Amol Roy beat sensational youngster Delwar Hossain 6-3, 6-2,

National Tennis

Three participants confirmed their place in the quarter-finals of the men’s singles in the Sony National Tennis Championship at the Ramna Tennis Complex on Tuesday. Top seeded Amol Roy defeated Khandakar Mamun 6-3, 6-4, Lakhsman Lal beat Mizanur Rahman 7-6, 6-0 and Delwar Hossaing overcame Henry Prethul 4-6, 7-6, 5-0 to move to the quarter-finals. ... Read more

Sony nat’l tennis

Six players moved confirmed their quarterfinal berths in the men’s singles of the Sony National Tennis Competition at the National Tennis Complex in Ramna yesterday. Among the six pre-quarterfinals, the match between Anwar Hossain and Biplob Ram was the most entertaining lasting four hours where Anwar had the last laugh. Anwar bounced back from

Sony National Tennis kicks off

The Sony National Tennis Tournament, organized by the Bangladesh Tennis Federation and sponsored by Rangs Electronics, started at the National Tennis Complex on Friday. Army Chief General Md Abdul Mubeen, President of Bangladesh Olympic Association inaugurated the tournament as the chief guest. Aktar Hussain, chairman and managing director of

Delwar becomes runner-up

Delwar Hossain became runner-up in the ITF Asian U-14 Tennis Championship at theTeinbow Tennis Centre, Yangon, on Wednesday, which rewarded him with a place in the ITF team. The team, comprised of three boys and three girls, will now participate in another ITF Under-14 Asian Championship, to be held in March this year. Delwar, who ... Read more