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MELBOURNE: Caroline Wozniacki finally lifted her first Grand Slam title at the 43rd attempt as she beat Simona Halep 7-6 (7/2), 3-6, 6-4 to win the Australian Open on Saturday. The Dane, who will take over as world number one, burst into tears as she secured the title against the battling Romanian top seed on her first match point of ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s fast-rising golfer Ahmed Baig won the Qatar Open amateur Golf championship played in Doha Gulf Club on Saturday. 19-year-old Ahmed, who earlier won Pakistan’s edition of Faldo Challenge this month, emerged as the winner in the three-day championship, he played over 54 holes with a score of under 3. The young golfer from Lahore couldn’t do well on day ...

  LAHORE: Golfer Hamza Amin became Pakistan’s first golfer to have qualified for China Professional Golf Tour on Saturday. Hamza ranked at the 27th position to qualify for the tour, in which more than 100 golfers from across the world are participating. In all, 40 golfers have made to the 2018 golf tour. Amin will be capable of participating in ...

Pakistan’s Street Child football team has swung its preparations in full gear ahead of the Street Child World Cup scheduled in Moscow ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2018. Pakistan qualified for the Street Child Football World Cup 2018 after a sensational run in the qualifiers held in Russia in October last year, where the Green Shirts defeated India, Brazil ...

Defending champion Roger Federer strolled into the Australian Open final in a bitter-sweet win after Chung Hyeon’s retired injured in their semi-final on Friday. The Swiss star was leading 6-1, 5-2 when the South Korean called it quits with foot blisters and will now face Marin Cilic in Sunday’s final. Chung, the first South Korean man or woman to play ...

LAHORE: (Ssportslink Report): Secretary Sports Punjab Muhammad Aamir Jan said that Punjab govt has taken several effective measures to provide modern sports facilities to youth of the province; he was addressing a key meeting regarding under-construction sports projects at DC Office Sargodha on Thursday. Director Project Management Unit Akram Soban, DSO Rauf Bajwa, DSO Tariq Nazir, TSOs and other top ...

South Korean sensation Hyeon Chung is through to his maiden grand slam semi-final after scoring a straight-sets victory over American surprise packet Tennys Sandgren 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 in their unexpected Australian Open quarter-final at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday. Chung, the first Korean tennis player to make it to the final four of a major, will now face either ...

Serena Williams has not played a competitive match since capturing last year´s Australian Open NEW YORK: Serena Williams, who has not played a competitive match since capturing last year´s Australian Open, will return to the court next month at a Fed Cup tie, the US Tennis Association announced Tuesday. Williams was pregnant when she won her 23rd major crown last ...

Nadal retired early in the fifth set of his Australian Open quarterfinal match with Marin Cilic MELBOURNE: World number one Rafael Nadal faces three weeks out after being diagnosed with a torn inner hip muscle during his Australian Open quarter-final defeat, his management said Wednesday. The 16-time Grand Slam champion had a scan in a Melbourne hospital after he retired ...

The final phase of camp training for Pakistan’s national junior hockey team for the forthcoming tour of Argentina would commence on January 27 at the Abdul Sattar Edhi hockey stadium in Karachi. The team recently played the 2 match series against the visiting World XI Side will leave for Argentine on February 5. Junaid Manzoor of Bahawalpur is the captain ...