The USD 60,000 men's and women's tournament will be held at the Marina Beach club from July 15-20. "It is the first international beach volleyball event in India," FIVB spokesman Angelo Squeo was quoted as saying in a report. However,

The federation's board heard plans Wednesday to double the number of foreign athletes it allows into its training facilities, bringing the total to around 3,600 in 2008. Many of those athletes will be among the 10,500 competing in the Beijing

Justine Henin's decision to retire from professional tennis with immediate effect means that she will be removed from the rankings as of next week. And Sharapova, the current number two who is playing at the Rome International here, will take

China, who are unbeaten at the Uber Cup in 10 years, showed glaring weaknesses against the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, rallying from 2-1 down after Xie Xingfang and Jiang Yanjiao lost their singles rubbers. That near-disaster, which would have been

Gajjar and Raja squandered a one-set advantage to go down 6-3 6-7 (6) 7-10 to the Kuwaiti-Ukrainian pair of Mohammed Ghareeb and Ilia Marchenko in the last four stage of the USD 50,000 event. With this, the Indian challenge in