Without a doubt, Andy Murray will be the No. 1 player in the world for the rest of the year.The Wimbledon champion needed to win the final match of t
Croatian Marin Cilic will be the star attraction of the 22nd edition of the Aircel Chennai Open, India’s premier ATP World Tour event.Cilic confirmed
Andy Murray survived a match point to keep alive his chances of finishing the year as the top-ranked player by defeating Milos Raonic 5—7, 7—6 (5), 7
The 29-year-old celebrated his coronation by claiming a 14th Masters 1000 title on Sunday with a victory over American John Isner.
Djokovic out of Paris, Murray two wins from No.1
AFP Marin Cilic dumped a struggling Novak Djokovic out of the Paris Masters quarter-finals on Friday to pave the way for Andy Murray to become the new world number one.Cilic had lost all 14 previous meetings with Djokovic but cast the Serb's 122-week reign at the top of the rankings into serious doubt with a 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) victory.Murray faces Tomas Berdych for a place in the semi-finals later and is just two wins from supplanting long-time rival Djokovic at the summit.If the Briton defeats Berdych
Wildcards for Karman and three others
Special Correspondent Karman Kaur Thandi has been given a wildcard entry for the $25,000+H ITF women’s tennis tournament to be played at the Deccan Gymkhana,Pune, from November 7 to 12.The newly crowned national champion Riya Bhatia, Olympian Prarthana Thombare and Kyra Shroff have been given the other three wildcards.Only Ankita Raina, ranked 284, figures in the direct acceptance list for the main draw among the Indians. The tournament is expected to feature Irina Khromacheva of Russia, ranked 93 in the world, aparThe French Marxist theorist, Guy Debord, described post-modern life as “the society of the spectacle.” And several thousand miles away, Mario Vargas Llosa agreed with him, calling modern culture as the “civilisation of the spectacle.”Almost 50 years after Debord’s comment, few modern activities fit in perfectly with what the two giants of philosophy and literature dwelled on as much as sport; and neither of them, we can be sure, spent their lives living on huge doses of sporting spectacle on te