latest international sports news 2013
Sport:
Sharapova
keeps title quest on track
Maria Sharapova,
seeking her first title at the Miami WTA hardcourt event, advanced to her fifth
final with a 6-
2, 6-1 victory
over Serbian Jelena Jankovic. The Russian had entered the last four with a
hard-fought 7-5, 7-
5 quarterfinal win
over Italy’s Sara Errani, while former world No. 1 Jankovic defeated Italian
Roberta Vinci 6-
4, 6-7(6), 6-3.
Four-time Grand Slam champion Sharapova lost to Kim Clijsters in the 2005 Miami
final, to
Svetlana
Kuznetsova in 2006, Victoria Azarenka in 2011 and Radwanska last year, all in
straight sets.
ICC
Champions Trophy winners prize money set at $2 mn
The winners of the
ICC Champions Trophy tournament, commencing on June 6, will pocket a prize
money of
USD 2 million
while the runners-up will be richer by USD 1 million. The total prize money of
the 50-over
event is worth USD
4 million and even the losing semi-finalists will get USD 400,000 each. The ICC
will be
paying USD 100,000
to the two third-placed teams in each group. The three venues for the
tournament are
Cardiff, Edgbaston
and the Oval. India will be playing their opening match of the tournament
against South
Africa in Cardiff
on June 6.
Sandhu
wins Steve Waugh Medal
Gurinder Sandhu,
Australia's rising pace bowling star of Indian heritage, won the Steve Waugh
Medal as the
New South Wales
cricketer of the season. The 19-year-old fast bowler won the award after
playing only two
Sheffield Shield
four-day matches and four domestic one-day games. Sandhu won the medal with 146
votes,
three clear of
Brad Haddin.
Anil
Khanna nominated
The president of
the All India Tennis Association (AITA) and Asian Tennis Federation (ATF), Anil
Khanna, has
been nominated for
the election of the ITF Board of Directors for the period 2013-15. A former
member of the
Board of Directors
of the International Tennis Federation (ITF), Anil Khanna finds himself along
with two other
Asians, Nao
Kawatei of Japan and Suwat Liptapanlop of Thailand, in the nominees list of 22.
There will be 13
members elected
for the Board of Directors and 11 of the nominees will be seeking re-election,
in the Annual
General Meeting of
the ITF to be held in Paris on July 12.
Smith
receives ICC mace
South Africa
captain Graeme Smith received the ICC Test championship mace and prize money of
$450,000
for leading the
team to the top spot in ICC Test rankings on the annual cut-off date of April
1. Smith received
the mace from the
ICC’s umpires and referees manager, Vince van der Bijl, in a ceremony at the
Wanderers
in Johannesburg.
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