MADRID: Naomi Osaka eased concerns about her form and fitness by coming through a tricky first round against Dominika Cibulkova on Sunday at the Madrid Open. Osaka has struggled since splitting with her coach Sascha Bajin in February while an abdominal injury forced her to withdraw in Stuttgart eight days
LONDON: Britain’s Chris Lawless delivered a first race success for Team Ineos as he sealed overall victory in the Tour de Yorkshire on Sunday. Greg Van Avermaet, last year’s overall winner, took the win on stage four from Halifax to Leeds, but had Lawless, in the race leader’s blue jersey,
ESTORIL (Portugal): Top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas (pic) defeated Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) to win the Estoril tournament Sunday giving Greece a second tennis title of the weekend after Maria Sakkari won in Rabat. Tsitsipas, 20, claimed a third career crown after lifting trophies in Stockholm last October and Marseille
GENEVA (Switzerland): Defending champion Primoz Roglic clinched the Tour of Romandie on Sunday winning his third stage on the six day race by topping the individual time-trial around Geneva. The 29-year-old Roglic is one of the favourites to win the Giro d’Italia, which starts next weekend after winning the Romandie
BERLIN (Germany):Chile’s Cristian Garin completed what he said was a special week by beating Matteo Berrettini 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7/1) in the final of the Munich Open on Sunday to claim the second ATP tour title of his career. “Everything was special for me this week, I will never forget
ESTORIL (Portugal): Top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas (pic) defeated Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) to win the Estoril tournament Sunday giving Greece a second tennis title of the weekend after Maria Sakkari won in Rabat. Tsitsipas, 20, claimed a third career crown after lifting trophies in Stockholm last October and Marseille
MADRID: Roger Federer believes there should be lessons learned from the Justin Gimelstob ordeal and is happy the American chose to step down from his position on the ATP board. Gimelstob plead no contest to a felony assault, reduced to a misdemeanour, after attacking an old friend, venture capitalist Randall
Samsung stood by its new Galaxy S10 5G model after a South Korean smartphone owner posted pictures online of a charred handset claiming it had mysteriously “burnt”. The tech giant, which three years ago was forced into an expensive and embarassing global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 devices over
JAKARTA: Families of victims in the Indonesia Lion Air crash hit out at Boeing yesterday over its admission that engineers had identified a safety system glitch well before the fatal accident, in the latest knock to the plane maker’s reputation. Boeing said Sunday engineers had found the safety alert issue
PARIS (France): A police station in north-eastern Paris had to be evacuated on Sunday after it was invaded by fleas, a police union said. “Police station closed until further notice!” read an notice stuck to the front door of the station, which is located in the 19th district of the
