World number 2 Novak Djokovic is now just a step away from defending his Australian Open crown as he stormed into the final after thrashing Roger Federer in straight sets 7-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday. Interestingly Djoko has now taken his head to head record against the Swiss Maestro to 27 wins in 50 career meetings. 2nd seed Djokovic who has dropped just 1 set in the tournament so far is gunning for his 8th Australian Open title.

World number 2 Novak Djokovic is now just a step away from defending his Australian Open crown as he stormed into the final after thrashing Roger Federer in straight sets 7-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday. Interestingly Djoko has now taken his head to head record against the Swiss Maestro to 27 wins in 50 career meetings. 2nd seed Djokovic who has dropped just 1 set in the tournament so far is gunning for his 8th Australian Open title.

Navi&nbsp;Mumbai was chosen as the host for the final of the FIFA&nbsp;Under 17 Women's World Cup 2020. The first match of the competition will be played on 2nd November and the final will take place on 21st in Navi&nbsp;Mumbai. This is the 2nd FIFA&nbsp;World&nbsp;Cup that India is hosting after having the Men's Under 17 tournament in 2017. Praful&nbsp;Patel, the President of the All India Football Federation has assured that after this event, India will try to host the Under 20 and the FIFA&nbsp;Club World Cup in the future.&nbsp;

Tottenham&nbsp;have confirmed that Son&nbsp;Heung-Min's injury might keep the forward&nbsp;out for the rest of the season. On Sunday&nbsp;during the hard-fought&nbsp;win over Aston&nbsp;Villa, the South Korean&nbsp;footballer fractured his arm and will have to undergo surgery later this week. The 26-year&nbsp;old's absence who was in good form is like body blow&nbsp;for the Spurs&nbsp;after their star striker Harry Kane was ruled out of the season due to a hamstring injury.

The Indian cricket team led by skipper Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;were hosted in Wellington by India's High Commissioner to New Zealand&nbsp;on Wednesday. The entire team along with the support staff including head coach Ravi Shastri were invited for lunch by the high commissioner. After winning the T20 series 5-0, Team India lost the ODI series and will now face New Zealand&nbsp;in a 2-match Test series starting Friday.&nbsp;

An emotional&nbsp;Reinier&nbsp;Jesus broke into tears after the 18-year-old midfielder completed his move to Real Madrid from&nbsp;Flamengo on Tuesday. Real paid 30 million Euros&nbsp;for the&nbsp;Brazilian&nbsp;footballer who will first play for the youth squad.&nbsp;Reinier&nbsp;will play for the Spanish side until 2026 wearing the number 19 shirt.&nbsp;

Former Indian cricketer Yuvraj&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;is all set to star in a web series along with his wife, actor Hazel Keech,&nbsp;brother Zoravar Singh&nbsp;&amp; mother Shabnam&nbsp;Singh. Reports claim Yuvraj's&nbsp;brother&nbsp;Zoravar&nbsp;will be seen playing the lead in the series which will be&nbsp;backed by Assam-based Dream House Productionz.&nbsp;

Indian&nbsp;cricket captain Virat&nbsp;Kohli has signalled that he will play all three formats for no more than 3 years. Kohli&nbsp;in New Zealand while addressing the media confirmed that he is preparing himself for a rigorous three years of playing all three formats and will then reassess his workload on the basis of the transition phase for Team India. The talismanic&nbsp;batsman indicated that post the 2023 World Cup he might reduce his cricket and may retire from a format to elongate his career.&nbsp;
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Indian speedster Ishant&nbsp;Sharma who is making a comeback from an ankle injury was reportedly bowling at full steam in the nets in Basin Reserve ahead of the 1st Test vs New Zealand that starts on Friday. A veteran of 96 Test matches, Ishant&nbsp;was seen in the nets bowling to skipper Virat&nbsp;Kohli and bowled for more than 75 mins&nbsp;at a stretch which is a good sign for Team India. Ishant&nbsp;who has 292 Test wickets picked up an ankle injury recently while playing in domestic cricket but made a remarkable comeback to full fitness for the 2-match Test series vs New Zealand.&nbsp;&nbsp;

As Rio Open appointed the Austrian star, Dominic Thiem,&nbsp;the ambassador for the sustainability of nature on Monday, World no. 4 expressed his idea of how sports wields the potential of conserving nature. The 26-year-old while saying that he uses his fame to spread the right message pointed out that&nbsp;he also tries to use less plastic, eat less meat and animal products which he thinks is important. The player went on to say that it&nbsp;was important to replace the plastic bottles with glass ones and if the complete sports fraternity does that then the amount of bad plastic can be considerably reduced.&nbsp;

Avoiding postponement&nbsp;or cancellation due to coronavirus, the Vietnamese authorities on Tuesday&nbsp;announced that the&nbsp;inaugural Formula 1 Grand Prix&nbsp;race will go ahead as scheduled in Hanoi in April.&nbsp;The authorities said that all measures for ensuring safety will be taken. Despite&nbsp;sharing a porous border with China and having 16 confirmed&nbsp;cases of Coronavirus, the authorities have dismissed any risk of transmission of the virus among the crowd that will attend the event.

Sunil Kumar&nbsp;finally&nbsp;ended India's 27 years long wait by winning gold in the Greco-Roman category at the Asian Wrestling&nbsp;Championship on Tuesday. The promising wrestler defeated&nbsp;Kazakhstan's&nbsp;Azat Salidinov, 5-0 in the 87-kg summit bout. Before Sunil&nbsp;Kumar,&nbsp;Pappu&nbsp;Yadav&nbsp;was the last Indian to win a Greco-Roman title, back in 1993.&nbsp;

Saul Niguez's&nbsp;4th-minute goal followed by a defensive masterclass from Atletico&nbsp;Madrid as they edged out Liverpool 1-0 in the 1st leg of their Round of 16 tie in the Champions League. The stunning&nbsp;defense from the Spanish side meant that Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp's men lost the tie but have the return leg next month at the Anfield&nbsp;to make a comeback. Since winning the title in the last season, this was the first loss in the Champions League for the defending champions.&nbsp;

NASCAR driver Ryan Newman's car turned into wreckage in seconds as he was involved in one of the scariest crashes at Monday's Daytona 500 race.&nbsp;Newman's car was turned hard into the wall, then flipped onto its roof and&nbsp;continued to skid upside down in flames.&nbsp;It took several minutes for his car to be rolled back onto its wheels before Newman&nbsp;was sent to the hospital, where he is in a series condition. Luckily, his injuries aren't life-threatening.
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Former Australian captain Michael Clarke along with his female counterpart&nbsp;Alex Blackwell took the&nbsp;Women's World T20 trophy to new heights, quite literally. The World Cup winning captains&nbsp;presented the&nbsp;trophy atop the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge on Tuesday. Women's T20 World Cup begins on Friday with India taking on hosts Australia.

Rahul Dravid's&nbsp;son Samit&nbsp;seems to be following his father's footsteps as he impressed once again with a 146-ball-double hundred in an under-14 Tournament on Saturday. Interestingly, it was his second double ton inside 2 months, first of which came in December while playing for Vice-President's XI. 14-year-old Samit&nbsp;also picked up 2 wickets with the ball and his all-round show is catching many eyeballs

Kings XI Punjab on Tuesday became only the 2nd IPL&nbsp;franchise to buy a team in the&nbsp;Caribbean Premier League as they&nbsp;acquired the St Lucia Zouks. The side is one of the 6 teams competing in the CPL and is&nbsp;led by former West Indies captain Darren Sammy. Before this,&nbsp;Kolkata Knight Riders&nbsp;had acquired the&nbsp;Trinbago Knight Riders in 2015 which is the most successful CPL franchise till date, having won three titles.&nbsp;The 8th edition of the CPL will be held from August 19 to September 26.

Though IPL&nbsp;franchises&nbsp;had already announced their respective fixtures for the upcoming season of the league, BCCI&nbsp;officially announced the schedule for IPL 2020 on Tuesday.&nbsp;Two of the most successful&nbsp;IPL sides Mumbai&nbsp;Indians and Chennai Super Kings will open the 2020 edition of the tournament.&nbsp;Defending champions&nbsp;Mumbai&nbsp;will host their arch-rivals Chennai in the 13th edition of the glitzy tournament at the Wankhede&nbsp;Stadium on 29th March.&nbsp;For the first time, the season will comprise only 6 afternoon games, with none of them to be played on Saturday. The tournament will span for a duration of 57 days with the final being played&nbsp;on May 24th.

Indian&nbsp;cricket captain&nbsp;Virat Kohli&nbsp;added yet another feather to an already illustrious&nbsp;cap but this time off the field.&nbsp;After being&nbsp;recently named as India's most valuable celebrity,&nbsp;Virat on&nbsp;Tuesday also became the first Indian&nbsp;to&nbsp;achieve&nbsp;the mark of 50 million followers on&nbsp;Instagram. Followed by more than 200m people on Instagram,&nbsp;star footballer Christiano&nbsp;Ronaldo&nbsp;has the maximum number of followers on the social media platform.&nbsp;

Due to the outbreak of coronavirus, a 40 member strong Chinese wrestling team was denied Indian visas to participate in the Asian Championship in New Delhi starting&nbsp;Tuesday. The health and foreign ministry that is imposing severe travel restrictions did not reply to&nbsp;the Wrestling&nbsp;Federation of India over the arrival of the Chinese team. The Chinese&nbsp;wrestling authority said&nbsp;that the contingent was not infected and has complained to the United&nbsp;World&nbsp;Wrestling&nbsp;organisation about India's refusal to grant visas on&nbsp;health grounds.

With their 1-0 win over Norwich City on Saturday in the English Premier League Liverpool became the first team to book a berth in next season of the Champions League, provided&nbsp;Manchester City's suspension from the competition&nbsp;is upheld.&nbsp;The&nbsp;incredible achievement came for the Reds even&nbsp;before the&nbsp;knockout stage of this season is yet to start.&nbsp;Chelsea's loss against Manchester&nbsp;United on Monday further affirmed Liverpool's top-four position. Interestingly Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp's&nbsp;side who are gunning for their 1st Premier League title since 1990&nbsp;is now also just 1 win shy of Manchester City&rsquo;s all-time English top-flight record of 18 consecutive victories.

With the Shooting World Cup round the corner, Pakistan and China have backed out from the competition which is set to start from March 15 in New Delhi. Siting separate&nbsp;reasons both the countries have withdrawn all their shooters for all the three disciplines that are rifle, pistol, and shotgun. Reportedly China which was worried over visa issues from India has backed out amidst rising concerns over coronavirus and Pakistan who were not able to secure visas for their Shooters last year as well stated that they would prepare for the Olympics in March.

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