It's a day all sports fans dream about. It's a blockbuster Sunday packed with two mouth watering clashes. World number 1 Novak Djokovic will try and clinch a record 7th Australian Open title but standing in his way is his greatest rival Rafael Nadal. Get ready to switch between channels, as London Olympics Bronze medallist Saina Nehwal goes against Spain's Carolina Marin in the final showdown of the Indonesia Masters. So, fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride.

5-time World Champion Viswanathan&nbsp;Anand is finally coming home after spending close to 3 months stuck in Germany. The former World number 1 was in Germany to play in a league but got stuck due to the lockdown. His attempts to return home were further delayed when the government of India imposed a travel ban. According to a report in the Time of India, the 50-year-old will travel from Frankfurt to Bengaluru&nbsp;soon and will undergo a 14 day quarantine period once he lands. Soon after that, he will be allowed to travel to Chennai and reunite&nbsp;with his family.&nbsp;

While sports is slowly adapting to the new normal,&nbsp;NBA&nbsp;is also looking forward to resuming play starting July 31st amid the virus scare. According to reports in the American media,&nbsp;NBA&nbsp;Commissioner Adam Silver said that he had informed the league's Board of Governors that he hopes to restart the season on the said date. The reports&nbsp;further mention that the NBA&nbsp;discussed competition scenarios and is still unclear about where the games would be played or whether they will be held in empty stadiums or not. NBA&nbsp;was called off in mid-March after its some players tested positive.

While the pandemic havoc has not eased out yet, Cricket West Indies on Friday approved the Test series against England. The 3 match Test series&nbsp;was originally scheduled to take place in June but is now shifted to July due to the virus scare. While all the matches will go ahead in empty&nbsp;stadiums, West Indies has also given its consent&nbsp;to playing cricket in a bio-secure environment to ensure the safety of the teams. The board&nbsp;also&nbsp;affirmed medical security and further mentioned that it would seek permission from the government to facilitate the hassle-free movement of the players and staff.&nbsp;

Mexican top tier football league will kick start a new season from 17th July.&nbsp;Liga MX's&nbsp;last season was cancelled due to the pandemic which has seen close to 90,000 infections and almost 10,000 deaths in Mexico. For the first time in Liga&nbsp;MX's&nbsp;history, no winner was announced as the league was cancelled by the federation.&nbsp;FC Juarez, a local club has confirmed that they will resume training from 8th June to prepare for the new season.&nbsp;

On Friday, the 20-time Grand Slam Champion Roger Federer&nbsp;replaced Juventus' star Cristiano&nbsp;Ronaldo&nbsp;and became the highest-paid athlete according to the Forbes'&nbsp;list. While the 38-year-old Swiss Maestro became the first from his sports to top the list, he has earned an estimated $106.3 million in the past 12 months. The Portuguese&nbsp;footballer had to take a major pay cut as a result of the economic crisis due to the pandemic. As the&nbsp;35-year-old stands on the&nbsp;second position, his pay cut has turned out to be a major reason for his fall out from being the number 1. Indian cricket captain Virat&nbsp;Kohli is the only cricketer on the list and features on the 66th spot

English Premier League giants Manchester United resumed full contact training as the league prepares to restart from 17th June. The club confirmed that the players who were part of individual training resumed contact practice in a bid to regain match fitness ahead of the restart. Premier League was suspended in March due to Covid-19 as players were forced to spend almost 2 months in lockdown&nbsp;without practice.&nbsp;

English football club Blackburn Rovers captain Elliott Bennett and 2 Fulham&nbsp;players have tested positive for Covid-19, the clubs confirmed on Thursday. 3 positive results came out from&nbsp;a total of 1030 tests that were carried out between Monday and Wednesday. Bennett who was asymptomatic to the novel virus will be isolated for 7 days and will return on June 5 for training if he does not show any symptoms. Fulham&nbsp;did not reveal the names of its players due to medical confidentiality but the club informed that their 2 players are undergoing&nbsp;self-isolation currently.

On Friday Former Pakistan skipper, Waqar&nbsp;Younis&nbsp;took to his twitter account to announce that he had decided to distance himself from social media. The 48-year-old's video came&nbsp;after his name was trending on Twitter and his fans&nbsp;criticised him for liking an obscene video. In the video,&nbsp;he&nbsp;said that someone had hacked his Twitter account and liked the obscene video and went on to mention that he was deeply saddened by it as it was not the first time.&nbsp;Younis&nbsp;also&nbsp;apologised in his video to his fans and promised that he would not use social media again.&nbsp;

Once the spearhead of Indian pace attack, Bhuvneshwar&nbsp;Kumar has now been out of the Indian Test set up for quite a while now. In an interview to the Times of India, the swing king said that he definitely wants to play Test cricket but he also knows that it won't be easy to make a comeback as everyone is doing very well. Bhuvi&nbsp;added that no matter what, he will&nbsp;try his best and will do everything possible to make a comeback in Tests. the 30-year old feels that red ball cricket is the toughest format and it gives a lot of satisfaction to perform in Tests. Bhuvneshwar&nbsp;who was battling&nbsp;multiple injuries also confirmed that he is fully fit now and is raring to go.&nbsp;

Former Indian cricketer VVS&nbsp;Laxman&nbsp;feels that Indian vice-captain Rohit&nbsp;Sharma's ability to handle pressure makes him the most successful skipper in the Indian Premier League. While revealing the reason behind it,&nbsp;Laxman&nbsp;said that he has evolved and blossomed in tough situations.&nbsp;VVS&nbsp;Laxman&nbsp;also remembered&nbsp;his first IPL&nbsp;game in 2008 with the Deccan&nbsp;Chargers and went on to heap&nbsp;praises on the Mumbai&nbsp;Indians captain. He&nbsp;said that Rohit&nbsp;Sharma became a leader in the Deccan&nbsp;Chargers team and that Rohit&nbsp;was a standout performer. The 33-year-old is the most successful&nbsp;skipper in IPL&nbsp;history with 4 titles to his name.

As Sports Authority of India is looking forward to resuming preparation for 2021 Tokyo&nbsp;Olympics, track athletes&nbsp;and hockey players returned to training at the SAI&nbsp;South Center. While athletes resorted to individual training, the hockey players were allowed to train in batches of 2.&nbsp;Training sessions included light intensity workouts and&nbsp;the training experts said that since there was no massage,&nbsp;physiotherapy and Sauna allowed so the athletes will not be able to do high-intensity training.

The Boston Marathon has now been cancelled for the year 2020 due to the pandemic scare, the organisers confirmed on Thursday. The Marathon was originally scheduled to take place in April but before cancellation it was shifted to take place in September. The event draws more than 30,000 runners each year and it will be&nbsp;for&nbsp;the first time in its 124-year history that it has been cancelled. The 2021 Boston Marathon is scheduled to take place on April 19.

The world's most watch football league, the Premier League will return from the Covid-19 induced break on 17th June. The English league competition will see defending champions&nbsp;Manchester City taking on Arsenal in what promises to be a blockbuster return. The other fixture of the evening will be Aston Villa vs Sheffield United. The other set of fixtures will be released soon as a total of 92 matches are still pending from the current season which was suspended in March due to the pandemic. The matches will be played in empty stadiums and the staff along with players will be tested frequently.&nbsp;

Major League Soccer announced on Thursday that clubs can begin to use outdoor team training facilities for small group practice sessions. Until now, players were only allowed to hold individual sessions at club training grounds as part of strict rules to curb the spread of the coronavirus.&nbsp; The MLS season was suspended in mid-March due to the pandemic and it still remains unclear how and when the league will resume. MLS organisers though are reportedly considering playing a tournament hosted in Orlando, Florida in July.

Who said Zoom call could only be used for office meetings?&nbsp;As professional football returned to Denmark behind closed doors, fans used the conferencing software to be a part of the action. Thousands of Danish football fans logged into Zoom on Thursday evening and were transported into the Ceres Park stadium for a league game between AGF Aarhus and Randers that marked the resumption of country's pandemic-affected season. The faces of thousands of supporters who joined the call were shown on giant screens that ran along one side of the field in the empty stadium.&nbsp;Crowd noise was piped in for the match and cardboard spectators were also placed&nbsp;in the stands.

As a delighting news for football fans in Italy. Their premier football league Serie A is set to resume on June 20. On Thursday, Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora gave the league a green signal, although it will have to wait a week longer than it had initially hoped.&nbsp;Spadafora held a meeting with Italian soccer authorities by video conference after a medical protocol for matches was approved earlier on Thursday.&nbsp;Serie A has been suspended since March 9, when the government ordered a nationwide lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Current Women's World T20 champions Australia is set to be back in action later this year as after the men's summer schedule, Cricket Australia has announced women's fixtures as well. They will take on New Zealand in a 3-match T20 series by the end of September, followed by those many ODIs.&nbsp;Australia will then host India in a 3-match&nbsp;ODI series in January. What will make the stakes even higher is the fact that this series will happen just days before the 2021 World Cup,&nbsp;scheduled to be held in New Zealand. India, New Zealand&nbsp;and the Aussies have already qualified for the mega event.

The England and Wales Cricket Board has decided to further delay the start of&nbsp;professional domestic cricket season by a month. It means that the cricketing activities which were earlier delayed&nbsp;till July due to the pandemic will now remain suspended till August 1. However, ECB&nbsp;is likely to still host West Indies in July as scheduled. The board in a statement said that&nbsp;safety and well-being of everyone is their key priority. ECB has learnt a lot and continue to learn about the safety protocols that would need to be in place to stage international cricket behind closed doors in this environment. Few of English National team players had resumed&nbsp;training in batches earlier this month.

The International Cricket Council on Thursday decided to defer the decision of hosting the World T20 till 10th June. The council lead by Chairman Shashank&nbsp;Manohar&nbsp;had a teleconference chat and decided to defer some important decisions including the World T20. The ICC also started an investigation lead by the Ethics Committee over information leaking from the meetings and the CEO of the board will present a report on 10th June. In addition to that, the ICC&nbsp;will continue to speak to the local boards along with medical authorities about the restart of cricket in the times of Covid-19. It was widely reported earlier that the World T20 scheduled in&nbsp;October in Australia&nbsp;will be cancelled and the BCCI will host the Indian Premier League in that window.&nbsp;

The Dutch Formula One Grand Prix&nbsp;has been now postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 scare. The event was scheduled for&nbsp;May 3rd. Dutch GP sports director Jan Lammers&nbsp;said that the authorities had investigated the potential to hold a reschedule race this year&nbsp;without spectators but he further said that the option was dismissed. He said that it was a special event for Zandvoort&nbsp;and he would like to celebrate the moment. It was a special race for the country as it would have been the first time F1 would have raced in the Netherlands&nbsp;in 35 years.&nbsp;The organisers have also&nbsp;affirmed that all the tickets will remain valid for next year.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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