World No. 4 Dominic Thiem&nbsp;came from behind to beat German&nbsp;no. 1 Alexander&nbsp;Zverev&nbsp;in a gruelling battle that lasted for 3 hours and 42 minutes to reach his first-ever Australian Open final. Moreover, the 26-year-old is now the first Austrian to reach the final of the first Grand Slam of the year. After a slow start and two tie-breaks,&nbsp;Thiem took over the 7th seed and beat him 3-6, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6.&nbsp;Thiem&nbsp;will face World No. 2 and defending champion&nbsp;Novak&nbsp;Djokovic&nbsp;in the final showdown on Sunday.

World No. 4 Dominic Thiem came from behind to beat German no. 1 Alexander Zverev in a gruelling battle that lasted for 3 hours and 42 minutes to reach his first-ever Australian Open final. Moreover, the 26-year-old is now the first Austrian to reach the final of the first Grand Slam of the year. After a slow start and two tie-breaks, Thiem took over the 7th seed and beat him 3-6, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6. Thiem will face World No. 2 and defending champion Novak Djokovic in the final showdown on Sunday.

The Tokyo&nbsp;Olympics in 2021 will start on 23rd July and will end on 8th August.&nbsp;The new dates for the Olympics were confirmed on Monday as the athletes across the world can now start preparing for the quadrennial games. The Olympics were originally scheduled for July&nbsp;this year but were forced to be postponed due to the Covid-19&nbsp;pandemic. The cost of hosting the games a year later is expected to be around $6 billion and will take the cost of these games to almost $20 billion.&nbsp;

Barcelona's footballers including&nbsp;Lionel Messi have agreed to take a 70% pay-cut as they are trying to help their club sustain through this period. Due to Covid-19 pandemic, all sporting activities stand cancelled and there is no other way for the clubs to earn money. Messi&nbsp;confirmed that his team is trying to help his club pay the wages of all employees. This statement from Messi&nbsp;came after certain reports indicated that first-team players&nbsp;of the Catalan club were not ready to take pay-cuts.&nbsp;

The delay in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has not only disrupted Japan's meticulous planning but it will further pose financial issues for the country. The resulting postponement due to the Covid-19 pandemic might cost the Japanese up to&nbsp;18 billion dollars which will financially hit the country hard. The complete set up for the summer games cumulatively cost Japan 12 billion dollars that also constitutes of small businesses, hotels and venues. According to reports an additional cost of 6 billion dollars will have to be incurred by Japan in order to reorganise the games in 2021. On&nbsp;Monday, the Olympic organisers announced that the new dates for the delayed Games in 2021 will be revealed this week.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The United Kingdom has announced to convert the former Olympics 2012 venue in London into a makeshift hospital to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The venue in London which hosted boxing, table tennis and other sports will now have 4000 beds and other healthcare facilities. It will be provided to the National Health Service of Britain to take care of the ones who have contracted the disease. The United Kingdom is currently under lockdown and prime minister, Boris Johnson has also tested positive for the virus last week.&nbsp;

Spain's 2004 Olympic gold medalist&nbsp;Iker Martinez decided to help his local hospital by making face masks and has been producing them since Thursday. Martinez, who won gold and silver for Spain in 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games in sailing ordered a sewing machine and on his first day made 25 face masks that were taken for sterilisation and later sent to the hospital for usage. With more than 80,000 registered Covid-19 positive cases, Spain has struggled to handle the situation and the shortage in healthcare requirements has forced the government to start flights for transporting the supplies directly from China.

After Covid-19 partially impaired this year's cricketing calendar, it can likely pose problems for the sporting events scheduled for later this year as well. The Australian government's 6-month complete travel ban to contain the spread of the virus virtually hangs as a black cloud over India's tour Downunder. India&rsquo;s tour of Australia is to begin with a T20 tri-series in October, followed by the T20 World Cup. The tour&nbsp;ends with the Tests in December. But travel restrictions by the Australian government may now jeopardise India's October tour.

Celta Vigo midfielder Pione Sisto allegedly broke Spain's quarantine lockdown rules as the country attempts to deal with the coronavirus outbreak and instead drove 26 hours back home to his native Denmark. According to reports in the Spanish press&nbsp;Sisto&nbsp;broke the club's internal quarantine policy and clocked 1864 miles in order to return to Danish shores.&nbsp;

Indian Men's cricket team captain Virat Kohli along with his wife Anushka Sharma took to social media to announce that the couple was donating an undisclosed amount to the Maharashtra Chief Minister Relief fund to help the state fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Virat wrote, 'our heart was breaking looking at the suffering of so many and we hope that our contribution in some way helps in easing the pain of fellow citizens.' Maharashtra with more than 200 positive cases of Covid-19 is the worst affected state in the whole country.&nbsp;

After many sports personalities donated generously to help the Covid-19 victims, India's women teenage sports stars too joined the fight against&nbsp;the deadly virus. Shooter Esha Singh&nbsp;contributed rs. 30,000 from her savings&nbsp;to the PMCares initiative for which even Sports Minister Kiren&nbsp;Rijiju&nbsp;praised the 15-year-old. by calling her the 'Real Champion'.&nbsp;16-year-old cricketer, Richa Ghosh who represented India in the Women's T20 World Cup also donated 1 lakh to Bengal's Chief Minister's fund.&nbsp;Teen shooting sensation Manu Bhaker&nbsp;too did her bit and donated&nbsp;Rs 1 lakh to the Haryana government to help the state combat the rapidly-spreading COVID-19 pandemic.

The much anticipated 13th edition of the Indian Premier&nbsp;League is most likely to be cancelled due to the widespread coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. A source in the IPL&nbsp;administration told the Times of India that since one can't have social distancing in the stadium,&nbsp;IPL will not happen this year. It will now happen next year. The source added that the mega auction which was scheduled for 2021 will also not happen now.&nbsp;Reportedly, BCCI is waiting for an announcement from the Indian government and sports ministry on visas of foreign players before it makes the news official. The board is likely to officially tell&nbsp;the franchises soon after the 21-day country wide lockdown&nbsp;ends.

Italy's&nbsp;nationwide lockdown&nbsp;may be&nbsp;due to end on Friday but sports minister&nbsp;Vincenzo Spadafora&nbsp;is planning to extend the ban on games and competitions in the country through all of April. According to him the talks about restarting the Serie A on May 3 are unrealistic.&nbsp;Some clubs like Lazio and Napoli had been pushing to restart training as soon as this week but Spadafora&nbsp;feels that big clubs live in a bubble but they need to understand that nothing will be like before after this crisis. At least 15 Serie A players have tested positive for COVID-19 as&nbsp;Italy's overall has nearly 100,000 positive cases.

In their front-line battle against the coronavirus pandemic,&nbsp;Reigning Premier League champions&nbsp;Manchester City&nbsp;have offered the use of their Etihad Stadium to the&nbsp;the British health service. According to UK news agency PA, since English football is not set to resume until April 30 at the earliest, the NHS&nbsp;will use the facility&nbsp;to train doctors and nurses during the Covid-19 crisis.&nbsp;

Tottenham's star striker and captain&nbsp;Harry&nbsp;Kane admitted that&nbsp;he may need to leave the Spurs in order to win club silverware. Speaking in an Instagram live conversation on Sunday, the Englishman said that&nbsp;he love Spurs but if he doesn't feel that the club was progressing as a team or moving in the right direction, he is not someone who would stay just for the sake of it. Kane added that he is an ambitious player. Harry Kane who is nursing a hamstring injury&nbsp;was expected to return next month before the coronavirus pandemic suspended the football season.

As the current season of football is on the knife-edge, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin looking at the possible solutions for the leagues and clubs said that the season could be lost if not restarted by the end of June. While saying that the rest of the season could be played in empty stadiums, Ceferin also said that they were looking to resume the games either from mid-May, in June or at the end of June. Just like all football in England has been suspended until April 30, most sporting events across the globe have taken a hit by either getting postponed or cancelled due to the global outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;

The home of Wales rugby, Principality Stadium in Cardiff, is being turned into a 2,000-bed field hospital to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.&nbsp;The Welsh Rugby Union offered the stadium this week to the government, and a revamp has started.

All Juventus&nbsp;players including their star performer Christiano Ronaldo and coach Maurizio Sarri have agreed to a 4 month pay cut to help the Italian club during the coronavirus crisis. The players will receive slashed salaries for the month of March, April, May, and June. The Serie A club on Saturday announced that the reduction in salaries will help the club save 90 million euros in the 2019-2020 financial year.&nbsp;

The executive chairman of Madison Square Garden Company and owner of the New York Knicks and NHL's New York Rangers, James Dolan, has been tested positive for the coronavirus. The 64-year-old is now in self-isolation and is experiencing little to no symptoms.&nbsp;Dolan is the first U.S. major pro sports owner known to have tested positive for the virus.

After taking pay-cuts to help the club during coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, Spanish football giants Barcelona on Sunday&nbsp;delivered 30,000 masks to the Catalonia government to help fight the deadly virus.&nbsp;The cub announced that the daily use masks will be distributed to nursing homes. Barca also said that the club was&nbsp;working through its foundation to do as much as possible to help with this crisis, both locally and internationally.

Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday donated his one month salary over and above Prime Minister Narendra Modi's directive to all BJP MPs to contribute Rs one crore from MPLAD funds in the country's fight against COVID-19 pandemic. "Let us contribute to make India healthier and more prosperous for our future generations. I've donated my one month salary," Rijiju wrote on his Facebook page.
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BCCI&nbsp;president Saurav&nbsp;Ganguly on Saturday announced that the richest cricket board in the world is donating&nbsp;₹51 crores for the fight against Covid-19 to Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund. The amount will be put together by BCCI&nbsp;and all it's state units and was approved by the board members as well as the state associations. In a statement, BCCI&nbsp;said that it is a public health emergency and the board has a firm resolve that the nation gets all possible help to cope with the testing times.&nbsp;

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