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  1. Both AITA and union of players have harmed Indian tennis

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    / January 13, 2013 /
    High time they changed the rules for Indian tennis. Because there is nothing called love-all among the Indian tennis fraternity and break point dominates the scoreline most of the time. The fracas has resulted in India fielding a weak team for the Davis Cup tie against South Korea next month....

  2. `Third umpire’ rules Azhar not out

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    / November 8, 2012 /
    Mohammed Azharuddin would finally be a relieved man. The Andhra Pradesh High Court has ruled that his life ban from cricket is unsustainable by law. The former India captain who was banned twelve years ago on charges of match fixing, has been fighting a legal battle against BCCI’s decision. Now...

  3. SUN TV buys Hyderabad IPL team

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    / October 25, 2012 /
    Hyderabad stays on in the IPL. After Deccan Chargers franchise was terminated after the Deccan Chronicle group defaulted on payments, the BCCI had invited bids and today Sun TV group won the bid and will pay 85 crore rupees per year. The second best bid was from PVP Ventures at...

  4. Saina makes a mark in Denmark

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    / October 22, 2012 /
    When the history of India vs China badminton will be written, Odense will certainly be more than a mere footnote. For it was in this Danish city that India’s top shuttler Saina Nehwal trounced world number Wang Yihan for the first time in her life. The win coming in the...

  5. Saina no longer has her feet on the ground

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    / September 28, 2012 /
    Saina Nehwal is flying high, albeit not in a negative way. The London Olympics bronze medallist flew a Kiran Mark II trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force at the IAF’s Dundigal academy near Hyderabad. The shuttler was the chief guest at the inter-squandron sports championship’s closing ceremony, where she...

  6. Saina signs a megabuck deal

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    / September 19, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Saina Nehwal has moved into a league where no non-cricketer has gone so far. She has signed a three-year- Rs 40 crore deal with Rhiti Sports, a sports management firm, that also handles cricket captain M S Dhoni. The brand endorsement deal makes Saina the highest paid non-cricketer in India....

  7. After double fault, it is match over

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    / September 16, 2012 /
    Mahesh Bhupathi tweeted : “Watched BARFI, Thumbs up!!!” Within three hours, the sweet feeling had disappeared as he received the news that he and Rohan Bopanna were sent into exile for two years by the All-India Tennis Association (AITA) for all the pre-Olympics tamasha that the duo had indulged in....

  8. Ball tampering of a different kind

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    / September 14, 2012 /
    In January 2011, a scandal surrounding the authenticity of the Moin-ud-Dowla Gold cup organised by the Hyderabad Cricket Association came to light with scientists who studied the Cup stating it had only 37 per cent gold and it was worth only 90000 rupees and not the 2.7 lakh it was...

  9. Breakpoint for Sania-Bhupathi

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    / August 30, 2012 /
    The acrimony over selection of the teams before the London Olympics has ended in breakpoint for tennis players Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi. Sania was virtually forced by the AITA to partner Leander Paes in the mixed doubles at London as a compromise after Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna refused to...

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