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May 13, 2019

IPL 2019

Mumbai Indians edge Chennai Super Kings by 1 run to win fourth IPL title.
Cap holders: Orange Cap: David Warner (SRH) - 692 runs, Purple Cap: Imran Tahir (CSK) - 26 wickets and MVP: Andre Russell (KKR) - 510 runs and 11 wickets.
More awards: Subhman Gill (KKR): Emerging player of the year, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH): Playing in right spirit award, Hardik Pandya (MI): Fastest fifty of the season, Andre Russell (KKR): Super striker of the season, KL Rahul (KXIP): Stylish player of the season and Rahul Chahar (MI): Gamechanger of the season

Djokovic Claims His 33rd Masters

Novak Djokovic joined Rafael Nadal as a 33-time Masters champion as he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas to claim a third Madrid Open title.
The World No. 1 dominated a clearly exhausted opponent less than 24 hours after the Greek had stunned five-time champion Nadal in a semifinal.

May 12, 2019

Madrid Open

Stefanos Tsitsipas pulled off one of the biggest wins by beating Rafael Nadal on Spanish soil to book his place in the Madrid Open final against World No.1 Novak Djokovic.
Kiki Bertens won the biggest title of her career, beating Simona Halep in the final while also becoming the first woman ever to win the championship without dropping a set.
Tsitsipas, 20, had never won a set in his previous three meetings against claycourt specialist and 11-times French Open champion Nadal.

May 11, 2019

Pari Singh Beats Chen

Girls (semifinals): Pari Singh beat Yuyun Chen (Tpe)
Boys doubles (semifinals): Amir Milushev & Bobur Mirzo Yokubjonov (Uzb) beat Ayushmaan Arjeria and Agriya Yadav
Quarterfinals: Ayushmaan Arjeria and Agriya Yadav beat Woohyuk Chang and Chan Hee Han;
Pre-quarterfinal: Ayushmaan Arjeria and Agriya Yadav beat Hayden Khoo Menon and Yuvan Nandal.

International Shooting Competition of Hannover

Former World champion Tejaswini Sawant won the gold in the women's 50m rifle prone, beating Anna Normann of Sweden, in the International Shooting Competition of Hannover.
Esha Singh topped junior women's air pistol with 568 but eventually finished fifth.
Abhidnya Patil and Mahika Tulsyan also made the final among the Indians, but were fourth and seventh.

May 10, 2019

Federer Notches His 1200th Career Win

Roger Federer saved two match-points to defeat Gael Monfils and reach the Madrid Open quarterfinals but women's world no.1 and top seed Naomi Osaka was dumped out.
Federer, playing only his second match of a 2019 comeback to clay after three years away, took two hours to defeat French showman Monfils and record his 1,200th career win.
Osaka fell for the second time in two months to Swiss compatriot Belinda Bencic.

Milind and Bhagat Named Head Selectors

Milind Rege was named chairman of the Mumbai Cricket Association's senior selection committee and U-23 committee for 2019-2020 season.
He will be working with three other selectors, Guru Gupte, Sanjay Patil and Shridhar Mandale.
The senior women's selection committee will be headed by Vrunda Bhagat (chairperson).
Others named are Arundhati Ghosh, Surekha Bhandare, Sandhya Relekar. The four are also the U-23 selectors.

35th Asian Snooker Championship

Pankaj Advani, Laxman Rawat and Aditya Mehta will represent India in the 35th Asian Snooker Championship to be held in Doha from June 16 to 28.
At the end of the selection camp at the KSBA, India will field two sides: Team A (Advani, Rawat and Aditya) and Team B (Kamal Chawla, Sundeep Gulati and Sourav Kothari).

May 09, 2019

Esha-Akull Pair Wins Silver

India's Esha Singh and Akull Kumar topped qualification but were beaten by 5.4 points for the gold in junior mixed air pistol event by the German pair of Jan Luca Karstedt and Vanessa Seeger in the International Shooting Competition.
It was the second mixed medal for Esha, after the one she won recently with Anmol Jain in Plzen, Czech Republic.

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