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Australian Open, the first grand slam of the year 2022 is scheduled to take place at Melbourne Park, from 17 th to 30 th January 2022. Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked as world No. 1. His visa was canceled by the government upon arrival for this month’s Australian Open, after determining that the player’s recent Covid-19 infection did not sufficiently meet the requirements for him to be allowed to enter the country unvaccinated. Djokovic has 20 Grand Slam Men’s singles titles including a record of nine Australian Open titles. When he is gearing up to win the 10 th one, the Australian govt reacted sharply at Djokovic. Serbian star player arrived in Melbourne last week to compete in the Australian Open. Djokovic, who landed at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne, was greeted at the airport by a champion but was stopped at the airport for not taking the vaccine. Also, his visa was revoked, and moved to the Immigration Detention Facility. T...

The tennis star Peng Shuai is the symbol of Beijing who reached to International Lawn Tennis. She was ranked world No. 1 doubles player by the WTA, becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ranking. Peng gave her first interview to Singapore media since she vanished one in which she denied ever accusing anyone of sexual assault. She gave a public appearance after 41 days. Peng said that she had never accused anyone of sexually assaulting her and her social media post was misunderstood by people. Hashtags like #WhereisPengShual, #BoycottBeijing2022, and #metoo have seen widely circulated in social media since her disappearance.  Chinese Foreign Ministry confirms, Peng Shuai is safe and living her best life in Beijing. Peng Shuai says that there is no state surveillance on her. China is trying to avoid probe after Peng’s denial. In November, Peng accused in social media post that a former Chinese Premier Zhang Gaoli, had sexually assaulted her. As vice-premier, Zhang, ...

This is the latest hashtag trending in social media for two days. Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai is missing. Peng is a former doubles player who won the titles at the Wimbledon and the French Open. Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai hasn't been seen for 16 days and counting after she accused a CCP leader of sexual assault. Reportedly, her last public presence was on November 02 nd . She made an allegation that she was sexually assaulted by top ranked Chinese politician Zhang Gaoli who was also Vice-Premier of China. Peng was claimed on Weibo post in social media on November 02 nd  that Zhang was coerced her for sex and also added that she was unable to prove the allegations. Within a few minutes after her post in social media, Peng’s online profile more or less disappeared. Chinese internet providers removed her name. When we search her name on the internet, it is showing “No Results Found”. Amidst all odds, Chinese media CGTN posted a letter that was written by Peng to Women’s Tenni...

Newly appointed Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ramiz Raja made an interesting statement when he tried to brief the media after the selection of Pakistan team for the T20 World Cup. His statement came to know the reality of the gentleman game in Pakistan. He said that 50% of PCB is run on ICC funding. 90% of ICC is run on BCCI funding. So the BCCI is running the PCB. In this way, PCB Chairman say thanks to India. Pakistan has talent but it doesn't have money to play cricket. Pakistan's economy is sinking and it relay mostly on loans from others. Pakistan is very much active for the T20 World Cup. But all the cricketing infrastructure, training camps, support staff and their salaries paid with Indian money not with Pakistan rupee. Rameez Raja said that ICC distributes funds to all it's member nations for the development of cricket. 90% of ICC get money from BCCI that means Indian business houses are sustaining Pakistan cricket. Ramiz has bluntly said if the Indian Prim...

Pakistan won the 1992 WC under the leadership of one of the greatest all-rounders in the world Imran Khan. Now, he is leading the country as Prime Minister of Pakistan. Every cricket lover in the country wants to see the glory in the gentleman game after Imran became PM for Pakistan. But his leadership can’t give any assurance to other nations to play the game in Pakistan. New Zealand abandoned the historic Pakistan tour just a few minutes after the first ball was to be bowled in the first ODI in Rawalpindi. Both teams have considered this series as preparation for the ICC T20 World Cup. Kiwis cites ‘Security threat’ to its players in Pakistan. There is a question that arises why NZ came and cancelled the visit. This is a massive blow to Pakistan cricket who wants to revive the game in the country. Prime Minister Imran Khan had spoken to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and informed her about the security arrangements. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) fumes over Black Caps decisio...

Virat Kohli will step down as the T20 Captain after the T20 World cup in October. He mentioned his opinion in social media that gave rude shock to all cricket lovers across the world. Kohli is mentioning the workload is the reason for quitting as T20 captain. 

A player has always worried about his/her career. But Afghan cricketer feels sad and sorry about the developments happening in his country. Rashid Khan made an appeal to world leaders to intervene in Afghan affairs. 

India is known for winning medals in Hockey in every Olympics till 1980 Moscow Olympics. Afterwards, Karanam Malleswari (Weightlifting), Leader Pace (Lawn Tennis), Abhinav Bindra (Shooting), Mary Kom (Boxing) and PV Sindhu (Badminton) excelled in individual sport events in different Olympics. But Indians can’t be seen in the Athletic category. 

Countries in the world are looking towards digital currencies after seeing overwhelming response to them. Countries one after another passed legislation to enable the use of crypto for their payments in their legislative houses. 

Russia has been a tough competitor to the United States of America and China in any Olympics for 6 decades. Before the nation collapsed in 1991, Russia appeared as Soviet Union in any International Sports Event. 

Italy became European football champion after a gap of 53 years by defeating England in a dramatic penalty shootout in the Euro 2020 final. English fans are very much crazy and pinned a lot of hopes on victory against Italy in the final. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns European nations of a third pandemic wave. As per WHO, coronavirus cases have increased in Europe after a 10 weeks decline. The main reason for the increase in cases is the mega soccer event Euro 2020 which is becoming Covid-19 hotspot. 

The Tokyo Summer Olympics were originally to take place from 24 th July to 9 th August 2020, the event was postponed in March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As per new schedule the multi-sport event is scheduled to be held from 23 rd July to 8 th August 2021. 

Because of coronavirus BCCI had conducted IPL 2020 at three venues in Dubai lately end of the year 2020. When fans are unforgettable with the memories of IPL 2020, the news of auction for IPL 2021 has gripped among the fans. 

Australian team is known for “sledging” opponents while playing the cricket. There were number of incidents in history that Australian fielders target English batsmen in noted “Ashes” series and hits out West Indian batsmen with vulgar comments since 70’s in test cricket. 

Cricket is the craziest game in India. Fans are considered cricketers similar like demi gods. They have huge fan following across the world like movie stars. This craze was started since 80’s in Indian cricket.

West Indian players are in huge demand for IPL franchise teams in every season. They also got successes in IPL with their performance than in regular ODIs and Test matches. There were many records noted in the name Chris Gayle during the end of his IPL career in 2019. Andre Russel, Polard, Bravo, Sunil Narine, Pooran and Hetmayer are playing in current season of IPL in different teams. KKR and IPL lovers also looking towards Andre Russel to entertain but he continuously failed to in this season. In 2019 IPL season, West Indian cricketer appeared as run machine to it’s franchise Kolkata Night Riders (KKR). He was the most formidable batsman having strike 204.81 in 2019 for KKR. But in this season he didn’t show his performance on par with last season. Compared to IPL 2019, Russel performance is down in 2020 by several notches. He just managed to score 55 runs in 5 innings he played for KKR in IPL 2020 with a highest score of just 24 runs. His strike rate also plummeted to 137.50. He s...

Suresh Raina had announced retirement from International Cricket for just at 34 years of age. His retirement was followed by MS Dhoni on August 15th. Everyone has expected Dhoni’s retirement but not Suresh Raina’s. 

No surprise when Football Players moved from one club to another. Franchise football clubs took the players based on their performance.