FIFPro today revealed the list with 55 female footballers who received most votes for the 2016 World XI. The list includes 6 players from Germany’s Olympic Gold medal team. FIFPro’s will announce...
Australian Olympic swimming great Grant Hackett says he will seek treatment overseas for mental health problems after what he called "the toughest week of my life". The 36-year-old, who went into...
Former world number one Angelique Kerber survived as three of the top five seeds were bundled out of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday. The top seed and winner of two Grand Slams in 2016...
Courage Nanevie has improved on his previous performances to win silver in table tennis at the monthly medal competition played at Maryland, USA, over the weekend. The Ghanaian who was representing...
A 13-year-old Japanese table tennis prodigy has set his sights on the Tokyo Olympics after he narrowly failed to become the youngest champion in World Tour history in New Delhi. The 14th seed...
American Ryan Harrison captured his first ATP title Sunday, winning all 12 break points he faced to defeat Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-1, 6-4 and win the Memphis Open. Harrison, ranked 62nd,...
Japanese top seed Kei Nishikori lost a sixth successive final on Sunday when he was defeated by Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 in the Buenos Aires clay-court title match. The world...
Unseeded Nikoloz Basilashvili continued his hot streak by rolling over Mikhail Kukushkin 7-6 (7/5), 6-1 to reach the final of the ATP Tour's Memphis Open. The 24-year-old Georgian, making his Memphis...
Japanese top seed Kei Nishikori reached his second final of 2017 with a gruelling 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 win over Argentina's Carlos Berlocq at the Buenos Aires clay court tournament. World number five...
Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili upset Croatian top seed Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (7/2), 6-3, to reach the quarter-finals of the ATP Memphis Open. A week shy of his 25th birthday, the world number 67 on...
Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, will take part in the 2020 Games in Tokyo, but as an entrepreneur, selling his own-brand swimwear, and not competing in the pool. The...
Australian swimming star Grant Hackett posted a photograph of his cut and bruised face on social media Thursday as his fall from fame took a new twist into family turmoil. The 36-year-old double...
FIFA Women's Player of the Year Carli Lloyd has joined Manchester City on a short-term contract, the English club announced on Wednesday. The 34-year-old United States captain arrives from the...
Troubled Australian swimming great Grant Hackett was arrested Wednesday, with his father citing "mental health issues", reports said. The dual Olympic 1500m gold medallist was taken into custody at...
Alison Riske downed Alison Petkovic to give the United States a 1-0 lead in their Fed Cup tie with Germany, which got off to an awkward start Saturday thanks to a gaffe involving the German national...
Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt secured a classy win for his All-Stars team with two impressive runs on the final night of the inaugural Nitro Athletics, saying the new format was exactly what...
Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia has set a new indoor record in the women’s 2,000m world record at the Miting International de Catalunya event in the Spanish city of Sabadell on Tuesday. She finished the...
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has no plans to extend his career beyond this year’s world championships in London and has ruled out a return to Australia for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Bolt, who...
England will provide one of five teams competing against Usain Bolt's All-Stars in a new athletics event IAAF president Lord Coe says will "revolutionise" the sport. Jamaica's Bolt, an eight-time...
Serena Williams beat sister Venus in straight sets to win her seventh Australian Open and an Open-era record 23rd Grand Slam singles title. Serena, 35, won 6-4 6-4 to pass Steffi Graf in the all-time...
