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PARIS, Nov 1: World number one Andre Agassi is relishing his return to France as the lucrative Paris Open gets underway today at the Bercy Indoor Arena. .....more SOCCER LONDON, Nov 1: John Toshack’s future as Real Madrid coach was in the balance yesterday after his team’s 3-1 defeat by derby rivals Atletico in the Spanish first division...more GOLF HOUSTON, TEXAS, Nov 1: Tiger Woods won the tour championship yesterday, but his four-shot victory over David Love III was not a time for celebration, only sombre remembrance. ...more India set Kiwis AHMEDABAD,
Nov 1: India
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win after choosing not to enforce the follow-on despite
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PARIS, Nov 1: World number one Andre Agassi is relishing his return to France as the lucrative Paris Open gets underway today at the Bercy Indoor Arena. Back in June, the American returned to the top of the sport by winning the French Open at Roland Garros — becoming the first ever player to win the four Grand Slam Tournaments on three different surfaces, grass, hard-court and clay. The performance was so outstanding that it eclipsed another achievement. The most versatile player of his generation, Agassi, champion in Bercy in 1994, is the only player to have won the two major tournaments held in the French capital. Following a semifinal loss to another former Paris Open winner, Swede Thomas Enqvist, in Stuttgart last week, Agassi said he was looking forward to return to Bercy. "I can’t wait to be back in Paris. I can tell you for sure that it is the city which will forever stay in my mind," he said. "I will have to work hard for the rest of my life to give back to the paris crowd what they gave me during the French Open final," he added. During that tournament, the love affair between losing finalist Andrei Medvedev and German Anke Huber had made all the headlines. Had romantic French fans known that a relationship was developing in their capital between Agassi and the other French Open champion, Steffi Graf, the support for Agassi would have been even stronger. This time, competition rather than romance is what French fans expect as Pete Sampras returns to challenge the man he outshone for years before Agassi took his revenge. Sampras, who has been plagued by back problems for months, returns to competition in Paris, hoping to earn one of the eight places in the ATP Tour world championship finals in Hanover. The former world number one, who can not now finish the year in top spot for a record seventh consecutive time, will above all try to defend the points won last year when he reached the final here, losing to Briton Greg Rusedksi. Should he survive an easy-looking second round start against Spaniard Francisco Clavet or Czech Jiri Novak, Sampras would have a rather tricky path in the tournament, with possible clashes with German Tommy Haas in the third round, Rusedski in the last eight and Agassi in the semifinals. Only two players, Agassi and Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov, have already booked their places in Hanover. Kafelnikov, seeded second, will be among the other favourites to win at Bercy, with Stuttgart finalists Richard Krajicek and Enqvist hoping to confirm their fine form. For the French crowd, an intriguing first round clash between in-form Nicolas Escude and Mark Philippoussis will provide an introduction to next month’s Davis Cup final between France and Australia. (REUTERS) |
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SOCCER LONDON, Nov 1: John Toshack’s future as Real Madrid coach was in the balance yesterday after his team’s 3-1 defeat by derby rivals Atletico in the Spanish first division. In Italy, Lazio’s lead was cut to a point after Juventus beat Piacenza 1-0 thanks to a late penalty while Bayern Munich moved top of the Bundesliga Courtesy of a 5-0 victory over Vfl Wolfsburg. Leeds still lead the English Premier League after a 1-0 win over West Ham and Sunderland moved to third yesterday, beating Tottenham 2-1. Italy Alessandro Del Piero converted a late penalty to give Juventus a 1-0 win over Piacenza on Sunday and cut Lazio’s lead at the top of series to a point. The Turin side have 17 points from eight matches, one behind Lazio, who needed a 90th minute equaliser to save their unbeaten record at Inter Milan on Saturday in a 1-1 draw. But Ac Milan and as Roma both missed the chance to gain ground on the leaders with disappointing draws. England Sunderland beat Tottenham 2-1 at the stadium of light on yesterday to leap to third in the English Premier League with two solid volleys from Irish striker Niall Quinn in the first half enough to wrap up the points. Manchester united continued their return to form following their midweek win at Croatia Zagreb with a 3-0 victory over Aston Villa. David Beckham set up goals for Paul Scholes and Andy Cole. Roy Keane scored the other. Chelsea crashed 3-1 to struggling Derby and Arsenal showed signs of a champions league hangover, drawing 0-0 with Bobby Robson’s newcastle. Leeds stayed top after their 11th win in the last 12 matches. Ian Harte got the goal that sank West Ham. Spain Leaders Barcelona crashed 2-1 at Deportivo Coruna and Real Madrid were toppled 3-1 at home to neighbours atletico. Rayo Vellecano took advantage to go top with a 2-1 win at Valladolid, defender Carlos Llerens snatching the winner with seven minutes to go with a fierce left-foot drive. Dutch striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink of Atletico scored two goals to floor real and put coach John Toshack’s job in serious jeopardy. Barcelona went down to a double strike from another Dutchman, Roy Makaay. Germany Brazilian Elber fired a hat-trick as Bayern Munich thrashed Vfl Wolfsburg 5-0 to go top of the Bundesliga. Elber scored in the 11th, 26th and 78th minutes, with Paraguayan Roque Santa Cruz netting in the 15th and Michael Wiesinger adding a fifth a minute before time. Bayern now head Borussia Dortmund, who drew 1-1 with Hamburg SV, on goal difference while Bayer Leverkusen, who could also have gone top with a victory, conceded a last-minute goal against Tsv 2860 Munich to draw 1-1. France Aj Auxerre reclaimed top spot in the French first division when they extended their perfect home record to seven victories by beating Montpellier 2-1. Strikers Steve Marlet and Stephane Guivarc’h, with his ninth goal of the season, scored in each half before former French International Patrice Loko pulled one back near the end. Auxerre have 26 points and a game in hand over second-placed Olympique Lyon, who are on 24 after being upset 2-0 at Sedan on Friday. Monaco, 3-0 winners at Nantes on Friday, are third on 23. Netherlands Dutch leading scorer Ruud Van Nistelrooy netted twice on yesterday to help Psv back to the top of the first division with a 3-0 victory over Az Alkmaar. The win took them two points clear of Ajax who suffered their first league defeat of the season on Friday at the hands of Roda Jc Kerkrade. Mark Luypers scored in injury time to earn Roda a 2-1 victory, their first over the Amsterdam giants in 21 years. Belgium Lierse joined Anderlecht at the top of the Belgian first division with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Excelsior Mouscron. Third-placed Ghent scored four goals without reply at Lokeren, while champions Genk who are fourth, went one better and thrashed Sint-Truiden 5-0, also away from home. Meanwhile, club bruges put an end to their miserable run of form with a 5-2 defeat of Standard Liege as 30 goals came from the nine league matches this weekend. Scotland Finn Jonatan Johansson and Australian international Mark Viduka hit hat-tricks and former England striker Ian Wright scored on his debut in the Scottish Premier League. Johansson’s three goals fired leaders rangers to a 5-1 demolition of aberdeen that kept the glasgow team one point clear at the top with a game in hand. Viduka scored his hat-trick in five minutes — one of the fastest in the Scottish Premier League — for second-placed celtic, who trounced Kilmarnock 5-1. Yesterday, hibs beat Dundee United 3-2 after Billy Dodds missed a chance to equalise just before the final whistle, missing a penalty. (REUTERS) |
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GOLF HOUSTON, TEXAS, Nov 1: Tiger Woods won the tour championship yesterday, but his four-shot victory over David Love III was not a time for celebration, only sombre remembrance. On a day when most of the players in the 29-man field wore knickers to honour the memory of Payne Stewart, who was killed in a plane crash last week, Woods fired a final-day 69 to finish at 15-under-par 269. It was his seventh victory of the year, the most since Johnny Miller won eight in 1974. Love finished at 67-273. Brent Geiberger was third at 69-274 with Chris Perry fourth at 72-275. "There is a reason he is winning every week," Love said. "He is playing very, very well." With his first place prize of 900,000 dollars, Woods has now won 5.6 million dollars in prize money this year, extending his own PGA tour record. He has won seven times since May and in just 21 starts this year, a success average unprecedented on the tour over the last two decades. "I’ve been on a pretty good run since may," Woods said. "It goes to show you what hard work will do. Who knows how much better I can get?" He took a three-shot lead over Perry into the final round and was rarely in trouble at Champions Golf Club, recording three birdies on holes five, nine and 14 and just one bogey, on the eighth hole. Perry birdied the first hole to cut the deficit to two strokes, but bogeyed the fourth hole and was never in contention again. Love started the day six shots behind Woods and still trailed by six at the turn. He fired a three-under 32 on the back side with birdies on holes 10, 13, and 17, but it was much too little too late. "This is a wonderful course to protect a lead on because if your not sure about your swing, the greens are so large you can just dump it in the middle of the green and two-putt for pars, which is what I did," Woods said. He has now won 14 times in his four-year PGA Tour career and the last 11 times that he has taken a lead into the final round. The clothes worn by many of the players came from Stewart’s apparel sponsor. Australian Stuart Appleby, who lost his wife in an auto accident last summer, went a step further by wearing Stewart’s actual clothes and shoes, given to him by Stewart’s wife, Tracey. Woods and David Duval chose not to wear clothes reminiscent of the late golfer’s colourful style. (REUTERS) |
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India set Kiwis impossible task AHMEDABAD, Nov 1: India set New Zealand a virtually impossible target of 424 to win after choosing not to enforce the follow-on despite taking a huge first innings lead of 275 runs on the penultimate day of the third and final cricket test here today. The tourists were 21 for no loss in the 13 overs they had to negotiate by stumps with Matt Horne (10) and Gary Stead (10) together as Indian hopes of any early breakthrough did not materialise at the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium. India claimed the remaining four New Zealand first innings wickets to bowl them out for 308, 56 minutes after lunch and then rattled up 148 for five wickets in the second innings before declaring midway through the final session. But skipper Sachin Tendulkar chose not to enforce the follow on in order to give his tired bowlers some time to recover after being on the field for more than 10 hours spread over two days, giving some hopes for the Kiwis to salvage a draw with 90 overs yet to come on the final day tomorrow. Leg spin ace Anil Kumble added one more wicket today to the four he had claimed yesterday to complete his 15th haul of five or more wickets in a test innings as the tourists, 211 for six overnight, added 97 runs today. The 29-year-old Kumble, who had 253 wickets before coming into his 56th test here, ended up with five for 82 which placed him only eight scalps adrift of former left-arm spinner Bishan Singh Bedi (266), who is the second highest Indian test wicket-taker. The pace duo of Javagal Srinath (2 for 72) and Venkatesh Prasad (2 for 52) gave Kumble good support on the slow pitch not conducive for fast bowling but young off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was by and large disappointing before claiming last man Paul Wiseman to finish with one for 78. India, then, surprisingly forfeited their chance to ask the visitors to follow on and instead went for quick runs. Left hander Saurav Ganguly, who made a fine 125 in the first innings, top scored with a quickfire 53 (62 b) with two sixes and two fours, in the Indian second essay that lasted for 32 overs. He smote two sixes over mid-wicket and mid-on in one over of left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori. Tendulkar (15), who opened the innings in absence of indisposed Devang Gandhi, S Ramesh (16), Rahul Dravid (12), Ganguly and M S K Prasad (17) were those to be dismissed in the second innings which came to a close 81 minutes after tea. Srinath (19) and Ajay Jadeja (12), who was also running temperature, remained unconquered. In the 13 overs before close the New Zealand opening pair of Matt Horne and Gary Stead saw off both the pace and spin attack employed by India to resume their battle tomorrow. At best, New Zealand can hope for a draw. The best-ever winning total achieved on Indian soil has been 276 for five by the West Indies in 1987-88 at Delhi and the highest-ever fourth innings victory target achieved by New Zealand in their test history has been 324 for five at Christchurch against Pakistan in 1993-94. Earlier, India struck at regular intervals in the Kiwi first innings after it was resumed at 211 for six with Nathan Astle (68) and Chris Cairns (18) at the crease. Nathan Astle, who added only six runs to his overnight score, fell first. He edged Prasad to Ganguly at first slip after going past his skipper Stephen Fleming’s highest score in the series, the 73 he made to save the first test. But Cairns took up the attacking reins and flicked, cut and drove the Indian attack whenever presented with the opportunity to reach his second half century of the series in 135 balls, with the help of six fours and a huge straight six off Harbhajan Singh. The Kiwis also lost Chris Harris, with whom Cairns put on 53 runs for the eighth wicket after he had added 65 for the previous wicket with Astle. The left-hander was caught well by Ramesh in the slip cordon off Srinath nearing lunch. The tourists, 284 for 8 at lunch, lost Cairns soon after the break, in the third over after resumption, when he played on to the stumps trying to cut a Kumble devliery pitched outside the off stump. His batting was a superb display which contained nine fours and a six that came in 236 minutes off 168 balls. The end of the innings was in sight but last man Wiseman resisted stubbornly before it ended when Harbhajan trapped him leg before on the sweep shot. Dion Nash remained unbeaten on 14. (PTI) |
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Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 1: Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports, Batote added another feather in its cap by organising a Girls Adventure course at picturesque Patnitop (2060 M) According to the Principal of the Institute, Wing Commander SS Puri an all Girls Training course is being organised after a gap of several years as due to a decade long militancy the parents were not willing to send their wards to the State. He said this 15 days training course has many firsts to its credit, namely, first time students from the Northern Eastern States have come to participate in the course; first time that the girls from Kargil and remote village of Kashmir took part in the training; it is also for the first time that the training course was combined with an Inter-School Debate on Environment was combined with Training on 28 Oct 99, in which more than 100 students from Assam, Anantnag, Kargil and Batote took part under the aegis of WWF. Wing Commander Puri, who himself is an ace Adventure sportsman and Everester further elaborated that during this 15 days of gruelling training, the 31girls participants and their 5 teachers were given a taste of all phases of Adventure sports. The Day started with bed tea of 0530 am, followed by Health Run and PT/Yoga. After Break fast the children were given Field Training in Rock craft, Trekking, River Crossing, Camp life. After lunch, it was timefor theory classes on First Aid, Flora and Fauna, Weather, Expedition planning, Mountain Manners, care and Maintaince of Mountaineering and Trekking equipment etc. A short Tea-break and snaks and the participants were off to the hills for muscle building and games. Before Dinner, the Children were shown Video Films on various phases of Training and entertainment films on week ends. The Training was also combined with sight seeing and cultural activities, to make the training course more interesting and balanced. The children were taken for sight seeing to ancient temple of Sudh-Mahadev, Mantalai Yoga Aashram, Sanasar and also to a High Altitude Military Base at Nathatop. The participants showed keen interest in working of Defence Personnel at the Nathatop Air Force Base and showed their desire to join the Defence Services. The Trainees were divided into different Ropes (Groups), to inculcate a healthy spirit of Competition. Inter-Rope Competition in Rock climbing, Games, Cooking etc were organised and prizes given to the best performance. During the Inter Rope Cooking Competition, the little children surprised the Instructional Staff with their culinery skill, which would put a cheff of a Five Star Hotel also into shame. Prior to today's Graduation Ceremony, yesterday during the Camp Fun, the children put up a lively cultural programme and displayed their talent in singing, dancing, skit and jokes. The surprise item of the Camp-Fun was a Dress Pageant, in which the girls decked up in different attractive costumes of various States of India, won the heart of the audience, Miss Barnani Das of KV, Narangi (Guwahati) was selected as the Best Dressed-up Trainee. In Today's Graduation Ceremony Mrs Manju Abraham, Principal St Stephen was the chief guest. The function was attended by large number of Defence and Civilian personnel, besides attracting the Sunday tourist crowd, while the first in Course Cup was awarded to Ms Shipli Dey, Ms Barnani Das and Ms Hakeema Bee (Kargil) were adjudged as overall second and third respectively. Ms Saroj was given the consolation prize. A Dol like little girl Ms Mithu Das was declared as the best in Trekking, while Ms Saroj, received the prize for first in the Cross Country Race. Rope 2 was adjudged as the overall Best Rope. The Proud Participants were also awarded certificates and badges by the chief guest Mrs Abraham, Principal St Stephan Batote. In her speech the chief guest lauded the role played by JIM in motivating students to excel in outdoor activities and highlighting the dynamic leadership role played by the present Principal in reviving the Institute, which has beend ormant for last couple of years Wing Commander Puri revealed that the next Adventure course is from December 6 in which 40 boys from West Bengal, Kashmir and other states would take part. |
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Kumble is BPL Player-of-the-week MUMBAI, Nov 1: Anil Kumble’s ten wickets haul for 134 runs which gave India a win over New Zealand in the second test at Kanpur last week has fetched him the BPL Player-of-the-week Award worth 500 dollars. Kumble got preference over Kiwi bowler Daniel Vettori’s six for 128 in the same test and Pakistani Azhar Mehmood’s five for 28 against Sri Lanka in the triangular one-day series at Sharjah. (UNI) |
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