Elena Baltacha took all of three sets to come through her first qualifying match at the BNP Paribas Open in California against an opponent ranked 500 places below her.

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Amir Khan has moved a step closer to a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr after the Briton collected the majority of votes from a fans' poll. Mayweather Jr at the beginning of February invited supporters ...

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The iconic fights' iconic fight. The Rumble in the Jungle. The night Muhammad Ali slew the ogres' ogre when people expected him to be chewed up and spat out. His comeback after three years away had ...

Formula One (the formula in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must comply and was originally and briefly known as Formula A) can trace its roots back to the earliest ...

1901 The first use of the words grand prix to describe a race, the French Grand Prix at Le Mans. 1904 The formation of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association ...

From the first days of motor racing, drivers have lived close to the edge. Thanks to marked improvements in safety standards, the number seriously injured and killed competing in the sport has ...

New South Wales' 16-strong squad assembled in Sydney ahead of their historic seven-match tour of New Zealand. No other reprensentative side had ever before undertaken an overseas tour. Tony Melrose ...

At the World Indoor Championships in athletics, Daniel Caines succeeded another British runner, Jamie Baulch, as 400 metres champion. In a weak field, he finished 0.05 seconds ahead of American Milton ...

One of the great cheats in Olympic history, Boris Onishchenko, won Britain a gold medal. Consider his case for a second. In the modern pentathlon, he was world individual champion in 1971 before being ...