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THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2014 25TIMES SPORT
World number one Serena Williams' par-tying has reportedly caused an icy riftbetween her and her sister Venus Wil-liams, according to rumours from tennisinsiders. The American tennis champshave not been seen together off thecourt in recent weeks, and many wonderif Serena's late nights out and dis-appointing doubles performances haveannoyed the more low-key Venus. An in-sider was heard during the US Openclaiming that Serena and Venus are notin a good place right now, adding thatthe later is angry with the world numberone because of her active social life offthe court, New York Post reported. Someeven noticed that Venus and Serenadidn't arrive together or even speak toeach other at the Taste of Tennis kickoffevent for the US Open a few weeks ago.
Warner, Falzon welcome baby girl into familyOz batsman David Warner and his part-ner Candice Falzon have welcomed babygirl Ivy Mae Warner into their family andtheir friends have congratulated thecouple via Twitter.
Wozniacki ‘reveals’ how Rory dumped her Caroline Wozniacki has revealed whatreally happened during her unexpectedbreakup with golfer fiance Rory McIlroy.During her recent appearance on 'InDepth With Graham Bensinger,' the 25-year-old tennis star said that it was daysafter their wedding invitations had beensent out, when McIlroy, also 25, calledher and dumped her saying that it was“his problem,” News.com.au reported.ANI
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Are Serena, Venus nursing icy rift?
New Delhi: Faced with severecriticism from various quarterson the composition of Indiancontingent for the Asian Games,the government is set to make aU-turn and name managers in23 disciplines out of 28 the coun-try will compete in the multi-sporting event.
Indian Olympic As-sociation secretarygeneral Rajeev Mehtasaid that the sportssecretary has told himthat the ministry willre-consider its deci-sion.
“I had spoken to thesports secretary aboutthe difficulties the In-dian contingent mayface without managers in the 23disciplines and he has given mea positive response,” Mehta saidon Thursday.
“So, I am preparing the listof managers and I think thesports ministry will re-considerits decision (to exclude 23 man-agers). I think all the 23 manag-ers will be cleared,” he added.
While clearing a 679-strongIndian contingent for the Sep-tember 19 to October 4 Games inSouth Korea, the government
had dropped all the managers,except for five, who have beenproposed by Indian Olympic As-sociation. The Sports Ministryhad also barred the IOA andNSFs from sending managers attheir own cost.
The IOA had made a requestto the ministry tore-consider its de-cision to excludethe managers butSports Authorityof India DirectorGeneral JijiThomson had saidthat the govern-ment would notmake any changesin the list.
The managersnamed in the sports ministry'slist, which was cleared on Tues-day after consultation with thePrime Minister's Office includetennis star Sania Mirza's moth-er Naseema Mirza, Rajan F Ira-ni (golf), V K Dhal (shooting),Ramavtar Singh Jakhar (volley-ball) and K D Singh (yatching).
Mehta also said that hewould request the governmentto extend the time period of visitof delegates to Asian Gamesfrom five to 10 days. PTI
Managers may goto Incheon after allIncheon: A first batch of
North Korean athletes ar-rived in South Korea onThursday for this month'sAsian Games after taking arare flight across the sensi-tive maritime border. Secu-rity was tight as an Air Ko-ryo plane with 94 athletesand officials from Pyon-gyang landed in the South'smain international airportin the western port city of In-cheon, close to Seoul.
Some 20 South Koreanswith a placard reading "Wel-come North Korean ath-letes!" waved "one Korea"flags showing the unifiedKorean peninsula in thewaiting hall of the airport.They chanted "We are fromone nation!" as the North Ko-reans, wearing white jacketsand badges bearing the im-age of late leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, walk-ed into buses outside the air-port. The North Koreans,escorted by South Koreanpolice, left for the Asiad ath-letes' village, without com-menting.
OCA may prepone nextAsiad for IndonesiaNicosia: The next Asian
Games may be brought for-ward a year to avoid a clashwith presidential electionsin Indonesia, a senior offi-cial said on Thursday.
Indonesia, who are likelyto be announced as the nexthosts on September 20, haveasked to move the tourna-ment from 2019 to 2018, hesaid. The Olympic Councilof Asia (OCA), the powerfulbody behind the AsianGames, originally slated theevent to be held in 2019 tomake it one year before the2020 Tokyo Olympics. AFP
North Korean athletesarrive for Asian Games
London: Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridgewill miss up to six matches after injuring him-
self while on international dutywith England, manager BrendanRodgers revealed on Thursday.Sturridge, 25, strained his thighin a training session last Friday,forcing him to miss England's 2-0win over Switzerland in their
opening Euro 2016 qualifier on Monday.Rodgers told a press conference on Thursday
that Sturridge would be out for"up to three weeks". He thereforestands to miss three PremierLeague games, including the derby against Ev-erton on September 27, a League Cup tie againstMiddlesbrough, and Liverpool's first two Cham-pions League group games.
Sturridge sustained the injury 36 hours afterplaying for 89 minutes in England's 1-0 friendlywin over Norway and Rodgers believes the play-er should have been given more time to recover."We're obviously disappointed because we feel itwas an injury which could have been prevent-ed," the Liverpool manager said on Thursday.
Tottenham deny ‘£1 bn sale’ reportsLondon: Tottenham Hotspur released a state-ment on Thursday denying reports in the Brit-ish media that the club are in talks over a £1 bil-lion ($1.6 billion, 1.3 billion euros) sale.“Contrary to recent press speculation, neitherthe club, nor its majority shareholder, are in anytakeover discussions and the focus of the club is
fully on delivering the new stadium project,” theclub said.
Ribery rules out France returnBerlin: Bayern Munich playmaker Franck Rib-ery on Thursday reiterated his decision not toplay again for France despite threats issued byUEFA chief Michel Platini. “We have come to anagreement with (coach) Didier Deschamps. Inthe future I want to focus entirely on Bayern. I'mnot going back on that decision,” the 31-year-oldsaid in an interview with a German daily .
Hull for sale over name-change row - ownerLondon: Hull City owner Assem Allam re-
vealed on Thursday that he putthe club up for sale in April afterthe Football Association re-
buffed his bid to change their name.Allam, a 75-year-old Egypt-born British busi-
nessman, wants to rename the club 'Hull Tigers',but the FA Council rejected the proposal earlierthis year on the recommendation of its member-ship committee. “We stated earlier this year thatthe club would be for sale should our attempt toglobally promote Hull Tigers as a brand nameand as a playing name be blocked. “As a conse-quence of the FA decision on April 9, I an-nounced on April 10 -- within 22 hours -- that HullCity is for sale,” Allam said.
Ivory Coast player loses consciousnessAbidjan: Paris St Germain defenderSerge Aurier lost consciousness after aclash of heads in Ivory Coast's humiliatingAfrican Cup of Nations 4-1 defeat in Cam-eroon, but is recovering, the country's fed-eration said on Thursday. AFP
Sturridge out for up to sixmatches, says Rodgers
San Lorenzo to namestadium after Pope: TopArgentine football club SanLorenzo are to name their newstadium after Pope Francis,who is a fervent supporter ofthe club. "San Lorenzo willmake Pope Francis eternal,"the club said on its Twitteraccount. San Lorenzo, whichwon South America'sLibertadores Cup for the firsttime this year, are to build anew stadium in the historicGasometro district of Boedo inthe Buenos Aires suburbs.The club sold its old stadium inBoedo in the 1970s and movedto Flores, but have always saidthey wanted to move back. AFP
Cameroon Lions devourIvorian stars:A new lookCameroon team continued agreat start to 2015 Africa Cup ofNations qualifying by thrashingstar-stacked Ivory Coast 4-1 inYaounde on Wednesday. ClintonN'Jie and Vincent Aboubakarscored twice each for theIndomitable Lions with reigningAfrican Footballer of the YearYaya Toure on target for theElephants. Cameroon, CongoBrazzaville, Burkina Faso, CapeVerde Islands, Senegal andTunisia achieved back-to-backvictories while Egypt are introuble after successivedefeats. AFP
Buenos Aires: Lionel Messi has toldat least one football official in Argen-tina that he's “a little tired of ” thecriticism he's received since theWorld Cup. Julio Ricardo Grondona,the president of the Arsenal club, de-scribed Messi's mood in an interviewon Radio Guemes on Thursday.
Messi did not play in Argentina's4-2 victory over Germany thismonth, repeating the matchup of theWorld Cup final won 1-0 by Germany.
Grondona, a son of the late JulioGrondona, who headed the Argenti-na Football Association for morethan three decades, says “it's trueLeo is a little tired of the critics andthe things they say.”
Contradicting rumors he mightstep away from Argentina, Grondo-na says Messi intends to play impor-tant matches but will limit his inter-national appearances at the requestof Barcelona.
Argentine couple skirts law to name baby MessiBuenos Aires: An Argentine couplehas won an exemption from a strictdictatorship-era law on baby namesto pay homage to the father's footballhero by calling their newborn sonMessi.
Daniel Varela had been on a mis-sion to name his firstborn son for Li-onel Messi after first seeing the Bar-celona striker play for Argentina'snational youth team. AGENCIES
‘Messi a littletired of criticism’
SHORT PASSES
RARE SHOW: North Korean athletes arrive at the Incheon airport on Thursday
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LOVE LOST? Venus (left) and Serena
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