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SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Swiss great Martina Hingis has announced she will retire from tennis at the end of this week’s WTA Finals, where the 37-year-old multiple grand slam champion is playing in the doubles tournament alongside Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan.

BASEL, Switzerland,(Reuters) – Top seed Roger Federer needed less than an hour to dispatch Benoit Paire 6-1 6-3 and reach the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors tournament on Thursday — treating his home fans to another masterclass.

SINGAPORE,(Reuters) – Venus Williams let her tennis do the talking after she avenged her Wimbledon final defeat by Garbine Muguruza to battle past the Spaniard and into the WTA Finals semi-finals on Thursday.

Team Yvette Bunbury, Bibi Hasan and Vonette Mayers secured contrasting wins, when the ‘We Believe Cup’ Women’s Futsal Championship, commenced on Wednesday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Amid much anticipation, the playoff round for the 2017 edition of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown Zone, is slated to commence November Saturday 11th.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) annual Lennox Blackmoore Intermediate Champion-ships will box-off tonight at the National Gymnasium.

As the 2017 cycling season winds down, more and more riders are turning up to the starting line looking for some late season form to ride into 2018.

Three-time defending champions the Guyana Jaguars will fancy their chances against a relatively inexperienced Jamaican Scorpions side when the two franchises meet today in the opening round of Cricket West Indies Regional four – day tournament at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

PUNE, India, (Reuters) – Tight bowling and fifties from Shikhar Dhawan and Dinesh Karthik helped India secure a series-levelling six-wickets victory against New Zealand in the second one-day international yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Bowling all-rounder Rahkeem Cornwall says West Indies A will need to exhibit more patience against Sri Lanka A’s spin attack, in order to win the decisive third four-day “Test” starting here today.

LONDON, CMC – In-form Shai Hope continued his surge in the International Cricket Council batting rankings, jumping another seven places to move even closer to the top-20 in the world.

The Dorado Speed Swim Club with 574 points, won the recent Invitational Pentathlon Meet at the National Aquatic Centre, Liliendaal.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) has launched a probe after a curator in Pune was caught in a TV sting operation allegedly promising to manipulate the pitch ahead of yesterday’s second one-dayer between India and New Zealand.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies have appointed Englishman Dominic Warne as director of Commercial, Marketing and Communications.

Transport Sports Club and the Demerara Cricket Club will clash from 6pm tomorrow at the DCC ground, Queenstown in the third place playoff of the Well Teen, Trophy Stall, Nauth Auto Spares and Tropical Springs U13 cricket competition.

Grove Hi-Tech and Silver Shattas secured unlikely wins over Santos and Georgetown Football Club (GFC) respectively, when the Petra Organization coordinated ‘Turbo Energy Drink Knockout Football Championship’ continued on Tuesday.

Plant Maintenance retained their BOSAI Inter-Department 10/10 tapeball cricket title, defeating Mines Maintenance by 25 runs on Saturday at the Bayroc Community Centre ground.

All eyes will be trained today on Kensington Oval, Barbados here where Barbados Pride welcome perennial arch-rivals Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, on the opening day of the new Regional four-day season according to the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).

Guyanese opening batsman Trevon Griffith who will be turning out for the Jamaica Scorpions against Guyana in the opening round of the Cricket West Indies regional four – day tournament, says he’s not too worried about the lack of experience in the Jamaican side.

A great weekend of boxing is on the cards. This is according to Technical Director of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Terrence Poole referring to the Lennox Blackmoore Intermediate Championships which will be staged from tomorrow evening at the National Gymnasium.