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NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Victoria Azarenka paid tribute to the old brigade at Flushing Meadows after she joined five players over the age of 30 in the women’s quarter-finals of the U.S.

(The Sports Xchange) – Boston Celtics forward Jared Sullinger entered a not-guilty plea yesterday on charges tied to an alleged domestic dispute Saturday.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago Red Force will play two matches against Windward Islands in Dominica this weekend as they continue preparations for the Champions League T20 in India later this month.

The Tucville Community Centre ground will come alive today when action in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Players Cup group stage continues with two fixtures.

Guyana’s Devendra Bishoo, Veerasammy Permaul and Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai are currently participating in a spin bowling clinic in Barbados conducted by former Pakistan spinner Saqlain Mushtaq.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago Soca Warriors will play the United Arab Emirates in the opening match of the OSN Cup here in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia tomorrow.

Andre Percival coach of the national women’s cricket team is urging the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) to place more emphasis on the time given for preparation of both the male and female national teams ahead of regional and other tournaments.

Trinidad  and Tobago  (T&T) will not play their two previously advertised matches in the upcoming Karbonn Smartt Champions League in the State of Hyderabad due to lack of security.

West Indies players Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan have not confirmed the availability to play in the Demerara Cricket Board Trials tomorrow and Friday chairman of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Junior Selection Committee Nazimul Drepaul said yesterday.

Guyana’s first ever U18 World Champion powerlifter Gumendra Shewdas and lifters who won medals at July’s Caribbean and PanAmerica powerlifting championships yesterday paid a courtesy call to president Donald Ramotar.

All Greys increased their lead at the top of the table when they crushed Airbenders 6-1 as action the John Fernandes Insurance Services Limited second division hockey tourney recommenced at the Providence National Stadium on Sunday.

Krishmar Santokie, the Jamaican left-arm seam bowler, has scoffed at suggestions that the team’s defeat against the Jamaica Tallwahs in the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL)  might have been because the team underperformed.

NEW YORK, Reuters) – Roger Federer suffered a shock loss to Tommy Robredo at the U.S.

(Reuters) – Zimbabwe captured nine Pakistan wickets for 249 runs on the opening day of the first test in Harare yesterday after a frustrating ninth-wicket partnership between Saeed Ajmal and Junaid Khan.

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) yesterday named three squads to participate in trial matches on Thursday and Friday in an effort to select the Demerara team for the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board one day Inter County tournament.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Serena Williams enters the second week of the U.S.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago has drafted wicketkeeper batsman Nicholas Pooran into their Champions League T20 (CLT20) squad after his big hitting performance in the just concluded Limacol Caribbean Premier League T20.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – David Ferrer battled his way into the quarter-finals of the U.S.

President of Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) Leon Belony spelt his way to the GASP Open title last Sunday at the Malteenoes Sports Club pavilion.

Familiar foes Fruta Conquerors will oppose Pele, Football Club when the inaugural Players Cup football tournament continues today at the Tucville Community Centre ground.