US Open: 2021 champion Emma Raducanu loses in the first round to Sofia Kenin

Kenin finished with 45 winners, nearly twice as many as Raducanu's 24.

Sports 28 Aug, 2024

North Korea test-launches 2 ballistic missiles, after end of new US-South Korea-Japan drill

The statement said North Korea will “firmly defend the sovereignty, security and interests of the state and peace in the region through offensive and overwhelming countermeasures.”

World 01 Jul, 2024

Heavy rains in South Korea displace more than 1,000 people, 13 dead

SEOUL: Days of heavy rain caused floods in South Korea that have forced more than 1,000 people from their homes, killing at least 13 with another 13 missing, authorities said on Tuesday. Deaths were reported from landslides and vehicles swept away...

Art & Culture 04 Aug, 2020

NKorea's Kim keeps low public profile in May: analysts

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made an unusually small number of public appearances in the past two months, once again going three weeks without state media reporting his attendance at a public event, according to analysts. Kim's...

Women 22 May, 2020

Laver Cup will go ahead despite French Open switch: organisers

SYDNEY: Laver Cup organisers say the exhibition event will go ahead in September as planned despite the French Open moving to the same dates as the implications of the French Tennis Federation (FFT)'s shock gambit began to reverberate on...

18 Mar, 2020

WORLD CUP: Son key to South Korea avoiding 2nd candy attack

SEOUL: Progress for South Korea's players will be avoiding being pelted with candy again on their return from the World Cup. After enduring three poor performances by the team in Brazil four years ago, fans were waiting at Incheon International...

13 Jun, 2018

Singh bags gold

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Sandhya Kumari Singh won gold medal, while Nirita Yakthumba bagged bronze in the Chuncheon Korea Open International Taekwondo Championship in Chuncheon, South Korea on Thursday. Singh defeated a player from Kyrgyzstan 26-12 in...

07 Jul, 2017

North Korea opens door a crack to welcome UN disability expert

GENEVA: North Korea has agreed to a visit by the UN expert on the human rights of people with disabilities, the United Nations said on Thursday, a minor concession after years of criticism of Pyongyang's record from the UN Human Rights...

Women 27 Apr, 2017

Add 2016 Sports Calendar

2, Cardiff, Wales — cricket, England vs. Sri Lanka, 5th ODI. 2-24, France — cycling, Tour de France. 3, Spielberg, Austria — motorsport, F1, Austrian GP. 5, Southampton, England — cricket, England vs. Sri Lanka, T20. 6-10, Amsterdam...

28 Dec, 2015

Begu beats Sasnovich to win Korea Open

SEOUL: Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu ended the fairytale run from Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich to win the Korea Open on Sunday. Begu stamped her authority on the final when she reeled off eight games in a row to clinch the first set...

28 Sep, 2015

Begu beats Sasnovich to win Korea Open

SEOUL: Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu ended the fairytale run from Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich to win the Korea Open on Sunday. Begu stamped her authority on the final when she reeled off eight games in a row to clinch the first set and...

27 Sep, 2015

Sasnovich in final

SEOUL: Unheralded qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich continued her sensational run in the semi-finals of the WTA Korea Open on Saturday, knocking out Slovakia's rising star Anna Karolina Schmiedlova. The Belarusian world No 136 was down in the first...

27 Sep, 2015