Tag: Quarters

BARCELONA - Barcelona took a decisive step towards winning the Spanish league for the third consecutive time at the weekend and now turn their attention to the Champions League where they face Shakhtar Donetsk. Coach Pep Guardiola has overseen a remarkable run of success since taking over at the Nou Camp in the summer of 2008 and now Bar

MILAN - Inter Milan will be hoping to produce an improved defensive display when they host Schalke 04 in the Champions League quarter-final, first leg at the San Siro on Tuesday. Defensive solidity was one thing missing from their hugely disappointing 3-0 top-of-the-table derby defeat to AC Milan in Serie A on Saturday.
Coach Leonardo believes Andrea Ranocchia, who only joined from Genoa in January as cover for Samuel, has the potential to be a mainstay at both club and

MIAMI - Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and his Indian partner Rohan Bopanna faltered in the men's doubles quarterfinal of the Sony Ericsson Open tennis here. Oliver Marach of Austria and Serb Janko Tipsarevic knocked out No. 7 seeds Bopanna and Qureshi 6-4, 7-6(8). The pair will now face the third-seeded Paes and Bhupathi, who overcame sixth seeds Michael Llodra of France and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia 6-3, 6-7(4), 10-7 to book a place in the semis.

MIAMI - Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and his Indian partner Rohan Bopanna eked out a hard earned win over Michael Mertinak of Slovakia and Dick Norman of Belgium to book a place in the quarter-finals of the Sony Ericsson Open here.
The seventh-seed Indo-Pak pair defeated their unseeded rivals 7-6(4) 3-6 10-8 in the second round of the hard court event. They will lock horn with giant-killers Oliver Marach of Austria and Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic, who shocked top seeds and local favourites

LAHORE - The 46th edition of the National Men's Volleyball Championship reached quarter-finals stage and WAPDA, Police, Railway Army, NAVY, PAF, Punjab, and KPK qualified for the last eight stage here on Sunday at WAPDA Sports Complex.
It was after 20 years that Railways made to the quarter-finals of the championship. From Pool A WAPDA and Railway have qualified. From Pool B Navy and KPK, from Pool C Army and Punjab and from Pool D PAF and Police have qualified. WAPDA beat

SOIRT THIS WEEK - Gary Kirsten's effect on the Indian cricket team cannot be overstated. The way the Indians came back from a dicey situation to overwhelm and knock out the Aussies speaks volumes about their self-belief. Kirsten will be leaving his job at the end of the World Cup and he would like nothing better for his team to take the trophy, something his home team has never done.
In the second quarter final, South Africa underwent their usual meltdown, sinking without a

LAHORE - The quarter-finalists in the South Punjab Zone of the 13th National Seniors' Cricket Cup have been decided and all the four quarter-finals will be played on Sunday (today). Today's Fixtures (quarter-finals) Bahawalpur Sr v DG Khan Seniors Multan Tigers v Multan Heroes Multan Veteran White v Pakpattan Srs Multan Jinnah Srs v Sahiwal Sr

LAHORE - Mughalpura Institute have moved into the quarter-final of the East Zone Cricket Championship after defeating Mughalpura Whites by 9 wickets at Wahdat Colony ground on Wednesday. The match saw fine batting performances by Ghulam Farid and Zaheer Butt. Both players added 104 runs in the unbeaten second wicket partnership.
Jallo Gymkhana have also qualified for the quarter-finals after outplaying Service Club by six wickets at Model Town Green ground on Thursday. Brilliant

LAHORE - Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi and his partner Rohan Bopanna forced their way past the the Indian combination of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi to qualify for the quarter-finals of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California. In a tightly contested match between the current runners up of the Australian Open and the US Open, it was the Indo-Pak duo who came out on top 6-3, 6-4.
Momentum swung from one side to the other in the nerve wracking encounter, where the first set saw

PARIS - Champions League holders Inter Milan showed their class on Tuesday with a brilliant 3-2 win away at Bayern Munich in their Last 16 second leg match to go through on the away goals rule - it finished 3-3 on aggregate - and ensure there is an Italian team in the quarter-finals.
Inter's victory against the side they beat in last season's final was also the first time since Ajax - managed at the time by Bayern handler Louis van Gaal - in the 1995/96 edition that a team had

KOLKATA - South Africa rode on JP Duminy's robust 99 to storm into the World Cup quarter-finals with a crushing 131-run victory over Ireland Tuesday. The Proteas were wobbling at 117-5 after a tight bowling and fielding show by Ireland, but Duminy played a responsible knock to help his team post a challenging 272-7 in the day-night match at Eden Gardens.
The target proved too big for Ireland who were bowled out for 141 in 33.2 overs, with Gary Wilson top-scoring with 31. South

KARACHI - Pakistan's captain Shahid Afridi said on Tuesday that his team were happy to play their World Cup knockout stage matches in India despite earlier voicing concerns about their security.
"It does not matter to us where we play our quarter-final. The biggest issue for us was to qualify for the knockout stage and we have done that now," Afridi said. "We are ready to play our quarter-final at any venue now," the experienced all-rounder said.
"That is a thing of the

CHITTAGONG - Bangladesh will go into their final Group B match against South Africa on Saturday with a World Cup quarter-final place at stake but a feeling that they have already accomplished their mission. Before the tournament, the World Cup co-hosts had targeted beating Ireland, Netherlands and one of the top-ranked sides and they have done just that thanks to a shock defeat of England with two wickets to spare.
What Shakib Al Hasan and his men had not bargained on was that

PALLEKELE - Former champions Pakistan sailed into the quarter-finals of the World Cup with a seven-wicket win over Zimbabwe in a rain-affected Group A match at Pallekele stadium on Monday. Pakistan, set a revised 162-run target in 38 overs under the Duckworth-Lewis formula, successfully achieved that in 34.1 overs on the back of an unbeaten 78 by Asad Shafiq and Mohammad Hafeez (49). The victory gave the 1992 winners eight points from five matches and a place in the last eight,

NEW DELHI - New Zealand are hot favourites to seal a place in the World Cup knockout round when they face minnows Canada on Sunday but will have to do it without injured skipper Daniel Vettori. Defeat in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium would be a major shock for the Black Caps, who have a total of six points after thumping 10-wicket wins over Kenya and Zimbabwe, and a 110-run victory against Pakistan on Tuesday.
Their only blemish was a seven-wicket defeat against Australia. "No Dan

PALLEKELE - Tillakaratne Dilshan smashed 144 before taking 4-4 to help Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by 139 runs and reach the World Cup quarter-finals on Thursday. Together with fellow opener Upul Tharanga, who hit a career-best 133, Dilshan put on a new World Cup opening stand of 282 to guide Sri Lanka to an imposing 327-6 before a packed 30,000 crowd at Pallekele stadium. Zimbabwe made a fighting reply with Brendon Taylor (80) and Regis Chakabva (35) through a solid 116-run start before

PARIS - Barcelona and Shakhtar Donetsk reached the Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday after seeing off Arsenal and AS Roma respectively with both the losing sides finishing with 10 men. Barcelona dominated Arsenal to win 3-1 on the night - 4-3 on aggregate - though the losers were left seething at the second-half dismissal of Dutch star Robin van Persie for a second bookable offence when he shot at goal after the referee had already blown his whistle.
Barca's goals came