The Indian Express -- Sports

Monday, May 12 1997

Pierce pounds away to crown

France's Mary Pierce won the Italian Open tennis tournament, when she beat defending champion Conchita Martinez of Spain 6-4, 6-0 -- halting the Spaniard's hopes of a fifth successive Italian title. The 22-year-old Pierce, who had knocked out top seed Monica Seles earlier in the week, made few mistakes and used her powerful groundstrokes to good effect.

Manjrekar, Gavaskar dazzle

Mark Waugh's scintillating 116 off 66 balls yesterday powered Australia to a four-wicket win over Rest of the World XI. Sanjay Manjrekar topscored for the World XI with 80 runs from 86 balls followed by Rohan Gavaskar's unbeaten 51 off 30 balls which took the team to 245 for eight in the allotted 40 overs.

Kasparov lets Deep Blue off the hook

The chess match between World Champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer will come down to the final game after man and machine played to a draw yesterday for the third straight time. Kasparov offered the computer a draw after the 49th move of the game, which lasted just over four hours.

A-I victorious

Indian team delayed

McEnroe exhibits vintage stuff

Easy for IMs

Don Bosco in quarters

Anand mocks Kasparov

Global sport -- Muster's feats on clay face challenge

Everything points to a Lankan win

Blinding light of the Jayasuriya namaskar

Nagpur, Satara triumph

Rival skippers term the tie as "crucial"

For Mom Marshneil, sonny days are here again

Space Shuttle wins feature

Prancing emerges winnerin Nilgiri Derby Stakes

Medvedev mauls Mantilla for title

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