BADMINTON

2016 All England Super Series Premier

Men’s Singles

Winner: Lin Dan (China)

Runner-up: Tian Houwei (China)

Women’s Singles

Winner: Nozomi Okuhara (Japan)

Runner-up: Wang Shixian (China)

Men’s Doubles

Winners: Vladimir Ivanov/Ivan Sozonov (Russia)

Runners-up: Hiroyuki Endo/Kenichi Hayakawa (Japan)

Women’s Doubles

Winners: Misaki Matsutomo/Ayaka Takahashi (Japan)

Runners-up: Tang Yuanting/Yu Yang (China)

Mixed Doubles

Winners: Praveen Jordan/Debby Susanto (Indonesia)

Runners-up: Joachim F. Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen (Denmark)

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TENNIS

2016 Indian Wells Masters (BNP Paribas Open), U.S.

Men’s

Winner: Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

Runner-up: Milos Raonic (Canada)

Women’s

Winner: Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)

Runner-up: Serena Williams (U.S.)

Men’s Doubles

Winners: Pierra-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut (France)

Runners-up: Vasek Pospisil (Canada)/Jack Sock (U.S.)

Women’s Doubles

Winners: Bethanie Mattek-Sands/Coco Vaneweghe (U.S.)

Runners-up: Julia Gorges (Germany)/Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic)

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Miami Open, Miami

Men’s Singles

Winner: Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

Runner-up: Ken Nishikori (Japan)

Women’s Singles

Winner: Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)

Runner-up: Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia)

Men’s Doubles

Winners: Pierra-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut (France)

Runners-up: Raven Klaasen (South Africa)/Rajeev Ram (U.S.)

Women’s Doubles

Winners: Bethanie Mattek-Sands(U.S.)/Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic)

Runners-up: Timea Babos (Hungary)/Yaroslava Shvedova (Kazakhstan)

 

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Six Russian athletes will be stripped of the medals they won at World and European championships in 2010 and 2011 and the 2012 London Olympics following a ruling by Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The CAS in Lausanne said (in March) it had upheld an appeal by the International Association of Athletics Federations over the “selective” punishments handed out against the six track-and-field athletes found guilty of doping.

The court said Russia’s anti-doping agency had wrongly imposed bans that were timed in a way that meant the athletes’ results were not annulled and allowed them to keep major titles. It said all six athletes had competitive results disqualified for longer periods.

The decision means Sergei Kirdyapkin is set to lose his 2012 Olympic gold medal in the 50-kilometer walk. The five other athletes are Sergei Balukin, Valery Borchin, Vladimir Kanaikin, Olga Kaniskina, and Yulia Zaripova.

Russia was suspended from international track and field in the wake of a report last year exposing widespread cheating and corruption.

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Former world number one Maria Sharapova has revealed she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open. The Russian, 28, tested positive for meldonium, a substance she has been taking since 2006 for health issues.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) said the five-time Grand Slam champion would be provisionally suspended from 12 March. Sportswear company Nike said it was halting its relationship with her until the investigation was complete.

“I did fail the test and take full responsibility for it,” said Ms Sharapova, who won Wimbledon as a 17-year-old in 2004. She has been the highest-earning female athlete in the world in each of the past 11 years, according to the Forbes list.