Sportstar-VOL.35 :: NO.25 :: Jun. 21, 2012

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Judgement of Paris
As Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic met at Roland Garros, the first time in the Open Era that two men had contested four successive major finals, History, uneasy with its weight, cracked, writes S. Ram Mahesh. 

Tennis

FEATURE
I enjoy challenges — Sania
The Hyderabadi seems to have mastered the art of fighting back from adversity every time she is written off, writes V. V. Subrahmanyam. 

Football

KICKING AROUND
Italia, Italia! Nothing ever changes
In the 1980s, it was known as Totonero: Black Toto, a reference to Totocalcio, the football betting game native to Italy. Match-fixing has come back again to haunt Italian football. Over to Brian Glanville.

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SANTOSH TROPHY
No club players fiat liberates Services
Drawing away from the dominance of the I-League dictated states, the 66th National football championship depicted a parable of extraordinary efforts as two teams, long accustomed to mediocrity, leapt out of the annals of oblivion, writes Amitabha Das Sharma. 

Hockey

SULTAN AZLAN SHAH TOURNAMENT
India plagued by inconsistency
The tournament offered the teams the chance to experiment and fine tune their strategies. This, perhaps, contributed to the twists and turns in the league phase. That the line-up for the final positions were determined only on the penultimate day emphasised the unpredictable trend. Over to S. Thyagarajan.