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Demetri Love and Safirah Sumner got off to perfect starts when the Kraft Mac and Cheese Junior Squash Championship commenced last night at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts on Camp Street.

(Reuters) – Defending champion Novak Djokovic shrugged off doubts about the state of his game with a confident 6-4 7-6(3) 6-4 defeat of Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the French Open first round yesterday.

ExxonMobil U14 Schools Football  By Michaelangelo Jacobus When the highly anticipated ExxonMobil Schools U14 Football got underway yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown, the defending champions of the male category, Bartica Secondary, launched their title defence with a flawless 3-0 win over L’Aventure Secondary. 

(Trinidad Express) The runs flowed in the just-concluded Indian Premier League tournament.

(ESPN) Major League Cricket (MLC), the season-old T20 tournament in the USA, has become the second Associate-run franchise competition to acquire List A status from the ICC, following on from the UAE’s ILT20 earlier this year.

LONDON,  CMC – West Indies fast bowler Jayden Seales endured a long, hard grind with Sussex after they were made to toil against Middlesex in Division 2 of the English County Championship in a draw match that ended yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has suspended sprinter Issamade Asinga for four years for a doping violation, stripping him of two South American Championship gold medals as well as his Under-20 100 metres world record.

(Reuters) – Al Nasr’s Cristiano Ronaldo capped his first full Saudi Pro League season in style as he broke the record for the most goals scored in one campaign yesterday.

MONTE CARLO,  CMC – Seven-time world champion, Lewis Hamilton was in a dejected mood after he finished seventh in the Formula 1 Grand Prix on Sunday in Monaco.

MONTE CARLO,  CMC – Barbadian race car driver Zane Maloney came way from the Monaco Formula 2 Grand Prix weekend practically empty-handed and dropped out of the lead in the drivers’ standings.Maloney,

MADRID, (Reuters) – A Spanish judge ordered soccer ruling bodies FIFA and UEFA to halt their opposition to a parallel European competition known as the European Super League (ESL), ruling they were practising anticompetitive behaviour and abusing their dominant position.

-Allicock steps into round of 32 action today Guyana’s heavyweight boxer Emmanuel Pompey had his dream of qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games crushed yesterday at the second and final Olympic Boxing Qualifier in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Guyana Cycling Federation’s (GCF) National Championship is set to pedal off on June 16, with June 23 and 30 being the other dates for the various events in the tournament.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Rafael Nadal exited what could be his last French Open to an outpouring of love and support with a first-round defeat by Alexander Zverev, wishing to be back at Roland Garros for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – A slow start in the Indian Premier League put Mitchell Starc’s record price tag under the microscope but the Australian all-formats hero underlined his worth as he lifted Kolkata Knight Riders to a third title.

(CMC) – Their bowlers set it up, a nd their batting, led by a Player-of-the-Match innings from Johnson Charles, formalised an eight-wicket win yesterday in Jamaica as hosts West Indies swept South Africa in a Twenty20 International series for the first time.

Guyana’s quartet of boxers in Bangkok, Thailand, was whittled down to two after Joel Williamson was handed a unanimous decision loss in his 63.5kg bout against Mauritius pugilist Louis Colin yesterday at the second and final Olympic Qualifier tournament.

Caribbean Special Olympics Bocce Championship The local duo of Keston Knights and Daniel Samsundar seized two gold and one silver medal at the recently concluded Caribbean Special Olympics Bocce Event in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

(CMC) – ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup-bound West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell was emotional after he warmed up for the global showpiece next week with a crucial spell that set the foundation for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by eight wickets and win their third Indian Premier League title yesterday.

After seven rounds of intense chess games across three days, FIDE Master Anthony Drayton emerged at the top of the pile undefeated with six points on Saturday to be crowned the winner of the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) National Championship Qualifiers 2024.