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Captain Rajat Patidar hit a brilliant unbeaten 93 runs off 33 balls as defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) made short work of Gujarat Titans (GT) by 92 runs to enter their second successive Indian Premier League (IPL) final. Batting first, RCB posted a playoffs-record total 254 for 5 at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on Tuesday (May 26). Veterans Virat Kohli and Krunal Pandya contributed 43 each while Jason Holder had figures of 2 for 39. In reply, GT lost half their side within the powerplay, including Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler, before they were all out for 162 in 19.3 overs. Rahul Tewatia scored 68 off 43 balls.

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Elina Svitolina survived a thriller against Anna Bondar to reach the women's singles second round of the French Open 2026. The Ukrainian seventh seed lost the first set but kept the match alive with a dominant show in the second. In the decider, the 31-year-old trailed 1-3, fought back to serve at 5-4, but only to be broken by her Hungarian opponent, forcing a tiebreaker. After a hard-fought 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (10-3) win, Svitolina will face Spaniard qualifier Kaitlin Quevedo, who defeated local wild card Leolia Jeanjean 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-2).

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Chasing an elusive maiden Grand Slam crown, Alexander Zverev opened his Roland Garros 2026 campaign with a dominant win over Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Sunday (May 24). Zverev, seeded second for the clay court Major, took two hours and 10 minutes to complete a straight-sets win 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. The 29-year-old German will next face Czech Tomas Machac, whom he defeated in the second round of the Paris Olympic Games 2024. That same year, Zverev also reached the final of the French Open and lost to Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz in five gruelling sets. Machac, currently 48th in the ATP Rankings, defeated Zizou Bergs of Belgium 6-4, 7-6(4), 6-3.

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World No. 2 Elena Rybakina eased into the French Open 2026 season round with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Veronika Erjavec of Slovenia in their first meeting. The Russian-born Kazakhstani took little over an hour to wrap up the women's singles match at Court Philippe-Chatrier in Paris on Monday. A two-time Roland Garros quarter-finalist (2021, 2024), the 26-year-old will next face Ukrainian Yuliia Starodubtseva, who defeated Anna Blinkova of Russia 6-3, 6-1. Rybakina won the first Grand Slam of the year, defeating top seed Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in the Australian Open 2026 final.

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Both Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Gujarat Titans (GT) train hard ahead of the high-stakes Qualifier 1 clash at the HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala, on Tuesday, May 26. The winner of the match will straight away go into the final, while the losing team will have another go at the final with the winner of the Eliminator in Qualifier 2. On the eve of the match, RCB trained in the daytime, while GT had a session under the lights, and vice versa a day before. RCB are the defending champions and will look to win back-to-back titles, while GT will be vying to repeat the 2022 heroics once again.

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Russian teen sensation and eighth seed Mirra Andreeva thrashed local wildcard Fiona Ferro to enter the French Open 2026 women's singles second round. The 2024 semi-finalist produced 19 winners en route to her 6-3, 6-3 win, 16th on clay this year. Interestingly, Andreeva lost her first-round match at Roland Garros last year to a French wildcard, Lois Boisson, who entered the 2025 clay-court Grand Slam as the 361st-ranked player in the world. Ferro, 29, is currently ranked 366th. Andreeva will face Spanish qualifier Marina Bassols Ribera, who beat Emiliana Arango of Colombia 6-3, 6-4.

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Four-time champion and third seed Iga Swiatek opened her French Open 2026 campaign with a resounding straight-sets win (6-1, 6-2) over debutant Emerson Jones at the hallowed Court Philippe-Chatrier on Monday (May 25). In a Roland Garros clay-court masterclass, the 24-year-old Polish star toyed with the Australian teenager, whose mother, Loretta Harrop, was a silver medallist triathlete at the Athens Olympics 2004. The first-round match lasted exactly an hour as Swiatek preserved her flawless Grand Slam record in the main draw and qualifying against players outside the top 100. In the second round, she will face the Czech Sara Bejlek, who defeated American qualifier Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-2.

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It was supposed to be a record-breaking night, as the super-rich promoters had promised, but the inaugural Enhanced Games in Las Vegas on Sunday did very little to prove that enhanced and doped athletes are better than clean ones. More than 40 competed in swimming, weightlifting, and track events, but only one broke a world record. Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev, wearing a banned special suit and using performance-enhancing drugs, clocked 20.81 seconds in the men's 50m freestyle -- 0.07 quicker than Australian McEvoy's time. It won't go into the book, but Bulgaria-born Gkolomeev earned USD 1 million. Hafthor Bjornsson, who played 'The Mountain' in the hit series Game of Thrones, failed to break his own deadlift record of 510 kg, while American Fred Kerley, competing as a clean athlete, ran 100m in 9.97 secs. The International Olympic Committee and World Anti-Doping Agency have already labelled the Enhanced Games as "immoral" and "a dangerous and irresponsible concept".

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The New York Knicks earned their first NBA finals berth since 1999 after a 4-0 series sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals. In Game 4, they beat the Cavaliers 130-93 at Rocket Arena, Cleveland, OH, on Monday (May 25). Karl-Anthony Towns (19 pts, 14 reb, 3 ast, 2 blk, 2 stl) was the top performer of the night, while Jalen Brunson (15 pts, 5 ast) won the Larry Bird Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the series. During their sensation post-season run, the Knicks scored the most points in NBA Playoff history without a 20-point scorer. In the finals, the Knicks will face the winners of the Oklahoma City Thunder vs San Antonio Spurs, Western Conference finals.

BY Photo Webdesk 26 May 2026