Latest football and tennis news

Real Madrid shocked the world of football after reappointing Zinedine Zidane as their new manager and created a fantastic recent sports news in India. Zidane left the club after winning his third consecutive Champions League title back in 2017-18 season, which was a true latest sports news of India at that time. The 13-time European Champions had sacked Julen Lopetegui and Santiago Solari before putting their faith back in the French manager. Real Madrid are playing one of the poorest season in the recent history. The Whites from the Spanish capital are out from the race of ending Barca’s dominance in Spain this time around, something the followers of Real are not ready to accept. Near to near a week ago, Real Madrid saw a shocking exit from the Champions League round of 16 against Ajax, where the 33-time Dutch top-flight winners hammered Real 5-3 on aggregate. The side from the Spanish capital still have 11 matches to play in La Liga, where Zidane can make the structure for the coming season. On the coming Saturday, the 19-time Spanish Cup winners are going to face Celta Vigo at the Santiago Bernabeu. Indeed, It would interesting to see what Zidane is going to do with Bale and other players, who are not looking fit to give him a great approach to conquer Europe yet again.

In tennis, The veteran Venus Williams reached the pre-quarters of the 2019 Indian Wells and made a recent sports news in India. The 38-year-old outdid compatriot Christina McHale 6-2, 7-5 in the third round. The five-time Wimbledon champion in singles defeated Andrea Petkovic and Petra Kvitova to reach that far in the competition. In recent history, the seven-time Grand Slam champ has been failing to win a big prestigious award. However this time around, the American can turn the tables to show to everyone that she holds every capability to shine even at the age of 38. In the fourth round of the Indian Wells, Venus and Mona Barthel are going lock horns for opening the doors of quarter-finals. Back in 2018, Venus Williams reached the semi-finals of the competition, where she lost the race against the Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-4, 4-6, 5-7. Her opponent is coming after beating the 30-year-old Julia Gorges 7-5, 1-6, 6-4 in the Round 3. At the 2019 Australian Open, Halep defeated Venus 6-2, 6-3. However at the Indian Wells, just like last year, Venus is knocking over every blade of grass and many of Venus’ fans want to see her ending her journey in tennis with many valuable titles. It’s amazed to see how it became a latest sports news of India too.

Coming back to football, the 1962 World Cup winner Coutinho died at the age of 75. The legendary attacking footballer played with Pele for Brazil and Santos, where was seemed as Pele’s best partner in attack. The cause of Coutinho’s death is not clear at the moment. His former club Santos announced the news on twitter about the totally sad update. Coutinho was fighting with diabetes and was taken to the hospital back in January because of pneumonia. Coutinho made his debut for Santos at age 14, scoring 368 goals for the Brazilian club. From 1968 to 67, Pele and Coutinho shared the surface together. For Brazil, Coutinho played just 15 times because of suffering too many injury problems. Brazil produced many strikers to make football fans captivated, and the same picture plays for Coutinho, whose unselfish work was admired by many of his teammate and fans. For the veteran football fans, it was a recent sports news in India that touched the emotions from the bottom.

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