The milestone 10th edition of the Dafa News Bengaluru Open promises a compelling start to the 2026 ATP Challenger season, with a strong Indian presence headlining the main draw unveiled on Friday at the S.M. Krishna Tennis Stadium. Scheduled to begin on January 5, the ATP Challenger 125 event once again underlines Bengaluru’s growing stature…
Ranchi Royals produced a composed and tactically disciplined performance to defeat JSW Soorma Hockey Club 2–0 in their Women’s Hero Hockey India League 2025–26 encounter at the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda Astro Turf Stadium on Friday. Goals from Rutuja Dadaso Pisal just before halftime and Sakshi Rana in the final quarter sealed a well-earned…
Indian wrestling’s long-awaited professional revival gathered momentum on Friday as Aspect Sports, the sports arm of Aspect Global Ventures, in partnership with infrastructure major APCO Infratech, announced the acquisition of the Mumbai franchise of the Pro Wrestling League (PWL). The franchise will compete under the name Tiigers of Mumbai Dangals when the league returns in…
As Bengaluru readies itself to host the landmark 10th edition of the Bengaluru Open from January 5 to 10 at the S.M. Krishna Tennis Stadium, Indian tennis will once again turn its focus to one of the country’s most significant professional tournaments. Among the players eager to make an impression is 20-year-old Aryan Shah, one…
The second edition of the WTT Youth Contender got underway at the SAMA Indoor Stadium on Friday, with several of India’s brightest table tennis prospects making a confident start to their campaigns. Defending champion Divyanshi Bhowmick and fellow favourite Syndrela Das led the charge in the U-17 girls’ singles, while local talent Ved Panchal emerged…
Hockey India has turned to a familiar and trusted figure as it looks to chart the next phase of the Indian women’s hockey team’s journey, appointing Sjoerd Marijne as the chief coach. The Dutchman returns to the Indian setup nearly five years after guiding the team to its most historic Olympic performance at the Tokyo…
Vadodara is ready to take centre stage on the global table tennis calendar as it prepares to host back-to-back World Table Tennis (WTT) events in January 2026. The Sama Indoor Sports Complex will welcome the WTT Youth Contender 2026 from January 2 to 5, followed by the WTT Feeder Series 2026 from January 7 to…
Shrachi Bengal Tigers produced a performance full of character and composure to edge past SG Pipers in a dramatic Women’s Hero Hockey India League 2025–26 clash, winning 4–3 in a shootout after the two sides were locked at 3–3 at the end of regulation time. In a contest that swung repeatedly and went right down…
Indian football is facing one of its most consequential moments in the professional era as the 2025–26 season of the Indian Super League (ISL) remains suspended in uncertainty. What began as a contractual transition has escalated into a full-blown governance and financial crisis, forcing clubs, players, and administrators into a race against time to prevent…
As the Hero Hockey India League, HIL 2026 season approaches, two franchises Ranchi Royals and Accord Tamil Nadu Dragons are shaping up with clearly defined philosophies. Built on contrasting but complementary approaches, the Royals are banking on speed, fluid midfield play and attacking transitions, while the Dragons are reinforcing their reputation as one of the…
The appointment of Canadian sprint star Andre De Grasse as the International Event Ambassador for the 21st Tata Mumbai Marathon marks a significant moment in the evolving identity of India’s biggest mass-participation sporting event. Scheduled for January 18, 2026, the Mumbai Marathon has never been just about distance running. Over two decades, it has become…
Sports Events in 2026 is shaping up to be a defining year for Indian sport beyond the boundary ropes. From world-class badminton and elite shooting to continental weightlifting, hockey, and athletics, the country is preparing to host a calendar that reflects both sporting depth and growing organizational ambition. This is not just about volume. It…
The Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2026 is set for a significant upgrade in 2026, with India’s premier international badminton tournament moving to the iconic Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi. Scheduled from January 13 to 18, the Super 750 event will now be staged at a venue that not only carries historical weight in Indian…
For years, the Indian women’s cricket team was the side that came agonisingly close but never quite crossed the line. They reached the World Cup final in 2005 and lost. In 2017, they were leading comfortably, only to collapse and lose by just nine runs. There were also several heartbreaking semi-final exits. They were labelled…
The Asian men’s 4x100m relay landscape shifted decisively in 2025. What once constituted medal-winning territory in the low 39-second range is no longer sufficient. Across major championships and regional meets, the standard has moved sharply into the mid-38s, creating what can best be described as the “sub-38.50 imperative” for any team with podium ambitions at…
The race to secure the final berths at the FIH Hockey World Cup 2026 has officially taken shape, with the International Hockey Federation (FIH) confirming that Chile, Egypt and India will host the decisive World Cup Qualifiers next year. These tournaments, which represent the last phase of qualification, will be staged in Santiago (Chile), Ismailia…
Manprit Sarkaria’s career arc is a study in rise, reinvention, and sudden uncertainty. Born in Vienna on 26 August 1996, the Austrian international is one of the most recognisable Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) in European football, with roots tracing back to Amritsar, Punjab. Over the past decade, Sarkaria carved out a reputation as a…
The Tennis Premier League (TPL), powered by Clear Premium Water, is all set to return with its seventh consecutive season from December 9 to 14 at the Gujarat University Tennis Stadium in Ahmedabad. With seven editions completed, TPL now stands as only the fourth sports league in India to achieve this milestone, underlining its growing…
Indian taekwondo witnessed a landmark moment as Ankit Mer capped a sensational campaign with a silver medal in the men’s 54 kg category at the U21 World Taekwondo Championships. Entering the tournament as the 16th seed, Ankit produced one upset after another, advancing all the way to the final and recording one of the most…
The Indian Junior Men’s Hockey Team produced a performance of grit and composure to defeat Belgium 2–2 (4–3 SO) in a pulsating quarterfinal at the FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup Tamil Nadu 2025 in Chennai on Thursday. In front of a vocal home crowd, India held their nerve in a tense shootout to book…
The Indian Junior Women’s Hockey Team is set to begin its journey at the FIH Junior Women’s World Cup 2025, with their opening match against Namibia on 1 December at the Centro Deportivo de Hockey Césped in Estadio Nacional, Chile. The squad, led by captain Jyoti Singh, enters the tournament with a blend of confidence,…
Digvijay Pratap Singh capped off a rewarding two-week stretch on the ITF World Tennis Tour with the biggest title of his career so far, winning the M25 Bhopal crown after a gritty comeback victory over compatriot Nitin Kumar Sinha. For a player returning from injury and fighting to rebuild momentum, this triumph is not just…
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand reaffirmed their status as India’s most consistent women’s doubles pair on the BWF World Tour, successfully defending their Syed Modi International World Tour Super 300 title with a gritty 17–21, 21–13, 21–15 victory over Japan’s Kaho Osawa and Mai Tanabe in Lucknow. For the second straight year, the Indian duo…
In a performance that showcased composure, grit and world-class shot making, Reigning Cadet Asian Champion Divyanshi Bhowmick marched into the semifinals of the ITTF Youth World Table Tennis Championships 2025 in the U15 Girls’ Singles category, defeating Japan’s Kokomi Ishida 4–2 in a thrilling quarterfinal. The victory not only confirmed her spot among the world’s…
Teenage sensation Tanvi Sharma continued her remarkable run at the Syed Modi International Super 300, storming into the women’s singles semifinals and reinforcing her status as one of India’s most exciting emerging talents. On a day filled with contrasting fortunes for top seeds, Unnati Hooda battled her way through a three-game thriller, while Singapore’s men’s…
From stunning the world with a historic 4x400m relay run to clocking some of India’s fastest 400m times in recent seasons, Rajesh Ramesh has become a household name in Indian athletics. A key member of the team that rewrote the Asian record at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, Rajesh has steadily risen from being just…
In what marks one of the most significant developments in Indian basketball history, the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) and ACG Sports Pvt. Ltd. have officially launched the country’s first dedicated residential Basketball High Performance Centre (HPC) in Bengaluru. The announcement comes as a precursor to the India Basketball League (IBL) India’s first professional basketball…
In the churn of the ATP Challenger Tour, where raw potential meets hardened experience every single week, Aryan Shah’s three-set loss to Marc Polmans in Brisbane will feel like a gut punch. Not because he was outclassed far from it but because he had the match in his hands before it slipped away in a…
India enjoyed a dominant day in the Compound Women individual event at the Asian Archery Championships, with Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Prathika Pradeep both advancing to the semifinals after strong and composed performances across their knockout matches. With four Indians in the elimination rounds and two entering the final four, this was one of India’s…
The Asian archery season reaches its peak this week as the 24th Asian Archery Championships 2025 unfolds from 9–14 November in Dhaka, Bangladesh, bringing together a powerful field featuring Olympic medallists, world champions and rising continental stars. With 207 archers from 29 nations competing across 10 events, the continental championships promise a high-intensity showdown between…
When the first Women Cricket World Cup was held in 1973, two years before the men’s edition even began, few could have imagined the global phenomenon the tournament would become. What started as a modest, pioneering competition in England has grown into a celebrated global spectacle a platform that has produced legends, rivalries, and moments…
When the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) released its finalized Olympic bodyweight categories for Los Angeles 2028, the ripple effect was immediate and in India, it hit hardest for one of the sport’s most beloved figures. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, India’s Tokyo 2020 silver medallist and former world champion, now faces perhaps the most formidable challenge of…
Indian volleyball stands at the edge of an institutional collapse. What should have been a year of rebuilding after years of suspension and international exclusion has instead turned into a full-blown governance disaster. The Volleyball Federation of India (VFI) responsible for managing the sport at every level is now paralyzed by internal conflict, bureaucratic negligence,…
The 27th Taekwondo World Championships, held in Wuxi, China (October 24–30, 2025), brought together nearly a thousand athletes from 179 nations. For India, the event offered mixed signals flashes of promise in individual performances but also a glaring reminder of the structural chasm separating the national program from the world’s elite. India’s contingent, comprising 16…
At just 14 years old, Shreya Krishna Lakshminarayanan has become one of India’s most exciting youth athletes across any sport not on a track or court, but on the open sea. Her Bronze medal at the Optimist Asian & Oceanian Championship 2025 in Oman, where she also placed ninth overall among 170 sailors, has confirmed…
India Women at the 4th Women’s Baseball Asia Cup bowed out in the group stage after four straight defeats 0–10 vs Chinese Taipei, 3–6 vs Thailand, 1–11 vs Hong Kong, and 5–23 vs hosts China. The results underscored a growing truth about Indian women’s baseball: while the nation dominates the developing tier of Asian competition,…
Hello, and welcome to our coverage of the SemiFinal at the Women Cricket World Cup, its India vs Australia Women At the DY Patil Stadium Who do you think will win the match, vote here. Here is the preview The liveblog has ended.No liveblog updates yet. Load more
India’s women’s singles contingent enjoyed a strong opening at the Hylo Open 2025 in Germany, with Unnati Hooda, Rakshita Santosh Ramraj, and Shriyanshi Valishetty advancing to the Round of 16 after impressive straight-game victories. Their progress highlighted a promising day for Indian badminton, with a mix of youthful aggression and tactical maturity on display. The…
The AIFF Super Cup 2025–26 is fast becoming the proving ground for Indian football’s hierarchy. Bringing together 13 Indian Super League (ISL) teams and three top I-League clubs, the competition offers not just prestige, but a direct AFC Champions League Two playoff berth for the eventual winner. With its unforgiving format only group winners progress…
India’s young shuttlers delivered a historic performance at the Badminton Asia U17 & U15 Championships 2025, clinching two golds, one silver, and two bronzes the country’s best-ever medal haul at the continental junior event. On a memorable Sunday in Chengdu, Shaina Manimuthu and Diksha Sudhakar produced stunning performances in their respective finals to secure the…
It wasn’t the homecoming Clifford Miranda had envisioned. Returning to Goa as the head coach of an all-Indian Chennaiyin FC, Miranda’s first Super Cup assignment ended in disappointment as Mohun Bagan Super Giant powered by a Jamie Maclaren brace, secured a comfortable 2-0 win at the PJN Stadium in Fatorda on a rain-drenched Saturday night….
India’s sprinting future found a new name to celebrate as Bhumika Nehate scripted history by clinching the bronze medal in the women’s 200m at the 2025 Asian Youth Games. Clocking a personal best of 24.43 seconds, the young sprinter became the first Indian ever to win a medal in the 200m event at the continental…
India’s sporting landscape is set for a historic transformation with the Pune Grand Tour (PGT) 2026 earning Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Class 2.2 status, marking the country’s entry into the global professional cycling calendar. Scheduled from January 19 to 23, 2026, the multi-stage road race will span 437 km across four stages, bringing international competition,…
The withdrawal of Pakistan’s men’s junior hockey team from the FIH Junior Hockey World Cup 2025, scheduled to be held in Chennai and Madurai from November 28 to December 10, has ignited a debate that extends far beyond sport. Officially framed as a decision made for “safety reasons” amid a “volatile political climate,” Pakistan’s pullout…
India’s Yuki Bhambri and Sweden’s André Göransson produced a fighting performance to overcome Austrian wildcards Neil Oberleitner and Joel Schwaerzler 3–6, 6–1, [10–8] in a thrilling first-round encounter at the ATP 500 Erste Bank Open in Vienna. The Indo-Swedish pair, known for their composure and tactical awareness in tight moments, recovered from a slow start…
Indian table tennis has reached a new frontier of success as Syndrela Das and Divyanshi Bhowmick, Syndrela-Divyanshi ascended to the World No. 1 position in the latest ITTF Under-19 Girls’ Doubles World Rankings released on October 21, 2025. The Indian pair leads the global standings with 3910 points, surpassing Chinese Taipei’s Wu Jia-En/Wu Ying Syuan…
There’s something magical about a small fire. It starts quietly, then spreads sparks flying, warmth growing until it lights up everything around it. That’s exactly what HURIK’26 did this year. What began as a friendly inter-division tournament soon turned into a roaring blaze of spirit, strength, and solidarity that swept across the NMIMS ASMSOC Mumbai…
As Maharashtra prepares for the Maharashtra Olympic Association (MOA) elections on November 2, a contest that should ideally be about sports governance has evolved into a high-stakes political face-off. The two leading candidates Ajit Pawar, Deputy Chief Minister and head of the NCP (Ajit faction), and Murlidhar Mohol, Union Minister of State and BJP MP…
The 2025 Chennai Open WTA 250, scheduled from October 27 to November 2, is more than just another stop on the women’s tennis calendar. For India, it represents both a symbol of revival and a litmus test for its women’s tennis ecosystem. As the nation continues its long quest for a post–Sania Mirza era of…
When the India Women’s Rugby Sevens team finished sixth in their debut at the Asia Rugby Emirates Sevens Series (ARESS) in Hangzhou last month, it wasn’t just a debut it was a declaration. Against the odds, and in a field expanded to 12 of Asia’s best, India proved it could compete in the continent’s top…
