The action at the Tata Open Maharashtra will unfold amidst fans’ cheers as the spectators will be back in the stands during the fifth edition of South Asia’s only ATP 250 tournament. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was held behind closed doors last year but fans can now join the grand celebration of…
So, we are in December of the year and we look at how Indian Athletes performed in comparison to world lead marks throughout the year. Yes we had many bright performances from obviously Neeraj Chopra who has arrived on the big stage and how. You can’t forget the Sable run at Commonwealth Games. We had…
मौजूदा यूएस ओपन चैंपियन राजीव राम और जोए सैलिसबरी चार भारतीयों के साथ टाटा ओपन महाराष्ट्र के पांचवें संस्करण में स्टार खिलाड़ियों से सजे मैदान में उतरेंगे। इन खिलाड़ियों में मौजूदा चैंपियन रोहन बोपन्ना और रामकुमार रामनाथन भी शामिल हैं। दक्षिण एशिया का एकमात्र एटीपी 250 इवेंट 31 दिसंबर से 7 जनवरी, 2023 तक पुणे…
The 2023 IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships is set to take place from March 15 to 31 in New Delhi as India gears up to host the biennial event for the third time in the tournament’s history. Since the inception of the Championships in 2001, the prestigious event took place twice in India previously–in 2006…
Sindhu, Sen, Srikanth and Chirag-Satwiksairaj to carry India’s title hopes at the Super 750 event India Open 2023 Reigning Olympics and world champions including Chen Yufei of China, Akane Yamaguchi of Japan and Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen will spearhead galaxy of stars at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open badminton tournament, to be held at the Indira Gandhi…
South Asia’s only ATP 250 event will go on till January 7 in Pune World number 17 Marin Cilic will headline a strong singles field at the fifth edition of the Tata Open Maharashtra along with 16 other top-100 players when South Asia’s only ATP 250 event returns to the opening week of the calendar…
Indian shuttlers Unnati Hooda, Gnana Dattu, Anish Thoppani and two doubles pairs marched into the semi-finals to assure country of five medals at the Badminton Asia U-17 & U-15 Junior Championships 2022 in Nonthaburi, Thailand on Friday. Asia Junior Championships The pairs of Arsh Mohammad and Sanskar Saraswat, and Bjorn Jaison and Aathish Sreenivas PV…
IBA President Kremlev signs MoU with BFI President Ajay Singh Championship boasts prize pool of close to 20 crore In a yet another milestone moment for boxing, India has been named as the host country for the 2023 IBA Women’s World Boxing Championship. The announcement was made on Wednesday at a press conference in New…
Five Indian women including Lovlina Borgohain and Parveen Hooda will battle for gold in the finals on Friday The 2022 Thailand Open Champion duo of Sumit and Govind Kumar Sahani both suffered defeats in their semi-final bouts and secured bronze at the 2022 ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan on Thursday. Govind…
Written by : Vikas Ratanjee The edge-of-the-seat excitement that Indian badminton players have been providing us for the past many years has generated another level of interest in the sport in India. There is also a certain romanticism in seeing badminton as a sport where not only south-east Asian nations dominate, but we as Indians…
बैडमिंटन BWF विश्व जूनियर बैडमिंटन चैंपियनशिप शंकर मुथुसामी BWF विश्व जूनियर बैडमिंटन चैंपियनशिप के फाइनल में चीनी ताइपे के कुओ किम लिन से 14-21, 20-22 से हार गए। शंकर 2015 में एस वर्मा के बाद रजत पदक जीतने वाले दूसरे भारतीय पुरुष बने। फ्रेंच ओपन सुपर 750 सात्विकसाईराज रंकीरेड्डी और चिराग शेट्टी की स्टार भारतीय जोड़ी…
हॉकी सुल्तान जौहर कप भारतीय टीम ने नाटकीय अंदाज में शूट आउट के जरिए फाइनल में जीत हासिल की। नियमन समय में दोनों टीमें 1-1 से बराबरी पर थीं, जिसके बाद विजेता का फैसला करने के लिए नौ पेनल्टी शॉट्स की जरूरत पडी। भारत ने शूटआउट में 5-4 से बढ़त बना ली और तीसरा सुल्तान ऑफ…
Martial Arts sport Judo and Taekwondo making good strides in India. There are a total of 23 gold medals to play for at the Olympics (Judo with 15 and Taekwondo with 8). India for a long time has not invested in these martial sports which if invested can see India getting good number of medals…
Top-seeded Malvika Bansod clinched the women’s singles title while unseeded Kaushal Dharmamer secured the men’s title at the Yonex-Sunrise VV Natu Memorial All India Senior Ranking Badminton Tournament 2022 in Pune on Sunday. Bansod secured a come-from-behind 13-21, 21-17, 22-20 win over Adita Rao in a thrilling final encounter which lasted an hour and three…
शतरंज एशियाई शतरंज चैंपियनशिप मौके का फायदा उठाते हुए साइना सलोनिका ने दूसरी वरीयता प्राप्त नोमिन-एर्डिन दावाडेम्बरेल के किंगसाइड आक्रमण को विफल कर दिया और महिला वर्ग के तीन राउंड से 2.5 अंकों के साथ नौ अन्य खिलाड़ियों के साथ शीर्ष में शामिल हो गयी। शीर्ष वरीयता प्राप्त तानिया सचदेव, वंतिका अग्रवाल, रक्षिता रवि, सौम्या…
बैडमिंटन बीडब्ल्यूएफ फ्रेंच ओपन सुपर 750 टूर्नामेंट फ्रेंच ओपन में गुरुवार को एकल में भारतीयों का अभियान समाप्त हो गया। दिन की शुरुआत किदांबी श्रीकांत को रासमस गेम्के से 21-19, 12-21, 19-21 से हारने के साथ हुई। समीर वर्मा भी थाईलैंड के कुनलावुत विटिडसर्न के खिलाफ सीधे गेमों में 18-21, 11-21 से हार गए। बाद…
बैडमिंटन बीडब्ल्यूएफ फ्रेंच ओपन सुपर 750 टूर्नामेंट समीर वर्मा ने वर्ल्ड नंबर 6 एंथनी गिनटिंग को पुरुष एकल मुकाबले में 21-15, 21-23, 22-20 के स्कोर के साथ शानदार जीत दर्ज की। इस जीत के साथ समीर बीडब्ल्यूएफ वर्ल्ड टूर इवेंट के दूसरे दौर में पहुंच गये। एच.एस. प्रणय 16वें राउंड में अपनी जगह पक्की करने…
Hello and welcome to our coverage of Asian Youth U18 Athletics Championships 2022 being held in Kuwait. Live Link | Live Streaming India Medals at Asian Youth Athletics Championships India so far has 2Gold 5Silver and 5Bronze medals Amit | 1500m | Gold Medal Akash | ShotPut | Gold Medal Arjun | Javelin | Silver…
Olympian Srihari Nataraj (Karnataka) ended his campaign in the National Games Swimming competition in a blaze of glory, capturing his sixth gold medal with a brilliant show in the men’s 100m Freestyle final at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex here today. He won in 50.41 seconds, a new National Games record time. Through the week,…
Men’s Results Karnataka beat Gujarat 11-2 Haryana beat Tamil Nadu 3-0 Uttar Pradesh beat West Bengal 5-4 Maharashtra beat Jharkhand 3-1 Fancied Uttar Pradesh survived a massive scare before pulling off a 5-4 thriller (via penalties) against West Bengal to sneak into the Hockey semifinals of the 36th National Games at the Dhyan Chand Hockey…
Uttar Pradesh’s Ram Baboo, an unemployed Physical Education graduate, chose the National Games platform to draw attention to himself with a National record when winning the men’s 35km Race Walk at IIT Gandhinagar on Tuesday. His victory in 2 hours 36 minutes 34 seconds was sweeter as he beat the record holder Juned Khan of…
She is as practical as they get. And that is the reason Swapna Barman says that while her two-gold effort in the National Games Athletics competition at the IIT Gandhinagar campus gives her happiness, she is not satisfied with her own performance in her favourite event, the Heptathlon. She claimed the High Jump gold with…
Telangana’s B Sai Praneeth upset Kerala’s much fancied and in-form HS Prannoy 18-21, 21-16, 22-20 to help his team annex the Badminton Mixed Team gold in the 36th National Games here on Monday. His victory came on the heels of another brilliant show by the husband-and-wife duo of Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy who got…
Double gold medallist in the 36th National Games’ Rowing events, Khushpreet Kaur took up the sport over a chide for being a girl. “I had gone swimming and I got intrigued by its boats,” she disclosed on Monday, shortly after winning her second gold in the Quadruple Sculls with Vindhya Sankath, Poonam and Rukmini. Earlier,…
Tired of returning with a bloody nose from the ring, or getting a beating from his coach, Arunachal Pradesh’s Sambo Lapung gave up boxing. And took up weightlifting. “Yes, I had first tried boxing only for about a year in 2008. But I gave it up. What’s the point in getting thrashed both in the…
Gulveer Singh’s doughty effort to win the men’s 10,000m with a Games record in the Athletics competition today helped Services consolidate their position at the top of the 36th National Games medal charts. The three-time defending champions spurted to the pole position for the first time on Sunday, thanks to a good show in Rowing…
Olympian Pranati Nayak picked up two gold medals before signing off from the 36th National Games at the Sama Indoor Sports Complex here on Sunday. The West Bengal gymnast collected her first gold in the morning, the Uneven Bars title, and rounded it off by clinching the Floor Exercise crown in the evening. “Yes, it…
Karnataka’s Aneesh S Gowda announced his arrival as the next bright prospect on the senior stage in telling fashion, scripting a fairy-tale victory over seasoned Kerala’s Sajan Prakash in the men’s 200m Freestyle final in the National Games Aquatics competition at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex in Rajkot on Sunday. On a day which saw…
Reigning World under-20 champion Antim Panghal doesn’t like wasting time on the mat. Instead, she relies on her meticulous homework on her opponents a night before the bouts to dominate them. And it was usual business for the 18-year-old from Hisar, who walked away with the gold by defeating Madhya Pradesh’s Priyanshi Prajapati by fall…
Top seeds Telangana had to dig their heels in to edge out Maharashtra 3-2 in the semifinals of the Badminton Mixed Team Championship in the 36th National Games here at the PDDU Stadium on Sunday. They will now face the HS Prannoy-led Kerala team, which got the better of hosts Gujarat 3-1, in the summit…
You can easily empathise with Siddharth Pardeshi when he wishes for greater all-round attention to the sport that he so loves, Diving. A couple of years ago, he was in the news as one of the athletes who were stuck overseas during the Covid-19 induced Lockdown. He was in the FINA Development Centre in Kazan,…
Astha Choudhury (Assam) claimed the honour of becoming the first swimmer to break a record as the National Games Aquatics competition commenced at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex here on Sunday. She clocked 1:03.91 in the 100m Butterfly heats to take the Games record from Richa Mishra, who set it at 1:04.41 in Ranchi in…
36वें राष्ट्रीय खेल लॉन्ग जम्पर जेसविन एल्ड्रिन ने अपनी स्वर्ण पदक जीतने वाली 8.26 मीटर छलांग के साथ 2023 विश्व चैंपियनशिप के लिए क्वालीफाई किया। हंगरी में होने वाली विश्व चैंपियनशिप के लिए योग्यता मानक 8.22 मीटर है। कबड्डी उत्तर प्रदेश और महाराष्ट्र ने फाइनल में एक एक अंक के लिये संद्यर्ष किया और आखिरकार, यूपी…
‘I don’t put limits on myself. I just work hard and wherever God takes me, I go,’ says Amlan Amlan Borgohain has a simple philosophy when it comes to running. Don’t think too much about conditions or anything. Just run fast. The 23-year-old from Assam did just that to stop the clock at 10.38s at…
India’s best swimmers will go all out to make waves at the Sardar Patel Swimming Complex when the National Games Aquatics competition gets underway here on Sunday. Olympians Sajan Prakash (Kerala) and Srihari Natraj (Karnataka) among men and Maana Patel (Gujarat) among women are expected to claim top honours. Sajan Prakash emerged the Best Male…
Badminton star HS Prannoy showed he means business as he marked his return to court after a month’s break with a 21-11, 21-9 demolition of Orijit Chaliha to star in Kerala’s 3-1 victory over Assam in the National Games Mixed Team quarterfinals here on Saturday. “It is a nice feeling to be back on court….
Uttar Pradesh’s Abhishek Pal and Parul Chaudhary completed a unique double at the National Games here on Saturday, winning the Men’s and Women’s 5,000m gold for their state. Parul Chaudhary was delighted with her performance but Abhishek Pal was a slightly disappointed man even though he beat the stiff challenge of Services’ Karit Kumar and…
The women’s 49kg weightlifting competition unfolded on expected lines in the 36th National Games, with a tactical battle between Mirabai Chanu and Sanjita Chanu at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar on Friday. In the end, Mirabai walked away with the gold with a total lift of 191 kgs (Snatch 84kg, Clean & Jerk 107 kgs)…
Gujarat’s ace shooter Elavenil Valarivan gave the hosts their fourth gold even as several favourites, including Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, pathbreaking fencer Bhavani Devi and wrestler Divya Kakaran, lived up to their top billing and pocketed gold medals in their respective events in the 36th National Games here on Friday. The athletics arena…
Tamil Nadu & Karnataka are top two seeds in men team while Ankita Raina led Gujarat & Maharashtra are top two in women team. 2022 National Games Men Team The tennis action at the national games is all set to start from tomorrow. We will have the team events tomorrow. In the men section…
Deepika and Vanshika star at the Youth National Championships 2022 in Bhopal Haryana’s rising Javelin Thrower Deepika and Pole Vaulter Vanshika Ghanghas broke National U18 girls records on their way to victory on the concluding day of the 17th AFI National Youth Athletics Championships at the Tatya Tope Stadium here on Monday. Deepika, who is…
Top-seeded pair exits and six others follow suit in mixed doubles In the mixed doubles event that set the ball rolling on the third day of the 36th National Games competition at the Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Indoor Stadium here today, only three seeded pairs survived to enter the quarterfinals. In the women’s doubles, however, Sreeja Akula…
The experienced team from West Bengal defeated defending Champions Maharashtra in Women Team National Games This was always on cards when two top team from India were in the final to fight for the Gold Medal. While West Bengal showed great skills and game plan on their way to the final, Maharashtra team did just…
महिला क्रिकेट महिला वनडे सीरीज भारत ने दूसरे एकदिवसीय मैच में इंग्लैंड को 88 रनों से हराकर कैंटरबरी में इंग्लैंड में महिला वनडे श्रृंखला में एक प्रसिद्ध जीत दर्ज की। भारतीय कप्तान हरमनप्रीत कौर ने 143 रनों के साथ पहली पारी में 333-5 का विशाल स्कोर खड़ा किया। 23 साल बाद इंग्लैंड में भारत की पहली…
Karman Kaur Thandi upsets eighth seed Paquet on opening day of WTA Chennai open 2022 India’s Karman Kaur Thandi scored the big upset on the opening day of the WTA Chennai Open with a three-set win over eighth seed Chloe Paquet, of France at the SDAT Tennis Stadium on Monday evening. The 24-year-old wild…
We got a chance to speak to CWG Silver Medalist Abdulla Aboobacker Narangolintevid. Here’s what he had to say about his preparation, the WCH and training. ISH: This season has been a successful season till now. Could you brief us on what changes did you bring in? Abdulla: Till last year I was practicing at…
Day 1 Qualifying Rounds. Chennai open Qualifying Chamarthi vs Hibino (6-1, 6-0) The day started with a 27-year-old local lad taking on no2 seed Japanese. The game started off really well with the first three games taking 30 minutes to complete. The 199th-ranked Japanese with her experience broke down Chamari’s serve and from there on…
Indian Challenge at World Wrestling Championships, Belgrade 2022. Written by | Sanjay Verma India came back with only 2 medals from last world championships at Oslo, Norway in the absence of stars like Bajrang Punia and Ravi Dahiya. This year they would certainly like to improve on their best ever tally of 5 medals which…
Hrithik Marne was crowned National champion after Seven Years, we got a chance to speak with him. Here’s what he had to say. ISH:Could you explain how you got into sports climbing? I started climbing from 2011 but Initially I started with Kabaddi. One day I saw a sports climbing wall being built nearby and…
The long awaited Tennis action is to begin at the SDAT Tennis Stadium from 12th of September 2022 when the main draw matches of the Chennai Open WTA250 International Women’s Tennis Championships will begin. Now there is a good news for the tennis loving fans in Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu, particularly for…
