Top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden enter the Miami Open final in commanding fashion by defeating 4th seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-1, 6-4 in the semi-finals, also redeeming themselves after the loss against the same pair last year. This is the 5th time Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden reached the final of…
Manika Batra has been the No 1 Indian Women’s Singles player for over Six years now. Her name has been synonymous with Women’s Table Tennis in India. Being the poster girl of Indian Table Tennis,her reign as No 1 has largely been unchallenged, until now when a challenger by the name of “Sreeja Akula” has…
The BWF World tour Super 300, Madrid Spain Masters commenced from 26th March 2024 (Tuesday) and will continue till 31st March 2024. The matches are being played at Centro Deportivo Municipal Gallur in Madrid. The Indian contingent had a forgetful outing till now. After the completion of R32, only 5 Indians had advanced to the…
Deeper Dive into the Badminton Asia Championships: Indian Challenge The Badminton Asia Championships in Ningbo, China (April 9-14) sees a strong Indian presence. Here’s an analysis with some talking points: Men’s Singles: ● Tough Start for Top Seeds: Both Lakshya Sen (vs. Shi Yu Qi) and Kidambi Srikanth (vs. Anthony Sinisuka Ginting) face top seeds…
Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden continued their merry run at the ATP Miami Masters and reached the men’s doubles semi-finals. World No. 2 and top seeded Rohan and Matthew had an uphill task this time in the quarterfinals against Dutchman Sem Verbeek and Australian John-Patrick Smith, as they lost the first game before coming back…
The Indian National Football team had just put on a shambolic performance in Guwahati. The Afghans have defeated the Blue Tigers in its own den by 2-1 scoreline. 26th March 2024, India faced Afghanistan in FIFA WCQ, 2026 in Indira Gandhi Athletic stadium Guwahati. Igor Stimac (India’s Coach) started with a 4-2-3-1 formation with Sunil…
The Dynamic Duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have ticked another milestone. They’ve just recently achieved the feat of being ranked as WORLD RANK 1 for consecutive 10 weeks. Yes! You heard it right. With this remarkable achievement, they’re now the most successful Indian Shuttlers as far as the BWF World Rankings are concerned….
The past week was an action packed week for Indian Table Tennis fans with two back to back Feeder Series tournaments being held in Beirut, Lebanon. The Indian Paddlers didn’t disappoint making full use of the opportunity to produce some great performances and collected some valuable ranking points in the process.Here is a quick summary…
The top seed of the ATP1000 Masters tournament Rohan Bopanna & Mattew Ebden played some great tennis to enter Quarterfinal at Miami Open. In the second round they got better of Polish/Monaco pair of Nys & Zielinski 7-5,7-6. While the first match for the top seed went until the super tie breaker the Indo-Aussie pair…
Tennis action is galore for fans this week from an Indian perspective At the ATP1000 Miami Open the Top seed Rohan Bopanna & Matthew Ebden have safely entered Quarterfinal while Yuki and Venus lost in the first round in Men’s Doubles Beside this, other tours are: ATP Challenger Tour Last weeks Runners-up Arjun Kadhe and…
FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: After a stalemate show at Saudi Arabia Indian football national team will be geared up to show some character and gain that much important 3 point to qualify for the next round. On 26 March 2024, India will play its second leg home match against Afghanistan in Indra Gandhi Athletic Stadium,…
The 1st Edition of National Open Relay Carnival is being conducted at Chandigarh today. It gave a fair bit of competition to all the athletes. Although, you won’t see much upsets as far as the results are concerned. All the experienced runners did enough to secure the Gold Medal. The Nationl Camp A (NC-A) team…
The Final day of the second WTT Beirut Feeder series starts today. With India having atleast one representative in all the five categories,fans can definitely look forward to an exciting day of table tennis. WTT Feeder Beirut Let’s take a quick look at the Schedule & the Indian prospects in action today. The semi finals…
The Indian Open Throws Competition 2024 witnessed a spectacular showcase of talent across various throwing events, underscoring the depth and prowess of Indian athletes. From the seasoned veterans like Tajinderpal Singh Toor to emerging stars like Haqikat Grewal, each athlete demonstrated exceptional skill and determination, pushing the boundaries of their respective disciplines. Punjab emerged as…
The Archery world cup action is here! As we know, world cups take place in 4 stages,as far as Archery is concerned. The 1st stage of the 2024 Archery World Cup begins on 23rd of April and will continue till 28th of April. All the big countries in Archery like South Korea, USA, Japan but…
Thomas & Uber Cup, 2024: The prestigious BWF Thomas and Uber Cup draws has been announced today (22nd March), with the defending Champions India placed in group C alongside previous year finalist Indonesia in men’s category. While the reigning BATC champion India placed with 15 times champion China in group A (Women’s category). With a…
IND vs AFG : The Indian National Football team settled with a goalless draw (0-0) against a second string Afghanistan team. On 22nd March, 2024 Sunil Chetri and his boys put off a disappointing performance in the recent ongoing FIFA World Cup qualifiers by being unable to win against a lower ranked Afghanistan (158-FIFA Rank)…
As we move closer to the Paris Olympics 2024, the situation regarding the qualification scenario is becoming interesting day by day.Who will qualify,who won’t and who will just miss the bus, all these things make the upcoming tournaments exciting for all the fans and the Badminton fraternity. So let’s try and analyze the current qualification…
Indian badminton players had a strong start at the BWF300 Swiss Open 2024 with victories for PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth, and Lakshya Sen. Dominant Sindhu: In the women’s singles, former champion PV Sindhu continued her winning ways, defeating Pornpicha Choeikeewong (Thailand) in straight games to advance to the second round. She will now face Tomoka Miyazaki…
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One of the biggest international table tennis tournaments, WTT Star Contender Goa has returned to India with its second edition, scheduled at the Peddem Indoor Stadium in Mapusa, Goa from January 23 to 28. The upcoming prestigious tournament promises a bigger and better experience for the fans, especially with the inclusion of 17 Top-20 paddlers…
Elite winners Hayle Lemi and Aberash Minsewo went home with USD 50,000 top prize from a total prize pot of USD 405,000. Srinu Bugatha and Nirmaben Thakor top Indian finishers Ethiopian Hayle Lemi Berhanu became only the second athlete to defend the men’s crown in the history of the Tata Mumbai Marathon, a World Athletics…
Asian Games gold medallists Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy fought hard but could not get the better of world champions Kang Min Hyuk and Seo Seung Jae of South Korea in the men’s doubles final of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2024 at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Sunday. The Indian combination went down 15-21,…
Jagsher Singh Khangurra, Bornil Aakash Changmai and Tanvi Sharma continued their winning streaks as Indian junior shuttlers advance to the semi-finals on day four of the Badminton Asia U17 and U15 Junior Championships in Chengdu, China. In the boys’ U15 singles category, Jagsher Singh Khangurra defeated China’s MA Chu Xuan 21-14, 21-13 in just 28…
The Indian star defeated the Jordanian in the quarter final bout to book her place at Paris 2024. By Astik Raj The reigning world champion Nikhat Zareen stole the show once again as she took on the Jordanian pugilist Hanan Nassar in the quarter-final of women’s flyweight category. This win means a lot, not only…
South Korea has been winning medals in Asian Games since 1966, never missed in one single games. Written by Astik Raj The Indian Men’s Volleyball team put up a stunning performance by defeating the reigning silver medalists in the Asian Games. After thrashing Cambodia 3-0 last night, everyone expected India (ranked 19th in Asia) to…
Written By Saurav Shah The Indian wrestling team for the Asian Games shortlisted through selection trials held at New Delhi A total of 18 wrestlers were selected for the 19th Asian Games at Hangzhou with six wrestlers each in Greco-Roman, Women’s freestyle, Men’s freestyle. The biggest news coming out from the trials was Olympic silver…
The journey to Paris 2024 has already begun since last year. Till now, a total of 15 athletes have already qualified, including 8 shooters and 7 track and field athletes. Written by Astik Raj Hangzhou is all set to host the 19th Asian games from next week, different teams from different countries have started…
Bopanna, Nagal and Bhambri to spearhead Indian attack in a World Group II play-offs tie to be held in Lucknow on Saturday and Sunday India captain Rohit Rajpal, on Thursday, announced the India squad that will take on Morocco in the Davis Cup World Group II tie scheduled to be held at the Vijayant Khand…
No Jhingan and Gurpreet but Sunil Chhetri to make the trip to China Written By Astik Raj The revised 17 member squad has been released by the AIFF, the national governing body for football in India today. There has been a lot of controversy and speculation regarding this selection. In the end, AIFF President Kalyan…
RUPAL Chaudhary stormed into national sensation in 2022, when she became the 1st Indian athlete (male or female) to win not 1 but 2 World U20 Athletics Championship medals at the same event. The ever-smiling and ever-energetic teenager won the heart of all Indians and especially her Meerut townfolks after returning from Colombia. Most of…
By Astik Raj The Indian contingent is ready to participate once again at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. Given the history of the Asian Games, whose idea was proposed by an Indian himself, Guru Dutt Sondhi, this sports meet becomes very important for the athletes and the sports fans in the country. It is…
India team is chasing Pistol Quotas for Paris Olympics Asian Shooting Championships. The NRAI a 35-member team for the Asian Championships in Changwon, South Korea, which will be held from October 22 to November 2. The competition will offer two Paris Olympic Quota in each of the 12 individual Olympic events across the three…
Birmingham, August 26th 2023:The Indian women’s blind cricket team on Saturday scripted history as they won a gold medal after defeating Australia in the rain-curtailed finals of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) World Games 2023 on the back of their scintillating show in Birmingham here. The Indian women’s blind cricket team has won everyone’s…
HS Prannoy’s fantastic run in the BWF World Championships in Copenhagen came to an end on Saturday after he went down in a close contest against former world junior champion and third seed Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the men’s singles semifinals. The world no. 9 Indian began strong and clinched the opening game with an aggressive…
At the start of the day one would have expected Avinash Sable to make the Semifinals and atleast one if not two Triple Jumpers to enter the Finals. None happened Ajay Kumar Saroj In what was expected to be a great curtain raiser for India at the Budapest world Athletics Championships came up as a…
Hello and welcome to our special coverage of the World Athletics Championships at Budapest 2023 This is possibly the most anticipated single sport competition after FIFA World cup. The build up is phenomenal. If you are looking at the India schedule for the championship you can get it here Heres what you can expect on…
The second day of Women Wrestling competition saw Indian Priya Malik upgrade her Silver to Gold, becomes only the Second Ever Indian women to be Junior World Champion. The phenomenal day for India which saw as many as Four women wrestle through the draw to SemiFinals. Three of them actually made it to the…
On the day one of the ISSF world shooting championships Indian shooters draw a blank. Shooting World Championship Much was expected from the six pistol shooters in the 10m Air Pistol competition but they failed miserably. The day started with Men 10m Air Pistol qualifying wherein Shiva Narwal and Arjun Cheema were in the first…
Mohit Kumar won the Gold Medal in 61Kg winning 9-8 to become only the Fourth Indian U20 Freestyle World Champion What can be accounted as a job well done India completed the Men Freestyle competition with a Gold, one Silver and Three Bronze medals. On the Day three of the competition Mohit Won the gold…
Good Morning and welcome to our coverage of the all important Shooting world championships. The worlds in Baku offer 4 Paris Olympic quotas per event. The qualification for men 10m Air Pistol will start at 10:00am IST Here are the Finals scheduled for 17th August: 10m Men Air Pistol final at 2:15pm 10m Women Air…
India had three wrestlers with a chance to medal and two succeeded.U20 World Championships Big medal hope who had fantastic victories on the day 1 Sagar Jalan although fell short in the final of 79kg but won the silver. This is a medal upgrade for the Indian who last won a bronze medal at…
Sagar who had earlier won a bronze medal in 74kg category is a former U17 world champion and has won U20 and U23 Asian titles. U20 Worlds India had five wrestlers in the fray on day 1 of the competition and would have expected better outcome. In the 57kg category Sagar lost to Nishiuchi by…
Indian men are in Syria to play the six nation tournament which will decide the lone team which will go to the Olympic qualifiers. The team who was running high on confidence made a lot of spirited comebacks during the match. In the first quarter India was quickly down 0-9 but then ended up scoring…
Heres the India schedule for the world athletics championships in Budapest starting from 19 August August 19 Morning Session 20km Race Walk Men| Final | Akashdeep, Vikash & Paramjeet | 12:20pm 3000m SC M | Heat1 | Avinash | 3:05pm Long Jump Women | Qual | Shaili | 3:55pm Evening Session 1500m M | Heat3…
A total of 14 Indians are set to participate in the prestigious World Championships which is scheduled to be played in Copenhagen between Aug 21-27 World Championships 2023 While India has four entries in the singles competition we will have five pairs in the doubles competition. Here lets look at how the draw has fared…
Indo-Aussie pairing of Rohan Bopanna and Matt Ebden broke no sweat in clearing the PreQ hurdle. ATP1000 National Bank Open Up against a seasoned pairing of Venus and Murray the pairing of Bopanna and Ebden scored a convincing victory by winning 6-3,6-4. Rohan and Matt had reached the semifinals of Wimbledon while they played last…
Top ranked indian on the ATP Circuit Sumit Nagal who was seeded third at the ATP75 challenger event at Germany lost to Hassan from Lebanon. MARA Open It was a massive opportunity for Nagal to gain some crucial points and experience before he leaves for US Open qualifying. The fourth and the last grand slam…
Indian shooters who currently have won three quota places namely in 10m Air Rifle Men, 50m Rifle 3 Position and Trap Men will be eyeing quota places in Baku Shooting World Championships The world championships at Baku offers 4 quota places in each of the Olympic event. In a surprise turn of events the reigning…
The team was finalised after a trial; Championship to begin from September 25 Ayush Shetty and Unnati Hooda will spearhead the Indian challenge as Badminton Association of India (BAI) announced the sixteen member Indian squad for the upcoming BWF World Junior Championships 2023, scheduled to take place in Spokane, USA from September 25. The squad…
