India’s elite runners Man Singh, Belliappa AB and Karthik Kumar clinched the podium positions in the Apollo Tyres New Delhi National Marathon here on Sunday and also qualified for the Asian Games 2023 in September. All three went under the qualifying mark of 2 hours and 15 minutes in an exciting run that went down…
टेनिस बेंगलुरु ओपन एटीपी चैलेंजर युगल में, अनिरुद्ध चंद्रशेखर और एन. विजय सुंदर प्रशांत की भारतीय जोड़ी ने अर्जुन काधे और मैक्सिमिलियन न्यूक्रिस्ट को 7-6(1), 4-6, [10-2] से हराकर फाइनल में प्रवेश किया। $ 15,000 आईटीएफ महिला टेनिस टूर्नामेंट वैदेही चौधरी ने क्वार्टर फाइनल में जर्मनी की एंटोनिया श्मिट को 6-2, 6-2 से मात दी।…
India’s female pugilists Anamika and S.Kalavani made their way into the semi-finals of the ongoing 74th Strandja Memorial International Boxing Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria on Friday. Anamika (50kg) faced Brazil’s Caroline de Almeida in the quarter-final and started the bout with an aggressive approach. She displayed swift movement and landed a flurry of punches on…
India has created history by assuring themselves the first ever medal at the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships. Today India will be up against China in the semifinals from 5:30pm Welcome to our coverage of the Semifinals at the 2023 championships against the mighty and top seed China 🇨🇳 The Live score can be tracked…
Top-seeded Indian duo Sriram Balaji and JeevanNedunchezhiyan advanced to the quarter-finals pf the Chennai Open ATP Challenger on Wednesday with a straight sets win over Frederico Ferreira Silva/ Nicolas Moreno De Alboran. The Indians won 6-4, 7-5 at the SDAT Stadium to set up an all-Indian quarter-final showdown against wild cards SumitNagal/ Sasikumar Mukund, who defeated Yu Hsiou Hsu/ Christopher Rungkat 7-6, 2-1 (retd.) in another first round…
India No 2 Sasikumar Mukund and India No 4 Sumit Nagal were among three Indians to advance to the second and final round of qualifying at the Chennai Open ATP Challenger 100 tournament at the SDAT Tennis Stadium. Mukund, seeded No 9 in the qualifying draw, defeated fellow Indian Sidharth Rawat 6-4, 6-2 in one…
ATP CHALLENGER 100 MEN’S INTERNATIONAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 Chennai has become the International Sports Hub of India and is the talk of the town among the sports community in the country. Few months ago the Chess Olympiad was held in a grand manner in Chennai and it was followed by another major International Sports event…
World’s leading badminton equipment brand YONEX on Saturday announced that it will now manufacture high-quality graphite racquets in the country, expanding its existing production plan and base in India, a move which will bring the cost of full-body racquets down considerably. Indian shuttlers have been performing exceptionally at the global stage, bringing numerous laurels for…
The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Saturday announced a 26-member Indian contingent to participate in the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan from February 10-12. The team will comprise 13 male and as many female athletes, including Tokyo 2020 Olympian Tajinderpal Singh Toor and women’s national record holder in 100m…
Indian pair of N Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan’s dream run came to an end at the fifth edition of the Tata Open Maharashtra after they were defeated by the fourth-seeded duo of Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen 6-4, 6-4 in the doubles final at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune on Saturday. It was the…
15-year-old Dhamne to begin India’s challenge as main draw begins on Monday_ Ramkumar Ramanathan posted a brilliant victory against Mattia Bellucci to enter the singles main draw in fifth Tata Open Maharashtra at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune on Sunday. The 28-year-old Indian, who came as a wildcard, put up a spectacular show in the…
Written By | Tirthesh Jain On 3rd of January next week as the BWF World Rankings will get updated H S Prannoy (Currently ranked WR8) is set to become the top ranked Indian Mens Singles player as Lakshya Sen , who until now is the Indias top ranked MS player will dip to 3 places…
Indian players Yuki Bhambri and Ramkumar Ramanathan kickstarted their campaign at the fifth edition of Tata Open Maharashtra with contrasting victories in the singles qualifying opening round at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune on Saturday. While Bhambri dominated Diego Hidalgo by 6-2, 6-2 in the lopsided match, Chennai-based Ramanathan, who entered the draw as a…
Indian men’s singles players were handed a tough draw in the Yonex Sunrise India Open 2023 as all three of them were bunched together in one quarter while former world champion PV Sindhu faces her last edition nemesis Supanida Katethong in the opening round. The Yonex Sunrise India Open, which is part of the HSBC…
South Asia’s only ATP250 event to take place from Dec 31-Jan 7 in Pune Tennis fans can catch all the action live on Sports18 – 1 and JioCinema Viacom18 Sports, India’s newest sports network, will be the official broadcast partner of the fifth edition of Tata Open Maharashtra, India’s premier tennis tournament. Fans can catch…
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…
