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Vikas and Ravi, both in red, were made to work hard for the win. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU Ravi Dixit advanced to his second successive men’s semifinal at the HCL National doubles squash championships, combining with Vikas Mehra to battle past Mathew Godwin and Navaneeth Prabhu 11-7, 10-12, 11-7 in a gripping clash at … Read more

Alka Tomar. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Alka Tomar, the first Indian woman to land a World championships medal, feels the country needs to focus on winning more wrestling medals at the 2032 Olympics and increase it further in 2036, as India is keen to host the mega event after 10 years. The year 2032 … Read more

Harinderpal and Om get ready for the challenge ahead. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU Since taking over as the coach of the Indian senior squash teams in September last year, Harinderpal Singh Sandhu has been busy designing training camps for the country’s top players and mentoring them. But the 37-year-old has put the player’s hat … Read more

Complete dominance: Reena, right, recorded a 10-2 victory over Kajal in the 57kg title bout. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Young Itisha Choudhary warded off a strong challenge from Pooja to win the women’s 76kg gold medal at the senior Open ranking wrestling tournament on the Nandini Nagar Mahavidyalaya campus here. In a keenly fought … Read more

An open competition will be held to decide a spot in chess at the Esports World Cup, to be held in Riyadh from August 11 to 15. The event, jointly organised by the Esports Foundation, JioBLAST and chess.com, is expected to feature about 10,000 players from across the country. The finale of the India Rising: … Read more

India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty win the Thailand Open Super 500 tournament. File photo: X/Gurinder Osan via PTI Top seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty survived a stiff challenge before defeating Indonesia’s Muh Putra Erwiansyah and Bagas Maulana in a thrilling three-game opener of the men’s doubles competition at the Thailand Open Super 500 … Read more

The HCL National doubles squash championship 2026, organised by Squash Rackets Federation of India (SRFI) in association with HCL Technologies, will be held from May 13 to 16 at the Indian Squash Academy (ISA) here. The tournament will serve as the National selection event for the second Asian doubles championships, scheduled in Malaysia from June … Read more

Vinesh. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Even after rendering Vinesh Phogat ineligible to compete and serving her a show-cause notice, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has said that this is not the end of the road for the two-time World Championships medallist. WFI president Sanjay Singh said Vinesh needed to go through the procedure. … Read more

The Asian Games silver medallist Deepak Punia believes the disruption caused by the wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi in 2023, and the resulting lack of international exposure derailed the momentum of several Indian wrestlers, including his own, as he attempts to revive his career this season. Once considered India’s most consistent wrestler in … Read more

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat arrives at the venue of the National Open Ranking Wrestling Tournament amid a row over her eligibility and the Wrestling Federation of India’s show-cause notice. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Olympic bronze-winning grappler Sakshi Malik on Tuesday (May 12, 2026) supported Vinesh Phogat in her tussle with the Wrestling Federation of India … Read more

Vinesh feels that the WFI misinterpreted the timeline of her sabbatical and return to competition. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA At the Nandini Nagar Mahavidyalaya here, where she rose to prominence in 2012 by winning her maiden National title at the age of 18, double Worlds bronze medallist Vinesh Phogat asserted that she was eligible to make a … Read more

Abhishek managed to overcome Bhuvnesh to claim the 61kg gold. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Former World junior bronze medallist Yash Tushir won the men’s 74kg freestyle gold medal to underline his worth at the senior Open ranking wrestling tournament at the Nandini Nagar Mahavidyalaya campus on Monday. Tushir, whose last international outing was a eighth place finish … Read more

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat. File | Photo Credit: PTI Vinesh Phogat arrived at Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, on Monday (May 11, 2026) and replied to the Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) show-cause notice, claiming that she was eligible to return from retirement even though the national federation maintained that she cannot be allowed to compete in the … Read more

Haryana’s Deepak Punia on his way to winning his quarterfinal bout against statemate Rahul Hooda in the men’s 92kg freestyle category in the Senior Open Ranking Wrestling tournament, in Nandininagar, Gonda, Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. May 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA An 86kg silver medallist at the 2019 World championships and 2022 Asian … Read more

The Indian trio of Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Kumkum Mohod upstaged World Cup Stage-1 champion and host China, consisting of Zhu Jingyi, Huang Yuwei and Yu Qi, 5-4 in the final to claim the recurve women’s team gold medal at the Archery World Cup Stage-2 in Shanghai on Sunday (May 10, 2026). Riding on their inspiring … Read more

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) on Saturday (May 9, 2026) show-caused double World championships medallist Vinesh Phogat on different grounds, including her failure to stick to the weight restriction at the Paris Olympics, anti-doping issues (multiple whereabouts failures) and participating in two weight categories during the … Read more

The GCL has seen the participation of many top players. | Photo Credit: AP The Global Chess League (GCL) will stay home, for another season. The fourth edition of the league, a joint venture of Tech Mahindra and world chess governing body FIDE, will be held later this year. The third season was conducted in … Read more

File photo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty. | Photo Credit: AP Ace doubles badminton player Satwiksairaj Rankireddy on Friday (May 8, 2026) said his recent comments on the muted public reception after the Indian team won Thomas Cup bronze medal were not intended to seek “money or grand parades” but to urge the people … Read more

D. Gukesh (right) and Javokhir Sindarov at the Super Rapid & Blitz event of the Grand Chess Tour in Warsaw, Poland. Photo: Lennart Ootes/@GrandChessTour D. Gukesh made quite an impact, signalling that his preparations for the World Championship are on track by first defeating his title challenger, Javokhir Sindarov, in the fifth round and then … Read more

Manika Batra in action. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu India’s underwhelming campaign at the World Table Tennis Team Championships ended with women’s 1-3 loss to USA in the round of 32 here. The men too lost in a round of 32 clash against Austria on Tuesday. Manika Batra was the only one who made … Read more

File picture of D. Gukesh. | Photo Credit: PTI Reigning world champion D Gukesh on Wednesday sent out a massive message to the chess buffs across the globe by beating his challenger for the world crown, Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan in the fifth round of the Super Rapid and Blitz, a part of the Grand … Read more