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India’s badminton star and World number 2 Saina Nehwal wants to be injury-free in the run-up to the Rio Olympics. “Last time, I was very fortunate to get bronze medal. So, hopefully, this time, if I play, I hope to get at least one medal for the country. I hope to be injury-free to participate […]
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Defending champions Mohun Bagan would look to consolidate their position at the top when they take on Sporting Clube de Goa in a 10th round match of the I-League at Margao on Tuesday while their arch rivals East Bengal would try to outdo Salgaocar at Vasco to keep the title race in perfect balance. Bagan,
With Saina Nehwal missing another event due to fitness issues, P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth will spearhead the Indian challenge at the $120,000 German Grand Prix Gold starting with the qualifiers in Mulheim an der Ruhr on Tuesday. World No 2 Saina, who had injured her ankle last year, is yet to play an
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Star Indian boxer Vijender Singh’s maiden professional title bout was today tentatively scheduled for June 11 at the Indira Gandhi Indoor stadium here with the event’s sanctioning authority — the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) — promising a “historic and epic” contest. Vijender, who is three fights old in the pro circuit having won all of
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Garry Kasparov would leave his opponents in a trance and the mesmerising impact was transferred to 600 top entrepreneurs from across the globe here on Friday. In the Capital at the invitation of Entrepreneurs’ Organisation which organised the RIE 2016 event, Kasparov shared his life experiences in sport and in politics. As the EO president
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Star wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt has penned a moving patriotic poem in Hindi, criticising the alleged anti-national activities on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus, which has gone viral on the internet. The poem, which was uploaded on Yogeshwar’s official Facebook page on 13 February, has received tens of thousands of likes and hundreds of comments.
For the 12th successive time, none could match up to India’s regional might but the host country’s record-breaking medal haul of 308 can hardly hide the fact that the standard of competition in the South Asian Games has failed to rise significantly. This was the best performance by any country in the Games’ 32-year history
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M.C. Mary Kom and Pooja Rani knocked out their respective opponents while L. Sarita Devi survived a scare as India grabbed all the three gold medals on offer in women’s boxing for an overall clean-sweep of top honours in the 12th South Asian Games on Tuesday. On a comeback trail after recovering from a shoulder
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Spanish tennis stars Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer insisted they were unworried by Brazil’s Zika virus outbreak as they prepare to compete at the Rio Open ATP tournament this week. “I’m not at all afraid,” Nadal, 29, told a press conference. “I go out at night, and I know there’s a risk, but I’m just
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Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis won the St Petersburg Ladies Trophy on Sunday and extended their remarkable winning streak to 40 matches in the process. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair hardly broke sweat on their way to a 6-3, 6-1 victory over the Russian-Czech team of Vera Dushevina and
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Former world champion Viswanathan Anand played out two draws to keep his full point lead in the Zurich Chess Challenge. After two wins against Levon Aronian of Armenia and Dutchman Anish Giri, Anand wriggled out of problems against Latvian Alexei Shirov in the third round game and then played out a draw with Hikaru Nakamura
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Her long-standing demand for a specialist coach fulfilled, India’s doubles badminton player Jwala Gutta says she has become physically fitter and mentally stronger heading into the Asia Championship starting here tomorrow. Jwala said she and her partner Ashwini Ponnappa — currently ranked world number 13 — needed consistent support which they have got with specialist
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Excited to compete on home turf for the first time after her ban ended, Indian boxer L sarita Devi (60kg) on Friday said the South Asian Games are nothing short of a new start for her. Sarita, who served a one-year ban for her infamous emotional outburst after a controversial semifinal loss in the 2014
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Indian women’s football team captain Oinam Bembem Devi, who on Thursday announced that the 12th South Asian Games (SAG) in India will be her last tournament, is hopeful of retaining the top spot in the competition. The competition begins on Friday and will be hosted by Shillong and Guwahati. “I have been playing football for
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Postponed several times due to a variety of reasons, the much-delayed but the biggest South Asian Games ever begin here tomorrow with hosts India expected to stamp their superiority in the regional spectacle. The 12-day Games, featuring 2,500 athletes from eight SAARC countries, will be declared open by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a glittering
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Till that moment, nobody really knew Nilakanta Sharma was actually on the Mahindra Stadium pitch. There’s nothing essentially eye-catching about the 20-year-old’s style of play. He’s not often embroiled in gallant charge with the ball. Nor does he have the habit of taking on opposition defenders, teasing and taunting them with mesmerising stick-work. And then
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A day after a British hockey player — Ashpal Kaur Bhogal — alleged sexual harassment charges against Sardar Singh, the Indian hockey captain has come out and said that the allegations against him were baseless. He, in turn, alleged that the woman had misused his social media accounts. “My email accounts used to be with
Top Indian shuttlers including Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu are reluctant to play at the upcoming South Asian Games so that their preparations and training schedule for the Rio Olympics does not get affected. The qualification for the Rio would depend on world rankings in May and the players are keen that they compete in
With merely four days to go for the competition, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) today unveiled its 28 probables for the South Asian Games in Guwahati. Twenty one of them have already joined the preparatory Camp in Guwahati, which commenced from January 31. India have clubbed alongside Sri Lanka and Maldives in Group A.
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India secured their 11th Olympic quota from shooting on Friday when Ayonika Paul bagged the silver in women’s 10m air rifle but compatriot Pooja Ghatkar narrowly missed out on a berth at the quadrennial extravaganza in a high-scoring final at the Asia Olympic Qualifying Competition. The 23-year-old Commonwealth Games silver medallist finished on the podium
Angelique Kerber has upset Serena Williams 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to win the Australian Open title, ending the six-time champion’s unbeaten streak in finals at Melbourne Park. Williams was an overwhelming favorite at the Australian Open, where she had won all six previous times she’d reached the final, and was trying to equal Steffi Graf’s Open-era
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Women’s world No 1 doubles pair Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis continued their otherworldly run and overcame the Czech duo Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká in staright sets to win the Australian Open at the Rod Laver Arena on Friday. The top seeds fought past the seventh seeds Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka 7-6 (1)
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It was hardly the titanic tussle we craved, but the much-hyped Australian Open semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer had images that will always endure. Ultimately, that’s all that really matters. Right now, Djokovic vs Federer is tennis’ best rivalry, despite being predominantly one-sided and a predictable affair, because of the grandiose connotations associated
Sania Mirza entered the women’s doubles semifinals and set up a high-intensity clash against Leander Paes and doubles partner Martina Hingis in the mixed doubles after both the Indians made the quarterfinals with their respective partners in the Australian Open on Tuesday. Sania and Swiss great Martina Hingis, seeded no one, survived a mid-match slump
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Indian tennis stars Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna advanced to the quarterfinals of the women’s and mixed doubles events respectively after notching up contrasting victories with their partners at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Monday. On a record winning streak, Sania and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis continued to rule the roost as they
Swiss great Roger Federer was delighted to become the first man to reach 300 Grand Slam match wins on Friday as he swept past Grigor Dimitrov to reach the Australian Open fourth round. Federer said it was “very exciting” to reach 300 wins, a total that leaves him just six away from Martina Navtratilova’s record
MC Mary Kom, L Sarita Devi and Pooja Rani are all set to represent India in the upcoming 12th South Asian Games 2016 to be held in Guwahati and Shillong. The trio emerged triumphant in the final round bouts of their respective weight categories during the South Asain Games Test event and Elite Women’s National
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I’ll get straight to the point: Novak Djokovic has a realistic chance of becoming only the second man in the Open Era to claim a calendar Grand Slam. Hyperbole? Hardly. It is a reasonable conclusion reached after a cold, hard study of the facts. While most of us have been more concerned with Roger Federer’s
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Sixteen players ranked in the world top 50 over the last decade, including Grand Slam champions, have been suspected of being involved in match-fixing, it was alleged Sunday. The BBC and BuzzFeed News claimed they have seen secret files exposing evidence of widespread suspected corruption at the top level of world tennis. “Over the last
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Eleven titles together, unbeaten in 30 matches – the Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis juggernaut rolls on. Turns out it wasn’t a world record, but Mirza and Hingis winning 30 matches on-the-trot – the longest winning streak in women’s doubles since 1994 – is testimony to their tremendous performance over the last several months. The Indo-Swiss pair
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