India’s PV Sindhu (ANI Photo) India’s women’s badminton team bowed out of the Asian Games after Japan secured a 3-1 victory in the quarterfinals on Tuesday, with the singles players unable to match the impact of the country’s World Championships bronze-winning doubles pair Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand.India were handed a difficult start when two-time…
India overcame a major scare before defeating Thailand 3-2 in a dramatic women’s team table tennis Round of 16 encounter at the Asian Games 2026 on Tuesday. Sreeja Akula held her nerve in the deciding match to send India into the quarterfinals, where they will face North Korea.The tie could hardly have started worse for…
India Women vs Sri Lanka Women Final Live Score: India will look to maintain their dominance in women’s cricket when they face Sri Lanka in the Asian Games final on Tuesday. The Indian women’s team enters the title clash as the stronger side after two convincing wins over Japan and Bangladesh. Sri Lanka, however, will…
Chetan Bhatt misses bronze after 1-1 draw, loses Kumite playoff to Chinese Taipei on Senshu (Reuters) India’s Chetan Bhatt suffered heartbreak at the Asian Games 2026 after losing the men’s Kumite 84kg bronze medal playoff to Chinese Taipei’s Meng-yu Chung on Tuesday.The bout at the Toyohashi Gymnasium ended 1-1 after regulation time, but Chung walked…
Alexei Shirov believes chess should rethink the way it uses the term “World Champion”, suggesting the sport could adopt a system similar to tennis.The Spanish grandmaster made the comments while discussing India’s D Gukesh and the status attached to the classical world title.“Nothing against Gukesh, maybe we shouldn’t use words like World Champion. Chess should…
Nihal Sarin at Chess Olympiad (Photo by Michal Walusza from FIDE) NEW DELHI: On Monday, India’s open team was paired against hot favourites and tournament hosts Uzbekistan in Round 6 of the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand.The anticipation around this fixture had been building since before the tournament began, perhaps because these two nations have…
Serena Williams, of the United States, reacts as she plays a women’s doubles match between Venus and Serena Williams against Hao-Ching Chan, of Taiwan, and Maya Joint, at the U.S. Open tennis championships, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger) When Serena Williams first announced she was stepping back from professional tennis,…
India’s Rudrankksh Patil, left, wins bronze medal and Himanshu Dhillon wins Silver medal (PTI Photo) Himanshu Dhillon is a diehard Sunny Deol fan. His father, Shamsher Dhillon, has a doctorate in agriculture. The shooter’s motivational mantra, then, paraphrases a famous dialogue of his idol, his father’s profession and the farming he tried during the pandemic.“Yeh…
India vs Japan T20I Photo/BCCI In the land of baseball, cricket is all set to score on Tuesday when India and Japan celebrate 75 years of diplomatic ties with a T20 International for the Suzuki Cup at the petite Sano International Cricket Ground, about 80 km from Tokyo.It’s a historic occasion. But neither side is…
Nisshin: India’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur, right, with Kranti Gaud, centre, and Gunalan Kamalini celebrate (PTI Photo) Nagoya: In the almost three weeks of the Asian Games, the Indian women’s cricket team got a one-week window and three matches to win the title.With cricket still relatively unknown in the region, the players have been able to…