The India racketlon team beat Britain 137-101 to win its first-ever Nations Cup title in Graz, Austria. The tournament was held from August 23 to 29. Racketlon is a combination sport in which the contestants have to play four racket sports: table tennis, badminton, tennis, and squash. Captain Ashutosh Pednekar of the Indian Navy played a big role in giving the team its maiden victory over the weekend. The other competitors of the winning squad were Vikramaditya Chaufla, Adarsh Vikram, Sidharth Nandal, Varinder Singh, and Karan Taneja. Chaufla, who had represented India in the World U
During the game, Hardik Pandya hit a sixer in the last over to give India a five-wicket victory over Pakistan. With 33 off 17 balls, Pandya scored 33 runs and claimed three wickets in his innings. A total of two wickets have been taken by Mohammad Nawaz and Naseem Shah for Pakistan. It was a difficult start for Pakistan, but it managed to raise the score to 147. With four wickets each taken by Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Hardik Pandya, and Arshdeep, Indian pacers were outstanding. Having won the toss, India opted to bowl first. When India bowled, the senior seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar had the best
Indian chess master, R Praggnanandhaa defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen in the final round of the FTX Crypto Cup in Miami, on Monday morning. However, the 17-year-old chess player stood the second position in the international chess championship since Carlsen had a better score based on previous games. At the end of the regulation game, the score was tied 2-2 but Praggnanandhaa defeated Carlsen in the blitz tie-break. Praggnanandhaa earned a name after defeating world champion Carlsen in an online chess match in February. Carlsen lost to Praggnanandhaa, who was only 16 then at the
Antim Panghal scripted history as she became the first-ever Indian woman wrestler to claim gold at the U-20 world championships when she got the better of Kazakhstan’s Altyn Shagayeva 8-0 in the 53kg category final in the capital city of Bulgaria on Friday. In the tournament's 34-year-long history, this is the first time that an Indian female wrestler has finished on top of the podium. Antim, who comes from Haryana’s Bhagana village in the Hisar district, put Shagayeva under her control with her leg attacks and takedowns to win the title of the world junior champion. The
India proved to be the best federation at the 44th chess Olympiad, and the award is a combined rank total of the open & women’s section. The USA claimed the second position. Meanwhile, the India A team clinched the bronze medal in the final round. The Closing ceremony of the Chess Olympiad 2022 was held in Chennai with the awarding ceremony for the team Winners and medalists, the best individual players, and the bestowing of the Gaprindashvili cup for the federation. India, with a total of 34 match points and the best additional tiebreaks, lifted the Gaprindashvili cup, named a
As the Indian contingent ends their campaign at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, the player's glorified nation's name with an impressive medal count. Team India won medals in each of the six events and spectacularly bagged a total of 61 medals. The total tally included 22 gold, 16 silver, and 23 bronze. This places India fourth out of 43 countries that have won medals at the Commonwealth Games, but it was the team's lowest medal tally since 2006. India finished fourth out of four teams, behind Australia (178), England (176), and Canada (92), losing out on the 101 medals it won
On Monday, PV Sindhu and young Gun Lakshya Sen excelled in the singles badminton competition as India swept the gold medals for the first time at the Commonwealth Games. A convincing straight-game win over Canada's Michelle Li added yet another gold to India's supporting icon Sindhu's bulging collection. Against the world number 13 at the NEC arena in front of a packed crowd, India's world number seven won 21-15, 21-12. Later in the day, ranked 10th Lakshya Sen came from behind to defeat giant-killing Ng Tze Yong. The 20-year-old beat the world number 42 from Malaysia through 19-21, 21-
It is raining medals for India at the on-going 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and the latest Indian sportspersons to win a medal at the event is boxer Nikhat Zareen. Zareen clinched the gold medal for India in the women’s 50kg light flyweight by winning her final bout comprehensively. Nikhat won three of her bouts at Birmingham 2022 5-0 and one via RSC (referee stops contest). In the final bout, she got the better of Gold Coast silver medalist, Ireland’s Carly McNaul. Earlier, Careen has won a gold medal at the 2011 AIBA Women's Youth & Junior World Boxing Cham
On Sunday, India wins the mixed doubles gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. Indian table tennis legend Achanta Sharath Kamal defined age to team up with young Sreeja Akula as they comfortably beat Javen Choong and Karen Lyne of Malaysia 11-4, 9-11, 11-15, 11-6. Barring a blip in the second game, Sharath and Akula pair was in complete control of the tie increasing the nation's gold collection. In the earlier men's doubles final, Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan lost to Paul Drinkhall and Liam Pitchford from England and settled for silver. Meanwhile, the same day, Indian boxer Sagar Ahlawat c
On Wednesday, Daniil Medvedev made a triumphant return in Mexico beating Australian qualifier Rinky Hijikata 6-4,6-3. Medvedev won the opening set with the first break of the contest. This was Medvedev’s first match in six weeks at the ATP hard court tournament in Los Cabos, Mexico. The world number one player created a landmark for his career with the 250th match win of the reigning US Open Champion’s career. To this, he said, “Someone told me this a few days ago, otherwise I would have not known. That’s nice, a milestone in a way.” He further added that he aims for more victori