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Georgetown (Guyana): Record four-time champions India will be aiming to maintain their envious record and unearth a plethora of talent along the way when they begin their U-19 World Cup campaign against South Africa here on Saturday. Expectations will be high from the likes of Harnoor Singh, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, skipper Yash Dhull and Ravi Kumar, […]

Hobart: Travis Head spoiled a promising start for England in the Ashes on Friday with his second century of the series as Australia recovered from 12-3 to reach 241-6 at stumps on a rain-hit first day of the fifth Test. Head, who scored 152 in the opening Test at Brisbane, counterpunched England’s early success with […]

New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and world championship bronze medallist Lakshya Sen registered contrasting wins to advance to the women’s and men’s singles semifinals, respectively, at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open badminton here on Friday. Top seed Sindhu, a former world champion, got the better of compatriot Ashmita Chaliha 21-7, 21-18 in 36 minutes, […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad girl Humera Behramus defeated Avishka Gupta 6-0, 6-3 to emerge champion in the AITA Women’s 1 lakh tennis tournament at the Sania Mirza Tennis Academy, on Friday. Humera dominated the game from the beginning to race to a comfortable straight-set victory. Now you can get handpicked stories from Telangana Today on Telegram everyday. […]

Cape Town: South Africa beat India by seven wickets to win the third Test and secure the series 2-1. Resuming the day 101 for two, South Africa go the job done in 63.3 overs with major contributions coming from Keegan Petersen (82), Rassie van der Dussen (41 not out) and Temba Bavuma (32 not out). Petersen […]

Hyderabad: Princess Daka and Wind Sprite shaped well when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race course on Friday morning. SAND: 600m: Take Me As I Am (RB) 46, moved well. 3y-(Sedgefield/Translation) (B Nikhil) 47, moved easy. Yesterday (Surya Prakash) 48, moved freely. 800m: Lifetime (Jagdale) 1-2, 600/46, handy. Carlisle (Md Ismail) 1-2, 600/48, […]

The nine-time Australian Open champion, who has won consecutive titles at Melbourne Park since 2019, had initially been granted a medical exemption to compete in the tournament.

New Delhi: Former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir has expressed his displeasure over Test skipper Virat Kohli’s rant in front of the stump mic after South African captain Dean Elgar survived a DRS review on the third day of the deciding Test at Newlands, Cape Town on Thursday. Kohli and a few other Indian players fumed at […]

Riyadh: Athletic Club Bilbao qualified for their second Spanish Supercup final in two years as they came back from behind to beat Atletico Madrid 2-1. The first half was a close, tactical affair, with both looking to cancel the other out and although Joao Felix had the ball in the net in the first minute, […]

Cape Town: Rishabh Pant was fearless without being careless during a brilliant hundred in the most adverse circumstances but South Africa were on course for a memorable series win against India on a day when visiting skipper Virat Kohli was left fuming due to a contentious DRS decision in the third and final Test here. […]

Melbourne: Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri suffered a straight sets defeat to Czech Republic’s Tomas Machac in the Australian Open qualifiers here on Thursday, meaning the year’s first Grand Slam will have no Indian participation in the singles main draw. Bhambri lost his second round qualifying match 1-6 3-6. Machac has a career high ATP […]

Melbourne: Novak Djokovic remained in limbo even after he was included in the draw for the Australian Open on Thursday, with the tennis star still awaiting a government decision on whether to deport him for not being vaccinated for Covid-19. Despite the cloud hanging over Djokovic’s ability to compete, Australian Open organizers included the top […]

Hyderabad: Osmania University men’s team clinched the tennis title defeating hosts Sri Ramaswamy Memorial Institute of Science and Technology (SRM University) 3-2 in the summit clash of the South Zone Inter-University Tennis Championship at the SMR University on Thursday. This is the first time in over a decade the OU team came out on top. […]

New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medallist shuttler PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy advanced to the quarterfinals but the promising Malvika Bansod ended her idol Sania Nehwal’s campaign at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open here on Thursday. Former champion and 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Saina suffered a 17-21,9-21 straight game loss to her 20-year-old compatriot Malvika. […]

Chennai: The B Suresh-trained Emelda, who is in fine fettle, is expected to score in the AMKMK Karuppan Chettiar Memorial Cup 1,600 metres, a handicap for horses rated 60 to 85 Class-II, the feature event of the races to be held here on Friday. False rails will be announced on race day. The first race […]

Hyderabad: Ashwa Bravo, Makhtoob, Summer Night, Market King, Menilly, One Wish, Headway, Almas, Midsummer Star, Dharasana, Above The Law & Horse O’ War caught the eye when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race course on Thursday morning. SAND: 600m: Hartnell (RB) (From 1000/400) 45, handy. Reining Queen (RB) (From 1000/400) 46, moved easy. […]

Malvika Bansod defeated Nehwal 21-17, 21-9 in the second-round match which lasted for 35 minutes.

Despite the cloud hanging over Djokovic's ability to compete, Australian Open organizers included the top seed in the draw. He is slated to play fellow Serb Miomir Kecmanovic, who is ranked world No. 78., in the opening round next week.

Sindhu, the 26-year-old World No 7, defeated Ira Sharma 21-10, 21-10 in just 30 minutes, taking charge of both the games after initial skirmishes.

New Delhi: Men’s singles top seed and World Championship silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth along with six other players was on Thursday forced to withdraw from the ongoing India Open badminton championship after testing positive for Covid-19. The others who tested positive for Covid-19 were doubles specialist Ashwini Ponnappa, Ritika Rahul Thakkar, Treesa Jolly, Mithun Manjunath, […]

New Delhi: Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Thursday confirmed that seven players have been withdrawn from the ongoing India Open 2022 after testing positive for COVID-19. “The players returned a positive result to a mandatory RT-PCR test conducted on Tuesday. Doubles partners deemed close contact of the seven players have also been withdrawn from the […]

Cape Town: Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara made it to stumps on day two of third Test against South Africa at Newlands Cricket Ground here on Wednesday. At stumps, India are 57/2 in 17 overs, leading by 70 runs. In a see-saw day, India took a narrow 13-run lead as the pace attack shot out […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad Football Club suffered their first loss in last nine matches when they went down to Kerala Blasters FC 0-1 in their previous game. The Manolo Marquez coached side, however, is confident of returning to winning ways when they take on Chennaiyin FC, on Thursday. Hyderabad began their ISL campaign with a loss in […]

New Delhi: Former champion Saina Nehwal, world championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen and comeback man HS Prannoy registered contrasting wins to progress to the second round of the India Open here on Wednesday. Commonwealth Games silver medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also made winning starts to their men’s doubles campaign.Former world no 1. Saina, […]