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Hyderabad: Applauding the upcoming city paddler Balusuri Varun Shanker’s selection to the Indian team that will play in the WTT Youth contender Muscat, State IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan said it is good to see three young table tennis players from the state representing the country. Ranjan congratulated Shanker during the Day One proceedings of the […]

Hyderabad: V Jyothi Surekha, representing Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) won two gold medals in the women’s compound event in the ongoing 40th NTPC Senior National Archery Championship being held in Jamshedpur, Bihar. Surekha, who became the first Indian to win three silver medals in the World Archery recently, clinched the individual ranking round (704/720) […]

Chennai: The MRF MMSC fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship 2021, boasting of over 100 entries, resumes after a month’s interval as the third round gets underway at the MMRT, here on Friday with promise of thrilling action as the front-runners seek to consolidate their respective positions in the points table. Much of the attention […]

Hyderabad: Former Ranji middle-order batsman Vanka Pratap is the new director of Hyderabad Cricket Academy of Excellence (HCAE). The post has been vacant since July 2017. Pratap will succeed former Test all-rounder MV Narasimha Rao. Pratap is a close confidante of HCA president Mohammed Azharuddin and he becoming the director was doing the rounds of […]

Hyderabad: With a clean slate, YMCA Secunderabad topped Group “D” in the Annual League Basketball Championship of the Hyderabad District Basketball Association. Loyola Academy, who posted second win in three games, are tied with Eagles but the former need to wait for the outcome of the match between G 9 and Sanathnagar Playground to decide […]

Hyderabad: Ashwa Pushkin, Strategist & Special Effort pleased when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race Course on Wednesday morning. SAND:800m:Shelly Anne (Kiran Naidu) (From 1200/400) 1-2, eased up. Archangels (Deepak Singh) 1-3, 600/47, handy. Proud (RB) 1-4, 600/48, moved freely. Art In Motion (NB Kuldeep) 1-3, 600/47, moved easy. 1000m:Due Diligence (Jagdale) 1-15, […]

Sharjah: Jimmy Neesham and Nathan Coulter-Nile bowled exceptionally well to keep Mumbai Indians alive and kicking as they outclassed Rajasthan Royals by eight wickets in a low-scoring Indian Premier League match, here on Tuesday. New Zealander Neesham (3/12) and Aussie Coulter-Nile (4/14) snapped seven wickets for only 26 runs in eight overs between them to […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad chess player Y Abhigyan, who emerged champion in the under-10 category in the international chess tournament conducted by America Chess Club Academy on July 20 on the occasion of International Chess Day, received his trophy from the United States of America on Tuesday. The Telangana boy took the top place with impressive performances […]

Hyderabad: With the much-awaited ICC Men’s T20 World Cup just days away and India set to begin their campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan, former Pak all-rounder Abdul Razzaq ruffled a few feathers. The former cricketer said that Pakistan is a much superior cricketing nation and has more talent than the Virat Kohli-led side. India and Pakistan […]

Hyderabad: Glendale Golfers along with Team Civet Rangers, Team MYSA and Apollo Cancer Crusaders cruised into the semifinals of the Sreenidhi University Telangana Premier Golf League at Hyderabad Golf Course on Tuesday. The quarterly knockout round was played in both single and doubles format with 4 singles matches and 2 doubles matches for a total […]

Abu Dhabi: Assured of a play-off berth, Royal Challengers Bangalore would look to inch closer to a top two finish in the league stage when they play Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL here on Wednesday. Eyeing their first IPL title triumph, RCB are currently placed third in the pecking order with 16 points from 12 […]

New Delhi: Delhi’s Naamya Kapoor, all of 14, stunned the field including compatriot Manu Bhaker who won bronze, to be crowned the Junior Women’s 25M Pistol world champion on Monday at Lima’s Las Palmas Shooting range. Making it a perfect day for India, Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar then clinched the Junior Men’s 50M Rifle […]

Mumbai: The Season 8 of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL), to be organised by Mashal Sports, will begin from December 22. Keeping the health and safety of the players and all stakeholders in mind, this year the league will be held without spectators, at a single venue in Bengaluru, moving away from the traditional caravan […]

Hyderabad: Secunderabad YMCA and Eagles registered their second win in as many matches at the expense of KPHB Basketball Club and G 9 respectively in the Annual League Basketball Championship of the Hyderabad District Basketball Association. In other matches, Keystone Basketball Academy finished their engagements with 2 wins and a solitary loss and stay in […]

Hyderabad: Saffron Art, Ashwa Raudee, Amalfitana, Thanks, Ahead Of His Time, Yesterday and Titus impressed when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race Course on Tuesday morning. SAND: 600m:Bravo (RB) 46, well in hand. Sheldon (Kiran Naidu) 47, handy. 800m:Unmatched (Md Ismail) 1-3, 600/46, moved easy. Queen Blossom (RB) 58, 600/44, moved well. Inception […]

Hyderabad: Even as the Indian team celebrated their first-ever podium finish with a silver medal in the Fide World chess championship in Sitges, Spain, far away in Vijayawada, India’s top player Grandmaster Koneru Humpy had to stay back for no fault of her. She became a victim of circumstances as she was denied a Spanish […]

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) president Mohammed Azharuddin said the long-awaited five member selection committee will be in place in two days’ time.He said the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) of SL Venkatapathy Raju, Purnima Rau and Sudeep Tyagi had been named in the last Annual General Meeting. “They were advised to nominate the […]

Sharjah: Mumbai Indians’ mega-stars will be making one last ditch effort to put their derailed Indian Premier League campaign back on track when they take on a confident Rajasthan Royals in their penultimate league match on Tuesday. The five-time champions were aiming for a hat-trick, which would be a first in the tournament’s 14-year-history, but […]

Hyderabad: Off-spinner Murugun Abhishek returned with fine figures of 10-2-40-8 but all his efforts went in vain as Hyderabad lost to Mumbai by 57 runs in the fifth and final round Elite Group C league match of the Vinoo Mankad Trophy one-day tournament in Ahmedabad on Monday. Hyderabad and Rajasthan finished with 16 points each […]

Hyderabad: For the St Martin’s Cricket Academy boys in Malkajgiri, it was a learning experience as Indian team fielding coach T Dilip spoke about the different nuances of the fielding. Giving an insight about fielding, work ethics and mind set, Dilip asked the boys to enjoy fielding. He also advised the students to strike a […]

Hyderabad: NRN Reddy was declared the champion of TiE CEO Golf Tournament at Hyderabad Golf Club at Golconda on Sunday morning. HE Claudio Ansorena Montero, Ambassador of the Republic of Costa Rica, presented him the trophy. Results: Overall Gross winner – Vasu Merugu; Overall Gross runner up – Hemanth Reddy; Category A winner – Naveen […]

Hyderabad: Leading sportswear giant Adidas launched its ‘Impossible is Nothing’ campaign through the voice of athletes such as Rohit Sharma, Manpreet Singh, Mirabai Chanu, Simranjeet Kaur and Lovlina Borgohain. Adidas has been in the forefront of encouraging athletes in their sporting journey, enabling them with the best-in-class products to support them in achieving their possibilities. […]

Favourites and three-time National champions Karthik Maruthi and Sankar Anand of Erode had to be content with a second place and a fourth overall as another TN pair, Keerthy Prasad.

In the first semi-final, the eighth-seeded Harmeet and Manav stretched South Korean fifth seeds Woojin Jang and Jonghoon Lim before bowing out 4-11, 6-11, 10-12, 9-11, 11-8 in 44 minutes.