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Mumbai, Jul 18: Dipika Pallikal dethroned defending champion Joshna Chinappa to regain the women’s title in the 73rd Senior National Squash Championship here on Sunday. The men’s crown was captured by title holder and top seed Saurav Ghosal, who created history by winning it for the 11th time, defeating fourth seed Harinderpal Singh Sandhu in five hard-fought games at the Otters Club. Ghosal beat

New Delhi, Jul 17: Undefeated pro-boxer Vijender Singh on Sunday dedicated his WBO Asia Pacific super middleweight title win to India. Vijender defeated Australian Kerry Hope in his first 10 round bout in front of a packed Thyagraj Sports Complex crowd in New Delhi. Three judges ruled 98-92, 98-92 and 100-90 for an unanimous decision in favour of the Indian boxer. He also dedicate the win to

New Delhi, Jul 16: Indian boxing star Vijender Singh scaled a new high in his ever-soaring professional career as he clinched the WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight title with a dominating win over former WBC European champion Kerry Hope here tonight. The 30-year-old Indian took all 10 rounds to systematically dismantle the 34-year-old Welsh-born Australian and record his seventh straight win in

Chandigarh, Jul 16: Veteran Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna outclassed the Korean pair of Seong Chan Hong and Hong Chung in straight sets to guide India to the Davis World Group Play-offs as the hosts took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the Asia/Oceania Group I tie, here today. The Indian pair dished out a dominations performance to trounce the visitors 6-3 6-4–6-4 in just one hour and 41 minutes at

New Delhi, Jul 16: Bolstered by Australian Open triumph, India ace shuttler Saina Nehwal says she is now working on her half smashes under the watchful eyes of coach Vimal Kumar to get closer to the goal of winning a gold medal at next month’s Rio Olympics. “The victory in Australia came at just the right time. I was really looking forward for some change and nothing boosts confidence like winning

Jul 15: Sania Mirza has the tenacity to be calm on the court and over the years has built up her personality to shut people up when a stray question comes her way. And after wording her career in her autobiography titled ‘Ace Against Odds’, she put words on mainstream media to hit back at TV journalist Rajdeep Sardesai for a sexist question. On air with Sardesai, Mirza was questioned about

New Delhi, July 14: Sports Minister Vijay Goel today said that giant screens will be put up all around Delhi for people to watch the Indian athletes perform in the Rio Olympics beginning August 5. "We want to take sports to every doorstep and keeping that philosophy in mind, we have decided to install big screens all around the city during the Olympics. The screens will be put up in areas like

London, Jul 14: A 20-year-old Sikh man was kicked out of an overnight queue to watch the Wimbledon tennis championships as he apparently made other people around him “uncomfortable”. The unnamed tennis-lover took to Facebook last week to voice his anger at being thrown out and claimed it was an act of racism, cases of which have reported a rise in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the European

Chengdu, Jul 14: Harika Dronavalli, India's young Grand Master from Guntur, is just a step away from winning her first Fide women's Grand Prix chess title. Harika played an aggressive game to earn another crucial half a point to maintain her position at the top of the score board today. This is the tenth and penultimate round of the tournament and she just needs a draw and a couple of other games

New Delhi, Jul 13: Defender Sushila Chanu will lead the 16-member Indian women's hockey team at the forthcoming Olympic Games to be held at Rio de Janeiro from August 5 to 21. Hockey India on Tuesday named Sushila as the skipper in place of Ritu Rani who was dropped from the squad by the selectors due to poor form and attitude problems. Sushila's colleague in the backline, Deepika will assist her