Sports Shorts: Saina out of top 10, Srikanth at 8th spot in BWF ranking

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Saina Nehwal. Photograph: Twitter Following their poor run of form at the badminton World Championship, Saina Nehwal dropped......

Anand in quarters of London Classic after easy draw

Former World champion Viswanathan Anand made it to the knock-out stage in the London Chess Classic with an easy draw against Andrei Istratescu of France in the fifth round of the preliminaries......

London Chess Classic: Anand races to second win in prelims

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand continued with his winning ways and scored a second victory against Luke McShane of England to secure a commanding lead in the preliminary round of the......

Anand in joint-lead after two rounds at London Classic

Viswanathan Anand put behind the disappointment of the World Championship loss and started his campaign by first beating England's Luke McShane and drawing with Michael Adams, another Englishman,......

Negi wins Philadelphia Open

Teen Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi proved his extraordinary chess skills by winning the Philadelphia International Open tournament, beating illustrious names including GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly. Negi......