The Indian squash contingent began its Asian Games campaign with comfortable victories over Singapore and Pakistan.
India's Parthiban Ayappan and Harinder Pal Sandhu endured strong challenges before\nmaking it to the main draw, in the PSA Otters Open Squash Tournament.
Abhay Singh won a thrilling battle against Noor Zaman as India regained the Asian Games squash gold with an epic 2-1 win over Pakistan.
14-year-old Anahat Singh was on Tuesday included in India's squash squad for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, starting on July 28.
Indian squash player Joshna Chinappa rose to 10th while Deepika Pallikal remained static at 19th in the latest Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings.
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Sixth seeds India sent giant-killers Denmark crashing out of the World Team Squash Championship to set up an intriguing quarter-final clash with fourth-seeded Australia at Padewrborn, Germany.
India's campaign in the WSF men's World Team Squash Championship came to an end on Friday after they went down to top seeds Egypt 0-2 in a hard-fought quarter-final in Mulhouse, France. Harinder Pal Sandhu and Saurav Ghosal played out of their skins but failed to stretch the title favourites.
National champion Saurav Ghoshal will spearhead India's challenge in the Men's World Team Squash Championship to be held in Odense, Denmark from September 27 to October 3.
It was a disappointing outing for Indian players in the Punj Lloyd PSA Masters 2010 as all lost their opening round matches and bowed out of the squash event at the Siri Fort Sports Complex, in Delhi, on Tuesday. Much was expected of wild card entrant Harinder Pal Sandhu, qualifiers Sandeep Jangra and Siddharth Suchde but the trio failed to impress in a star-studded field.
Riding on some fine performances in the season opening events, India's Siddharth Suchde and Harinder Pal Sandhu have entered the top 100 of the World Squash rankings for the first time on Wednesday.
Top seed Dipika Pallikal entered the finals of the Australian Open squash event, a PSA world tour event, after posting a 6-11 11-6 11-7 11-4 win over Hana Ramadan of Egypt. Dipika, who recently finished runner-up in the Victoria Open a few days ago, faced an initial scare from the Egyptian qualifier before she managed to grab an opportunity and turn the tables around in her favour.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
Chasing a third successive Asian Games medal, Indian boxer Vikas Krishan (75kg) made a strong start, out-punching Pakistan's Tanveer Ahmed in his pre-quarterfinal bout in Jakarta, on Monday.
The fifth seeded pair, who had a shaky pre-quarterfinal match against a Malaysian duo, was in terrific touch in the quarterfinal match against third seed Tesni Evans and Peter Creed of Wales.
India bagged two medals in Kurash, a form of wrestling indigenous to central Asia, with Pincky Balhara and Malaprabha Yallappa Jadhav winning silver and bronze respectively
Sahara Force India enjoyed a double points finish at the 'home' British Grand Prix with Esteban Ocon and Sergio Perez finishing eight and ninth to collect six points for the team, in Silverstone, on Sunday.
India were, on Friday, assured of three medals in squash competition of the 18th Asian Games with Saurav Ghosal, Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal Karthik advancing to the semifinals of their respective singles events in Jakarta.
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A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
India's top-ranked player Dipika Pallikal remains firm on her stance of not being part of the premier domestic event until equal prize money is offered to male and female participants.
The eight players picked for the Asian Games have been training without a full-time coach and most of them don't train regularly with Kumari and Poncha, who has been a longtime national coach.
India finished seventh in the Men's World Team Squash Championship after posting a 2-0 win over Malaysia in the 7th-8th position match in Mulhouse, France.
The Indian squash players wrapped up a historic performance in the Asian Games, clinching an unprecedented men's team gold after the women's side settled for its first ever silver in Incheon on Saturday.
The Indian squash contingent on Thursday assured its best ever showing at the Asian Games in Incheon by reaching the men's and women's team semi-finals, ensuring it returns home with medals in all four categories on offer.
Manjit Singh came from nowhere to snatch the men's 800m gold for the biggest medal of his life but finals continued to be a riddle for P V Sindhu
Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa both the glamorous Chennai girls are let their racquets speak.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Also seen in action for India will be the shuttlers, boxers, the women's hockey team and the table tennis players among others.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
A golden dream unfulfilled for over 30 years remained just that in women's hockey but India equalled its best ever medal haul as sailors joined the assorted contributors to the country's tally at the 18th Asian Games, on Friday.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
The swimmers led India's charge on Saturday by winning 7 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze as they completely dominated the pool yet again.
A record-smashing Mirabai Chanu and a perseverant P Gururaja claimed gold and silver respectively as weightlifters lived up to to the pre-event hype and delivered opening day medals for India at the 21st Commonwealth Games, in Gold Coast, on Thursday.
Iran ended seven-time champions India's unchallenged kabaddi domination in the Asian Games since the sport was first introduced in 1990.
India badminton team have been accorded the top seed this time and are clubbed with Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Scotland in Group A.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
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