A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday.
Tennis star Sania Mirza joined the Swachh Bharat campaign, cleaning a road in Hyderabad before nominating nine persons, including fellow-sportspersons and Bollywood personalities, to join the movement.
Also seen in action for India will be the shuttlers, boxers, the women's hockey team and the table tennis players among others.
India's Test cricket captain Virat Kohli has been recommended for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the nation's biggest sporting honour, by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Minor upsets notwithstanding, matches went according to seedings in the 55th ICL National Squash Championship in Chennai on Wednesday.
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Dipika Pallikal stunned top seed Christina Mak of Hong Kong in straight games to storm into the semi-finals of the ICL Chennai Open Squash tournament on Friday. The fifth seeded Indian beat her higher-ranked opponent 9-7, 9-5, 9-3 in 34 minutes.
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.
Anaka Alankamony bagged India's lone gold medal at the Asian Junior Squash championship, while Dipika Pallikal and Mahesh Mangaonkar settled for silver after losing their respective finals in Busan on Sunday. Anaka, the top seeded Indian, beat Hong Kong's Ho Ka Po 9-6, 9-6, 9-5 in the girls under-15 category final to clinch her eighth international title.
Sania Mirza reacted with delight at her being recommended for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, describing it as the "most amazing" development.
Joshna beat second seed Dipika Pallikal in the women's final while Ghosal downed Maharashtra's Siddharth Suchde in the men's.
The top 16 seeds in the men's section sailed into the second round, evens as the women side saw a few upsets in the 55th Senior ICL National Squash Championships.
Sourav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa won the men's and women's titles respectively at the 54th National squash championships.
The Indian men's team however was beaten 2-0 by Pakistan in the team final at the South Asian Games.
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.
Delhi's Gaurav Nandrajog clinched the men's title after top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya conceded the final because of a knee injury.
Joshna Chinappa, the world number two junior trounced Tanya Ananda (Mayo) 9-0, 9-0, 9-1 on Saturday.
They lifted the men's and women's titles respectively of the 62nd CCI-Western India Squash championship.
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Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on the seventh day of the Asian Games on Saturday.
Sans their top squash player Dipika Pallikal, India's struggle continued as they were blanked 0-3 by France for their second straight defeat in the ongoing WSF Women's World Team Squash Championship in Niagara Falls.
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A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
Dinesh Karthik acknowledged that he has an onerous task of replacing a very successful Gautam Gambhir but asserted that he has it in him to steer Kolkata Knight Riders to at least the IPL Play-offs and get the best out of his side.
India's 572 athletes hope to return home with an overflowing treasure chest of medals.
India's schedule on Day 1 of competition at the Asian Games in Incheon.
India's squash players wrapped up a historic performance at 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.
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
On the last day of the competition, Yash Vardhan and Shreya Agrawal bagged three gold medals each.
Joshna Chinappa continued her impressive run to reach the quarter-finals of the $115,000 Qatar Classic squash tournament in Doha on Monday.
Check out India's schedule on Day 8 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Thursday.
Joshana Chinappa registered one of the biggest upsets of the PSA World Tour season as she stunned World No 1 Raneem El Welily of Egypt in the first round of the Qatar Classic Squash Championship, in Doha, on Saturday.
Amit Panghal displayed soldier's grit to stun the reigning Olympic champion for India's only boxing gold while two 50-plus bridge players proved that age is just a number with top finishes as the country achieved its best-ever medal haul at the Asian Games, in Jakarta, on Saturday. India equalled its best gold medal haul by touching 15, something that last happened back in 1951, as the overall tally surpassed the 65 in Guangzhou by three this time.
In the medal standings, India were placed eighth with a compilation of seven gold, five silver and 17 bronze.
The head of the World Squash Federation (WSF) said he was devastated for the sport's millions of followers after squash was again overlooked for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
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