Sreeshankar was expected to at least qualify for the final round but form deserted him when it mattered the most on Wednesday.
Images from Day 5 of the 2024 Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday.
In 2022, he raced past Usain Bolt, 'the world's fastest man', to become the world's most written-about athlete. The attention has followed a stream of medals: Asian Games gold twice, an Olympic gold, and silver and gold at the World Athletics Championships.
Photos pf tennis action across the USA on Sunday.
Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra became the first Indian to win a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships.
Bouchard got off to a quick start in the opening last eight clash and raced away to win it 6-1 in 38 minutes.
Here is what you need to know about the prize pot on offer at Wimbledon:
Neeraj Chopra failed to defend his Diamond League champion's title
Tunisians thronged cafes hoping to watch local heroine Ons Jabeur win the women's singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday but Czech Marketa Vondrousova had other ideas.
Images from Day 3 of the US Open, at Flushing Meadows, New York.
A round-up of Friday's action in the Davis Cup.
If Chopra holds the trophy and pockets the US$30,000 prize money at the Prefontaine Classic, he will become only the third man to defend the DL overall title, though the format changed in 2017.
Tunisia's Ons Jabeur believes the lessons she learned in two Grand Slam final defeats will stand her in good stead for Saturday's Wimbledon showdown with unseeded Czech Marketa Vondrousova.
Indian Davis Cup team sweats it out at 'mini cauldron', match timings revised due to tough conditions
An early goal from Pablo Sarabia earned Spain a 1-0 win in Switzerland on Thursday, their first victory of this year's UEFA Nations League.
West Ham United have condemned the behaviour of some of their fans after Fiorentina's Cristiano Biraghi was hit by a cup during the Europa Conference League final.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
Diksha Dagar fought back strongly in the second round to make the cut alongside compatriot Pranavi Urs at the Ladies Open.
Images from the men's singles fourth round matches at the Australian Open, on Sunday.
Alcaraz outlasts Hurkacz, Ruud stunned at Canadian Open
Swiatek will face Czech Karolina Muchova in the final.
It was sweet victory for Japan's Miyu Kato as she bagged the mixed doubles crown with Tim Puetz after being disqualied from the women's doubles.
IMAGES from Day 5 of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Thursday.
'I think war made me stronger and also made me mentally stronger'
Neeraj Chopra said the challenge throughout the season was how to keep his mind away from the injury and focus more on his game.
Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Lucie Hradecka lost 6-2, 2-6, 7-10 to Ukraine's Lyudmyla Kichenok and Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko.
Coco Gauff rallied from a break down in the final set to beat Swede Rebecca Peterson and reach the Indian Wells quarter-finals for the first time
"I feel very good now, because everyone is a little tired after the World Championships. We gave our 100 per cent there (in Budapest), but for this competition here my focus was to just stay healthy, and we have to focus now for Eugene (Diamond League finals on September 17) and then the (Hangzhou) Asian Games (from September 23).
India bagged two senior individual medals for the first time in women's skeet
IMAGES from Day 6 of the 2023 US Open on Saturday.
Images from the Nations League matches played on Thursday.
India's Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza notched up contrasting wins along with their respective partners in the men's and women's doubles competitions at the French Open in Paris on Thursday.
IMAGES from the UEFA Nations League matches played on Sunday.
The Czech Republic squad for Euro 2008 is likely to be chosen from the following players:
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The win is the Czech duo's fourth Grand Slam title together
'There are a number of unique challenges elite tennis players have to face. The game is gladiatorial in nature with nowhere for players to hide and no team mate or manager to help deflect the pressure.'
Mirza and Hradecka produced some high quality tennis but lost 4-6, 3-6
Holger Rune crashed out to Yoshihito Nishioka in the ATP 250 Adelaide International 1 first round.
DP Manu and Kishore Jena are the other two javelin throwers who will be in action on Friday.
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