Asian Games champion shuttler Satwiksairaj Rankireddy's father R Kasi Viswanatham died of cardiac arrest on Thursday morning.
Sourav Kothari outclassed Pankaj Advani 4-2 in the final of the National Billiards and Snooker Championship in Indore on Saturday.
Achanta Sharatha Kamal scored a crushing straight game win over CRSB's Eric Fernandez to help PSPB enter the men's final of the All India Inter Institutional Table Tennis Championships, in Kolkata on Thursday.
Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal walked away with the Sports Person of the Year award for 2008-09, while World billiards champion Pankaj Advani and cricketer Virender Sehwag shared the honour for 2007-08 at the ninth PSPB annual awards in Delhi on Wednesday night.
In winning the title, the Mhow golfer posted his first victory in 15 years at the historic Delhi Golf Club.
International Master, renowned trainer and a mentor to many aspirants, Varugeese Koshy, has passed away. He was 66.
Former World No 1 Deepika Kumari, who was making a comeback after her maternity break, on Monday failed to make the Indian team for the Asian Games, World Cup and World Championships slated later this year.
Ace cueist Pankaj Advani successfully defended his National Billards title after outclassing PSPB teammate Dhruv Sitwala 5-2 in a best of nine games final in Bhopal on Monday.
Pankaj Advani won the Senior National Billiards Championship yet again, scoring a 5-2 victory over Sourav Kothari in a pulsating final, in Kolkata, on Tuesday.
Dhruv Sitwalla pulled off a 4-2 upset victory over former World champion Geet Sethi to enter the men's semi-finals, while Maharashtra's Meenal Thakur claimed the women's crown in the National Billiards Championships in Pune on Friday. Meenal outplayed Anuja Chandra of PSPB 76-59, 17-75, 76-55, 75-55 at the D Y Patil Vidyapeeth.
MC Mary Kom pulled no punches as the celebrated Indian boxer announced her intention to stretch her career by another "three-four" years and while the 2018 Asian and Commonwealth Games remain her "main focus", Tokyo Olympics, she said, is also not out of the radar yet. The London Olympics medallist and five-time world champion recently decided to go back to the light flyweight (48kg division) amid speculation that it is among the two categories that the International Boxing Association (AIBA) is pushing for inclusion in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The 33-year, a mother of three, is back in the ring with renewed hopes.
Grandmasters S S Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda share the lead with the top seed at the end of the 21st round in the National 'A' chess championship.
The Grandmaster from PSPB has 7.5 points and is followed by five players on 6.5 in the National A chess championship.
Saina Nehwal and Chetan Anand won the women's and men's titles respectively at the National Badminton Championship.
The double GM norm holder handed the PSPB GM and leader his first defeat in the National A chess championship.\n\n
The PSPB Grandmaster beat team mate R B Ramesh in the 12th round of the National 'A' chess championship to sit pretty at the top.
Defending champion Pankaj Advani crashed out of the 78th National Snooker Championship after losing to club-mate Alok Kumar in the quarter-finals, in Chennai, on Monday. He lost 59-27, 47-58, 63-31, 76-63, 44-73, 67-66, 66-58.
WGM Mary Ann Gomes defeated IM Nisha Mohota of PSPB to move into sole lead after the ninth round of the 38th National Women's chess championship in Chennai on Monday.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi of PSPB clinched the National title after settling for a quick draw against Grandmaster Tejas Bakre in the final round of the REC National Premier Chess Championship in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Young Rishabh Pandya stunned ace Geet Sethi 4-2 to enter the quarter-finals of the Matunga Gymkhana-BSAM-Pidilite 6-Red All India Open Snooker Championship in Mumbai on Sunday.
World rapid champion Koneru Humpy claimed her second title in the last two months by emerging triumphant at the Cairns Cup chess tournament following a draw against compatriot Dronavalli Harika in the ninth and final round, in St Louis, United States. Humpy, who was crowned World champion in December, finished the tournament with six points. The icing on the cake was that Humpy will gain five ELO rating points (the basis for international rankings) and move to second place in the world rankings.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal retained the men's singles title for the Maharaja Pithapuram Cup while top seed K Shamini lifted the Travancore Cup by winning the women's singles competition in the 70th Senior National Table Tennis Championship at the Secretariat Indoor Hall in Patna on Sunday.
Top seed Chetan Anand and national champion Sayali Gokhale scored contrasting victories in their respective title-clashes to lift the men's and women's singles crowns in the 2nd Tata Open Badminton Tournament in Mumbai on Sunday.
Surya Sekhar Ganguly (eight points) clinched a record sixth successive title after agreeing to a draw against M Shyam Sundar of Tamil Nadu in the final round of the 46th National 'A' chess championship in Mangalore on Tuesday. Shyam Sundar, playing the French defence against Ganguly, had earlier rejected an offer for a draw. But they reached a blind alley after 30 moves and agreed to split the point.
Indian badminton ace Saina Nehwal has set sights on attaining the world No 5 ranking by the end of the year, and "if all goes well, top the ranking by the year 2010". The world No 10, who is in Pune to participate in the 29th PSPB Inter-Unit Badminton Tournament, organized by Bharat Petroleum, said she "always dreamt of becoming world No 1".
Rohan Bopanna of IOCL defeated teammate Sunil Kumar Sipaya in straight sets to win the men's singles title of the PSPB Inter-unit tennis tournament in Chennai on Friday.
Shabaz, representing Petroleum Sports Promotion Board, trounced Shravan of Maharashtra 82-38 54-67 54-20 65-26 while Andhra Pradesh's K Someswara Rao thrashed Druv Sitwala of PSPB 58-1 49-27 61-73 39-58 43-34 in the Senior Snooker draw of the ongoing National Billiards and Snooker Championship in Hyderabad.
The National champions, both representing PSEB, won the men and women's singles titles respectively in the Inter-Institutional Table Tennis Championship.
The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board cueist beat Rupesh Shah of Gujarat by six frames to five in a nail-biting final.
World champion Pankaj Advani, former world champion Geet Sethi and former Asian champion Alok Kumar lost to lesser-known cueists in the pre-quarter-finals of the National Billiards Championship.
While Sethi lost to Sourav Kothari, Joshi was beaten by Yogesh Rai in the league stage of the Senior National billiards championship.
The BPCL-ONGC National 9-Ball Pool Championship is held in Chembur.
The seven-time world champion joined Pankaj Advani and Sourav Kothari in the per-quarter-finals of the National Billiards Championship.
Popat was taken the distance by B R Meenakshi while Saina Nehwal easily beat Trupti Murgunde in the semi-finals of the Senior National badminton championships.
They will clash in the snooker final of the National Snooker and Billiards Championship.
The junior national billiards and snooker champion proved too good for the former world champ in the semi-finals of the Senior National billiards championship.
Fancied cueists found the going tough in the first round of the knock-out stage of the National 9-Ball Pool Championship.
Bihar's Niraj Kumar beat last year's quarter-finalist Rupesh Shah to enter the last 16 in the National snooker championship.
The banned cricketer will play for his employers Bharat Petroleum Corporation in the 24th PSPB inter-unit cricket tournament.
Grandmasters Surya Shekhar Ganguly and GM Sandipan Chanda continued to share the lead with 5.5 points after the conclusion of the seventh round of the 42nd National 'A' Chess Championship.
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