The domination of home paddlers could be gauged from the fact that all finals on Monday featured only the Indians.
Manika Batra and Mouma Das made history by becoming the first Indian pair to reach the quarter-finals of the World Table Tennis Championships in Dusseldorf, on Thursday.
Shahrukh Khan however changed the complexion of the game as he smashed 33 runs off just 15 balls, taking Tamil Nadu to a four-wicket win.
Tennis star Sania Mirza arrived at the Games Village of the Rio Olympics and so did the table tennis squad while the Indian hockey team won its practice match against Spain.
India's Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran tasted instant success on their return as a mixed doubles pairing by winning the title at the WTT Contender in Budapest on Friday.
Following is India's schedule at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, July 24.
Deepika and Atanu form the mixed team and they kickstarted their training
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday condoled the death of Koppu and assured all required assistance to his family.
Manika Batra wants to break the top-30 barrier in the near future
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
A summary of Ranji matches played on Tuesday.
Ace Indian paddler Achantha Sharath Kamal lost to Germany's Timo Boll 1-4 in the second round to crash out of the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris.
The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) on Tuesday termed Manika Batra's decision to not take the help of national coach Soumyadeep Roy during her matches at the Tokyo Olympics as a brazen 'act of indiscipline'.
Athletics Federation of India (AFI) pruned down the number of track and field participants in the upcoming Glasgow Commonwealth Games from the original 41 to 33, leaving out controversial triple jumper Renjith Maheswary and the six-member men's 4x100m relay team.
He sent a WhatsApp video message telling his parents to arrange Rs 50 lakh as ransom.
There were three attractive half-centuries but a top and lower-middle order collapse saw hosts Karnataka manage a below-par 264 for 9 against Saurashtra on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy semi-final on Thursday.
A summary of Ranji Trophy matches played on Thursday.
Here's a look at Indian athletes' performance on Monday, Day 4 of the Games.
While a billion hearts would pray for all the participants to do well, all eyes would be set on the duo of Deepika Kumari/Atanu Das, the four shooters and Mirabai Chanu to open India's medals count.
India's top-five finish not a given this time
Shaw continued from his unbeaten 240 from overnight and brought up his triple ton.
The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on sports calendars across the globe, resulting in cancellation and postponement of events, but it has also provided sportspersons a rather unexpected break. Indian sportspersons including some chess players plan to use the time to train and also be with their families.
A summary of Indian athletes showing on Friday, Day 8 of the Commonwealth Games.
Jeremy stamps class on CWG debut, India climb to sixth in medal table
Former India table tennis player Venugopal Chandrasekhar died at a private hospital in Chennai on Wednesday due to COVID-19 related complications.
Sania ousted from Qatar Total Open.
He has shouldered the burden of Indian table tennis for more than a decade and Sharath Kamal is now happy that the country has finally found a new star in Manika Batra.
The video purportedly shows pigs roaming freely in the corridors of the hospital, undeterred by people walking nearby.
The Indian table tennis players had a bitter-sweet day at the Asian Games as the mixed doubles team of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulomi Ghatak crashed out while the women's doubles team got the better of arch-rivals Pakistan in a round-of-32 match in Incheon on Monday.
PM Modi immediately took to Twitter to congratulate the athlete.
A round-up of Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday
Seven Olympic and six Paralympic disciplines were identified for support at a meeting of the Mission Olympic Cell.
A summary of all the action from Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Wednesday.
Check out India's schedule on Day 9 of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast on Friday.
Soumyajit Ghosh has married his accuser after his career nose-dived owing to the crisis.
Karnataka bowlers, led by experienced Abhimanyu Mithun (2-24), put up a spirited show to restrict Maharashtra to 155/4 despite an unbeaten 69 by all-rounder Naushad Shaikh.
Sathiyan rose four spots to be placed 24th in the latest ITTF rankings, following his impressive sixth place finish in the Asia Cup in Yokohama earlier this month. Last week, he was the sole Indian to reach the round of 32 in the World Championships in Hungary.
Check out India's schedule on Day 7 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Wednesday.
India's representation in the singles events of the World Table Tennis Championship was reduced to just four players, three of them women, after six others failed to qualify for the main draw.
