Sundararajan Kidambi took a giant stride towards his second GM norm by stunning the Armenian Grandmaster in the fourth round of the Dubai Chess Championship.
At a press conference in New Delhi, Subhash Chandra announced that the league will be floated with a corpus of Rs 100 crore, and will offer top prize money of $ 1 million
Jelena Ostapenko enjoyed a winning end to her season with a 6-3, 6-1 triumph over Karolina Pliskova in her final White Group match at the WTA Finals on Thursday and vowed to return as a better player after her first taste of the event.
The Indian advanced to the main draw of the British Open Squash with a straight-game victory over Aaron Frankcomb.
Saurav Ghosal and Ritwik Bhattacharya are a step away from entering the main draw of the British Open Squash Championships after advancing to the finals of the qualifiers in Manchester.
The victory helped the national champion join overnight leaders Deepan and Pavel.
Olympic silver medallist shuttler PV Sindhu admitted that there is more responsibility on her shoulders post the Rio Games as everyone now wants her to achieve more laurels for the country. Sindhu, who was here to receive Rs 30 lakhs from the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) as prize money for winning silver in Rio Olympics, said she is focused on keeping things simple despite the responsibility. "Definitely there is more responsibility and everybody's eyes are on me to achieve more. That is there but I said to myself I should not take too much pressure. My aim is to keep playing well. After the Olympics, I have won a Superseries and I have done well," the lanky Hyderabadi shuttler said.
Wimbledon finally dragged itself into the 21st century as it announced equal prize money for women.
India captain Virat Kohli's phenomenal batting form fetched him the BCCI's best cricketer award for two seasons, while World Cup stars Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana were chosen for the women's equivalent of the honour.
Serena Williams is chasing Australian Margaret Court's record 24 Grand Slam singles titles
When defending champions Australia compete in the Women's Twenty20 World Cup final in Melbourne on Sunday, they will earn the same as their male counterparts would - in stark contrast to their rivals, India. In cricket-mad India, male players are revered as gods, paid handsomely and showered with lucrative endorsement deals, from watches and shoes to snacks, headphones and even toothbrushes. The women barely get a look-in.
'India is known for its guru shishya parampara and the Guru always gets more.'
Justine Henin's stroll into the Wimbledon quarter-finals, losing just 15 games in four rounds, may not be helping the argument that women are earning their equal share of this year's prize money.
India No 1 Alok Kumar also got off to a good start when he beat Ashok Shandilya on the opening day of the MIG All India Invitation Snooker Tournament.
The Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode invites would-be entrepreneurs, start-ups and incubators to showcase their business ideas at IDEA 2006 and win Rs 2,00,000.
World No. 10 Indian, playing with black pieces, had to be at her defensive best to avoid conceding the game.
'I was called fake because of my onscreen character Simar.' 'But I have one thing to say: One cannot act in such stressful conditions for 106 days.'
Indian Grandmaster S P Sethuraman crashed out of the World Cup of chess after a draw with Azerbaijani superstar Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the second game of the third round in Baku.
The 25-year-old Delhi-based golfer led the field in the Rs 70-lakh Crompton Greaves Golf Open, the richest prize-money tournament in India.
A goalless draw had little bearing on the league table as both teams stayed put in the sixth and seventh positions respectively.
From begging cigarettes to becoming one of the richest sportsmen in Kenya, marathoner Robert Cheruiyot's is an inspiring tale.
The draw took both Eesha Karavade and Koneru Humpy to 3.5 points out of a possible five in the Dubai International Chess championship.
The WTA Tour has criticised French Open organisers for awarding more prize money to the men competitors
India's tennis players -- both current and former -- are not just counting financial losses as they cope with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. The closure of the Pro Tour means that doubles exponent Purav Raja is set to lose at least $50,000 in this lockdown period, according to his own assessment. Prajnesh Gunneswaran, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Divij Sharan can't exactly tell how much they would lose but considering the fact that they are consistently in contention to be in Grand Slam main draws, the massive financial hit is not difficult to assess.
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The former beat defending champion Subhajit Saha to win the men's singles title while defending champion Mouma Das beat top seed Poulomi Ghatak to retain her crown.
Top seed Gao Ning of Singapore proved his class to score a convincing 4-1 victory at the Indian Open Table Tennis Championship.
Fifth seed Russian Michail Elgin clinched his maiden ATP Challenger title, beating unseeded Czech Tomas Cakl in a thrilling summit clash of the $ 50,000 SAIL Open in New Delhi on Saturday.
Asian champion Jin Long of China and former continental winner Yasin Merchant are among the cueists for the Reid and Taylor Bombay Gymkhana Instant tournament.
He is the first player to win an ATP tournament three times in succession on seven different occasions!
Jeev Milkha Singh's maiden UBS Order of Merit title and four victories around the globe dominated the season that included numerous milestones.
Tina and Hussain can't belive they've won the dance competition.
Images from Day 2 of the French Open matches played at Roland Garros on Monday
India, who registered their first series victory in Australia at the turn of the year, finished with 116 points on the April 1 cut-off date, eight points ahead of New Zealand who finished second and took home $500,000.
Abhijeet Gupta scored a thumping victory over Woman Grandmaster Aarthie Ramaswamy at the Dubai Chess Open
The Purvanchal Sena president, Adarsh Sharma, went into hiding soon after a case under the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act was registered against him at the Parliament Street police station.
Leading the field at the US $175,000 event will be former World No. 1 Martina Hingis and India's teenage sensation Sania Mirza.
'When I won Rs 1 crore, Amitabh Bachchan told my friends to find a girlfriend for me.'
Born with six toes on each foot, Swapna is stubborn from childhood, said the secretary of the Jalpaiguri District Athletics Association Ujjal Das Chowdhury, who has followed Swapna's career from close quarters.
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