Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Pallikal settled for silver medal in the mixed doubles squash event of the Commonwealth Games, in Gold Coast, on Saturday, becoming the first Indian pair to achieve the feat in the sporting extravaganza.
Here are the Indian Super Moms' at the Hangzhou Asian Games beginning on September 23.
India fought hard but eventually ran out of steam going down to former champions Australia in the quarter-final of the World Squash Team Championship at Padewrborn (Germany) on Thursday.
The acrimonious exit of foreign coach Achraf El Karargui days before the Commonwealth Games has affected the team's preparations but medal hopefuls Pallikal, Chinappa and Saurav Ghosal remain optimistic of their chances in all three events -- singles, doubles and mixed doubles.
This is the first time two Indians will contest the final of an Asian squash event.
Top-seed Anahat Singh went down 2-3 to Egyptian second seed Nadien Elhammamy in the Girls' Under-17 category final.
India's leading squash players Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa, who couldn't see eye to eye after an acrimonious quarterfinal in the Incheon Asian Games, have buried the hatchet to be friends again ahead of a busy upcoming season.
He went down to Canada's Shawn De Lierre 10-12, 10-12, 11-7, 11-4, 7-11 in the quarter-final of the Atlanta Open.
Saurav Ghosal's dream run in the World Squash Championship came to an end when he suffered a straight-game defeat against defending champion and world number one Ramy Ashour from Egypt in their quarter-final in Manchester.
Lakshya Sen shrugged off the cancellation of his opening match win and defeated Julien Carraggi of Belgium in straight games
India's top men's player Saurav Ghosal had a comfortable opener against Australian Steven Finitsis in the PSA World Squash Championship in Doha on Saturday.
India finished seventh in the Men's World Team Squash Championship after posting a 2-0 win over Malaysia in the 7th-8th position match in Mulhouse, France.
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.
India badminton team have been accorded the top seed this time and are clubbed with Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Scotland in Group A.
Shami was there to receive the honours. He took 24 wickets in seven World Cup games last year.
A fit-again Irfan Pathan feels that he is close to bowling at his best and it's just a matter of time before he is again back in contention for the seam bowling all-rounder's slot in the Indian cricket team that has been up for grabs for some time.
Each bottle of pickle that leaves FarmDidi, headed to a consumer, has a little kahani behind it -- it's linked to the tale of a life, the life of a simple, striving village woman who created it, and that's what gives Manjari Sharma satisfaction and happiness.
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.
Saurav Ghosal became the first Indian squash player to reach the quarter-finals of the World Championships, after rallying against Henrik Mustonen in a keenly-contested match of the sport's biggest event of the year at the National Centre in Manchester on Wednesday.
Kidambi Srikanth made a winning start but PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy were ousted
India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, on Tuesday, September 26.
World number one Iga Swiatek defeated American Jessica Pegula 6-3, 6-0 in just over an hour to defend her Qatar Open title on Saturday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
India's ace woman squash player, Dipika Pallikal, will be skipping next month's World Team Championships in Canada. The reason: she does not know about the event!
Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa both the glamorous Chennai girls are let their racquets speak.
'Baseball/softball, cricket (T20), flag football, lacrosse (sixes) and squash will be in the programme at LA28.'
P V Sindhu has made early exits in as many as seven of the 12 BWF World Tour events this year.
Tennis ace Rohan Bopanna, hockey great P R Sreejesh and table tennis legend Sharath Kamal, are gearing up for one last hurrah at the Asian Games, starting in Hangzhou, from September 23.
Jeremy stamps class on CWG debut, India climb to sixth in medal table
Andy Murray saved five match points to defeat Jiri Lehecka at the Qatar Open on Friday and reach a first ATP Tour final since June last year.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
Heavyweight boxer David Nyika did more than just win his second Commonwealth Games gold medal on Saturday. He shut the parochial Australian crowd up.
Take a cue from these celebrity weddings and glam up your wedding look.
Anahat Singh seals berth for World Junior Squash C'ship after topping selection trials
India's schedule on Day 3 of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on July 31, Sunday.
A summary of Indian athletes' performance on Wednesday, Day 6 of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
India's Joshna Chinappa put up a valiant fight against Alison Waters but the World No 4 eventually managed to tame the unseeded Indian 3-1 in the Women's Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Open Open on Saturday.
If Cyrus's protestations of having no knowledge of his imminent dismissal are to be taken at face value, he was extraordinarily naive and insulated from the ground reality. There were enough straws in the wind to suggest that his relations with Ratan were fast deteriorating to a point of no return.
No matter who the opponent, or how big the adversity, Andy Murray never backs away from the fight, observes Deepti Patwardhan.
Indian Olympic Association's acting president Anil Khanna called it a 'gender-neutral contingent' with 108 men and 107 women being part of the touring party.
