The team, comprising National champion Achanta Sharath Kamal, Soumyadeep Roy and Subhajit Saha, routed Pakistan 3-0 in the final.\n\n
Batra will now take on Singapore's Jian Zeng in the last eight-clash later tonight.
Indian women thrashed Spain 3-0 to win a promotion to the first division of the next edition of World Team Table Tennis championship.
India's schedule on Day 4 of the Asian Games on Wednesday, September 27.
He beat Portugal's Tiago Apolonia at the Chile Open table tennis tournament.
'The win will change a lot of things in Praggu... the confidence in his potential will be one of them. The win has ensured a lot of visibility which will give him a lot of opportunities.'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
Swastika's father Sandeep, who is also her coach-cum-training partner, has been rendered jobless for more than four months and is finding it difficult to pay the rent for the house they are staying in at Navi Mumbai.
Kiren Rijiju exuded confidence that India would put up a better show in the 2024 Games but the main focus remains on the 2028 edition.
Nandita Saha and Visakha Vijay lost in straight games
Olympics-related cases rose by 19, organisers said, bringing the total number of disclosed cases to 106.
Modi on Saturday hosted the Indian contingent at his residence to felicitate the players in New Delhi.
The Azlan Shah Cup is the latest sporting event to be hit by the deadly coronavirus, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives and infected 86,000 people across the world.
Heptathlete Swapna Barman added a dash of heroism to her historic gold medal
China will host the third edition of the Asian Youth Games in Shantou in November next year, the Olympic Council of Asia said. The OCA has decided to hold the Asian Youth Games from November 20 to 28. The host city was decided by the OCA in 2019 but the dates of the multi-sporting event was announced on Wednesday.
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'.
The Indians had to make the 5-1 lead count in the first game to have any chance in the match but Lin and Cheng won eight points in a row to gain control.
A summary of Indian athletes' showing atthe Olympic Games in Tokyo on Sunday.
India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Monday, October 2.
The athletes were unable to enter Australia due to government restrictions on foreign nationals travelling from China.
China chose a sports contest to announce the change of the name of Taiwan, a self-governed cash-rich island.
Some of the biggest surprises so far from the Tokyo Games.
Mehuli Ghosh's effort will, however, not be considered as a world record, as the South Asian Games' results are not recognised by the international body (ISSF) for the purpose of records.
India's dominance went uncontested for the fifth successive day at the 12th South Asian Games, as its shooters, wushu players and track-and-field athletes annihilated competition to sweep most of the gold medals up for grabs, in Guwahati, on Wednesday.
India cricket captain Virat Kohli and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu were on Monday recommended for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna by the awards selection committee.
Rediff.com introduces you to the athletes who have brought India glory in Birmingham.
Also seen in action for India will be the shuttlers, boxers, the women's hockey team and the table tennis players among others.
IOA wants flexibility with calendars
Check out India's schedule on Day 5 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Monday.
For the 12th successive time, none could match up to India's regional might but the host country's record-breaking medal haul of 308 can hardly hide the fact that the standard of competition in the South Asian Games has failed to rise significantly.
Check out India's schedule on Day 4 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Sunday.
All these male politicians are unlikely to risk their sinecures to speak up in support of a bunch of women wrestlers who have chosen to challenge a politician who appears to have the ruling regime in a stranglehold, points out Kanika Datta.
Calls from athletes and federations for a delay in the Games, which is scheduled to run from July 24 to Aug. 9, have intensified as the flu-like virus has brought sport to a grinding halt across the world.
Indian paddlers continued their impressive run as they outshone Malaysia to cruise into the semifinals of both men's and women' team events on day three of competitions in the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
The battle for Olympic medals will take place in 32 venues in Rio de Janeiro.
Veteran Indian wrestler Geeta Phogat expressed her desire to make a comeback and represent the country at the Tokyo Olympic Games next year. Geeta, who gave birth to her son in December, said the postponement of the Tokyo Games due to the coronavirus pandemic came as a blessing in disguise for her and will give more time to prepare for the mega-event.
If only the shooters had found their targets, the story would have been so different! sighs Raj Kishore Mishra.
Earlier in the tournament, Karman had caused an upset by defeating the second seed Robin Anderson (USA) in the first round and Japanese Ena Shibahara, one-half of the French Open 2022 mixed double champions in the second round.
This was due to the fact that they had already won the Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honour.
Cricket's last appearance at the Games was at Kuala Lumpur in 1998, when a South African team featuring Jacques Kallis won the men's 50-over competition.
