A trailblazer in Indian tennis, Sania Mirza revealed that as a child, she was once asked to stop playing as "no one would marry" her if her complexion turned "dark" due to the rigours of an outdoor sport.
Thursday's match was just Venus Williams's seventh of the year and first since January's Australian Open, where she fell to Simona Halep in the round of 32.
Thirteen-year-old Pranjala Yadlapalli caused a major upset, defeating third seed Snehadevi S Reddy, in an all-India girls' singles quarter-final at the CCI-ITF Juniors (under-18) tennis championship at the Cricket Club of India courts in Mumbai on Thursday.
How India's athletes fared on Day 1 of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
India's most successful female tennis player Sania Mirza revealed that she will hang up her racquet after getting married.
India's highest-ranked table-tennis player looked dazzling on the day and was clad in a golden shirt and veshti.
Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands suffered a straight sets defeat against the pair of Kirsten Flipkens and Laura Siegemund in the first round of the Abu Dhabi Open.
Indian doubles pair of Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni put up a valiant fight before going down to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain and Adrian Mannarino of France in a three-setter.
No question of going back on IOA CEO's appointment, says PT Usha
Check out India's schedule on Day 4 of the Tokyo Olympics.
Sania Mirza was recently on a holiday. A look at a few pictures from her tweets.
'We both are really working hard, and, of course there are many things on which we are focussing right now, on and off the table.'
Kedar Jadhav, who became an overnight star with a match winning hundred in the first One-Day International against England in Pune on Sunday, says he got the benefit of batting alongside Virat Kohli, who is usually the prime target of the opposition bowlers.
Monday was also the first time in more than two decades that India had more than one player in the main draw of a Grand Slam singles, with Prajnesh Gunneswaran losing to world number five Daniil Medvedev in an earlier match.
The tennis star watched the match while doing her make up at Lakme Fashion Week!
Sukanya Verma goes down memory lane to recap the desi sightings at the Oscars.
Manika Batra went down fighting to Adriana Diaz of Puerto Rico 3-4 in the round of 32 at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban.
Following is a look at some new and the more unusual events in the schedule of the 19th edition of the Asian Games:
Sumit Nagal fought fire with fire to bring India back in the Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie against Denmark, winning the second singles.
Sania Mirza ended her career with first round defeat at WTA Dubai event.
A fitness trainer. A triathlete. And the love of Ira Khan's life. Meet Nupur Shikhare.
Walking out of the outside courts at the Balewadi stadium, his gait was assuring as he uttered, "no more singles for me".
Manika Batra has lost her baggage containing sports equipment, while returning home from a tournament in Peru
Jeremy stamps class on CWG debut, India climb to sixth in medal table
Prajnesh is now ranked 102 in the men's singles rankings with a jump of seven places while Ankita leapfrogged 35 places to a career-high 168 in the women's singles.
India's tennis legend Leander Paes took three wickets and then returned to the middle to score a fluent 42 for the Sports Journalists' Association of Mumbai (SJAM), against Iland - TSG XI, in an exhibition Twenty20 match.
India's schedule on Day 4 of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on August 1, Monday.
India's schedule on Day 3 of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on July 31, Sunday.
India will host Denmark on the lush green grass court of Delhi Gymkahna Club for the World Group I tie.
In a desperate attempt to get back to the Indian Davis Cup team, the 11 rebel players have sought intervention of Sports Ministry to resolve the crisis but their effort is unlikely to bear any fruit with the ministry categorically stating that it has "no role to play in selection matters".
Sania Mirza said she has no regrets leaving the sport as she is 'not the one to compete when I know I can no longer do it'.
Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com looks on the lighter side of things after India beat Pakistan in Adelaide for their sixth straight win over their arch rivals in a World Cup clash.
Yuki Bhambri pulled off an upset victory to storm into the final of the tennis event but the hoopsters and swimmers came up with disappointing performances on a mixed day for the Indians in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore on Thursday.
Images from day 11 of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, on Tuesday.
Sharath Kamal's progress to the third round of the men's singles in table tennis was the only bright spot on another gloomy day for India at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday.
Sharath Kamal led India's charge into the men's team table tennis final, trouncing world No. 15 Aruna Quadri as the defending champions whipped Nigeria 3-0 at the Commonwealth Games, on Monday.
He should have played ahead of Shardul Thakur and Prasidh Krishna in the Test series opener against South Africa but when Mukesh Kumar finally got his chance at Newlands, the Indian team realised what exactly it missed during the mauling in Centurion.
