Sumit Malik lost 5-8 to European under-20 bronze medallist Magomed Ozdamirov in the 57kg freestyle final to take the silver medal at the World under-20 wrestling championships in Samokov, Bulgaria, on Tuesday. Women wrestlers Tapasya (57kg) and Srishti (68kg) reached their respective finals to ensure two more medals for India. Tapasya pinned Dolzhon Tsyngueva and France’s Romaissa El […]
Top seeded Indian Tanya Hemanth capped off a strong run at the Saipan International 2025 with a straight-game win over Japan’s Kanae Sakai in the women’s singles final on Saturday (August 16, 2025). The 21-year-old, ranked 86th in the world, defeated the unseeded Sakai 15-10, 15-8 at the Oleai Sports Complex in Northern Mariana Islands […]
World champion GM D Gukesh finished tied sixth as Levon Aronian of USA convincingly won the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz that concluded in St. Louis. Gukesh raised visions of a great comeback on the final day of the event as he raced to 3.5 points from his first four games. Conceding a draw to […]
Say chess! Pranesh and Keymer will be elated with their triumphant campaigns. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ German Vincent Keymer capped a memorable triumph in the Quantbox Chennai Grandmasters chess tournament 2025 with a convincing win in the final round of the Masters section over American GM Ray Robson here on Friday. As unstoppable […]
Keymer drew with van Foreest to seal the title. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU Vincent Keymer was a wunderkind in German chess and was one destined for greatness and the 20-year-old showed why he is rated so highly with a flawless performance in the Quantbox Chennai Grandmasters tournament here. Keymer drew a topsy-turvy eighth round […]
Anish feels he is lucky to have shared the point in all the games in the Chennai tournament. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ : Anish Giri is known to play solid chess with a tight technique and has a reputation for being a ‘drawish’ player. His 14-draw performance at the Candidates tournament in 2016 […]
Vidit ponders a move against Nihal . | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ German precision was at work on day three of the Quantbox Chennai Grandmasters chess tournament on Saturday as Vincent Keymer continued his winning run, outclassing India’s Karthikeyan Murali to lead the standings. The 20-year-old Keymer with three points is followed closely by […]
Acting on petitions from four State units — Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat — on Boxing Federation of India (BFI) elections, scheduled on August 21, the Delhi High Court on Thursday posted the matter for hearing along with some previously filed petitions on August 18. These State units challenged the validity of the […]
Divyanshi Bhowmick is India’s finest in her age category, girls’ u-15, and second best in u-17. At the International level, the 14-year-old from Mumbai is progressing on the right track to be among the top in the world’s charts. After winning the girls’ u-15 crown in the Asian youth championships, she bagged another major title […]
Lakshya will be up against fifth seed Alwi Farhan of Indonesia while Mannepalli will take on Malaysia’s Justin Hoh in the last-four round. File. | Photo Credit: AP Star Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen and promising Tharun Mannepalli advanced to the men’s singles semifinals of the Macau Open Super 300 badminton tournament after registering hard-fought wins […]
