The 75th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships will begin at the Pataliputra Sports Complex in Patna today. Top paddlers of the country, including Sharath Kamal, Soumyajit Ghosh, K. Shamini, Mouma Das and Neha Agrawal will be seen in action in the championships.About 600 players...

Aditya 1st Indian male junior shuttler to be ranked world No. 1

Young shuttler Aditya Joshi from Madhya Pradesh has become the first male junior badminton player from India to be ranked top in the world. 17-year old Aditya, recently got the number one slot in the January rankings of the World Badminton Federation. Aditya was at the 11th position till November. H...

WTA Apia Intl: Sania, Black duo lose against Jarmila-Ajlaat pair

The duo of Sania Mirza and Cara Black have begun their 2014 campaign with a shock first round defeat at the WTA Apia International tounament. In Sydney today, the third seeded Indo-Zimbabwean duo lost against the wild card pair of Jarmila Gajdosova and Ajlaat Tomljanovic. The Australian-Croatian com...

Mahesh Mangaonkar wins Open du Gard squash title

India's Mahesh Mangaonkar has won the Open du Gard squash title, the PSA Challenger 5 event. The 19-year old Mumbai teenager despatched top-seeded Scot Greg Lobban in the final at Nimes, France, and claimed the first Tour title of the New Year.Third seed Mangaonkar made his breakthrough in ...

Aditya 1st Indian male junior shuttler to be ranked world No. 1

Young shuttler Aditya Joshi from Madhya Pradesh has become the first male junior badminton player from India to be ranked top in the world. 17-year old Aditya, a resident of Dhar town, recently got the number one slot in the January rankings of the World Badminton Federation (WBF).Aditya was at the ...

Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka wins Chennai Open Tennis tournament

Top seed Stanislas Wawrinka has lifted his second Chennai Open Tennis trophy. In the final yesterday, the Swiss star recorded a convincing win over Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin. World number eight Wawrinka won in straight sets 7-5, 6-2. The match lasted one hour and 35 minutes. Wawrinka had earl...

India holds 2nd Spot in ICC Test ranking

India hold on to their second spot even as a resurgent Australia leap frogged to third in the latest ICC Test rankings after whitewashing England 5-0 in the Ashes series on Sunday.At present, Australia are six ratings points behind second-ranked India. England have conceded nine rating points and ar...

Stanislas Wawrinka lifts Chennai Open Tennis trophy

Top seed Stanislas Wawrinka has lifted his second Chennai Open Tennis trophy. In the final at Chennai on Sunday, the Swiss star recorded a convincing win over Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin. World number eight Wawrinka won in straight sets 7-5 6-2. The match lasted one hour and 35 minutes. Wawrink...

Portuguese football legend Eusebio dies

Portuguese football legend Eusebio, who was the top scorer in the 1966 World Cup, died today at the age of 71.Considered one of the best footballers of all time, Eusebio da Silva Ferreira died of cardio-pulmonary arrest Sunday morning.Nicknamed the 'Black Panther', he also helped P...

Somdev fails to qualify for ATP Apia Intl event

Somdev Devvarman has failed to make it to the main singles draw of the ATP Apia International tournament. In the second round of the event at Sydney on Sunday, the Indian lost to Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff in three sets 6-2 2-6 3-6. Struff had shocked top seed Mikhail Kukushkin 7-6, 6-2 i...