Portland’s World Indoor Championships End with Bromell Emerging an Unlikely 60m Hero
March 22, 2016 R K Gupta
Athletics, IAAF, IAAF World Indoor TourThe 16th IAAF World Indoor Championships at Portland ended on Sunday with USA taking the last gold in men’s 4×400 relay. With 13 golds in their kitty, USA won half the titles that were on offer including the prestigious women and men’s 60m sprints. In women’s 60m, Barbara Pierre edged out Dutch favorite Dafne Schippers […]
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Euro-League Basketball Top16 Round-11: CSKA Moscow Join Fenerbahce in Play-offs
March 21, 2016 R K Gupta
Basketball, CSKA, CSKA Moscow, Euro-league, FIBALast week, four teams were eliminated after Round-11 games of Top16 in the Turkish Airlines Euro-League Basketball. Thus far, only two teams have qualified for the play-offs. CSKA Moscow joined Fenerbahce after defeating Laboral Kutxa Vitoria in a Round-11 game on March 17. With Fenerbahce Istanbul having already qualified after beating Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar in […]
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Force India’s Perez and Hulkenberg Impress after Barcelona’s Two Pre-Season Tests
March 6, 2016 R K Gupta
F-1, force india, Formula 1, Indian Sport NewsNow nothing remains to be done by F1 drivers before they gather at Melbourne’s Albert Park on March 18 for the season opener Australian Grand Prix. This year, the pre-season tests were reduced to just 2 sessions, the last of which ended on Friday March 4, 2016. While Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen were […]
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Excitement Mounts in Top16 Euro-League Basketball after Round-9 Games are concluded
March 6, 2016 R K Gupta
Basketball, Euro-league, FIBATurkish Airlines Euro-League Basketball’s Top-16 Round-9 games were played over three days on March 2, 3 & 4, 2016. The matches brought joy for visiting teams as 4 games were won on road. After tasting their first Top-16 defeat in Round-8, Fenerbahce Istanbul came back to the winning ways and they could be the first […]
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Can Vishy Anand Challenge Magnus Carlsen Yet Again by Winning 2016 Candidates Chess?
March 5, 2016 R K Gupta
Candidates Chess, Chess, Indian Sport News, Magnus Carlsen, Vishwanathan AnandViswanathan Anand 46 is regarded as one of the best chess players of all time. After earning accolades as India’s first international chess grandmaster in 1988, Anand won his first FIDE World Chess Championships in 2000 at Tehran by beating Russia-born Spanish player Alexei Shirov. In 2007, Vishy Anand stamped his chess authority in being […]
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Top ATP Action of last week
March 4, 2016 R K Gupta
ATP, Dominic Thiem, Roger Federer, Stanislas WawrinkaIn last week’s ATP action, Stan Wawrinka clinched the title in Dubai Duty-Free Tennis Championships by defeating Cyprus’ old hand Marcos Baghdatis; Dominic Thiem of Austria won his first hard-court title by defeating Australia’s Bernard Tomic in the Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco while at Sao Paulo, Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas successfully defended his Brasil Open with […]
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Finally Fenerbahce Laid Low as Home Teams Dominate Top 16 Round-8 in Euro-League
March 3, 2016 R K Gupta
Euro-league, Fenerbahce, FIBA, FIBA EuropePlaying away from home against Panathinaikos Athens, Group E leaders Fenerbahce Istanbul suffered their first Top 16 defeat last week. While 7 out of 8 games were decided in favor of home teams in Round-8, Real Madrid scored the lone road victory by defeating Brose Baskets Bamberg at Nuremberg. The other talking point from Round-8 […]
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2016 Rio Games: Mosquito-Borne Zika Virus Become a Huge Bone of Contention
March 1, 2016 R K Gupta
Olympics, Rio OlympicsWith just over 5 months remaining for sports’ biggest global event, there are reverberations in certain quarters about the health safety of athletes coming to Brazil for the 2016 Summer Olympics. August 5 is not so far away, but the outcry for the summary cancellation of the 2016 Games is gathering momentum because of the […]
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Lee Chong Wei’s Hopes for Olympic Gold Soar as He Jumps to World no.2 in 9 Months
February 29, 2016 R K Gupta
Badminton, BWF, Carolina Marin, Lee Chong Wei, Rio OlympicsFormer world no.1 Malaysian badminton superstar Lee Chong Wei made deep inroads into BWF world ranking after his comeback in May 2015 from an 8-month doping ban. In June 2015, Lee’s world ranking had dropped to 180, when he came back to courts first time after late 2014, when the ban was slapped on him. But […]
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First Pre-Season F1 Test Concludes at Barcelona’s Catalunya Racing Circuit on February 25
February 28, 2016 R K Gupta
F1, Ferrari, Formula 1, MercedesForce India driver Nico Hulkenberg topped the time sheets on third day of the first pre-season tests of the upcoming F1 season. The team tests were held at Circuit de Catalunya during February 22-25. At the end, however, it was Team-Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, who held on to top spot on the fourth and final day. […]
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| # | Player | Point |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PRANNOY H. S. | 62,410 |
| 2 | Viktor AXELSEN | 61,500 |
| 3 | CHOU Tien Chen | 58,580 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 55,060 |
| 5 | Anthony Sinisuka GINTING | 52,440 |