Saurav Ghosal

Saurav Ghosal Trounces Marwan Elshorbagy to Win Kolkata International Squash Title

 September 29, 2015   R K Gupta

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For the first time since 2012, India’s no.1 squash player Saurav Ghosal won a PSA World Tour title by registering an emphatic 3-0 victory over Egypt’s top-seeded Marwan Elshorbagy in the final of the Kolkata International JSW Indian Squash tournament. World no.12 Marwan Elshorbagy is the brother of world’s top ranked player Mohamed Elshorbagy and a competent […]

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Pankaj Advani

Indians Sweep IBSF Honors Pankaj Advani Wins 14th Title in World Billiards Championship

 September 29, 2015   R K Gupta

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India ruled the roost in the 2015 IBSF World Billiards Championship, which concluded at Adelaide’s Oceania Snooker Academy and Billiards & Snooker Association of South Australia on Sunday. The most remarkable performance came from India’s Pankaj Advani, who won the final of the timed event beating old foe Peter Gilchrist of Singapore. It was Advani’s 14th […]

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Abhinav Bindra

Abhinav Bindra Clinches Gold in Men’s 10m Air Rifle in 8th Asian Air-Gun Championships

 September 28, 2015   R K Gupta

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The 8th Asian Air-gun Championship began with a spectacular opening ceremony at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi on Friday. Guests from participating nations enjoyed themselves as a rock band performed and different groups presented colorful dance performances. 2012 London Olympic bronze medalist Gagan Narang took the athletes’ oath in the presence of the chief […]

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Sania Mirza & Martina Hingis

Sania’s Sixth Success in Six Months with Switzerland’s Hingis as Her Doubles Partner

 September 28, 2015   R K Gupta

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Since they began playing together in March 2015, India’s Sania Mirza and Switzerland’s Martina Hingis have won their sixth WTA title together on Saturday, September 26, 2015. The Indo-Swiss pair defeated China’s Shilin Xu and Xiodi You in the final of the 2015 Guangzhou International Women’s Open tournament in China. The dream-like run of Sania/Hingis […]

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2015 Indian Super League

Excitement In the Air as 2015 Indian Super League Gets Underway in Less Than 10 Days

 September 26, 2015   R K Gupta

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Second edition of Hero Indian Super League gets into motion on October 03, 2015. The 2½ month ISL window is too short, compared to football leagues elsewhere in the world but it is just the second year. Going by the terrific response elicited by ISL last year, it is only a matter of time before […]

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Ajay Jayaram

Amazing Ajay Jayaram Finally Loses to Chen Long in 2015 Victor Korea Open

 September 23, 2015   R K Gupta

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India’s Ajay Jayaram hogged the limelight on every day of the Victor Korea Open until he was beaten in the final on the last day of the BWF super-series tournament. Though no player wants to lose any match, there was no shame in the loss, as Jayaram’s conqueror was none other than the great Chen […]

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Athlete Manpreet Kaur

Shot Putter Manpreet Kaur Is the Latest Indian Athlete to Qualify for 2016 Rio Games

 September 22, 2015   R K Gupta

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Indian Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur was one positive off-shoot from 55th National Open Athletics Championship, which came to an end at Kolkata on Saturday September 19, 2015. Manpreet hurled the 4 Kg sphere to a distance of 17.96 meters and secured a berth for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The International Association Of Athletics Federations, […]

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Tennis India

India’s Hopes of a World Group Berth Dashed by Bhambri’s Loss in the First Reverse Singles

 September 21, 2015   R K Gupta

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In the first reverse singles on Sunday, Czech Republic’s Jiri Vesely helped his country regain the World Group berth by defeating India’s Yuki Bhambri. Vesely scored a straight sets win over the Indian and Czech Republic took an unassailable 3-1 lead while it was curtains for India. Although Bhambri played much better than on the […]

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Narsingh Yadav

Narsingh Yadav’s Win at World Championships Puts Indian Wrestling Federation in a Spot

 September 20, 2015   R K Gupta

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At the conclusion of 2015 Wrestling World Championships in Las Vegas, USA on September 12, 2015, 108 men and women wrestlers earned their places for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. India had a poor performance at the World’s with just one quota place earned. Narsingh Pancham Yadav won the freestyle bronze in the 74 Kg […]

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Davis Cup World team india

India Hold Czech Republic to 1-1 Draw On First Day of Davis Cup World Group Play-Off

 September 20, 2015   R K Gupta

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Czech Republic’s Davis Cup squad arrived in Delhi for their world group play-off tie against India. They began well in taking the first singles, in which Lukas Rosol defeated India’s Yuki Bhambri in straight sets. But Somdev Devvarman leveled things up for India by overpowering world no.40 Jiri Vesely also in straight sets. Now Saturday’s […]

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