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Star Indian shuttlers Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty started their All England Open 2024 campaign with a win in the opening round of the tournament. After winning the French Open 2024, the Indian duo of Satwik and Chirag clinched a 21-18, 21-14 win over the Indonesian pair of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan. The world’s…
Cristiano Ronaldo scored in extra time but Al Nassr side were dumped out of the Asian Champions League quarter-finals on penalties by Al Ain on Monday. The 39-year-old Portuguese was the only Al Nassr player to score in the shootout as his Saudi side went out 3-1 on penalties, the tie having ended 4-4 on aggregate….
Pep Guardiola has revealed injured Manchester City striker Erling Haaland is set to be sidelined until the end of January. Haaland has missed City’s last eight games with a foot injury suffered in early December in a major blow to their hopes of retaining the Premier League title. Guardiola had hoped to welcome the 23-year-old…
The Indian men’s kabaddi team continued their brilliant run at the Asian Games as they beat Thailand 63-26 at the Xiaoshan Guali Sports Centre in Hangzhou on Wednesday. India, under the leadership of Pawan Sehrawat, was able to maintain its lead in the Group A points standings for the Asian Games thanks to the margin of…
India vs Australia 2nd ODI Highlights: India beat Australia by 99 runs in the rain-interrupted second ODI to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series here on Sunday. Batting first, India amassed 399 with centuries from Shubman Gill and Shreyas Gill after being asked to bat first. Leading the team in the first two…
Wout Weghorst kept the Netherlands on course for Euro 2024 as he came off the bench to bag the decisive goal in his side’s 2-1 win against the Republic of Ireland on Sunday. Ronald Koeman’s team suffered an early shock when Adam Idah’s penalty put Ireland ahead in Dublin in their Group B game. But Liverpool’s Cody…
Commonwealth Games men’s doubles champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty suffered an opening-round defeat in the China Open Super 1000 tournament, going down in three games to Indonesia’s Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Maulana Bagas on Wednesday. The Indian pair, ranked two, lost to the world number 13 duo 17-21, 21-11, 17-21 in one hour eight…
Fifth seed Casper Ruud on Thursday crashed out of US Open after losing to China’s Zhang Zhizhen in five sets in a second round clash. Ruud, last year’s finalists, lost 4-6, 7-5, 2-6, 6-0, 6-2 to Zhizhen, who is the first men’s Chinese player to knock a top-5 seed out in a Grand Slam. The 26-year-old…
Uncertainty over the future of Kylian Mbappe hangs over French football ahead of the new Ligue 1 season, which starts this weekend. The Paris Saint-Germain superstar has won France’s player of the year award four times in a row and been Ligue 1’s top scorer in five straight seasons, but his contract dispute with the champions has…
Star athlete Jyothi Yarraji won India’s first ever 100m hurdles medal — a bronze — at the World University Games while smashing her own national record time at Chengdu on Friday. Another national record holder sprinter, Amlan Borgohain also won India’s first ever 200m medal at the World University Games as he picked a bronze…