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Mananchaya Sawangkaew kept Thailand in the battle by winning the second singles. | Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan Prarthana Thombare and Ankita Raina won a thriller against Thailand to keep India in the race in the Asia-Oceania Billie Jean King Cup tennis in Pune on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan Ankita Raina and Prarthana Thombare … Read more

Shrivalli Bhamidipaty gave a bright start for India. | Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan Lulu Sun won both her singles and doubles matches to clinch the tie for New Zealand against India in the Billie Jean King Cup on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan The Indian team went down fighting 1-2 in a thriller against … Read more

Uttar Pradesh’s Rupal stormed to victory in the women’s 400m event in the 6th Indian Open 400m competition in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN Thiruvananthapuram Uttar Pradesh’s Rupal Chaudhary started her season on a promising note by winning the women’s event in the 6th Indian Open 400m competition 2025 at the LNCPE … Read more

Sahaja Yamalapalli and Shrivalli Bhamidipaty listen to captain Vishal Uppal on the eve of the Asia-Oceania Billie Jean King Cup tennis in Pune, on Monday. | Photo: Kamesh Srinivasan It will be a test of fire for India to ride on home advantage, and its collective strength as a team, in the Asia-Oceania Billie Jean … Read more

Chirag exults during his quarterfinal match against Ishaque Eqbal at the SM Krishna Memorial Open tennis tournament in Bengaluru on Friday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement India’s Chirag Duhan entered his maiden ITF M25 singles semifinal following a 6-2, 7-6(1) victory over compatriot Ishaque Eqbal at the S.M. Krishna Memorial Open tennis tournament here on … Read more

Riya Bhatia beat Chelsea Fontenel of Switzerland 6-1, 6-4 in the first round of the $40,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Bujumbura, Burundi. The results: $680,140 ATP, Houston, USA: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Federico Gomez (Arg) & Santiago Gonzalez (Mex) bt Sriram Balaji & Miguel Reyes-Varela (Mex) 7-6(3), 6-3. €145,250 Challenger, Menorca, Spain: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Daniel Cukierman … Read more

Korea beats India 3-0 in WJT girls tennis

Top seeds Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Vijay Sundar Prashanth were beaten 6-2, 6-0 by wild card entrants Andrea Vavassori and Matteo Vavassori in the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the €145,250 Challenger tennis tournament in Menorca, Spain. The results: $680,140 ATP, Houston: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rafael Matos & Marcelo Zormann (Bra) bt Nicolas Barrientos (Col) & Rithvik Bollipalli 7-5, … Read more

As a new season unfurls, the quartermilers will be again in the limelight as the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) looks to rejig the 4×400 relay squads after a poor show in the Paris Olympics. Despite being the season-opener, the 6th Indian Open 400m competition 2025, which gets underway at the LNCPE Athletics stadium on … Read more

Jakub Mensik, of Czech Republic, holds the Butch Buchholz Championship Trophy after defeating Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, left, in the men’s singles final match at the Miami Open tennis tournament on March 30, 2025, in Miami Gardens, Fla. | Photo Credit: AP Novak Djokovic fell short in his bid to claim a 100th ATP title … Read more

Czech Republic’s Jakub Mensik plays a shot against Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in the men’s singles final match at the Miami Open tennis tournament, on March 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Czech teenager Jakub Mensik upset Novak Djokovic 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/4) to win the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday (March 30, … Read more

Just in time: Aboobacker reserved his best for the last and clinched the win. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR Commonwealth Games silver medallist Abdulla Aboobacker equalled his personal best of 17.19m to win the men’s triple jump gold at the 4th Indian Open Jumps Competition at the Anju Bobby George Foundation here on Saturday. … Read more

Aryan Shah with his reward. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Fifth seed Aryan Shah outplayed top seed and the champion of the last two tournaments, Jay Clarke of Britain, 6-1, 6-3 in the final of the $30,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament at the Altevol Academy on Sunday. It was the second singles title in the … Read more

KTA secretary John Nechupadom. Photo: | Photo Credit: Stan Rayan Just 11 and very promising, Aishwarya Sajeev Nair has won many age-group tournaments but on Sunday she stood out as tennis history was being made in Kerala at the Regional Sports Centre here. The KTA all-Kerala under-12 tournament, which concluded on Sunday, was the Kerala … Read more

Anirudh Chandrasekar in Challenger doubles final in Spain

Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after defeating Sebastian Korda during the Miami Open tennis tournament, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Miami Gardens, Fla. | Photo Credit: AP Novak Djokovic is finding a higher gear in South Florida after a sluggish start to 2025. Djokovic, gunning for his seventh Miami Open title, dispatched American Sebastian Korda … Read more

The Indian medallists in the ITF Masters World Championship in Turkey. From left: Jitin Bishnoi, Akshitha Basavaraju, Chandril Sood, Lakshit Sood, Mishal Javia, Kartikeya Verma. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The All India Tennis Association (AITA) has congratulated the Indian players for winning two silver and two bronze medals in the recent ITF Masters World … Read more

Alexandr Binda and champion Jay Clarke in the ITF men’s tennis tournament in Ahmedabad on Sunday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Top seed Jay Clarke of Britain beat second seed Alexandr Binda of Italy 6-3, 7-6(4) in the final of the $15,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament at the Gujarat University Tennis Academy on Sunday. It … Read more

Indian long-distance runners Pradhan Kirulkar and Vivek More have been banned for three and five years respectively by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after they tested positive for prohibited substances. Both athletes’ positive results were from in-competition tests conducted during the Pune Half Marathon on December 15, 2024, adding to a recent surge in doping … Read more

Suraj Singh. | Photo Credit: special arrangement Uttarakhand’s Suraj Singh broke the under-18 boys’ 1000m National record on his way to gold in the 20th National youth athletics championships which concluded at the Patliputra Sports Complex here on Wednesday. Haryana won the overall team title while UP’s Nitin Gupta (boys, 5000m race walk) and Tamil … Read more

Yuki Bhambri and Nuno Borges make the second round of Miami

Ankita Raina and Priska Nugroho claim doubles title in China

Sehaj Singh Pawar and Diya Ramesh emerged champions in the ITF junior tennis tournament at the Shanti Academy in Dehradun on Saturday. Top seed Sehaj beat Shanker Heisnam 6-1, 6-4 in the boys’ final. Second seed Diya Ramesh beat Jaya Kapoor 6-4, 6-4 for the girls’ title. It was a double crown for Diya, as she … Read more

Third seed Shanker Heisnam beat second seed Praneel Sharma 7-6(2), 7-6(6) in the semifinals of the ITF junior tennis tournament at the Shanti Academy on Friday. In the final, Shanker will play the top seed Sehaj Singh Pawar who beat Gandharv Kothapalli in three sets. Praneel won the doubles title in partnershiip with Yashwin Dahiya. … Read more

Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, speaks at a news conference at the Miami Open tennis tournament, on March 20, 2025 | Photo Credit: AP Novak Djokovic said on Thursday (March 201, 2025) that he disagreed with some aspects of a class-action lawsuit filed by the Professional Tennis Players’ Association’s (PTPA) against the sport’s governing bodies. The … Read more

Kerala’s Abhinav broke the boys’ heptathlon meet record. | Photo Credit: special arrangement Kerala’s Abhinav Sreeram broke the boys’ heptathlon record in the 20th National youth athletics championships at the Patliputra Sports Complex here on Tuesday. Abhinav, with a total of 4731 points, bettered the one-year-old record of Tamil Nadu’s P. Royshan (4664 points). Meanwhile … Read more

Ramkumar makes the doubles quarterfinals

Para athletes from more than 20 countries will participate in 90 events across three days as India hosts its first-ever World Para Athletics Grand Prix here from March 11 to 13. The athletes participating in the Grand Prix to be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium are from countries such as Germany, Japan, Australia, Saudi … Read more