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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

Krishna Jaysankar (left) finished third | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Krishna Jayasankar became the new record-holder in indoor shot put among the Indian women. The 22-year-old, studying in USA, heaved the iron ball to a distance of 16.03m in the Mountain West Indoor track and field championship in Albuquerque (New Mexico) on Saturday. Krishna bettered … Read more

  Midway through his event at the National Para Athletics Championships in Chennai recently, Navdeep Singh — India’s gold medallist in the javelin throw (T41 class for athletes with short stature) at the Paris Paralympics — was fairly relaxed. Seated in the company of the chief coach of the Indian national team Satyanarayana and Nishad … Read more

  Ons Jabeur is a three-time Grand Slam finalist with more than $13 million in prize money by age 30, and as she looked out at the main court used for the Miami Open this week and next, she rattled off a lengthy list of things she thinks could be fixed in professional tennis to … Read more

  Indian athlete Gulveer Singh has broken the 13-minute barrier in an indoor 5000m event. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Hangzhou Asian Games bronze medalist Gulveer Singh has broken the 13-minute barrier in an indoor 5000m event while improving his outdoor National record and earning a berth in the World Athletics championships, to be … Read more

  Wild card Pablo Llamas Ruiz of Spain beat fifth seed Sumit Nagal 6-4, 6-1 in the first round of the €91,250 Challenger tennis tournament in Murcia, Spain, on Wednesday. The results: €91,250 Challenger, Murcia, Spain: Singles (first round): Pablo Llamas Ruiz (Esp) bt Sumit Nagal 6-4, 6-1. $60,000 ITF women, Luan, China: Singles (first … Read more

  Poland’s Iga Swiatek. File | Photo Credit: AP Iga Swiatek offered a revealing look at her emotional state in recent months — which included a doping suspension, coming to grips with knowing she might not return to No. 1 this season and “three weeks crying daily” — in a lengthy social media post that … Read more

  The champion of the last tournament in Chandigarh, Jay Clarke of Britain, will start as the top seed in the $15,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament to be played at the Gujarat University Tennis Academy from Tuesday. A bunch of Indian players Aryan Shah, Dev Javia, Prajwal Dev, Siddharth Vishwakarma and Sidharth Rawat, seeded fourth … Read more

The victorious Haryana contingent with its big prize. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU Haryana won the overall team (men & women) titles (49 gold, 32 silver and 25 bronze) on the final day of the 23rd National para athletics championships at the Nehru Stadium here on Thursday. Tamil Nadu finished second (17, 18, 12) while … Read more

Lulu Sun of New Zealand, Thailand’s Mananchaya Sawangkaew and Lanlana Tararudee, Sohyun Park of Korea and Taiwan’s Joanna Garland will be some of the leading players in action in the Billie Jean King Cup Asia-Oceania Group-1 women’s tennis tournament to be played at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune from April 8 to 12. The absence … Read more

The TCS World 10K Bengaluru carries a total prize money of $210,000. | Photo Credit: File PHOTO : SUDHAKARA JAIN The 17th edition of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) World 10K Bengaluru will be held here on April 27. The World Athletics Gold Label Road Race carries a total prize money of $210,000.  The race … Read more

Jack Draper, of Great Britain, poses with the winner’s trophy at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament on March 16, 2025, in Indian Wells, California | Photo Credit: AP Jack Draper overwhelmed Holger Rune 6-2, 6-2 in a little more than an hour in the final of the BNP Paribas Open, achieving two big milestones … Read more

Mirra Andreeva, of Russia, returns to Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, during the final match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Indian Wells, Calif. | Photo Credit: AP Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva came back to beat No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday … Read more