Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, left, and Chirag Shetty clinch China Masters Super 750 title after defeating China’s He Ji Ting and Ren Xiang Yu in a three-game thriller, in Shenzhen, China. (PTI Photo) A day after becoming the first Indian pair to win the China Masters title, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have now trained their sights…
Karnataka batter Karun Nair has taken a subtle but pointed swipe at South Zone after being overlooked for the playing XI in the ongoing Duleep Trophy final against East Zone at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.Nair, who was part of the South Zone squad, was left out of the XI for both the semi-final and the…
Viswanathan Anand loses on time to Magnus Carlsen (GCL Photos) BENGALURU: The fast-paced world of chess has seen many terms evolve over time. “Flagging” is one of them. It generally refers to winning a game purely on time when an opponent’s clock hits 0:00, regardless of the evaluation on the board. From the perspective of…
Seema Kaliramna (Image credit: Special arrangement) The 57.44m throw in Bhubaneswar last month did not quite match the 59.73m that Seema Kaliramna had produced two months earlier. Nor did she seem particularly bothered by it.The Bhubaneswar competition was the World Athletics Silver Level Continental Tour meet at Kalinga Stadium on August 22, her first competition…
France’s Kylian Mbappe (10) walks off the pitch during the World Cup third-place playoff soccer match between France and England in Miami Gardens, Fla., Saturday, July 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Kylian Mbappé has made it clear he has no intention of playing down his chances of winning the Ballon d’Or.The Real Madrid striker believes…
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (Image credit: BAI) NEW DELHI: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have built a reputation for doing things the hard way. They fall behind, regroup, and more often than not, find a way back.On Sunday in Shenzhen, that familiar script delivered one of their most important victories of the season. The…
Roger Federer receives his Hall of Fame ring at the U.S. Open. (AP Photo) Roger Federer’s career was built on numbers that seem almost impossible to comprehend.Twenty Grand Slam titles. One hundred and three tour-level trophies. Three hundred and ten weeks as the world No. 1, including 237 consecutive weeks at the top. Five successive…
Nihal Sarin playing for American Gambits (GCL Photo) BENGALURU: The Chess Olympiad is already on Indian Grandmaster Nihal Sarin’s mind, but not quite yet. With India preparing to defend its Open title in Samarkand, Uzbekistan later this month, Nihal is excited about representing the country at the Olympiad. For now, though, the 22-year-old is keeping…
Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma have built more than just successful careers in cricket and Bollywood. Together, the couple has created a wide-ranging financial and business portfolio that extends into fashion, hospitality, food-tech, fitness, media, lifestyle and startup investments.Their combined net worth is estimated at more than ₹1,300 crore, according…
America’s Levon Aronian and Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi BENGALURU: For most of the 20th century, the Chess Olympiad was one of the few arenas where the Cold War actually played out on a board. The Soviet Union treated the biennial team event as a matter of state prestige, fielding lineups stacked with world champions and winning…
