To address Indian football’s height issue, AIFF turns to Rajasthan
Indian football has historically struggled to find tall players, but now the national federation is ...
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EXPLAINED: How India’s young central defender Anwar Ali is playing in the ISL despite being banned
India defender Anwar Ali didn’t have a dream start to his Indian Super League (ISL) season as East B...
Indian TT contingent to have national training camp at WTT Smash event in China
At the last World Table Tennis (WTT) Smash event which was held in Saudi in May, out of the 12 India...
Table tennis star Manika Batra to partner Manav Thakkar after split with Sathiyan in new Olympic cycle
India’s table tennis star Manika Batra is set to partner 24-year-old Manav Thakkar in mixed doubles ...
ISL wrap: Bengaluru FC’s Vinith Venkatesh underlines why Indian clubs should develop players from own academies
Talks of ‘trust the process’ in Indian football are big but you seldom see the fruits of that trust ...
Indian Super League is back: From search for next Chhetri to title contenders, key narratives ahead of ISL 11
With the 11th season of the Indian Super League (ISL) starting on Friday, one question is bound to b...
Paris Olympian Archana Kamath on quitting table tennis: It is only because of my passion to study
India’s top paddler, Archana Kamath, who quit the sport after representing India at the Olympics, to...
Is there money in playing table tennis? Top paddler Archana Kamath quits sport to pursue academics, raising questions about its economic viability
A few days after her stunning show at the Paris Olympics, 24-year-old paddler Archana Kamath left he...
Is it time for India’s top table tennis players Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula to revisit the long-pimple rubber game plan?
Before the Olympics, rubbers on the racket were the talk of the table tennis world especially after ...
18-year-old German Annett Kaufmann’s heroics knocks Manika Batra & Co out of Paris Olympics
The Indian women’s table tennis team had a dream draw. Their road to the semifinal at the Olympics w...
Paris Olympics: China blank India in Sharath Kamal’s Olympic swansong
The Indian men’s team campaign in table tennis at the Olympics ended before it could take off with a...
Manika Batra’s heroics sees India beat World No. 4 Romania in Olympics team event
Manika Batra has a knack of showing up when India needs her the most. On Monday, against Romania in ...
How Fan Zhendong nullified the unconventional methods of giant-slaying Truls Moregard to preserve Chinese domination in TT
Table tennis world order was restored after China’s Fan Zhendong beat Sweden’s World No. 26 Truls Mo...
Paris Olympics: Sreeja Akula squanders 9 game points in 2 games against World No. 1 Sun Yingsha, loses in Rd of 16
The what ifs will surely stay with her for a long time. On her 26th birthday, India’s Sreeja Akula h...
Olympics: Manika Batra knocked out of women’s singles, as Hirano rushes her from close to the table
India’s table tennis star Manika Batra was knocked out of the women’s singles event at the Paris Oly...
How practice and a Chinese Taipei stint made Sreeja near-perfect before the Olympics
On her 26th birthday, India’s top-ranked player Sreeja Akula joined Manika Batra in the Round of 16 ...
How a tactical switch to attack helped Manika Batra beat Prithika Pavade, become first Indian to reach Rd16 in singles at Olympics
Twiddle and tap, twiddle and tap, and then twiddle and tap some more. India’s table tennis sensation...
Sharath Kamal’s fifth and last Olympics ends in shock defeat in singles; Sreeja Akula and Manika Batra progress
India’s 10-time national champion Achanta Sharath Kamal suffered a shock defeat to Slovenian Deni Ko...
Israel-Palestine conflict erupts at Paris Olympics during football game
The football match between Israel and Mali at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday may have ended in a dr...
Paris Olympics Athlete Village diaries: Anti-sex beds or sustainability at heart?
The Athletes Village at the Olympics is often a site for hook-ups and parties. These were a strict n...
Post-dinner practice, part of Sreeja Akula’s high-intensity TT sessions ahead of Olympics
Sreeja Akula was keen, and a table was all she needed for her plan to play-all-day. Having grown an ...
Wheelchair-bound Maithili joins sea of cricket lovers at parade to celebrate Rohit, Virat, Bumrah and Co
With cricket stadia in India being largely inaccessible to wheelchair-bound people, 27-year-old Mait...
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Everybody gets carried away thinking England have a divine right to win every tournament but it’s not true’ – Michael Owen
Former England striker Michael Owen has seen it all. He’s been a part of some of the most talented E...
Table tennis | Sreeja Akula does the double: Wins singles and doubles WTT titles in Lagos
Sreeja Akula created history at the WTT Contender in Lagos on Sunday by becoming the first Indian to...
Why referees took nearly three minutes to rule out Netherlands’ goal against France
The Netherlands believed they had finally broken the deadlock after nearly 70 minutes of play agains...
India’s table tennis coach Massimo Costantini interview: ‘Chinese are scared of playing against pimples’
Italian coach Massimo Costantini returns for his third stint as Indian table tennis coach. The 66-ye...
IPL 2024: Mumbai Indians finish bottom of the table despite Rohit Sharma’s last day, last show
Last day, last show Mumbaikars got what they were waiting for. A bit of rain to ease the sweltering ...
ISL Final: Meet Petr Kratky, Mumbai City FC’s coach who once moved to Australia to learn English and had to restart life washing dishes
With his footballing career done, Petr Kratky moved from his home in Czech Republic to Australia to ...
RR vs LSG: Samson wins battle of wicketkeeper captains with unbeaten match-winning 71
Synopsis: With a match-winning knock, Sanju Samson edged out KL Rahul in this battle of wicket-keepe...
IPL 2024: MSD’s hat-trick of sixes trumps Rohit Sharma ton as Dhoni’s love affair with Wankhede continues
Synopsis: Dhoni’s hat-trick of sixes and Pathirana’s four-wicket haul negated Rohit Sharma’s excelle...