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Ayush Shetty outlasts Shi Yu Qi to set the World Championships on fire
Shetty’s Night Changes the Draw. Ayush Shetty stuns world No. 1 Shi Yuqi at badminton’s World Championships as India sweeps all five opening-day matches in New…
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Scottie Scheffler and Jeeno Thitikul clinch dominant victories
Scheffler and Thitikul won; Aaron Rai, Sahith Theegala, Akshay Bhatia, Aditi Ashok and Megha Ganne faced mixed weeks, with Ashok leading the five at 10 under…
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Sindhu carries the noise into Monday
New Delhi has waited 17 years for the World Championships to come back. P. V. Sindhu was a teenager when Hyderabad hosted it in 2009. On Monday evening, she…
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Indelible footprints of greatness decorate the badminton World Championships
The World Championships were born out of a simple need: badminton wanted its own definitive summit, not just the symbolic crown of the All England Open. In…
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Badminton elite eye the crown in the World Championships
Badminton’s most symbolically loaded week of the year arrives in New Delhi from 17–23 August, with the 30th BWF World Championships doubling as a post-Paris…
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Gijón’s Ghosts: Austria, Algeria and the World Cup Match No One Wants to Win
Winning at a World Cup is supposed to be simple. You take three points, you move on, you celebrate. In this expanded 2026 edition, it often feels anything but.…
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Drawing Inspiration from Drawn Victories
By the time the final whistle sounded in Atlanta, the best goalkeeper on the field was a 40-year-old who had begun the week with about 50,000 followers online…
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Hailey Baptiste saves six matchpoints to shock Aryna Sabalenka
At the Caja Mágica on a balmy Tuesday night, World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka stood on the precipice of the semi-finals six separate times. And six times,…
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Badminton takes a racy fifteen point turn
At the 87th BWF Annual General Meeting, members approved the switch from the 3x21 scoring system to 3x15 by the required two-thirds majority. Effective 4…
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Carlos Alcaraz battles wrist injury
When Carlos Alcaraz stepped onto the clay in Barcelona earlier this month, he was the two-time defending French Open champion, riding a 22-3 season record and…
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Matt Fitzpatrick holds his nerve to secure playoff victory against Scottie Scheffler
With the Atlantic wind gusting off Calibogue Sound and the live oaks bending under a mostly cloudy sky, Matt Fitzpatrick stood on the 18th tee at Harbour Town…
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City Edge Arsenal in Etihad Thriller to Close the Gap
On a sunlit afternoon at the Etihad Stadium, the vibrant hosts did more than hand Pep Guardiola’s side three precious points. It snatched the Premier League…
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Rising from the Dirt: Arthur Fils Claims Barcelona Glory
On a sun-drenched afternoon on the terracotta courts of the Real Club de Tennis Barcelona, Arthur Fils and Andrey Rublev struck thunderbolts at each other in…
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Rory McIlroy scrambles to defend his Masters title
Rory McIlroy’s defense of the Masters green jacket was not a coronation but a quiet siege, fought in the slanting light of a hot Georgia afternoon where every…
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Monte Carlo Masters: Sinner Subdues Alcaraz to Reclaim World No. 1
Jannik Sinner did not so much grab the Monte Carlo title as quietly move the centre of men’s tennis a few feet in his direction. On Court Rainier III, in their…
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Cameron Young surges into a share for the lead with scrambling Rory McIlroy
Cameron Young’s name did not so much appear on the leaderboard as slowly materialize, like something you only notice once it has already changed the room.…
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Rory McIlroy flirts with Masters history
When Rory McIlroy's chip from 29 yards disappeared into the cup on the 17th hole Friday afternoon, the roar that rolled through Augusta National's Georgia…
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Sam Burns and Rory McIlroy lead at Augusta
There is a moment at Augusta National, usually around mid-afternoon, when the shadows from the Georgia pines grow long and lean across the fairways, and the…
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Maria Jose Marin shows steely resolve to clinch ANWA Championship
The Augusta National Women’s Amateur did what it so often does at the end of its week long two-course audition. It didn’t simply reward the cleanest swing or…
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Talley on Top: Teen Star Extends Bogey‑Free Streak to 48 Holes, Leads ANWA Into Augusta
The Augusta National Women’s Amateur has a way of accelerating careers, and after 36 holes in 2026 it is Asterisk Talley who finds herself at the center of…
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Marin and Oh Lead at Augusta National Women’s Amateur
Maria José Marin and Soomin Oh turned Champions Retreat into a showcase of calm aggression on Wednesday, their bogey-free 65s setting both the tone and the…
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Rising Above the Azaleas for ANWA: Dreams Bloom in Augusta
In the soft Georgia light of early April, the Augusta National Women’s Amateur returns for its seventh edition as more than a tournament — it is a living…
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The Digital Edge: How Global AI Can Lift Indian Sport to World-Class Standards
In the high-stakes arena of elite sport, artificial intelligence has shifted from futuristic promise to everyday infrastructure. International programs now…
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Sahith Theegala and Sudarshan Yellamaraju paint Memorial Park in the vibrant shades of their promise
In the late Sunday light filtering through the live oaks of Memorial Park, Sahith Theegala and Sudarshan Yellamaraju walked off the 18th green with the quiet…
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Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner secure rare Sunshine Double
In the shimmering haze of Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, Jannik Sinner raised the trophy on a Sunday evening, his face etched with quiet exhaustion and something…
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One Big Leap: Lokesh Sathyanathan fires up Indian athletics with an NCAA Crown
On a cold March evening in Fayetteville, the Randal Tyson Indoor Center went briefly silent as Lokesh Sathyanathan settled at the top of the runway. Twenty‑six…
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Carlos Alcaraz forces the hand of history; Elena Rybakina earns sweet revenge
In Melbourne this year, the trophies went to Elena Rybakina and Carlos Alcaraz, but the Australian Open felt less like a changing of the guard than the…
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Alcaraz Survives Zverev Epic to Reach Melbourne Final
Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev walked off Rod Laver Arena having played the kind of match that reorganises how a generation thinks about pressure,…
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Power Returns: Sabalenka-Rybakina Final Promises Thunderous Australian Open Encore
The Australian Open women's final will deliver precisely what Melbourne Park's fast courts demand: uncompromising power meeting relentless aggression in a…
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Australian Open: Learner Tien sparks a fire, as the decks clear for a thrilling finish
For the first time in Open Era history, the top six seeds reached the quarterfinals in both singles draws. Yet this statistical tidiness masked extraordinary…
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Alcaraz, Sabalenka and the Next Wave assert themselves in Melbourne
The first week of this Australian Open has felt less like the orderly beginning of a Grand Slam and more like a stress test of tennis’s new world order: the…
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Defiant Virat Kohli not enough to save India from the brilliance of Daryl Mitchell
New Zealand's 2-1 series victory in India represents their first-ever bilateral ODI series win on Indian soil, achieved remarkably with an injury-depleted…
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Mateo Pulcini claims a pulsating play off victory in the Latin America Amateur Championship
The fog that delayed Sunday's final round seemed appropriate. Through the mist of uncertainty, Mateo Pulcini found clarity in the exact moment his decade-long…
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PGA Tour pursues the stars by opening the doors for Brooks Koepka
In professional sports, power dynamics rarely shift overnight. But on Monday, the PGA Tour executed a move that may fundamentally alter the trajectory of…
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The King's Return: Virat Kohli's Redemption Arc
There are moments in sport when vulnerability becomes the prelude to greatness. For Virat Kohli, the winter of 2024 was precisely that—a period of acute…
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Anthony Kim rises like a Phoenix to secure status on LIV Golf
Black Diamond Ranch in Lecanto, Florida, often feels like a sanctuary, but this past weekend, it served as a high-stakes arena for golfers chasing a…
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Brooks Koepka leaves LIV Golf stranded at a complicated crossroads
There is a jagged irony in seeing a league christened for the Roman numeral 54 discard its signature three-round identity. Launching its 2026 season next…
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Yuvraj Singh soars into Europe on the back of a record breaking PGTI season
By the time Yuvraj Sandhu stood over his final putt at Jamshedpur, the arithmetic of the 2025 PGTI season had already been settled. The Order of Merit was his,…
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Hardik Pandya helps India thump South Africa out of the park
India crushed South Africa by 101 runs in the opening match of their five-match series at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on December 9, 2025. At the heart of…
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McLaren secure a maiden World Championship for Lando Norris
The 2025 Formula One season unfolded as a long, tightening arc, bending slowly away from Max Verstappen’s era and towards a McLaren team that learned how to…