England and India will battle it out for a chance to make history at Lord’s in the Women’s World Cup Final tomorrow. The hosts reached the final after beating South Africa by two wickets in a nail-biting match in Bristol on July18, with Sarah Taylor top-scoring with 54. India meanwhile, beat defending champions Australia by…
Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Soumya Swaminathan, an employee with PSPB, is a former National Champion (2011), World Junior Championship title winner (2009), Commonwealth Women’s Champion (2012) and has finished second in the 2016 Moscow Open. The 28-year-old WGM is one of the top women chess players’ in the country, and the top-seed in the ongoing 44th…
Lowly rated V. Rindhiya from Tamil Nadu (Rating 1485), playing a excellent game on the fifth board with white pieces, shocked fifth-seeded WGM Bhakti Kulkarni of Air India (Rating 2255) in 39 moves in the lone upset, on the inaugural day of the nine-day 44th National Women’s Challenger Chess Championship-2017, conducted by the Mysore Chess…
A magnificent unbeaten century by Harmanpreet Kaur (171 not out of 115 balls) helped India beat defending champions Australia by 36 runs in the semi-final of ongoing ICC Women’s World Cup at the county ground here yesterday. Chasing a daunting total of 282 in a match that was reduced to 42 overs because of rain,…
Mysuru- based boxing coach C.A. Kuttappa has been selected to coach the elite Indian men’s boxing team which is currently in training in France. The Indian contingent will train in France till July 24. The team consists of Amit (49 kg), Kavinder Singh Bisht (52 kg), Gaurav Bidhuri (56 kg), Shiva Thapa (60 kg), Ashish…
Mustafa M. Raja of Mysuru and his partner Satdeep Nair from Karnataka won the AITA Super Series U12 title in Guwahati yesterday. The duo, in the finals, defeated second seeds Harsh Fogat and Omansh Choudary of Delhi in a tight three set encounter 6-2, 4-6 and 10-8 which lasted for more than two hours. This…
Mysore Kabbadi Sports Club will be conducting ‘Mysuru Pro Kabbadi League Mysuru Wadiyar Cup’ at J.K. Ground from August 26 to 29. The tournament will have eight teams taking part. The bidding for the players will be held on Aug. 6. Addressing the press persons at the Pathrakarthara Bhavan yesterday, former Mayor Purushotham, who is…
The 44th FIDE Rated National Women’s Challengers Chess Tournament 2017 organised by Mysore Chess Centre under the aegis of the UKCA and AICF began at Mysore Sports Club today. The championships will see some of the best women chess players in the country in action during the 9-day tournament. Among the top players are former…
Dhruthi T Venugopal seeded eighth in the tournament scored an upset win over top-seed Fatma AL Nabhani of Oman 6-4, 6-1 and sailed into the semi-finals of women’s singles in the ITF $15,000 Women’s Tennis Tournament being held at Hua Hin, Thailand. She will meet Hua-Chen Lee of Korea in the semi-final.
Indian women will aim to turn the tables when they take on six-time champions Australia in the second semi-final of the ICC Women’s World Cup in Derby, England today. India sports a poor record against Australia, having lost 34 out of 42 games the two teams have played so far. But the Mithali Raj-led Indian…
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