The Mysore Chess Centre in association with United Karnataka Chess Association will be organising the Karnataka State Women’s Chess Championship 2017 from June 16-18 at Mall of Mysore located on M.G. Road in city. Top 4 players from this tournament will be selected to represent Karnataka in the upcoming National Women’s Challenger Chess Championship 2017…
Sri Lanka pulled off the biggest upset of the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy as they beat India by 7 wickets at the Oval yesterday. The result threw Group B wide open as now all four teams are on 2 points and the last two matches, (India vs South Africa and Pakistan vs Sri Lanka), will…
Three girls from Kodagu, have been selected for the Karnataka Under-19 girls’ football team. Payal Machaiah and S.P. Sheethal of Kalathmadu Lions High School and C. Shruthi of Vivekananda College, Kushalnagar, are the girls who have been selected to State Under-19 team and will take part in the Prime Minister Cup (South India) to be…
Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and India’s Rohan Bopanna hold aloft the trophy after winning the French Open mixed doubles title in Paris yesterday. The pair defeated Germany’s Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Colombian Robert Farah 2-6, 6-2 (12-10). The match went to super tiebreakers where the Indo-Canadian pair held their nerves and won the set 12-10 to win…
Chhattisgarh girls defeated Karnataka in a surprisingly one-sided game in the 68th Junior National Basketball Championship at Noida yesterday. Gulabsha Ali’s 26 points and forward Megha Singh’s 20 points led Chhattisgarh from the start. Chhattisgarh ended the game with 30 points to seal a 75-45 win. The undefeated teams in girls’ Group B squared off…
Mysuru based Dhruthi T. Venugopal, who took part in the ITF Women’s Futures Tennis tournament held at Namangan, Uzbekistan yesterday, lost her Women’s Singles second round tie against Russia’s Ksenia Lykina. Ksenia beat Dhruthi 7-6 (3), 6-3 and entered quarter-finals in the Women’s Singles event. In the Women’s Doubles, Sabina Sharipova & Valeria Strakhova of…
The Mysore District Chess Association (MDCA) will be conducting an Open Inter-District Rapid Chess Tournament 2017 on June 18 (Sunday) at the Lions Hall auditorium (next to University Oval Grounds), Mysuru. Events will be held in Open Section, U-14, U-11, U-9, U-7 (boys & girls) sections. The tournament is open to players from all Districts….
Pakistan completed a remarkable turnaround to beat South Africa by 19 runs on the D/L method in their day/night Group B Champions Trophy match at Edgbaston yesterday and so maintain their hopes of a semi-final place. Just three days after conceding a total of 319 for three in a 124-run thrashing by arch-rivals and title-holders…
World number one Andy Murray advanced to his fifth French Open semi-final yesterday, defeating Japanese eighth seed Kei Nishikori 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7/0), 6-1. Murray, who was runner-up to Novak Djokovic at Roland Garros last year, will meet 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka for a spot in Sunday’s final. Nishikori out-dueled Murray in a five-set classic…
The penultimate day of the league stages at the 68th Junior National Basketball Championship turned out to be a day of celebration for the home teams yesterday. Both Uttar Pradesh teams won their qualifying matches promoting them to Level 1. They are now through to the pre-quarterfinals. The UP girls had a relatively easy outing…
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