Fifth seeds Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic took out the Australian Open Women’s Doubles title on Friday to be crowned Grand Slam champions for the first time. The Hungarian-French pairing battled past second seeded Russians Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-3 on Rod Laver Arena, to foil the Russian pair’s quest for a career…
Wins Inter-Collegiate Chess
January 27, 2018National Institute of Engineering (NIE) won Mysuru City Inter-Collegiate Men’s Chess title recently. Seen are (from left – sitting) R. Manjunatha (Captain), Principal Dr. G. Ravi, PE Director H.N. Shankaranarayana, Asst. PE Director R. Kavya; (standing) G.D. Sandesh, V. Vrushank, Sharan R. Setty, M.D. Chiranth and B.G. Tejas.
Excel in State-level
January 27, 2018The students of Sadvidya High School, Mysuru, who represented the State in different sports disciplines conducted by the Department of Education, GoK — (standing from left) Harshith (Cricket), Raaj (Cricket), Sriram (Tennis), Manoj Gowda (Swimming), Dhanush (Cricket), S. Chethan (Cricket), K. Vikyath (Wrestling) and Sudharshan (Wrestling); Kneeling: Sahana (Badminton), Monisha (Yoga), Mahima (Swimming), Supriya (Badminton)…
KSCA Mysuru Zone T20 Tourney: Ten wicket win for Vidyaranya CC
January 27, 2018Inspiring batting by openers A. Jeshwanth (72 n.o.) and L. Nagarjun (42 n.o.) helped Vidyaranya CC to register a facile ten-wicket win over Mysore Underwriters SC and entered the second round in the KSCA Mysuru Zone T20 Tournament for Clubs played at the JSS-SJCE Grounds here recently. Scores Mysore Underwriters SC: 119 for 9 in…
All-India Inter-University Men’s Kho-Kho Tournament: University of Mysore wins title
January 25, 2018Hosts University of Mysore (UoM) helped by some inspiring play by all- rounder A.V. Madhu (dodged for 4min.50s & scored 3 points) and J.S. Kiran (dodged 3min.50s & scored 2 points), registered an exciting 14-13 (by one point), win over Savitribai Phule Pune University in the final of the All-India Inter-University Kho-Kho Men’s Championship 2017-18,…
Australian Open: Bopanna-Babos enter semis
January 25, 2018India’s Rohan Bopanna and Timea Babos of Hungary entered the mixed doubles semifinals at the Australian Open with a straight-set win over Colombian Juan Sebastian Cabal and Abigail Spears of USA, here yesterday. The fifth seeded Indo-Hungarian pair took one hour and 15 minutes to get the better of Cabal-Spears duo 6-4 7-6 (5) in…
All-India Inter-University Men’s Kho-Kho Championship 2017-18: Host UoM to take over Pune Varsity in finals
January 24, 2018University of Mysore (UoM) will take over Savitribai Phule Pune University in the finals of the All-India Inter-University Men’s Kho-Kho Championship 2017-18, conducted by UoM, at the University Grounds this afternoon. While UoM beat Mangalore University (15-9, by 6 points), Savitribai Phule Pune University beat Shivaji University, Kolhapur (20-17, by 3 points) in the semi-finals…
Wins State Chess Championship
January 24, 2018City’s 11-year-old chess player Eshanvi secured 1st place in Karnataka State Chess Championship U-11 held at Mysuru recently and has been selected for Nationals to be held Bhubaneshwar. She is the daughter of H.S. Nandeesh Preetham and Naidele and a student of ICan School in city. She started her chess coaching with Suresh at Mysore…
All-India Inter-University Men’s Kho-Kho Championship 2017-18: SRTMUN and University of Mumbai register two wins
January 23, 2018Defending champion Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University – Nanded (SRTMUN) and last-year’s runner-up University of Mumbai, started on a winning note by winning their first two league matches in Pool-C and Pool-A respectively on the inaugural day of All-India Inter-University Men’s Kho-Kho Championship which began at UoM Grounds here yesterday. Hosts University of Mysore, University…
Felicitation to sports-persons, sports journalists on Jan.27: Meghana to receive Best Athlete Award
January 23, 2018The Mysore Athletics Club will be felicitating Mysuru city’s upcoming sports persons (for their performance during the year 2015-16, 2016-17), sports journalists and photo journalists (for their yeomen service in the field of sports) at a function to be held at the University Lions Hall auditorium on Jan.27 at 5.30 pm. Meghana B. Devang, will…















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