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Asian Games 2023 September 25 schedule: India event timings, live streaming

The Indian contingent will vie for medals in Rowing, Shooting and gold in women's cricket

Nagal gets support from DLTA, PepsiCo after speaking about financial crunch

Soon after Sumit Nagal shared his financial struggle in an interview with the PTI, support began to pour in for India's top tennis player with leading beverage company PepsiCo India and the DLTA rushing to his aid. The Delhi Lawn Tennis Association (DLTA) has decided to release a one-time support of Rs 5 lakh while PepsiCo has also pledged to support Nagal for three years. "We have taken details from Sumit Nagal and Rs 5 lakh will be deposited in his account. DLTA President Rohit Rajpal has approved the support," DLTA administrator Ranbir Chauhan said. Nagal had claimed in an interview with PTI that his annual budget to survive on the ATP Tour is no less than Rs one crore and after arranging for his funds, he was left with just 900 Euros in his account. Rajpal said, "He deserves much more. Sports people have to be treated like national assets. They needed to be taken care of. Tennis is a brutal and tough game. It requires travel on weekly basis, that makes it tough. We are talking

Davis Cup: India vs Pakistan again, PTF won't agree for neutral venue

India have been drawn to play Pakistan in the World Group I Play-offs and the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) on Thursday made it clear that it won't agree to shift their home tie to a neutral venue this time. India had drawn Pakistan in 2019 also but due to "security concerns" the Asia/Oceania Group I tie was shifted to Kazakhstan, a neutral venue. As a mark of protest, Pakistan's top players Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi and Aqeel Khan had opted not to play the tie in which rookies Mohammed Shoaib, Huzaifa Abdul Rehman and Yousaf Khalil competed for them. India had expectedly thrashed a weak Pakistan line-up 4-0. In a lop-sided contest, Pakistan won only seven games in the entire tie. The ITF had agreed to shift the tie to a neutral venue in 2019 but it will be very tough for AITA to convince the world governing body if the national federation pushes for a neutral venue. Pakistan's veteran player Aqeel Khan told PTI that they are hoping for the Indian team to travel to their nation. "I

Asiad 2023: Top five medal winners for India at the continental event

In a list dominated by athletes, tennis legend Leander Paes steals the show with his five gold medals across four Asian Games to become India's top medal winner in the history of the continental event

Tennis player Sumit Nagal left with Rs 1 lakh, says 'just breaking even'

Most of Sumit Nagal's funds are spent on his stay at the training centre in Peine and his travel arrangements, along with either his coach or physio

Love of Davis Cup missing, now it's just another tournament: Rohan Bopanna

Someone who willingly tweaked his own game to adjust to the styles of legendary Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi while playing for the country, Rohan Bopanna often gets baffled to find the love of playing Davis Cup diminishing with passage of time. Bopanna does not find the current lot as passionate about playing the David Cup compared to players from past generations. "It has become too mechanical to just come, play and leave," says Bopanna who is set to quit Davis Cup this coming Sunday. A bit agitated, he feels Davis Cup has become just another tournament for the current generation of players. On the other side, Davis Cup is one tournament where it is believed across the globe that rankings won't matter every time. Even the tiny tennis nations sometimes succeed in flooring the behemoths. And that belief came from the team unity, proper planning and passionate support coming from the bench and the teammates who would shout their hearts out to support the player on the court from

Djokovic wins US Open 2023, equals Margaret's record of 24 Grand Slams

Djokovic defeated Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 to win the US Open 2023 final at the Arthur Ashe Stadium early Monday morning.

US Open, Djokovic vs Medvedev Highlights Novak wins 24th Grand Slam title

Djokovic beats Medvedev 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 to lift third Grand Slam title in 2023

US Open 2023: Coco Gauff beats Sabalenka to win her maiden Grand Slam title

Coco Gauff is still a teenager, after all, and so it should surprise no one that she was on her phone in the locker room, scrolling through social media, right up until 10 minutes before heading out on court for the U.S. Open final. What the 19-year-old from Florida was reading, she would say later, were various comments, negative ones, saying I wasn't going to win today; that just put the fire in me. As a pro athlete from a young age, as someone of whom greatness has been expected by some and doubted by others, Gauff has always taken it all in and kept moving forward, trying to learn from each setback. And now, at a tournament she used to visit as a kid to see her idols, Serena and Venus Williams, Gauff is a Grand Slam champion herself and a certified star. Setting aside a so-so start Saturday, Gauff surged to a 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over the soon-to-be-No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the final at Arthur Ashe Stadium, delighting a raucous crowd that backed her from start to finish. When

US Open 2023: Medvedev beats Alcaraz, sets summit clash with Djokovic

The Men's singles final in 2023 US Open between Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev will take place on September 11 (IST).

Bopanna again suffers heartbreak, loses US Open final with partner Ebden

Rohan Bopanna's agonising wait to win his maiden men's doubles Grand Slam title continued as he lost the hard-fought US Open final with partner Matthew Ebden to defending champions Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury here on Friday. Playing only his second men's doubles final at a Major tournament, Bopanna and his Australian teammate lost the title clash 6-2 3-6 4-6 after two hours and one minute. Ram and Sailsbury became the first team to win three straight US Open titles. Bopanna was playing the US Open final for the second time in his career and this time as the oldest player at 43. He had finished a runner-up with his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi way back in 2010, losing the title clash to the legendary Bryan brothers. Overall, it was third Grand Slam final for Bopanna, who won his first and only Major in 2017 when he lifted the French Open mixed doubles trophy with Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski. Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are only two male tennis players from

US Open 2023, doubles final: Rohan Bopanna live match to begin at 9:30 PM

US Open 2023 men's doubles final live streaming will be available on the Sony LIV application and website

'I was on 2, 3 painkillers a day': Rohan Bopanna ahead of US Open final

Bopanna and Matthew Ebden will play Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury for the US Open title on Friday.

US Open 2023 SFs: Djokovic vs Shelton, Medvedev vs Alcaraz live match time

The Shelton vs Djokovic semifinal match in US Open 2023 will begin at 12:30 AM IST on September 9, 2023.

US Open: India's Bopanna and partner Ebden reach men's doubles semifinals

Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden saved seven set points in the opening set before downing Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow to move to the US Open men's doubles semifinals, their second straight last-four appearance in Grand Slams this year. The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair beat the American combo 7-6 (10) 6-1 in the quarterfinals of the hard court major. Bopanna and Ebden had reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon Championships where they had lost to Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski. The 43-year-old Indian now has the opportunity to secure a place in a Grand Slam men's doubles final for the second time in his career. Interestingly, it was in the US Open only when Bopanna competed in his maiden Major final way back in 2010. Up against the sixth seeds is now the French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, who beat American Robert Galloway and Albano Olivetti from France in the other quarterfinal. Bopanna is already out of the mixed doubles contention with a sec

US Open: Djokovic storms to record-breaking 47th Grand Slam semifinal

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic on Tuesday night overcame USA's Taylor Fritz to reach the semifinal of the ongoing US Open, making it his 47th appearance in a Grand Slam event semifinal

Jelena Ostapenko knocks top-seeded Iga Swiatek out of US Open 2023

Iga Swiatek's U.S. Open title defense ended with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 loss to Jelena Ostapenko in the fourth round. The loss also means Swiatek's stay at No. 1 in the WTA rankings will end next week, when current No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka will rise to the top spot for the first time. Swiatek's shots were off-target in Arthur Ashe Stadium and she had a difficult time handling the hard hitting from the 20th-seeded Ostapenko, who won the 2017 French Open. This was not necessarily a huge surprise, based on their previous matchups: Ostapenko has now improved to 4-0 against Swiatek over their careers. No other player owns four victories against the woman who has led the WTA rankings since April 2022. Ostapenko's first quarterfinal at Flushing Meadows will come against Coco Gauff, the 19-year-old American who eliminated Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 earlier Sunday.

US Open 2023: Rohan Bopanna-Matthew Ebden enter men's doubles quarterfinals

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden advanced to the men's doubles quarterfinals at the US Open with a hard-fought three-set win over Julian Cash and Henry Patten. The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair won 6-4, 6-7(5), 7-6(10-6) against the British duo of Cash and Patten after toiling hard for two hours 22 minutes in the third round at the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday. Bopanna and Ebden, who had reached the Wimbledon semifinals earlier this year, hit 13 aces and won 81 per cent of their first-serve points. They will next face the winners of the third round match between top seeds Wesley Koolhof of Netherlands and United Kingdom's Neal Skupski and the local duo of Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow. The 43-year-old remains the only Indian in the fray in the men's doubles event after Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni made first round exits. Bopanna, however, crashed out of the mixed doubles event. Partnering Indonesian Aldila Sutjiadi, Bopanna went down 2

US Open 2023: Carlos Alcaraz shows variety in shots on his way to last 16

Ever since Carlos Alcaraz was 12 or so OK, not forever ago, considering he's still just 20 he made sure variety was a key element of his game. Back then, he explained, there were so many options at his disposal that he might encounter a bit of trouble figuring out which to employ. And, he acknowledged, that can even be the case to this day. Alcaraz was by no means perfect during a 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory over the 26th-seeded Dan Evans in the U.S. Open's third round on Saturday there was that wayward set, after all but the defending champion produced enough moments of brilliance to keep himself smiling and his many fans in New York roaring in approval. To hear the No. 1-seeded Alcaraz explain it, a lot of different" possibilities enter his mind in the midst of a point the dropshot, big forehand, go to the net, multiple things before he selects which stroke to try. It can make things difficult" on occasion, he said. Most of the time, I find the right one," the Spaniard said,

US Open 2023: Bopanna-Ebden duo enters third round of men's doubles

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden entered the men's doubles third round at the US Open with a straight-set victory over Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev and Russian Roman Safiullin. The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair won 6-3, 6-3 on Friday and would meet the unseeded British team of Henry Patten and Julian Cash in the pre quarter-final. By entering the last 16 stage, the duo also ensured at least USD 58,000 prize money for themselves. The experienced Bopanna-Ebden pairing raised its game when it got break points, converting three out of seven. The opposition team couldn't even earn one break point.