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Mar 21, 2019

Neeraj to Lead Indian Team

Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra named to lead a 39-member Indian athletics team for April's Asian Championships in Doha, with sprint sensation Hima Das also making the cut in 400m.

Mar 20, 2019

Ritu Phogat Dropped from TOPS Programme

Ritu Phogat who had earlier been inducted into the TOPS scheme, has been excluded from the scheme since she will not be participating in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, on account of her shifting to Singapore to train for Mixed Martial Arts.
Ritu, who has a gold in Commonwealth Wrestling besides a bronze in Asian Championships, is the youngest sister of Geeta and Babita Phogat.

Mar 19, 2019

Dominic Thiem Wins Indian Wells

Dominic Thiem climbed to a career-best ranking of fourth after clinching his maiden ATP Masters title defeating Roger Federer at Indian Wells.

Table Tennis Federation of India appoints Dejan Papic

Table Tennis Federation of India has appointed, in principle, Dejan Papic of Canada as the coach of the Indian men's and women's teams.
Papic's contract runs till the end of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He has a rich coaching experience of over three decades.
He has coached the Qatar and the Canada National teams.
Papic's name was recommended by Glenn Tepper, former Deputy CEO of ITTF and Massimo Costantini, India's previous coach.

Gopi Qualifies for World Athletics Championships

India's Asian marathon champion Gopi Thonakal has qualified for the World athletics championships to be held in Doha in September-October after finishing 11th in the Seoul International Marathon.
Gopi clocked his personal best 2 hours 13 minutes 39 seconds, bettering the World Championships qualification mark of 2:16:00.
His earlier best was 2:15:16s in 2018.

Mar 17, 2019

Jolt for Dipa's Olympic Dream

Ace Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar's hope of qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics suffered a jolt after she aggravated her knee injury during the vault final at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, forcing her to withdraw from Doha World Cup.
The two World Cups are part of an eight-event qualifying system for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, under which the gymnasts will make the cut based on their top three scores.
The Asian Championship is scheduled in Mongolia from June 13 to 16, while the World Championship is slated from Oct. 4 to 13 at Germany later this year.
Dipa can still qualify by doing well at World Championship this year.

Asian Tennis Tour Relaunched

The Asian Tennis Tour (ATT) is being revived, with the first tournament in Pune in April, to help safeguard the interest of the players in the region in the wake of the uncertainties surrounding the professional Tour.
With its relaunch, the ATT will have events in the $3,000, $6,000 and $10,000 prize money categories.
The $3,000 and $6,000 events will have only singles in draws of 32, while the $10,000 events can have either a draw of 16 or 32, and will also feature doubles.

Dharun Breaks National Record

Dharun Ayyasamy broke a series of his own records en route to qualifying for the World Championships 2019.
Ayyasamy clocked 48.80seconds to win the 400m hurdles with a new National and meet record while also comfortably making the cut for the Worlds (qualifying mark of 49.30s).

Mar 16, 2019

India to Host FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced that India will host the U-17 Women's World Cup in 2020.
This will be the second FIFA tournament India will be hosting, after the U-17 Men's World Cup in 2017.
The bidding process for the tournament started in 2018. France had also expressed interest to host the tournament.
Besides the U-17 Women's WC, India had also expressed interest in hosting the U-20 Women's World Cup.

Members of Mumbai Senior Cricket Selection Panel Resign

All members of Mumbai's senior selection committee have resigned, a few hours before the Mumbai Cricket Association's (MCA) ad-hoc committee.
The committee was headed by former India pacer Ajit Agarkar and also comprised former India spinner Nilesh Kulkarni, Sunil More and Ravi Thakkar.
The selectors resigned a day after the conclusion of the domestic season after the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy ended.
The selectors were under pressure after a Special General Meeting of the MCA member units had passed a resolution to sack them.

FIFA Confirms 24-team Club World Cup

FIFA President Gianni Infantino confirmed plans to launch an expanded 24-team Club World Cup in 2021 following a meeting in Miami.
The new tournament, which has drawn threats of a boycott from leading European clubs, is to be staged in June-July 2021 instead of the Confederations Cup.

Official Partner for IPL

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced Dream11, India's biggest sports game, as the Official Partner for the Indian Premier League (IPL).
This four-year exclusive partnership will begin with the upcoming IPL 2019 season.

Lakshya in Semi-finals

Lakshya Sen defeated fourth seed Zeqi Zhou of China and enter the semi-finals of the China Masters badminton tournament.
The Asian junior champion will take on another local star Haichao Liu for a place in the final of the BWF Tour Super 100 tournament.

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