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The singles final at the WTA 250 Chennai Open between Indonesia’s Janice Tjen and Poland’s Magda Linette was postponed due to rain and poor air quality 🚨 The contest will now be held at 11 a.m. on October 9, the reserve day for the tournament. ✍️: @nihitsachdeva28 🔗: shorturl.at/T8l8t | 📸: R. Ragu #ChennaiOpen #WTA250

A heated exchange between senior members of the coaching setup against the backdrop of a difficult campaign for India’s air rifle shooters at the ongoing ISSF World Championship in Doha has raised questions about the atmosphere within the camp. What began as a disagreement escalated into a public altercation between foreign rifle coach Thomas Farnik and his national counterpart Deepali Deshpande, with each blaming the other for the debacle. ✍️: @SantadeepDey For more details, click here 👉 shorturl.at/dMrts 📸: Getty Images #ISSFworldchampionship

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗬𝗲𝗼𝘀𝘂, 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗮, 𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 ‘𝗔𝗻 𝗦𝗲-𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴, 𝗔𝗻 𝗦𝗲-𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴’ 🗣️ The home crowd had come expecting a victory, and its favourite had every reason to believe she could deliver one. The World No. 1 had swept through the 2026 Korea Open without dropping a game, arriving at Sunday’s final against Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi with an extraordinary winning streak intact. Yamaguchi had beaten An Se-young in the Korea Open 2025 final, but in their summit clash in the 2026 edition, it was the South Korean who had the last laugh 🇰🇷🏸 ✍️: @pavithra_anil43 🔗: shorturl.at/ftacu | 📸: AP #AnSeyoung #KoreaOpen2026

𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐢𝐧, 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 🤍 One that, like listening to a favourite record, will now have to be recovered from memory 🎶 Shami’s departure from the format makes that particular pleasure a little harder to come by. Not because fast bowling is running out of artists, or because the game has stopped producing them. Read @Wherewordsmeet’s tribute to Shami here: shorturl.at/nmiEN 🔗 #IndianCricket #Shami #TestCricket

Khaleel Ahmed’s move from CSK to SRH was perhaps not as surprising as it seemed 👀 @karhacter and @Anishpathiyil discuss the reasoning behind the trade and all the latest IPL buzz here: shorturl.at/wyuui 🔗 #IPL2027 #CSK

“𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙠𝙞𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙮 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙. 𝙄 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙤𝙬𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙞𝙩.” Revisit @abhisheksainiii's piece detailing how Badruddin Siddiqui helped an eager, unsure Mohammed Shami become one of the world’s feared quick bowlers 🏏 🔗: shorturl.at/d14uI 📸: Reuters, AP and Sushil Kumar Verma #MohammedShami #BadruddinSiddiqui

𝐎𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐤 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐩 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐎𝐥𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟏-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬. When the Indian midfielder stepped on to the turf at the Olympian Balbir Singh International Hockey Stadium in Mohali for India’s semifinal against Korea in the Asian Champions Trophy on Wednesday night, it was the proverbial return of the prodigal son. @OnTheSportField writes on Hardik's journey from a ball boy to a double Olympic medallist: shorturl.at/hT06V 📷 R. V. Moorthy, AP, K. Murali Kumar, PTI

🚨 HISTORY MADE IN DAKAR! 🚨 🇮🇳 India's Tanvi Patri wins silver at the Youth Olympics, the first-ever women's singles medal at this event for India. The 15-year-old won the first game, lost the second and was trailing 10-19 at one point in the third but fought back to even scores at 20-20. But her opponent, China's Zhang Yi Xin, prevailed. A 26-point final game! 🤯 Tanvi joins silver medallists Lakshya Sen and H.S. Prannoy in the Youth Olympics medallists club! 👏 #IndianBadminton

Long before the world discovered the batsman who could take a chase apart, Virat Kohli was a youngster from West Delhi with an insatiable appetite for batting: competitive, fearless and certain of what he wanted from the game. A long, deeply personal read from @vijaylokapally on how Virat went from Chiku to King Kohli 👉 bit.ly/4sJt80j #HappyBirthdayViratKohli