Rutvick Mehta

At home, hitting top gear

Grace, glamour and Goswami: TFA cadets look back in wonder at the Chuni years

Goutam Ghosh and Godfrey Pereira, two from the first batch of the Tata Football Academy, remember their technical director.

For unstoppable Novak Djokovic, a break most unwelcome

For Team Novak, the current break couldn’t have come at a worse time as he was in the middle of his career’s third hot streak, after 2011 and 2015.

Intensity of players will be higher when they return: India fielding coach R Sridhar

With global sport halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic, like everywhere else, the big question is how Indian cricketers can be guided to quickly regain top shape.

Para athletes brace for rough ride

AITA to raise fund to aid struggling India tennis players

“We are also concerned about the situation from the players’ perspective,” Chatterjee said.

e-sport in the time of no sport

Sharath Kamal ends decade long title drought, clinches Oman Open

Sharath Kamal defeated the top seed Marcos Freitas from Portugal 6-11, 11-8, 12-10, 11-9, 3-11, 17-15 to win Oman Open title.

Women’s T20 World Cup: Helping young talent emerge from pain of loss

The Harmanpreet Kaur-led outfit was the youngest of all teams at the Women’s T20 World Cup with 10 of the 15 players in the squad aged 23 or under.

At Kandivali’s Sunrise Hall, Radha still the local star

Soni has seen her younger sister evolve from playing under-arm cricket in a nearby ground with their two brothers and the rest of the boys in the area to the World Cup final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in a span of seven years.

Stimac wants fewer foreigners in leagues

By his own admission, Stimac is on the hunt for Indian players that can enable him to create a larger pool for the senior national team.

From the Valley to top: How Jammu & Kashmir rose to top of the table in Ranji Trophy group stages

Jammu and Kashmir are currently sitting at top of the table in Ranji Trophy Elite Group C. They beat rose to the top with a 329-run win over Tripura.

Novak Djokovic is calling the shots in world tennis

Statistically as well as skillfully, the new world No. 1’s record eighth Australian Open triumph has ensured that the sport’s eternal GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) debate is not restricted to a two-way race.

T20 WC: India look to play fearless cricket

Chasing England’s 229, India went from 191 for three to 219 all out. A year later in the 20-overs World Cup, an undefeated and in-form India topped the group stage only to be thrashed by England in the semi-final.

Whenever I bat, it’s a fresh start: Smriti Mandhana

As India gear up for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia starting next month—the team leave for Australia on Thursday—Mandhana, who is the vice-captain, believes these fearless youngsters will hold the key to the team doing better than its semi-final showing in the 2018 edition.

Sindhu one of the toughest players to face: Tai Tzu Ying

“As a badminton player, I need to keep enjoying and stay connected with the game,” the 25-year-old Tai Tzu Ying said.

Australian Open: Young pretenders wait to topple tennis royalty

The last time a player outside of the Big Three of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic laid his hands on a Grand Slam title was Stan Wawrinka, at the 2016 US Open. It’s been 12 Grand Slams of renewed dominance of the familiar trio.

Beyond the Ranji boundary, the men who stare at snakes

Snake-catcher Atul Kamble rescued as many as four from in and around the sports complex in suburban Mumbai where the Mumbai-Karnataka Ranji Trophy match was taking place last Sunday.

Action shifts to Tokyo, Australia

Come July 24, the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo will provide an opportunity for Indians to erase the memories of Rio, and prove that India is more than a two-medal sporting nation. In Australia, the Indian women’s and men’s teams will take on the World T20 Cup battles

Sania Mirza leaves no stone unturned

From losing 26 kilos in 4 months to training 5 hours a day, she is determined to make her January return count.

Real Kashmir win as football returns to Valley

Approximately 5,000 people turned up to watch their team in action for the first time since February this year. Even though the ground can host 15,000 spectators, the club decided to keep the number down for the first couple of home games to assess security.

Football back in Kashmir, but with crowd control

When the two sides kick off at the TRC Turf Ground in Srinagar, it will mark the first time a national level sporting event is held in the valley since the abrogation of Article 370 in August.

Sen showed he is made for the big league: Pullela Gopichand

The Almora-born shuttler has had a tremendous run of form in the latter half of this year, winning five out of seven tournaments since September.

From Beed to Tokyo, Sable’s long, hard run

Avinash Sable’s gritty journey, from growing up in a drought-hit village where his parents were daily wage labourers, to breaking national records and qualifying for the Olympics.

Communication between AITA and players needs to improve: Rohan Bopanna

Under the leadership of non-playing captain Mahesh Bhupathi, India’s top players, including Bopanna, decided against travelling to Pakistan for the tie citing security reasons.

India vs West Indies: Modern day cricket is mentally draining, must pay attention - Brian Lara

The “it” that Lara is referring to is mental health, an issue that is beginning to unmask itself in the glossy world of cricket.

How Sathiyan turned the table

The world No 30 turned the tables quite spectacularly to shock the 22nd-ranked Gauzy 4-3 in the first Group D match of his maiden appearance at the ITTF World Cup in Chengdu on Friday.

Don’t know if Sebastian Coe is trying to Kill athletics: Yohan Blake

The Jamaican sprinter was in the city to promote the ‘Road Safety World Series’, a T20 series, which will be held in February next year.

Man City owners buy Mumbai City FC

The deal not only gives a shot in arm to the Mumbai franchise but also the ISL, which was officially elevated as India’s top domestic football competition last month.

Staying warm in the capital of cold

DAVIS CUP: India players struggle to work a sweat ahead of the Pakistan tie in Nur-Sultan, the second coldest world capital