Wimbledon players are asked to return the towels after the match. But still about 2,500 towels go missing each tournament — mostly thrown into the crowd, handed to ball boys and girls, or slipped into bags.
Amritaj was conferred with the Padma Bhushan this month. In a 2013 Walk the Talk interview, he spoke about sharing the court with greats of the sport and the depths of the game.
The court accepted the need for urgent reforms after former players Somdev Devvarman & Purav Raja challenged AITA’s compliance with sports laws, election rules & tenure norms.
She first made headlines at the age of seven, when she became the youngest player in India to win consecutive All India Tennis Association Under-10 Championships.
By the 2024 US Open, ESPN noted that Djokovic had advanced via opponent retirements or walkovers 16 times at Majors, the most of any male player in the Open Era.
From Daniil Medvedev smashing his racquet and breaking a camera to Harbhajan Singh using a casually racist analogy for Jofra Archer, sports controversies dominated headlines.
Nagal, India’s best performer in recent Grand Slam men’s singles, has approached the Chinese Embassy in Delhi after his visa was rejected ahead of 2026 AO Asia-Pacific Playoff in Chengdu.
Tennis player Radhika Yadav was shot dead by her father in Gurugram. Her crime? Being successful, ambitious, and visible online. A chilling case of patriarchy.
BlackRock Global Funds have acquired less than 1% stake via open-market transactions in Ather while a Bloomberg EV index is down 1%, dragged by Tesla, BYD and Xiaomi.
Given how arrogant and self-loving Imran is, he may not be capable of introspection even in the isolation of Adiala jail. The harsh truth is, he played the same game when it suited him.
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