Sunday 8 March '09
With one big tournament lost and prize money reduced in another, India’s fastest growing sport is feeling the effects of the economic slowdown.Wednesday 25 February '09
Young paddler Soumyajit Ghosh will get a chance to get up close and personal with former world champion Peter Karlsson after being shortlisted by the International Table Tennis Federation....Wednesday
25 February '09With the self-confidence that comes naturally to any normal 22-year-old, she dreamt of conquering the world, and almost did...Saturday
14 February '09He promises to call back in half-an-hour, but it takes a lot of chasing to finally corner cricketer Chetan Sharma...Monday
9 February '09Daksh Panwar Tendulkar went on to fall to dubious leg-before decisions in the two matches that followed, and the streak ended only when he decided to sit out in the next.Friday
30 January '09Daksh Panwar The first anniversary of Harbhajan Singh's hearing for abusing Symonds, almost coincided with the off-spinner being conferred with the Padma Shri.Monday
26 January '09At first, it gives an illusion of a dislocation at the joint as Rajkumar Sharma starts rotating his wrist to a full 360 degrees.Saturday
10 January '09The uncertainty over a new table-tennis head coach finally ended with the sports ministry on Friday naming Massimo Constantini...Thursday
25 December '08Indian table tennis head coach Aleksey Yefremov had last week asked the Sports Authority of India...Sunday
21 December '08That statistics hide more than they reveal never appeared more true than on Saturday, when St Stephen’s College took on Hindu College at the Ferozeshah Kotla.Saturday
20 December '08It’s been over half a century, but Raj Bhargava remembers Hindu College’s first win over St Stephen’s as vividly as if it happened yesterday.Wednesday
17 December '08Aiming for no less than half-a-dozen medals at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010, the Table Tennis Federation of India...Tuesday
16 December '08Neha Aggarwal has seen upsets of various kinds in the last few days. On Friday, she’d pulled off one against the world number 15 at the Junior World Championship in Spain.Monday
15 December '08Anything which could go wrong seemed to be going wrong for Neha Aggarwal.Saturday
13 December '08The reason G Sathiyan took up table tennis was as much academic as it was recreational. Encouraging him to pick up a TT bat...Thursday
11 December '08Being India’s best doesn’t necessarily make you the best in country, especially if you are to be judged by the TTFI's ranking system.Tuesday
18 November '08Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s fetish for motorcycles is well documented. But with Yuvraj Singh riding the form of his life, the Indian skipper will need a miracle to lay his hands on one of the bikes the Man of the Match takes home in the ongoing seven-match series.Monday
17 November '08As Paul Collingwood fielded questions from the media ahead of Monday’s ODI against India, one could get enough hints about why the visitors looked so out of sorts in Rajkot, or right from the Stanford Twenty20 match in West Indies last month.Monday
17 November '08It was a gross mismatch. In an impromptu two-man dash at the Usha Raje Stadium on Sunday, Ravinder Bopara did an Usain Bolt, outrunning a hapless Samit Patel by a mile as he showboated his way to the finish line.Sunday
16 November '08With the curator keeping close watch over proceedings at the Maharani Usha Raje Cricket Center...Monday
10 November '08Rajpath is used to hosting extravagant spectacles, but none like this one. While the annual Republic Day parade inches ahead at a laidback pace...Friday
24 October '08The glitzy ceremony that doubled up as a “product” launch and an awards function somehow left one feeling that the underlying idea behind both was trial and error.Thursday
25 September '08That Indian cricket has a penchant for foreign coaches is well documented. What doesn’t get an equal amount of column-centimetres is that it is also returning the favour, albeit on a smaller scale, at an individual level.Saturday
20 September '08In America, they usually guess it right that Jeev Milkha Singh is the son of a sports icon.Sunday
14 September '08Five strokes off Gaganjeet Bhullar, the leader after the penultimate round, not many gave Rahul Ganapathy a realistic chance of winning.
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