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Asian Games: Somdev brings home gold, hockey dreams collapse

Guangzhou: Somdev Devvarman clinched a historic singles gold medal in tennis while two bronze medals came from athletics, but the men's hockey team squandered an advantageous position to go down to Ma

Advani wants cue sports to be a priority

Bengaluru, Nov. 23: Indian cueists’ rich medal haul in the ongoing Asian Games is a shot in the arm for cue sports and would give it a chance to push for a place in the sports ministry’s ‘priority lis

Indian men secure team archery bronze

Guangzhou: The Indian trio of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia fought through challenging conditions to clinch the men's team bronze after beating Chinese Taipei in the Archer

Bronze in archery, Mary Kom and Somdev eye medals

Guangzhou: The Indian men's team won an archery bronze while world champion boxer Mary Kom and tennis star Somdev Devvarman were headed for a medal finish after 10 days of competitions at the Asian Ga

Sixth Asiad gold: Somdev-Sanam win top spot in tennis doubles

Guangzhou: India's Somdev Devvarman and Sanam Singh clinched the tennis men's doubles gold with a sensational 3-7, 7-6 (4), 1-0(8) victory over Chinese Maoxin Gong and Zhe Li at the Asian Games here M

Somdev-Sanam win gold, Sania-Vishnu settle for silver

Guangzhou: Somdev Devvarman today became the first Indian to reach the men's singles final in the history of the Asian Games before winning the men's doubles gold with Sanam Singh but Sania Mirza an

Asiad: Somdev, Sania, archers take India's medal tally to 36

Guangzhou: A gold and silver in tennis and a bronze in archery took India's medal tally to 36 on the tenth day of competitions at the Asian Games here Tuesday.

While Somdev Devvarman and Sanam Singh

Heavy medal, India rocks

Nov. 21: India opened its athletics campaign in the Asian Games in a spectacular fashion with long distance runners Preeja Sreedharan and Sudha Singh clinching the gold medals in the women’s 10,000m

Sania loses, settles for bronze

Nov. 21: Somdev Devvarman stormed into the semifinals to assure India of at least a bronze but Karan Rastogi went down fighting to top seed Denis Istomin in the eventful men’s singles tennis quarterf

Asher cherishes birthday medal

Nov. 21: It was a super Sunday for city shooter Asher Noria as he teamed up with Ronjan Sodhi and Vikram Bhatnagar to win bronze in the men’s double trap team event at the Asian Games in Guangzhou.

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