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Kabaddi Builds Bridges Across Cultures In Hong Kong

Overlooked by high-rises on the outskirts of Hong Kong, a group of students practise body-slam tackles and vicious ankle-wrenches at weekly training for an unlikely sport: the ancient Indian game of kabaddi. Though its professional league has a huge following in India and surrounding nations, kabaddi -- a highly physical game where the object is to tag the rival team, often by brute force -- is relatively unknown outside the region.

Michael Judge beats Fan Zhengyi at European Masters

Michael Judge claimed the scalp of defending European Masters champion Fan Zhengyi – who upset Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final of the previous edition of the tournament – with a 5-1 qualifying success in Germany.

New junior World No.1 Sankar wants to make it big at senior level

Sankar is the first shuttler from Tamil Nadu to achieve this feat and fourth Indian boy after Aditya Joshi (Madhya Pradesh) in 2014, Siril Verma of Telangana in 2016 and Lakshya Sen from Uttarakhand in 2017. Among them only Lakshya Sen went on to make it big in the senior circuit.. Sankar benefited from BWF’s decision to defreeze the ranking points this August.

European Masters: Hossein Vafaei in walkover drama as he misses first-round match against Xiao Guodong

Xiao Guodong was awarded victory in the first round of the European Masters after his opponent Hossein Vafaei failed to appear for the match. Vafaei, the reigning Shoot-Out champion, was originally docked two frames as Xiao waited past the scheduled 10am start at the Morningside Arena in Leicester. Ad But when it became clear Vafaei would not be in attendance, a 5-0 victory was awarded to his Chinese opponent.