Players.bio is a large online platform sharing the best live coverage of your favourite sports: Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA, plus the latest sports news, transfers & scores. Exclusive interviews, fresh photos and videos, breaking news. Stay tuned to know everything you wish about your favorite stars 24/7. Check our daily updates and make sure you don't miss anything about celebrities' lives.
Commonwealth Games on Friday. The record nine-time national champion, who has as many as 10 CWG medals to his name, entered the men's singles semifinals after beating Nigeria's Olajide Omotayo 4-2 in a thrilling contest. Sharath, 40, also reached the semifinals of mixed and men's doubles competition along with his respective partners.
Commonwealth Games on Friday. Sharath first paired up with young Sreeja Akula to stun two-time silver medallists Liam Pitchford and Tin-Tin Ho of England 3-2 (11-7 8-11 11-8 11-13 11-9) in mixed doubles and then combined with Sathiyan Gnanasekaran to beat another English pair of Tom Jarvis and Sam Walker 3-0 (11-6 11-8 11-4) in men's doubles event. Another mixed pair of Sathiyan and Manika Batra, however, went down 2-3 to Malaysian combination of Javen Choong and Karen Lyne, while men's pairing of Sanil Shetty and Harmeet Desai also ended their campaign with a 0-3 loss to Singapore's Chew Zhe Yu Clarence and Poh Shao Feng Ethan.
Canadian freestyle wrestlers Lachlan McNeil, Ana Godinez Gonzalez and Hannah Taylor added to Canada's medal total at the 2022 Commonwealth Games on Friday.
Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula entered the women's singles quarterfinals in the table tennis event of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Friday. Batra steamrolled Australian Jee Minhyung 11-4 11-8 11-6 12-10 to book her place in the quarterfinal. The 27-year-old star paddler will now take on Singapore's Jian Zeng in the last eight-clash later tonight.
Day 7 of the ongoing Commonwealth Games saw India add two medals -- a gold and silver -- to their kitty. With six gold, seven silver and seven bronze medals, India are currently seventh in medals tally, having won a total of 20 medals. India's Sudhir bagged a gold in the men's heavyweight final of para powerlifting to end Day 7 on a positive note. Murali Sreeshankar had also clinched a historic silver for India with a best jump of 8.08m in the men's long jump.
Here's India's complete schedule of Day 8 at the CWG 2022:Lawn Bowls1 PM: India vs England in Women's Pairs - Quarterfinal Table Tennis2 PM: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Manika Batra vs Olajide Omotayo/Ajoke Ojomu (Nigeria) in Mixed Doubles Round of 16 Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sreeja Akula vs Chee Feng Leong/Ying Ho (Malaysia) in Mixed Doubles - Round of 16 Para Table Tennis2:40 PM: Sonalben Patel vs Ifechukwude Christiana Ikpeoyi (Nigeria) in Women's Singles Classes 3-5 - Semikinal 2 Bhavina Patel vs Sue Bailey (England) in Women's Singles Classes 3-5 - Semifinal 1 Raj Aravindan Alagar vs Nasiru Sule (Nigeria) in Men's Singles Classes 3-5 - Semifinal 1 Wrestling3 PM: Men's Freestyle 125kg (Mohit Grewal) Men's Freestyle 65kg (Bajrang Punia) Men's Freestyle 86kg (Deepak Punia) Women's Freestyle 57kg (Anshu Malik) Women's Freestyle 68kg (Divya Kakran) Women's Freestyle 62kg (Sakshi Malik) Athletics3:06 PM: Women's 100m Hurdles - Round 1 - Heat 2 (Jyothi Yarraji) Table Tennis3:15 PM: Manika Batra vs Minhyung Jee (Australia) in Women's Singles - Round of 16 Reeth Tennison vs Tianwei Feng (Singapore) in Women's Singles - Round of 16 Sreeja Akula vs Charlotte Carey (Wales) in Women's Singles - Round of 16 Table Tennis3:55 PM: Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran vs Ramhimlian Bawm/Mohutasin Ahmed Ridoy (Bangladesh) in Men's Doubles - Round of 16 Harmeet Desai/Sanil Shetty vs Dillon Chambers/Xin Yan (Australia) in Men's Doubles - Round of 16 Badminton4:10 PM: Jolly Treesa/Gayatri Gopichand vs Jemimah Leung For Sang/Mungrah (Mauritius) in Women's Doubles - Round of 16 Athletics4:10 PM: Women's Long Jump - Qualifying Round Group A (Ancy Sojan Edappilly) Athletics4:19 PM: Men's 4x400m Relay - Round 1 Heat 2 (Amoj Jacob, Naganathan
UFC light heavyweight champion Jiri Prochakza revealed Miyamoto Musashi is his favourite samurai in Japanese history – after reading his classic ‘The Book of Five Rings’.
SINGAPORE: Swimmer Teong Tzen Wei finished fifth in the men's 50m freestyle final at the 2022 Commonwealth Games on Wednesday (Aug 3) night local time.