(August 17, 2024) In Liverpool, a 10-year-old Indian-origin schoolgirl from northwest London has altered the record books of chess. Bodhana Sivanandan defeated 60-year-old grandmaster Pete Wells in the final round of the 2025 British Chess Championships, becoming the...
(August 12, 2025) On July 28, 2025, in Batumi, Georgia, 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh scripted a chess history defeating former world champion Koneru Humpy in a tense rapid tiebreak to win the FIDE Women’s World Cup. The victory instantly earned her the Grandmaster...
(July 15, 2025) At 19, Nishesh Basavareddy walked onto the court at the 2025 Australian Open as a rising American star, facing none other than his childhood idol, Novak Djokovic. For most, it would be a moment filled with nerves. For Nishesh, now 20, it was the...
(July 4, 2025) In a quiet village in coastal Karnataka, a young boy would spend evenings swatting shuttlecocks with his father in their backyard. It was here that Ayush Shetty’s badminton journey began – long before the world took notice. Fast forward to June 2025 in...
(Jun 30, 2025) It began with a father’s quiet dream and a table in a neighborhood gym in St. Denis. Far from the spotlight, six-year-old Prithika Pavade first gripped a paddle under the watchful eye of her father, a former table tennis enthusiast from Puducherry who...
