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New Delhi, January 14, 2023: India’s biggest badminton tournament, Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2023 is all set to take off and get bigger than ever at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi from January 17 to 22. The prestigious tournament gets bigger than ever with the upgraded BWF World Tour Super 750 status from the previous Super 500 as well as the star-studded field. As the world’s greatest shuttlers will be engaged in a high-voltage action at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open—organised by the Badminton Association of India, here are Top-10 men’s players to watch out for at the mega…





Rohan Chowdhury, Rahul Giri. 13, January, 2023, Rourkela It was around 3 pm that we reached the stadium, expecting to get ample time to do set up for the build-up. The first match of the day at Birsa Munda Stadium was between England and Wales, and we didn’t expect a fan-packed stadium for that clash. Boy, were we wrong! The moment we reached the stadium ‘chowk’ we felt the buzz! Traffic got intense with roads blocked. We had to walk the last five hundred metres to the stadium gate. Fans screaming “India India” and piling up to buy jerseys and…





– Boria Majumdar 412 international caps for India. One of the best to have played the sport, Dilip Tirkey is all excited with the Hockey World Cup on home soil. What’s his vision for Hockey India and the world cup? What does he want to do different? Here’s the newly elected President in a candid conversation with Boria Majumdar as part of Backstage With Boria. Boria- The world cup is on us. First thoughts? Dilip- Hockey is the sport that has taught us the art of winning Olympic medals. We were known for our hockey. To win that many gold…

January 09, 2023 Backstage with Boria Season 4 is back with a stellar line-up of sport stars. Over the next 3 months, the show will feature Nikhat Zareen, Satwik and Chirag, Manika Batra, Sourav Ghosal, Sharath Kamal, Abhinav Bindra, Tejaswin Shankar, Pankaj Advani, PR Sreejesh and Harmanpreet Singh, Dilip Tirkey, Mirabai Chanu Pullela Gopichand and a host of other leading athletes. With Indian hockey team kickstarting its Hockey World Cup 2023 campaign against Spain on Friday, January 13. Hockey India President Dilip Tirkey shared his thoughts on the event and India’s chances. Dilip Tirkey on BWB Season 4 said, “It…

Resenting cricket its popularity won’t help other sports progress. Media coverage has always been proportional to success, and that isn’t going to change. It’s been interesting to follow the discussions about the lack of media coverage given to the Indian men’s hockey team ahead of the World Cup that starts in Orissa later today. The likes of Viren Rasquinha, and others, are entirely justified in being dismayed at the lack of column inches, but to shed tears about the coverage is to ignore the cold, hard truth of how the media works. For the past quarter century, as Indian hockey…