Author: S Kannan

PV Sindhu has resumed her drills slowly on the badminton courts in Hyderabad. After two months of complete rest on the advice of doctors, following an MCL (medial collateral inflammation) injury, she’s finally ready to embark on the road back. Speaking to RevSportz on Sunday, PV Ramana, her father, said: “Sindhu is back to get a feel of the courts after a break which was taken to ensure she is fully fit. The focus is on strengthening right now and also getting her movements back.” https://youtu.be/eeMtL0R6ijI?si=tDQjA9v4F72FsaXc A former volleyball player himself, Ramana has taken painstaking efforts to ensure Sindhu…

Mention the name Rafael Nadal, and a gamut of emotions spring to mind. This time, down under in Brisbane, Australia, the winner of 22 Grand Slam titles starts as an underdog. Wait, this is not a fictional story but a real one, as the Spanish tennis sensation steps on court in the new year, trying to get his career back on the rails. The last image of Nadal playing a tennis match is from January 2023 at the Australian Open, when he lost a second- round match to Mackenzie McDonald from the United States of America. He lost as he…

For a man who flirted with death almost every second on the racing track in his brilliant Formula One career, who would have imagined Michael Schumacher would spend a decade in privacy with his wife. No, this is not about a romantic story, really, but how the seven-time F1 world champion has been kept away from all of us following his skiing accident on this date in Meribel, France. Anyone who has followed this high-octane sport over the decades will vouch there was only one Ayrton Senna, killed following an infamous crash in Imola almost three decades ago. At…

Sumit Nagal has realised confrontation with the All India Tennis Association is not going to be of any help. After his “refusal” to make himself available for the Davis Cup away tie against Pakistan in February, Nagal faced the wrath of the AITA when they failed to nominate him for a possible wild card at the Australian Open, to be held from January 14 to 28. Now, Nagal has reopened his communication channel with the AITA. Speaking to RevSportz from Australia on Friday, Nagal said he “is in touch with the AITA.” “I will be speaking to them next week,”…

One thing is to be brazen and quit and another to be arrogant. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s man Sanjay Singh may have won the elections as president of the Wrestling Federation of India three days ago, but what followed was anything but good governance. Bursting crackers at his (Brij Bhushan) residence in New Delhi when there is a cracker ban, posturing tough, as if he will still call the shots, all these were dangerous signals. Yes Brij Bhushan is a political strongman in Uttar Pradesh, but all this bravado and mocking lady wrestlers could have been avoided. When Sakshi Malik…

Aussie cricket star Usman Khawaja opened his heart out in an emotional social media post on Friday. Bang in the middle of the Test series against Pakistan, the opener has been in the news. First, what he wrote on his shoes before the Perth Test “All Lives Are Equal,” was disallowed. To be fair to Khawaja, he later taped the shoes and one could not see the statement. “I am not talking about religion. I am talking about humanitarian issues. When I see young kids dying on my Insta feed, it hits me hard. When I see these feeds, I…

On Thursday, dramatic developments in New Delhi saw Sanjay Singh, “a friend” of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, elected as President of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). Less than an hour after the news broke out, Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia addressed the media. “We slept for 40 days on the roads and a lot of people from several parts of the country came to support us,” said a tearful Sakshi. “If Brij Bhushan Singh’s business partner and a close aide is elected as the president of WFI, I quit wrestling.” Symbolically, Sakshi left her shoes at the…

Diksha Dagar was over the moon as she got the official confirmation on being selected for the Arjuna Award. Speaking to RevSportz from Jakarta on Wednesday, Diksha, who is now competing in the Asia Pacific golf event, said this will motivate her further. “This has been a great year for me and now being selected for the Arjuna Award is recognition and an affirmation I belong to the top,” said Diksha. Not being selected for the Asian Games in Hangzhou still rankles Diksha, so the latest award comes as a solace. “It still hurts I was not picked for the…

Not often does one see two Indian fast bowlers go flat out against South Africa in white-ball cricket. On Sunday, Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan gave it ‘left and right’ to the Proteas in the first ODI in Johannesburg. It’s always a delight to see fast bowlers attack in a pair. Conditions were helpful for them, especially in the first innings. Left-armer Arshdeep and right-armer Avesh fired on all cylinders. To share nine wickets was a delight for the speedsters as well as those watching the match live and on television. First things first. There is no fear factor these…

Success has many fathers, and failure none. Cliched as that may sound, the performance of India’s junior hockey teams, boys and girls, at the FIH Junior World Cups has been desperately disappointing. For the girls’ side to finish ninth was indeed a poor show, though the focus is now on the boys’ team, which followed up a 1-4 loss to Germany in the semi-finals with a 3-1 defeat against Spain in the bronze-medal game. For India to have wasted 13 penalty corners in the Germany match was little short of a crime Even more lousy was the reasoning given by…