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World no 11 duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has become the first Indian men's doubles pair to qualify for the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals, starting on Wednesday.

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Masters Athletic Federation of India (MAFI) will organize the inaugural edition of the Asian Masters Marathon in the country next year.

The race, to be held in the last quarter of 2022, will be conducted according to the highest technical standards, the MAFI said.

Lakshya Sen Set To Become Youngest Indian Shuttler To Qualify For World Tour Finals20-year-old Lakshya Sen is currently ranked fifth in the World Tour rankings, and is set to become the youngest Indian shuttler to qualify for the finals.


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Indian tennis player Ramkumar Ramanathan won his maiden Challenger level singles title on Sunday, 12 years after turning a Pro, when he outplayed Evgeny Karlovskiy in the summit clash of the ATP 80 Manama event.

Lionel Messi won the men's Ballon d'Or award for a record-extending seventh time at a ceremony in Paris on Monday. Messi won the last edition of the Ballon d'Or in 2019 before last year's awards were cancelled due to the pandemic. He also won in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and in 2015.

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The first contact made after an attacker from the other team sends the ball over to the defensive team is said to be a “dig”. Digs can be made with the forearms, open or closed hands or any other part of the body.

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Indian badminton legend Prakash Padukone has been selected for the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for 2021 by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Council. The former world no 1 has already been honored with the Badminton Association of India’s (BAI) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. Padukone is the first-ever Indian to win a medal at World Championships in the 1983 Copenhagen tournament.