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May will see Indian athletes in action across leagues. You can see details of other events in our 2025 sporting calendar.
Here are all the updates from May 9, 2025.
What’s on today?
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Chess: D Gukesh and R Praggnanandhaa are among a strong field at the Superbet Chess Classic that continues in Romania.
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Chess: R Vaishali is also in action at the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix, Austria.
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Archery: India’s compound and recurve archers are in action at the Archery World Cup Stage II, with the compound teams facing Mexico in their respective gold-medal contests.
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Badminton: Ayush Shetty and Unnati Hooda are the sole remaining Indians at the BWF Taipei Open Super 300, featuring in the quarterfinals.
What happened yesterday?
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Archery: Compound archers Madhura, Rishabh reached the semis; recurve teams bowed out of the Shanghai World Cup.
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Football: Indian women’s football team to play Uzbekistan in two international friendlies.
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Badminton: Ayush Shetty stunned Kidambi Srikanth, Unnati Hooda also advanced to the Taipei Open quarters.
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Athletics: Neeraj Chopra to compete at Ostrava Golden Spike 2025.
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Chess: Gukesh, Pragg grabbed draws in round 2 of Superbet Chess; Vaishali leads FIDE Grand Prix after draw in R3
