Supercross Racing League (ISRL) season 2 Salman Khan unveils the official jersey during an event, in Mumbai on Wednesday. (PTI)
AICF to host 10 FIDE trainer seminars in 2025
NEW DELHI, July 16: The All India Chess Federation (AICF) will conduct 10 FIDE trainer seminars this year and one in January 2026.The trainer seminars, aiming to empower the Indian chess coaches for training all levels of growing talents, will start from Vijayawada in August and will cover a host of Indian cities before finally culminating in Ranchi in January 2026.“For the first time ever, we are witnessing a national federation organising 10 FIDE Trainers’ Seminars in a single calendar year – and remarkably, a proposal for the 11th seminar has already been submitted for January,” said Sami Khader, the chair of the TRG (FIDE trainers commission).“This outstanding initiative by the All India Chess Federation (AICF) is a testament to their unwavering commitment to developing chess trainers and raising the bar for training standards across the region.“The FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) would like to emphasise that this is not only a record-breaking achievement but also reflection of the strong, ongoing collaboration and mutual trust between AICF and TRG.” AICF also added that he hoped schools will also take cognizance of the importance of having properly trained trainers/teachers with a valid training certificate coming from the apex world body.Top Indian coaches, FST and Dronacharya awardee R B Ramesh, head coach Indian team N Srinath, head coach Indian women team Abhijit Kunte, GM Pravin Thipsay and GM Tejas Bakre have confirmed their participation as coaches for these seminars.Schedule: Vijayawada August 8-10; Madurai August 22-24; Kottayam September 12-14; Pune September 19-21; Jaipur September 26-28; Noida, November 14-16; Kolkata November 28-30; Guwahati December 5-7; Bengaluru December 19-21; Ahmedabad December 26-28; Ranchi Januaru 23-25. (PTI)
Arjun and Prashanth advance to quarters in Swiss Open
GSTAAD, July 16: The Indian pair of Arjun Kadhe and Vijay Sundar Prashanth on Wednesday moved to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open with a straight-set win but their compatriots N Sriram Balaji anwwd Rithvik Bollialli suffered a first round exit from the ATP 250 event in Gstaad, Switzerland.Kadhe and Prashanth got the better of Nicolas Barrientos from Colombia and Miguel Rayes-Varela from Mexico 7-5 6-3 in the opening round of the Euro 596,035 clay court tournament.However, the pair of Balaji and Bollipalli fell 4-6 7-6(8) 7-10 to local wild card entrants Jakub Paul and Dominic Stricker in a hard-fought match.Meanwhile, competing in the ATP 250 hard court event in Los Cabos, the Indian pair of Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Niki Kalyan Poonacha went down 4-6 3-6 to second seeds Rajeev Ram and Christian Harrison. (PTI)