{"id":589834,"date":"2026-04-06T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589834\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:55:08","slug":"nikhat-lovlina-lose-at-asian-boxing-championships-sat-chi-pull-out-of-badminton-asia-championships-indian-sports-april-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589834\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikhat, Lovlina lose at Asian Boxing Championships; Sat-Chi pull out of Badminton Asia Championships: Indian Sports, April 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian sports can get quite action-packed and it’s quite easy to miss out on important news and results. That’s where we come in — ESPN’s daily Indian sports blog has all the updates from the world of Indian sports as well as the news, scores, schedule, results and commentary that comes with it.<\/p>\n

2026 is a big year, with the Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, and two Chess World Championship. The month of April meanwhile, is similarly action packed – and you can go through the schedule in ESPN’s sports calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are all the updates from Indian sports on April 6, 2026.<\/p>\n

What’s on today?<\/p>\n

Chess: The FIDE Candidates has a rest day.<\/p>\n

Football: The IFL continues with Namdhari vs Diamond Harbour and Real Kashmir hosting Chanmari.<\/p>\n

Boxing: The Asian Boxing Championships continue in Mongolia, with plenty of Indians in action in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

Wrestling: The Asian Wrestling Championships in Bishkek begin with the Greco-Roman event.<\/p>\n

What happened yesterday?<\/p>\n

Chess: R Praggnanandhaa drew in round 7 of the Candidates, but R Vaishali’s victory over Tan Zhongyi saw her reel in leader Muzychuk.<\/p>\n

Boxing: Meenakshi, Jaismine powered Indian women to clean sweep of semis; six men also advanced.<\/p>\n

Football: Mumbai City went two points clear atop the ISL table after beating Odisha, while Kerala Blasters lost to SC Delhi to deepen their relegation fears.<\/p>\n

Football: India lost 0-5 to Australia in the U20 Women’s Asian Cup.<\/p>\n

Football: Aizawl held Sreenidi Deccan to a draw in the IFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian sports can get quite action-packed and it’s quite easy to miss out on important news and results.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-589834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}