ESPN’s sports calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\nHere are all the updates from Indian sports on April 8, 2026.<\/p>\n
What’s on today?<\/p>\n
Chess: The FIDE Candidates continues in Cyprus with the women’s section looking promising for Indian hopes. <\/p>\n
Badminton: The Badminton Asia Championship in Ningbo, China will see India’s singles stars open their campaign. <\/p>\n
Tennis: India continue their Billie Jean King Cup Asia-Oceania Group I campaign at home in New Delhi, with two ties after a rain-affected day 1. <\/p>\n
Shooting: The ISSF Rifle\/Pistol World Cup continues in Granada, Spain.<\/p>\n
Boxing: The Asian Boxing Championships continue in Mongolia, with Indians in 8 finals. <\/p>\n
Wrestling: The Asian Wrestling Championships in Bishkek continue with more medal chances for India. <\/p>\n
Football: India take on Chinese Taipei in their final, and must-win, Group C fixture of the AFC U20 Women’s Asian Cup. [2:30 PM]<\/p>\n
Football: India (W) take on Kenya in the semifinal of the 2026 FIFA Series. [8:30 PM]<\/p>\n
What happened yesterday?<\/p>\n
Boxing: Minakshi, Jaismine among 8 Indians in finals at Asian Championships<\/p>\n
Wrestling: Silver for Lalit, bronze for Sunil Kumar; Nitesh reaches 97kg final at Asian Championships.<\/p>\n
Badminton: Dhruv-Tanisha win on mixed day for India at Asia Championships.<\/p>\n
Chess: Divya Deshmukh stuns leader Muzychuk, Praggnandhaa suffers loss at Candidates 2026.<\/p>\n
Shooting: Palak and Mukesh win air pistol mixed team WC gold with world record<\/p>\n
Football: Crispin Chettri returns as Indian women’s football team coach, names squad for Kenya tourney.<\/p>\n
Football: Planas brace helps Inter Kashi beat Chennaiyin FC in ISL.<\/p>\n
Football: Naoba Meitei’s stoppage-time strike helps Rajasthan United beat Gokulam Kerala FC in IFL.<\/p>\n
Tennis: India’s fate hangs in balance against Thailand in rain-affected BJK Cup tie.<\/p>\n
Football: India U17 women’s team to play three friendly matches against Russia in Sochi.<\/p>\n
Hockey: Indian Women’s Hockey Team set to tour Argentina for four-match series.<\/p>\n
Squash: Abhay loses to world No 7 Ibrahim in five-game thriller.<\/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":589607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-589606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}