Sports World: Bopanna-Ebden Pair Bows Out At Monte Carlo Masters - As It Happened

Here are the highlights of all sporting action and news for today, 10 April 2024. The stage was set for the round of 32 clash between Sumit Nagal and Denmark's Holger Rune in the Monte Carlo Masters. But it got suspended due to heavy rain. United States defeated Canada by 31 runs in the second T20I match in Houston. Gujarat Titans ended the Rajasthan Royals unbeaten streak with a three-wicket victory in the IPL 2024 match in Jaipur. Catch the highlights of all the sporting action from around the world for 10 April 2024, here.

Badminton Asia Championships Round of 32: India's Priyanshu Rajawat loses to Lee Zii Jia in straight games, 9-21,13-21.

The U.S. Women's National Team Players Association issued a statement Tuesday in support of LGBTQ rights in the wake of a controversy over midfielder Korbin Albert's social media posts. The 20-year-old Albert apologised last month for sharing anti-LGBTQ+ content on her TikTok account. The Paris Saint-Germain player wrote “liking and sharing posts that are offensive, insensitive and hurtful was immature and disrespectful which was never my intent.” (AP)

Maharashtra dominated the National Masters Table Tennis Championships bagging 46 medals, including 11 gold and 10 silver with its paddlers making a clean sweep in the men's 50-plus category. Manish Rawat secured the gold in the men's 50-plus category while Malaykumar Thakkar and Prasad Naik clinched the silver and bronze medals respectively as the Maharashtra trio claimed all three podium spots. Maharashtra's Sunil Babras, one of the country's star players of yesteryears, retained the gold medal in the men's 60-plus category, while Prakash Kelkar secured the silver in men's singles 65-plus category. (PTI)

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India takes a lead by 1-0 in the ongoing 3rd Test Hockey match against Australia. Hardik and Jugraj secured the first goal of the third game in the five match series that is currently led by Australia 2-0.

Formula E on Wednesday announced a three-year media partnership with Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) to air all rounds of the electric racing series across the Indian sub-continent.

SPNI will broadcast all races of the championship's 10th season on its networks of television channels and fans will be also able to watch the action on streaming platform Sony LIV. (PTI)

Just after India scored their first goal, Australia bounced back, by equalizing the match 1-1 with an incredible strike from Jeremy Hayward. Despite India's strong defense, he once again netting, handing the Aussies their third back-to-back win over India in the five match Test series.

Superstar Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra will compete in the prestigious Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland on June 18, where he will be up against 19-year-old sensation Max Dehning of Germany, the latest entrant in the 90m club, the organisers said. (PTI)

Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu survived some tense moments before progressing to the women's singles second round but it was curtains for Lakshya Sen and Kidambi Srikanth in men's singles at the Badminton Asia Championships here on Wednesday.

Sindhu, who is desperately seeking to rediscover her form ahead of the Paris Olympics, almost blew away a five-point advantage in the decider before managing a gritty 18-21 21-14 21-19 win against world number 33 Goh Jin Wei from Malaysia.

Leeds and Northern Ireland midfielder Stuart Dallas has announced his retirement from professional football.

The 32-year-old has been sidelined since April 2022 after suffering a femoral fracture against Manchester City in the Premier League and in a statement confirming his retirement, Dallas revealed his knee has sustained “irreparable damage”. (Stats Perform)

After dominating on aggressive hard courts, Jannik Sinner made a smooth transition to softer clay by beating Sebastian Korda 6-1, 6-2 in the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday. But, defending champion Andrey Rublev was eliminated after a 6-4, 6-4 loss to Alexei Popyrin.

Goa National Games silver medal-winning steeplechaser Mohammed Nur Hasan, 2019 Asian Championships bronze medallist Murli Kumar Gavit, and India's World Cross Country Championships participants Hemraj Gurjar and Anjali Kumari have been put under provisional suspension after they tested positive for banned substances. (PTI)

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden lost their round of 16 men's doubles match to Mate Pavic of Croatia and Marcelo Arévalo of El Salvador at the Monte Carlo Masters in Monte Carlo on Wednesday. They lost 3-6 6-7 (6-8).

Bopanna and Ebden fell behind quickly in the first set and could not recover from there. The Indo-Australian combo seemed to make a comeback of sorts in the second set but their opponents played very well to seal the issue in the tie-breaker. (PTI)

Punjab FC defeated East Bengal FC 4-1 and knocked out the Red & Gold Brigade from the Indian Super League playoffs contention at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Thanks to the result, Chennaiyin FC became the sixth and final team to qualify for the playoffs. Punjab FC were already out of the contention for the top-six berth. (PTI)

Rahul Tewatia and Rashid Khan made sure Gujarat Titans hand Rajasthan Royals their first defeat of the season. Chasing 197, Gujarat Titans started on a positive note thanks to captain Shubman Gill's 72 off 44 balls. Shahrukh Khan played a crucial cameo in the middle and Rashid Khan hit the winning runs on the final ball to seal the victory for the Titans.

The round of 32 match in the Monte Carlo Masters between Sumit Nagal and Holger Rune will be resumed on Thursday after it was suspended due to rain on Wednesday.

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