National Championships
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Commonwealth Games 2018: Long jumper M Sreeshankar diagnosed with appendicitis, will miss out on Gold Coast event
•Sreeshankar, who had won the gold in men's long jump at the Federation Cup National Championships at Patiala, is set to be operated at his home town of Palakkad in Kerala.
Former World Champion Sarita Devi elected women boxers' representative in BFI's executive council
•Sarita Devi said, "I would be aiming to raise the problems faced by women boxers because I have practical experience of how things work."
China Open Superseries Premier: Saina Nehwal breezes past Beiwan Zhang; Sameer Verma ousted
•Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal sailed into the women's singles second round of the China Open Superseries Premier with a straight-game win over USA's Beiwan Zhang on Wednesday.
AITA forms 3-member panel to tackle age fraud, but leaves onus on complainants to provide evidence
•When asked why AITA has left it to complainant to provide evidence, the federation's secretary general Hironmoy Chatterjee said, "It's to ensure that only genuine complaints come up before us."
PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth get direct entry into quarter-finals of National Championships
•World Championship silver medallist PV Sindhu (World No 2), bronze medallist Saina Nehwal (World No 12) will only be seen in action from the last eight stage.
AITA likely to recommend top players to take part in Nationals with exemptions for 'established' players
•Unless AITA makes it compulsory, players such as Yuki Bhambri, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Rohan Bopanna won't come despite the fact that winning the national championship now is lucrative.