Bangladesh's four chess players made an early exit in the FIDE World Chess Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan after losing their first round matches over the last two days. 

Ramhim Lian Bawm fell in love with table tennis in his childhood, after watching a game on television. That love dragged him towards the game some eight years back, eventually seeing him becoming the first indigenous player to lift the crown in men’s singles event of the National Table Tennis Championships on Saturday.

Alamin emerged victorious by Technical Knockout against his Thai counterpart, bringing pride to Bangladesh with his remarkable performance in the ring by completing the 4-round bout within the first round, according to a press release from Xcel Sports Management & Promotions

Ramhim Lian Bawm created a piece of history in the National Table Tennis Championship in Chattogram today, becoming the first player to win both boys’ and men's singles titles.

Rafiqul Islam Tipu, a renowned face in Bangladesh’s sports community, passed away today at a hospital in Dhaka.

British Open champion Brian Harman says he will celebrate his first major win at Hoylake by jumping on his new tractor, joking that he is a man of many layers "like an onion".

Jonas Vingegaard won his second successive Tour de France on Sunday after Jordi Meeus claimed the final stage honours on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

Mahfuza Khatun Shila is the country's first and only female swimmer to win a gold medal in the South Asian Games. Shila, currently an employee of Bangladesh Navy, won two gold medals in 2016 SA Games while setting a record in 50m breaststroke. After calling time in 2021, the 33-year-old prepared herself for the coaching profession before getting appointed as the assistant coach of Bangladesh swimming team for the upcoming Asian Games. In an interview with Anisur Rahman of The Daily Star, Shila expressed her thoughts on coaching, present condition and scope of swimming here. The excerpts of the interview are as follows:

Shooter Sharmin Akter emerged champion from the open group of boys and girls in the Inter-Club Shooting Championship in 2000 when she was a sixth grader. The BKSP student then shone in the Islamabad SA Games in 2004, bagging gold in the 10m air-rifle, before winning a silver in the next edition of the SA Games in 2006 in Sri Lanka. Sharmin was on a roll in domestic competitions after that, becoming champion a total of five times in the national and inter-club shooting championships. After calling time on her long 22-year playing career following the 2021 Bangladesh Games completion, the 34-year-old former shooter stepped into coaching and started working as one of the three assistant coaches to the national shooting team’s Iranian head coach Zaer Rezaei. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star’s Anisur Rahman, Sharmin talked about different aspects of the sport. The excerpts from the interview are as follows:    

With more and more success of women in different sporting disciplines in recent times, there has been a considerable amount of transition from athletes to coaches from among former female athletes in recent times than ever before.

Woman Candidate Master (WCM) Warsia Khusbu won the gold medal in the Girls Under-11 Group of the Asian School Chess Championships after the ninth round in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Wednesday.

China's Zhang Shuai retired from her Hungarian Grand Prix match in tears on Tuesday after her local opponent Amarissa Toth erased a ball mark on the clay court following a disputed line call.

Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova said Tuesday she was determined "not to push in anywhere" in her bid to avoid the media spotlight after her historic triumph.

Novak Djokovic was still trying to digest the loss of his Wimbledon crown to Carlos Alcaraz when one reporter asked him whether Sunday's clash was the start of a great rivalry.

State Premier Daniel Andrews said the initial estimated Aus$2 billion (US$1.36 billion) needed to hold the Games would more likely be around Aus$7 billion, which he called "well and truly too much"

"I think he's got basically best of all three worlds," said Djokovic."People have been talking in the past 12 months or so about his game consisting of certain elements from Roger, Rafa, and myself. I would agree with that."

Carlos Alcaraz heralded the changing of the guard in men’s tennis as he ended Novak Djokovic’s long reign at Wimbledon with a rip-roaring 1-6, 7-6(6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 victory to win the All England Club title for the first time on Sunday.

World number one Alcaraz recovered from dropping the first set and saving a set point in the second to come through 1-6, 7-6 (8/6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.

Marketa Vondrousova plans to celebrate with beer and a new tattoo after becoming one of the most unlikely Wimbledon champions by beating Ons Jabeur in the final on Saturday.

Tearful Wimbledon runner-up Ons Jabeur on Saturday described her third defeat in a Grand Slam final as the "most painful" of her career but vowed to bounce back and break her jinx at the majors.