Category: Sportzlive

Cue Slam is a unique cue-sports league initiated by SportzLive and Billiards & Snooker Federation of India (BSFI). It is a first-of-its-kind franchise-based Indian league featuring top names and the most promising talent from the world of cue sports. The competing franchises will be based in different cities of India, with each team featuring a combination of international, Indian and junior (male/female) players will compete against each other during the competition to win the Cue Slam title. Each match-up will feature exciting and innovative games of Snooker & 9-Ball (Pool). READ MORE

SportzLive has partnered with the Gopichand Badminton Academy with an initiative to develop a Gopichand Academy in Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex in Greater Noida. The aim of the academy is to identify and nurture talent in this part of the country. The academy will appoint highly qualified Indian and international coaches and the trainees will have access to facilities like the gym, swimming pool and athletics track in the sports complex. The academy is scheduled to be operational early March 2017. READ MORE

For a sport that originated in India in the 1800s, it is only fitting that the tournament with the biggest prize money in the world is being played here. Invented by the British, badminton has been mainly looked upon as a part-time sport over the years and was considered as good ‘exercise’. Barring the sporadic achievements of Prakash Padukone and Syed Modi in the 1980s, it was Pullela Gopichand’s triumph at the prestigious All-England Championships in 2001 that truly spurred a growth in the sport’s profile in the country. READ MORE