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Here are all the updates from July 6, 2025.
What's on today?
Chess: D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa are in action in the last day of the Blitz chess at the Grand Chess Tour Croatia Rapid & Blitz.
Chess: Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, R Vaishali, Divya Deshmukh and more Indians are in action at the FIDE Women's Chess World Cup in Batumi, Georgia.
Boxing: Six Indians are in action in finals of the World Boxing Cup in Astana.
Shooting: India's skeet shooters will begin at the Logano Shotgun World Cup.
Tennis: Yuki Bhambri - Jiang Xinyu in the mixed doubles second round at Wimbledon.
What happened yesterday?
Athletics: Neeraj Chopra won the inaugural Neeraj Chopra Classic with a throw of 86.18m.
Athletics: Animesh Kujur (100m, 10.18s) and Mohammed Afsal (800m, 1:44.96) broke the men's national records, becoming the first Indians ever to dip into the 10.1s and sub 1:45 times respectively.
Football: The Indian women's national team beat Thailand (2-1) for the first time in their history, thus qualifying for the 2026 AFC Asian Cup and keeping their hopes of World Cup qualification alive.
Tennis: Yuki-Galloway won their second round contest; Balaji, Bolipalli bowed out at Wimbledon.
Chess: D Gukesh saw his three-point lead evaporate after a miserable 1.5/9 opening day at the Blizt of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour Rapid & Blitz, with Magnus Carlsen re-taking the lead.
Badminton: Kidambi Srikanth narrowly lost to third seed Kenta Nishimoto of Japan 21-19, 14-21, 19-21 in the semifinal of the BWF Canada Open Super 300.