Welcome to ESPN India's daily blog, where we bring you all the news from the dynamic world of Indian sports: from the wide variety of Olympic sports to franchise leagues.
July has plenty of sporting action taking place (including the biggest event of them all, the Paris Olympics) - which you can find listed out in ESPN India's sporting calendar.
What's on today?
There's not a whole lot going on today as India's athletes continue to fine-tune their preparations for the Paris Olympics. You can catch up on that via our stories: Here are India's top 10 medal hopes and here's a closer look at where their medals could be won or lost. Also here's a cheat sheet to prepare yourself for Olympic-centered conversation - How to sound like an expert when the Olympics is on ft. repechages, bogeys and ippons.
There's also some background reading for Indian Olympic sports fans - The Indian pioneers whose Olympic glory opened doors for future champions and Every medal India has won at the Olympics.
What happened yesterday?
Badminton: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, seeded no 3 for the Paris Olympic Games were drawn into group C. They will be joined in the group by Indonesia's Fajar Alfian and Mohammad Ardianto (world no.6), Germany's Mark Lamsfuss and Marvin Seidel (world no 31) plus France's Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar (world no. 43).
Chess: World Championship challenger D Gukesh's struggles in speed chess continued with another lowest total among all participants in the final day of blitz chess in Croatia. He finished seventh overall in the tournament.
You can find all the details of yesterday's events here.