{"id":2249248,"date":"2026-01-25T04:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2249248"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:19:32","slug":"ranchi-royals-face-hyderabad-toofans-in-hil-qualifier-2-tata-steel-chess-continues-with-gukesh-pragg-arjun-in-action-indian-sports-live-january-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ranchi-royals-face-hyderabad-toofans-in-hil-qualifier-2-tata-steel-chess-continues-with-gukesh-pragg-arjun-in-action-indian-sports-live-january-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranchi Royals face Hyderabad Toofans in HIL Qualifier 2; Tata Steel Chess continues with Gukesh, Pragg, Arjun in action: Indian Sports LIVE, January 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Indian sports can get quite action-packed and it&#8217;s quite easy to miss out on important news and results. That&#8217;s where we come in &#8212; ESPN&#8217;s daily Indian sports blog has all the updates from the world of Indian sports as well as the news, scores, schedule, results and commentary that comes with it.<\/p>\n<p>2026 is here and brings with it, a whole new set of sports events. It&#8217;s a big year for Indian sport &#8212; with the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games coming up later this year. There are also two Chess World Championship, where the open and women&#8217;s sections could both feature Indians in them.<\/p>\n<p>Here are all the updates from Indian sports on January 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>What&#8217;s on today?<span> <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Hockey: <\/strong>Ranchi Royals face Hyderabad Toofans in qualifier 2 of the Hockey India League, at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Chess<\/strong>: The Tata Steel Masters continues with Round 8 in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands where a number of top Indians are in action. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<aside class=\"module-iframe-wrapper \">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"arena-liveblog-iframe-5wLZExl\" height=\"2000\" width=\"100%\" class=\"frame iframe-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/embed?publisher=espn-69077&amp;event=5wLZExl&amp;v=2&amp;theme=light\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"false\" mozallowfullscreen=\"false\" and=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" seemless=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<p><inline\/><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>What happened yesterday?<span> <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Chess: <\/strong>Gukesh D lost to Anish Giri at the Tata Stell Chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Tennis: <\/strong>Balaji and Oberleitner bow out of Australian Open<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Wrestling: <\/strong>Amit takes Maharashtra Kesari to top of the PWL table with nerve-holding final-bout win over Haryana Thunders<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source africa.espn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian sports can get quite action-packed and it&#8217;s quite easy to miss out on important news and results. That&#8217;s where we come in &#8212; ESPN&#8217;s daily Indian sports blog has all the updates from the world of Indian sports as well as the news, scores, schedule, results and commentary that comes with it. 2026 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2249249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ranchi-Royals-face-Hyderabad-Toofans-in-HIL-Qualifier-2-Tata.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249250,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249248\/revisions\/2249250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}