Indian Sports Calendar May 2024: Events to watch in final week

Indian pugilists will look to get more quota places for Paris 2024.

After a couple of hectic weeks for the fans, the last week of May will be relatively lighter. However, one can ensure a blockbuster week of Indian sports calendar with many exciting tournaments coming up. The boxing qualifiers will continue and the Indian pugulist will give their best to grab quota spots for Paris Olympics. Apart from boxing, several other blockbuster events like the French Open (tennis) and, the Singapore Open (badminton) will also take place.

Indian fans can watch the live athletics action in Chennai as Indian Grand Prix 2 will be taking place this week. The Munich World Cup will give good exposure to our shooters and will give an idea of where our shooters stand with the Olympics are around the corner. There is also squash, table tennis and volleyball action scheduled this week.

Major events to watch in May fourth week of Indian Sports Calendar

Athletics

Several Indian athletes are participating in athletics meets across the globe to get important ranking points and breach the Olympic qualification mark. Meanwhile, Neeraj Chopra pulled out of the Ostrava Golden Spike meet as a precaution after issues in his adductor during training. The domestic athletics meet — Indian Grand Prix 2 will be taking place in Chennai this week.

• May 28: Ostrava Golden Spike, Czech Republic
• May 30: Bislett Games
• May 30: Indian Grand Prix 2 Athletics Meet
• May 31-1 June: Music City Track Carnival

Badminton

After the Malaysia Masters, the badminton caravan now shifts to Singapore. The focus will be on Satwik-Chirag, who recently won the Thailand Open title, PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy to perform well.

• May 28-2 June – Singapore Badminton Open

Boxing

The boxing Olympic qualifying event will continue this week. Indian male boxers are yet to open their account and will be eager to win quota places for Paris Olympics 2024. This event will be the last chance for Indian Pugilist to secure quota spots for the Olympics. Eyes will be on Nishant Dev, Amit Panghal, and Narender to win the quotas in their categories.

• May 23-3 June: World Qualification Tournament II (Ongoing)

Cycling

The Indian cyclists will also be in action this week. Esow Alban and Ronaldo Laitonjam will be participating in the event in Germany.

• May 31-1 June: Grosser Preis Von Deutschland, Germany

Football

The Indian women’s football team will be in action against Uzbekistan as part of FIFA friendlies. India will play two matches on May 31 and June 4 with the matches set to take place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

• May 31-4 June: Uzbekistan vs India, Women’s FIFA Friendly Matches

Golf

Indian golfers, including Aditi Ashok, will be participating in a couple of tournaments this week.

• May 30-2 June: US Women’s Open Championship, Pennsylvania
• May 31-2 June: Dormy Open, Sweden
• May 30-2 June: European Open

Hockey

After the Belgium leg, the Indian hockey teams next move to London, England, for their remaining matches in the FIH Pro League 2023-24. Both the men’s and women’s team will face Germany and Great Britain respectively.

• June 1-9: FIH Pro League 2023-24, London

Shooting

The rifle-pistol team that will represent India at the Paris Olympics have been selected after the selection trials. The shooter will now go and participate in the Munich World Cup to get international exposure before the Olympics.

• May 31-8 June: ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol, Munich

Swimming

Indian swimmers will look to breach the Olympic Qualification mark in the upcoming events this week. Eyes will be on Srihari Natraj, Sajan Prakash and to do well.

• May 29-30: Mare Nostrum-Trofeu Internacional Ciiutat e Barcelona
• June 1-2: Mare Nostrum 41st Meeting International de Natation de Monte Carlo, Monaco

Squash

Akanksha Salunke, Rathika Suthanthira and Urwashi Joshi are participating in the PSA challenger tours. Ramit Tandon will be participating in the prestigious British Open.

• May 26-30: Expression Network LLC Kinetic Racquet Women’s 30k 2024
• May 28-1 June: Hong Kong Squash PSA Challenge Cup 2024- 4th Leg
• May 30-2 June: Cooper Fluid System Golden Open 2024
• June 2-9: British Open 2024

Table Tennis

Sreeja Akula will be the lone Indian participating in the WTT Champions and will look to do well.

• May 30-3 June: WTT Champions

Tennis

The second grand slam of the year, the French Open main draw, will be starting this week. Sumit Nagal, Rohan Bopanna and Yuki Bhambri are the Indians who will be taking part in this event. Sumit Nagal will face Karen Khachanov of Russia in the first round of the French Open.

• May 20-9 June: French Open (Ongoing)

Volleyball

The AVC Challenge Cup 2024 will continue this week. The Indian women’s volleyball team lost in the group stage after putting up some really good fight. They will now play in classification matches.

• May 22-29: AVC Women’s Challenge Cup 2024 (Ongoing)

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