Looking for some exciting individual sports to watch in the coming years? According to sports astrologer Hirav Shah, five sports are set to bring glory in 2023: Tennis, wrestling, boxing, chess and badminton. Whether you’re a die-hard fan or just looking for some new sports to follow, these individual sports are sure to provide plenty of excitement and entertainment.
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What is an individual sport?
Individual sport is a sport where a single player competes. Examples include Badminton, Bowling, Boxing, Cycling, Figure skating, Golf, Skiing Snowboarding, Surfing, Swimming, Track and field and Wrestling.
Top 5 Individual Sports In India in 2023
There are different types of individual sports. However, here’s the top 5 among them on the basis of planetary transit in 2023, Gochar Grah, Dasha and Antar Dasha, that are gonna bring glory to our nation in 2023.
- Tennis
- Wrestling
- Boxing
- Chess
- Badminton
1. Tennis
Tennis’s origin goes way back in history when it was only popular among the elite class. With time it has transgressed into various groups of people of all categories.
Tennis has a huge fan following, especially in European countries. It’s a lucrative game where a player earns millions of dollars.
In 2023, Novak Djokovic is the highest paid Tennis player in the world.
During the 2000s, Tennis came into the attention of the audience when famous sports personalities in India like Sania Mirza became the first Indian to win a WTA tournament. She grabbed popularity with her outstanding performances in the International Tennis Federation events. Another popular Indian Tennis player is Rohan Bopanna.
Tennis in India is popular in urban areas. The media featuring various National and International Tennis matches has received tremendous response from the audience. Middle class families have started sending their children for tennis as a career in sports. Tennis will certainly bring glory to India in 2023.
2. Wrestling
Wrestling comprises hardcore physical involvement between two players.
While Tennis is popular among urban suburbs, wrestling is popular in rural households especially in North Indian states like Haryana, Punjab.
Wrestling has gained momentum after some incredible performances by Indian wrestlers like Bajarang Punia, Ravi Kumar Dahiya etc. While it was once a male dominated sport but after the famous Phogat sisters bagging gold medals in commonwealth games, Indians have let their girls participate in this physical sport.
With these high level performances of Indian players, in 2023 wrestling has a good scope in the sports field.
3. Chess
Chess doesn’t involve any physical activity but the player has been meticulously involved with his brain cells.
Chess has become a huge individual sport after Vishwanathan Anand became Grandmaster.
The following years saw a huge breakthrough of chess in India.
With the spurt in the digital world, chess grew popular among youths. Many tournaments and competitions are being held online. Grandmasters like Vishwanathan Anand gave their hand in online events.
Chess has attracted people from southern india. South Indians have been known for their intellectual minds and middle class parents have chosen this sport as a perfect amateur for their kids.
In 2022 , the 44th Chess Olympiad was held in Chennai. Indian players showed incredible performances bagging third place after Uzbekistan and Armenia. An emerging player
R Praggnanandhaa became the youngest grandmaster at the age of 12 in 2018. This depicts the growing enthusiasm and keen interest among children below the age of 12 yrs, who have taken chess as a serious career option in 2023 .
4. Badminton
Badminton is an extremely popular sport in the Nation. After Cricket, it is the second-most played sport in the Country.
Amongst the Top-10 in the current BWF world rankings, names of Indian shuttlers and famous Indian sports personalities P. V. Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, H. S. Prannoy and the doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty are there. Prakash Padukone was the first Indian player to attain the world no. 1 spot in the game . Saina Nehwal is the first female Indian player to achieve world no. 1 spot and the first Indian badminton player to win a medal at the Olympics.
The first Indian to become the badminton World Champion and the only Indian badminton player to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games is P V Sindhu.
Age group shuttlers now are sure that they can make a career out of Badminton and the confidence levels have zoomed with the Premier Badminton League adding to it as international players are part of the teams. The prize money has been restructured and hiked for domestic tournaments, and badminton has never had it so good in the Country. Badminton is certainly one of the 5 individual sports that are gonna bring glory to our nation in 2023.
5. Boxing
In recent years, Indian boxing has witnessed an unprecedented rise with the teams consistently finishing amongst the top five Nations at global multi-nation tournaments such as World Championships, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games.
India has jumped to 3rd spot in the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) latest world rankings.
The Indian boxing champs have accumulated 36,300 ranking points, having surpassed top boxing powerhouses including Cuba and USA, which are ranked fourth and ninth respectively in the present standings.
At the world stage, India has never been the powerhouse in boxing but in the last decade, India has started producing some world-class pugilists and in 2023 Boxing is certainly gonna bring glory to our nation.
Final Thoughts
A significant number of folks in our widespread Nation have brought in laurels by winning titles and medals in individual sports. All these proud wins have been golden moments for us and for our Country. Lastly, in 2023, be ready to see the rise of the popularity of Tennis, Wrestling, Boxing, Chess and Badminton and be ready to see these individual sports bring more glory for our great Nation.
