Indian sports wrap, August 8:
SHOOTING
Shooting World Cup Finals to take place at Delhi in October
All the Olympic medallists in shooting in the Paris Games are expected to line up for action in the season-ending World Cup Finals to be staged at the Dr. Karni Singh Range in Delhi from October 13 to 18.
The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) president Luciano Rossi allotted the prestigious event to India during a meeting of the world body at the Chateauroux in the Paris Games.
The medallists of the last World Cup Finals staged in Doha, Qatar, will also automatically qualify for the event. That apart, the top-six shooters in each of the 12 individual events will also make it to the World Cup Finals. There will be a cap of two shooters per nation in each of the 12 events. India is also likely to have wild card entries, apart from those who make the cut on merit.
The event will offer prize money of €5,000, €4,000 and €3,000 to the gold, silver and bronze medallists in each event.
Quite remarkably, it will be the tenth international event in India in the last ten years. The World Cup in Bhopal last year was the last international shooting event held in the country.
Happy to make the announcement, the vice-president of NRAI, Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo said, “One of the reasons for our continued success on the international stage in recent years across disciplines has been our endeavour to regularly bring such world class competitions in India. It attracts youngsters to the sport when they see their stars perform in front of them at the highest level. It elevates the profile of the sport in the country”.
The secretary general of NRAI, Sultan Singh said, “We hope our shooting stars take full advantage of a home event to win more international accolades. It is a chance for the fans to see their favourites match up against the world’s best”.
It will be the second World Cup Finals to be staged in India following the one held in 2017.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
CUE SPORTS
Senior cueist Sathe loses, Mushtaque progresses in Western India Billiards and Snooker
Khar Gymkhana’s 90-year-old cueist SL Sathe fought valiantly but lost to Kolhapur’s Anil Kumar while West Bengal’s Saqlain Mushtaq made it to the main round in the Western India Billiards and Snooker Championship here on Thursday.
Sathe exhibited fighting spirit despite losing the first frame as he won the second by pocketing the last three colours. However, he could not match the 55-year-old Anil from Kolhapur as the latter won by a margin of 4-1 (21-50, 56-42, 17-73, 27-66, and 50-77).
West Bengal’s Mushtaque blanked Abhijeet Airen from Madhya Pradesh 4-0, coasting to a 71-26, 60-40, 51-28, and 56-7 victory and qualified for the main draw.
In second-round games, Mumbai’s Brijesh Nanavati got the better of city mate Om Sawant 4-3 (13-53, 27-65, 73-65, 1-78, 54-41, 68-43, and 49-33).
RESULTS
Senior snooker – Round 3: Shashi Patel (GUJ) bt Mahesh Jagdale (MUM) 4-0 (61-50, 69-35, 70-41, 64-59); Aashit Pandya (MUM) bt Joseph Menezes (MUM) 4-1 (67-29, 67-20, 40-66, 60-34, 81-16); Shakir Qureshi (MUM) bt Sanjiv Shah (MUM) 4-0 (72-29, 50-3, 74-15, 56-41); Saqlain Mushtaque (WB) bt Abhijeet Airen (MP) 4-0 (71-26, 60-40, 51-28, 56-7); Kanishk Jhanjaria (MAH) bt Sumit Naidu (MP) 4-0 (63(40)-17, 56-36, 58-38, 63-30).
Round 2: Brijesh Nanavati (MUM) bt Om Sawant (MUM) 4-3 (13-53, 27-65, 73-65, 1-78, 54-41, 68-43, 49-33); Rebanta Sahijwani (MUM) bt Sumit Ahuja (MUM) 4-3 (1-0, 66-34, 12-60, 76-54, 50-69, 46-78, 68-29); Kalpesh Mevada (MUM) bt Akash Asrani (MUM) 4-1 (46-11, 68-28, 58-40, 28-54, 61-50); Ajinkya Yelve (MUM) bt Tohan Jain (MUM) 4-2 (56-34, 65-40, 62-45, 49-57, 28-55, 67-29); Anant Mehta (MUM) bt Akshay Gogri (MUM) 4-1 (22-39, 72-16, 59-33, 57-22, 62-24); Gaurav Chhabra (MP) bt Birju Kanani (MUM) 4-2 (40-65, 54-35, 68-30, 33-46, 56-22, 51-16).
-PTI
FOOTBALL
Subroto Cup results – August 8
Bangladesh Krira Shiksha Prothshthan drew goalless with Government Senior Secondary School, Sikkim, and ensured a quarterfinal berth from group-B in the 63rd Subroto Cup under-17 girls football tournament on Thursday.
Christian Higher Secondary School, Meghalaya, Tripura Sports School Home Mission School, Aizawl, Government Senior Secondary School, Alakpura, Mizoram, were some of the other teams to make the knock-out stage.
The quarterfinal line-up will be ready after the last set of leaguematches on Friday.
The results (league):
Group-A: Sri Lanka School Football Association bt Coast Guard Public School, Daman & Diu, 7-0; Sant Baha Hari Singh Model School, Mahilpur, bt Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Meghalaya, 6-1.
Group-B: Bangladesh Krira Shiksha Protishthan drew with Government SSS, Sikkim 0-0; The King’s School, Goa, bt Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai, 15-0.
Group-C: SRV Government Model HSS, Kerala, bt Army Public School, Patiala, 1-0; Infocus India Public School, West Bengal, bt Government Model SSS, Chandigarh, 5-0.
Group-D: RSB Arya Vidya Mandir, Mumbai, Vdya Devi Jindal School, Hisar, 1-0; Christian HSS, Meghalaya, bt GSSS, Kotala, Ludhiana, 10-0.
Group-E: Mother Internatonal School, Jharkhand, bt Government SSS, Arunachal Pradesh, 13-0; Faith HSS, Gujarat, Modern School, Barakhamba Road, 6-2.
Group-F: Tripura Sports School bt Springfield HSS, Mizoram, 3-0; Harish Panwar Uccha Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Uttarakhand, bt RKS Girls School, Bihar, 5-0.
Group-G: Home Mission School, Aizawl, bt Air Force Bal Bharti School, Delhi, 9-0; Government HS, Kohima, Nagaland, bt Sainik School, Sambalpur, 5-1.
Group-H: Government SSS, Alakshpura, Haryana, bt Nandajhar AT HS, West Bengal, 4-0; Shashkiya HSS Kanya Vidyalaya, Chhattisgarh, bt Vidya Gyan School, Bulandshahr, 3-1.
TENNIS
Rs.200,000 AITA ranking tennis tournament results
Qualifier Parv Nage beat sixth seed Moksh Puri 7-6(5), 6-4 to set up a title clash against top seed Neeraj Yashpaul in the HPCL-Mittal Rs.200,000 AITA ranking tennis tournament at the CLTA Complex on Thursday.
In the women’s final, top seed Anjali Rathi will be challenged by second seed Sahira Singh.
The results (semifinals)
Men: Neeraj Yashpaul bt Sarthak Suden 6-4, 6-1; Parv Nage bt Moksh Puri 7-6(5), 6-4
Doubles: Priyanshu Choudhary & Udit Kamboj bt Anand Prakash Gupta & Wyatt O’Brien 6-2, 6-2; Ricky Chaudhary & Sajal Kesarwani bt Keshav Dangi & Vaibhav Singh 6-3, 6-2.
Women: Anjali Rathi bt Chevika Reddy 7-6(4), 6-3; Sahira Singh bt Riya Sachdeva 6-1 (retired).
Doubles: Ayush Singh & Medhavi Singh bt Samaira Malik & Chevika Reddy 7-6(4), 6-2; Diya Desai & Divya Sharma bt Diva Bhatia & Sai Samhitha 6-0, 6-1.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Arjun/Ramkumar in €74,825 Challenger tennis tournament semifinals
Arjun Kadhe and Ramkumar Ramanathan beat Andrea Picchione and Giorgio Ricca of Italy 6-4, 6-3 in the doubles quarterfinals of the €74,825 Challenger tennis tournament in Cordenons, Italy.
In the $25,000 ITF men’s tennis event in Brazzaville, Congo, Dev Javia beat Eric Vanshelboim of Ukraine 6-2, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals. He was joined by Adil Kalyanpur, Karan Singh, S.D. Prajwal Dev and Yuvan Nandal in the last eight stage.
The results:
€74,825 Challenger, Bonn, Germany
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Daniel Da Silva & Matheus De Almeida (Bra) 7-5, 6-3.
€74,825 Challenger, Cordenons, Italy
Doubles (quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe & Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Andrea Picchione & Giorgio Ricca (Ita) 6-4, 6-3
Pre-quarterfinals: Arjun & Ramkumar bt Inigo Cervantes & Daniel Rincon (Esp) 7-6(4), 6-1; Luis Brito (Bra) & Roy Stepanov (Isr) bt Siddhant Banthia & Courtney Lock (Zim) 7-6(5), 7-5.
$82,000 Challenger, Lincoln, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rithvik Bollipalli & Hans Verdugo (Mex) bt Mac Kiger (USA) & Calcum Puttergill (Aus) 6-7(3), 6-4, [14-12]; Anirudh Chandrasekar & Niki Poonacha bt Ozan Baris & NIshesh Basavareddy (USA) 3-6, 6-3 [10-5].
$25,000 ITF men, Brazzaville, Congo
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Dev Javia bt Eric Vanshelboim (ukr) 6-2, 6-3; Adil Kalyanpur bt Aayush Bhat (USA) 6-3, 7-5; Karan Singh bt Raghav Jaisinghani 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-0; Bor Artnak (Slo) bt Aditya Balsekar 6-0, 6-0; S.D. Prajwal Dev bt Rishi Reddy 6-3, 7-6(3); Yuvan Nandal bt Rishab Agarwal 7-6(6), 7-5.
Doubles (quarterfinals): S.D. Prajwal Dev & Adil Kalyanpur bt Julian DeSousa & Vincent Hobert (Ned) 6-2, 6-3.
$25,000 ITF men, Taipei, Taiwan
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): S Mukund bt Taiyo Yamanaka (Jpn) 6-1, 6-3.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Sai Karteek Reddy & Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (Tha) bt Mitsuki Leong (Mas) & Stefanos Sakellardis (Gre) 6-4, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Monastir, Tunisia
Doubles (quarterfinals): Chirag Duhan & Shinji Hazawa (Jpn) bt Mohamed Makhlouf (Alg) & Savva Polukhin 6-2, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF men, Curtea de Arges, Romania
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Rayane Oumaouche (Fra) bt Manas Dhamne 6-3, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF women, Roehampton, Britain
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ella McDonald (GBR) bt Ankita Raina 6-1, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF women, Tbilisi, Georgia
Doubles (quarterfinals): Natela Dzalamidze & Zoziya Kardava (Geo) bt Shria Atturu (USA) & Smriti Bhasin 4-6, 6-4, [10-1].
– Kamesh Srinivasan
SQUASH
Defending champion Velavan enters semifinals of national championship
Defending champion and top seed Velavan Senthilkumar got past Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu 11-8, 11-8, 11-8 in the men’s quarterfinals of the 80th HCL National squash championship at the Bombay Gymkhana on Thursday.
In the semifinals, Velavan will play Veer Chotrani, while the other semifinal will be between Mahesh Mangaonkar and Abhay Singh.
In the women’s section, defending champion Anahat Singh, Nirupama Dubey, Urwashi Joshi and Akanksha Salunkhe reached the semifinals.
The results (quarterfinals):
Men: Velavan Senthilkumar bt Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu 11-8, 11-8, 11-8; Veer Chotrani bt Rahul Baitha 11-9, 11-8, 11-5; Mahesh Mangaonkar bt Suraj Chand 11-5, 11-4, 11-7; Abhay Singh bt Diwakar Singh 11-2, 11-2, 11-7.
Women: Anahat Singh bt Navya Sundararajan 11-4, 11-2, 11-3; Nirupama Dubey bt Pooja Arthi 11-7, 11-9, 12-14, 11-6; Urwashi Joshi bt Anjali Semwal 11-5, 11-4, 11-6; Akanksha Salunkhe bt Yuvna Gupta 11-6, 11-9, 11-7.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
PICKLEBALL
LFW Open to be held on August 15
The LFW Open pickleball championship will be staged at the Baselines Sports Academy, DPG Engineering College, Sector-34, Gurugram, on August 15.
The tournament will feature singles, doubles and mixed doubles events in the men’s, women’s, under-18 boys and girls, over-35, over-50 and over-60 events.
– Kamesh Srinivasan