SQUASH
Abhay-Velavan pair will get prime billing in Asian Doubles Squash
The Indian pair of Abhay Singh and Velavan Senthilkumar has been given prime billing within the males’s doubles occasion of the Asian Doubles Squash Championship, which begins right here on Thursday.
Abhay additionally options within the combined doubles with stalwart Joshna Chinappa. The duo is seeded third amongst 15 groups, whereas Rathika Suthanthira Seelan and Pooja Arthi R are the fifth seed in girls’s doubles.
The 2 pairs received this yr’s Nationwide Championships, which was revived after 17 years.
– PTI
VOLLEYBALL
twenty second Asian Ladies’s U20 Championship: India stuns Hong Kong 3-2, by way of to spherical of final 8
India stuns Hong Kong 3-2, by way of to spherical of final 8
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India stuns Hong Kong 3-2, by way of to spherical of final 8
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India bounced again from shedding the primary two units to beat Hong Kong, China in well-fought 5 units 16-25, 22-25, 25-20, 25-16, 15-7 to complete second in Pool B and be a part of Japan within the spherical of final 8 within the twenty second Asian Ladies’s U20 Volleyball Championship on the Jiangmen Sports activities Middle Gymnasium on Wednesday.
Reverse Arasu Ananthi scored a match-high 24 factors from 22 kills and two aces, whereas outdoors hitter and skipper Kavita and Kaenwar Raksha Vinod contributed 21 and 11 factors, respectively. Tang Sum Yuen led Hong Kong, China with 19 factors together with 17 kills from 50 makes an attempt.
India and Hong Kong had misplaced their opening match to Japan and either side confronted a must-win state of affairs on this match. Nevertheless, following the win, India superior to the spherical of final 8, whereas Hong Kong was relegated to classification spherical for Ninth-Twelfth locations.
-Staff Sportstar
FOOTBALL
Debjit Majumder indicators a two-year contract with East Bengal FC
Goalkeeper Debjit Majumder joined Emami East Bengal FC on a two-year contract that will likely be energetic till the top of the 2025-26 season.
This will likely be Majumder’s third stint with the Crimson & Gold Brigade after he beforehand represented the membership within the 2011-12 and the 2020-21 seasons.
East Bengal FC Head Coach, Carles Cuadrat mentioned, “Debjit has been a extremely skilled goalkeeper within the ISL and the I-League. I do know him from my early years in India, round 2016, and since then he has been performing with solidity and a terrific character. His work-rate will add extra worth to our goalkeeping division and strengthen our defensive ranges.”
Majumder had an distinctive 2023-24 season, accumulating 1,980 minutes of enjoying time and registering 5 clear sheets throughout 19 ISL, one Kalinga Tremendous Cup and two Durand Cup matches. The Uttarpara-born custodian performed a key half in serving to Chennaiyin FC attain the playoffs and recorded the very best saves-per-match ratio (66 saves in 19 matches – 3.47) in ISL 2023-24 (minimal 50 saves). Final season, Majumder additionally set the file for making essentially the most saves (11) in a single match in ISL historical past.
-Staff Sportstar
GOLF
Modest begin for Diksha at Aramco Collection London golf
India’s Diksha Dagar, who’s recovering from a stiff neck which pressured her to withdraw from the Italian Open final week, made a modest begin with 2-over 75 to be positioned tied sixtieth on the Aramco Collection golf event right here.
Paris Olympics-bound Diksha, a two-time winner on the Women European Tour, had an up-and-down spherical with three birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey on Par-5 thirteenth gap on the on the Par-73 Centurion Golf Membership.
Diksha was mendacity T-60 although the place will change as greater than half the sphere was but to complete their first spherical.
Diksha is the one Indian to have featured in a successful workforce in Aramco Collection and that additionally got here on the Aramco Collection London in 2021.
Of the opposite two Indians on this week’s elite area on the a million greenback occasion, Tvesa Malik, who misplaced a play-off final week, was 1-over by way of three holes and Pranavi Urs was but to start out.
-PTI
TENNIS
ITF Match: Vaidhei Chudhari loses first spherical
Vaidehi Chaudhari was crushed 7-6(4), 6-4 by Alicia Smith of Australia within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, on Wednesday.
The outcomes:
$15,000 ITF males, Tianjin, China
Singles (first spherical): S Mukund bt Yang Xiaoyin (Chn) 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Retailer, Slovenia
Singles (first spherical): Lukas Pokorny (Svk) bt Manas Dhamne 6-7(3), 6-1, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Hillcrest, South Africa Singles (first spherical): Ishaque Eqbal bt Patrik Oplustil (Cze) 4-6, 7-6(0), 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ishaque Eqbal & Aryan Shah bt Sergio Badini & Maximilian Figl (Ita) 6-1, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand Singles (first spherical): Adil Kalyanpur bt Yamato Sueoka (Jpn) 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan Singles (first spherical): Rakhim Ibrakhimov (Uzb) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2 (retired); Shinji Hazawa (Jpn) bt Karan Singh 6-4, 6-4.
$60,000 ITF girls, Montpellier, France
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Amandine Hesse & Selena Janicijevic (Fra) bt Jenny Lim (Fra) & Vasanti Shinde 6-2, 7-5.
$25,000 ITF girls, Hillcrest, South Africa Singles (first spherical): Verena Meliss (Ita) bt Paavanii Paathak 6-1, 6-0.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Amanda Elkin (Mex) & Haine Ogata (Jpn) bt Sofia Avataneo (Ita) & Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-3, 6-3; Matilde Mariani & Beatrice Stagno (Ita) bt Alicj Formella (Pol) & Paavanii Paathak 6-1, 6-2; Shria Atturu (USA) & Smriti Bhasin bt Grace Koenig & Erin McKenzie (RSA) 5-7, 6-3, [10-7]; Isabella Kruger & Zoe Kruger (RSA) bt Elena Jamshidi (Den) & Soha Sadiq 6-0, 6-3.
$25,000 ITF girls, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand Singles (first spherical): Alicia Smith (Aus) bt Vaidehi Chaudhari 7-6(4), 6-4; Ayumi Koshiishi (Jpn) bt Sonal Patil 6-2, 6-7(6), 6-3; Ayano Shimizu (Jpn) bt Akanksha Nitture 6-0, 3-6, 6-3; Hikaru Sato (Jpn) bt Priyanshi Bhandari 6-1, 6-0.
-Kamesh Srinivasan