FOOTBALL
Tarun Kumar strikes winner in India’s triumph
Tarun Kumar scored the match-winner in India’s 4-3 victory over Denmark within the Gothia Particular Olympics Trophy soccer match in Sweden.
The Indian staff had earlier crushed Finland 3-0, Germany 6-0, Hong Kong 6-0 and Denmark 3-1 within the league section. The staff performed Denmark as soon as once more within the last.
Tarun, a tenth customary pupil of Justice Tankha Memorial Rotary Institute for Particular Kids in Jabalpur, was groomed by his mom Sangeeta Thakur who took him for soccer coaching for the final 4 years regardless of restricted means.
The varsity based by Rajya Sabha MP, Vivek Krishna Tankha had supported Tarun wholeheartedly proper from a younger age, and even drafted nationwide stage coach Prabhat Rahi to coach him.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
FC Goa indicators younger ahead Alan Saji forward of recent season
FC Goa introduced the addition of younger ahead Alan Saji from the Reliance Basis Younger Champs (RFYC) academy on a multi-year contract.
The 18-year-old Kerala lad has been part of RFYC because the age of 12 and was a part of the RFYC squad that competed within the Sanix Cup in Japan.
Manolo Marquez, FC Goa’s Head Coach expressed his enthusiasm concerning the new signing. “Alan Saji is an distinctive expertise with an excellent future. He’s quick, courageous, very intelligent within the field, and has an excellent aerial recreation.
“He has developed remarkably, and we’ll give him an excellent platform to hone his abilities additional. It’s, after all, a step-by-step course of, however he has the qualities to be an vital participant for not simply the Membership, but additionally for India within the years to come back,” he famous.
– Group Sportstar
SQUASH
India girls and boys in World Junior squash staff occasion quarters
India girls and boys superior to the quarterfinals within the staff occasion of the World Junior Squash Championships in Houston on Saturday. The boys will meet fourth seed South Korea and the ladies will tackle third-seeded Malaysia.
The boys beat Canada 2-0 within the pre-quarterfinals, whereas the ladies completed second in Group D after dropping to Hong Kong 1-2 of their last league match.
Shaurya Bawa, who received particular person bronze, rallied to beat Youssef Sarhan in a five-gamer, whereas Arihant KS avenged his particular person occasion loss to Ewan Harris with a powerful win.
India outcomes:
Boys (pre-quarters):
India bt Canada 2-0 (Arihant KS bt Ewan Harris 15-13, 12-10, 8-11, 11-2; Shaurya Bawa bt Youssef Sarhan 12-14, Sept. 11, 11-7, 11-3, 11-1).
Ladies (Group D):
India misplaced to Hong Kong 1-2 (Nirupama Dubey misplaced to Helen Tang 4-11, 10-12, 2-11; Anahat Singh bt Ena Kwong 11-8, Sept. 11, 11-5, 11-7; Shameena Riaz misplaced to Ka Huen Leung 4-11, Sept. 11, 10-12).
-Group Sportstar
HOCKEY
Odisha clinch males’s title, Jharkhand topped ladies’s champion at hockey East Zone Championship
Hockey Jharkhand received the ladies’s title on the junior East Zone Championship in Kolkata on Sunday.
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Hockey Jharkhand received the ladies’s title on the junior East Zone Championship in Kolkata on Sunday.
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Hockey Affiliation of Odisha and Hockey Jharkhand claimed the boys’s and girls’s titles respectively on the junior East Zone Championship in Kolkata on Sunday.
Hockey Jharkhand beat Hockey Bengal 4-3 within the shoot-out after the match ended 1-1 within the regulation time within the ladies’s class.
The Hockey Affiliation of Odisha triumphed over Hockey Jharkhand by a 2-0 margin within the last of the boys’s occasion.
– PTI
GOLF
Aditi lies T-Twelfth, eyes first High-10 of 2024
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok stayed in sight of her first High-10 of 2024 as she shot a bogey free 3-under 68 within the third spherical of the Dana Open golf. to be T-12 right here.
With rounds of 67-72 on the primary two days, Aditi is now 8-under with another spherical to go.
Her finest outcomes on LPGA this season have been T-17 at Amundi Evian Championships final week and likewise on the Meijer LPGA Basic. Aditi has had a modest season in 2024, however wish to see some higher kind forward of the Olympics in two weeks.
Aditi had three birdies and no bogeys and the birdies got here on the eighth, thirteenth and fifteenth holes.
Thailand’s Chanettee Wannasaen added a 5-under 66 to a career-low 36-hole rating of 131 for one more new career-low with a 54-hole rating of 197.
– PTI
TENNIS
Harithashree Venkatesh wins 4 ITF titles in three weeks
Harithashree Venkatesh had a fruitful outing in Nairobi, Kenya, profitable three singles titles and a doubles title, unfold over three weeks.
The 15-year-old Harithashree dropped just one set, within the last towards compatriot Janvi Asawa within the last of the primary match.
Harithashree beat Bicene Benzaied of Tunisia to win the singles titles within the second and third tournaments.
Harithashree Venkatesh.
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Harithashree Venkatesh.
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In her 15 singles matches in all within the three tournaments, Harithashree beat gamers from Spain, Serbia, Italy and Kenya other than Tunisia and fellow gamers from India.
She’s going to subsequent compete within the Nationwide junior championship in Chennai, adopted by the ITF junior tournaments in Chennai and Bhuvanagiri.
– Group Sportstar
The outcomes:
J60 Nairobi, Kenya, July 15-20 (last): Harithashree Venktesh bt Bicene Benzaied (Tun) 6-4, 6-4.
J30 Nairobi, July 8-13 (last): Harithashree bt Bicene Benzaied (Tun) 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles (last): Harithashree & Janvi Asawa bt Ishi Maheshwari & Giulia Russo (Ita) 2-6, 7-6(3), [12-10].
J30 Nairobi, July 1-6 (last): Harithashree bt Janvi Asawa 2-6, 6-1, 6-3.