BASKETBALL
FIBA Ladies’s Asia Cup, Division B: India begins marketing campaign for promotion with win over Kazakhstan
India ladies’s basketball group beat Kazakhstan 85-68 in its Group A opener of the FIBA Ladies’s Asia Cup (Division B) in Shenzhen, China, on Sunday.
Pushpa Senthil Kumar (23 factors), Sreekala Rani (15 factors) and Sathya Krishnamurthi (15 factors) have been the highest scorers in India’s victory.
The competitors, which concludes on July 20, has eight groups divided equally into two teams with the winner of the event set to be promoted to Division A.
India has beforehand received the Division B title in 2017 when it was additionally the host. Nonetheless, the group missed out on enjoying in Division A in 2023 and goals to seek out its means again.
India’s subsequent match in Group A will probably be towards Chinese language Taipei on Monday, July 14, at 2PM IST.
-Staff Sportstar
SHOOTING
Lonato World Cup: Lakshay, Neeru fall in need of Entice Blended Staff medal rounds
India ended engagements on the Worldwide Capturing Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun in Lonato after the pair of Lakshay Sheoran (22, 19, 25) and Neeru Dhanda (25, 24, 25), regardless of taking pictures an ideal third collection, fell in need of the Entice Blended Staff medal rounds. They totaled 140 out of a doable 150 within the qualifying spherical to complete tenth amongst 54 pairs.
The second Indian pair of Zoravar Singh Sandhu (21, 23, 24) and Preeti Rajak (23, 24, 23) mixed for a tally of 138 to complete in twenty second spot.
Whereas Neeru continued from her good fourth-place end within the ladies’s entice a day earlier to overlook only one goal out of her 75, Lakshay had a blip within the second collection, the place he missed six, which finally value him a shot at a podium end.
4 groups—Australia, Nice Britain, and each the Spanish groups—topped the {qualifications} with similar tallies of 143.
The Indian pair of Kynan Chenai and Sabeera Haris had received a bronze within the Entice Blended Staff occasion on the earlier Nicosia Shotgun World Cup. The occasion will probably be held for the primary time within the Olympics at Los Angeles in 2028.
The outcomes:
Entice: Blended group: 1. Australia-2 (Mitchell Iles, Laetisha Scanlan) 45 (143)14; 2. Spain (Alberto Fernandez, Fatima Galvez) 41 (143)15; 3. Britain (Matthew Coward-Holley, Ellie Seward) 38 (143) 5; 4. Spain-2 (Andres Garcia, Mar Molne Magrina) 36 (143) 7; 10. India (Neeru Dhanda, Lakshay Sheoran) 140; 23. India-2 (Preeti Rajak, Zorawar Singh Sandhu)
-Staff Sportstar
WRESTLING
U-20 Asian Championships: India wins three bronze medals on last day
Three extra Indian freestyle wrestlers — Sachin (86kg), Sachin (92kg), Jaspooran Singh (125kg) — landed bronze medals on the Asian under-20 championships in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Sunday.
With two gold, one silver and 5 bronze medals, India completed second behind Iran, which bagged 4 gold, two silver and a bronze, in freestyle competitions.
-Y.B. Sarangi
TENNIS
Prarthana Thombare makes last in WTA occasion
Prarthana Thombare in partnership with Arianne Hartono beat Kayla Cross and Maribella Zamarripa 4-6, 6-3, [12-10] within the doubles semifinals of the $200,000 WTA tennis event in Newport, USA.
Within the $15,000 ITF males’s occasion in Monastir, Tunisa, Karan Singh received the singles title as he breezed previous Toufik Sahtali of Algeria 6-0, 6-2 within the last.
It was the second singles title within the skilled circuit for the 22-year-old Karan who trains on the Roundglass Academy in Chandigarh.
The outcomes:
$200,000 WTA, Newport, USA
Doubles (semifinals): Arianne Hartono (Ned) & Prarthana Thombare bt Kayla Cross (Can) & Maribella Zamarripa (USA) 4-6, 6-3, [12-10].
$200,000 Challenger, Newport, USA
Doubles (semifinals): Hans Hach Verdugo (Mex) & cristian Rodriguez (Col) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Reese Stalder (USA) 6-2, 6-7(6), [13-11].
$30,000 ITF males, Dallas, USA
Singles (semifinals): Alex Rybakov (USA) bt Dhakshineswar Suresh 6-4, 6-4.
$30,000 ITF males, Bastia Lucciana, France
Doubles (last): Tanguy Genier & Johan Nikles (Sui) bt Prajwal Dev & Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-1, 1-6, [10-8].
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (last): Karan Singh bt Toufik Sahtali (Alg) 6-0, 6-2.
– Staff Sportstar