Indian sports activities wrap, September 6: Three Indians in rivalry for gold medals at World Wushu Championship

WUSHU

India shines at World Wushu Championship in Brazil

India has had a robust present on the seventeenth World Wushu Championship in Brazil up to now with three ladies getting into the finals and two males advancing to the knockout phases.

Within the ladies’s class, Aparna showcased good abilities, defeating Tharisa Dea Florientina from Indonesia in 52 kg class to safe her place within the last, in response to a launch shared by Wushu Affiliation of India.

Aparna will subsequent face Ngo Thi Bhuong Nga from Vietnam within the gold medal bout on Sunday.

In 60kg class, Kareena Kaushik displayed distinctive energy and technique to beat Nathalia Briquesi Silva from Brazil in her semifinal conflict. She’s going to battle in opposition to China’s Xiaowei Wu for the title.

Shivani surprised Ekaterina Valchuk from Russia along with her dominant efficiency and confirmed her spot within the 75kg last, the place she is going to battle with Shahrbano Mansouriyaan Semiromi from Iran.

Amongst males, Sagar Dahiya entered the semifinal after a commanding present in 56kg class and can face Carlos Baylon Jr from Philippines for a spot within the last on Sunday.

In 75 kg, Vikrant Baliyan will compete within the quarterfinal in opposition to Gensheng Jin from China, aiming to hitch his teammates within the medal rounds.

– PTI

SQUASH

Veer to be high seed at PSA Challenger

Veer Chotrani within the males’s part and Amina El Rihany of Egypt within the ladies’s occasion would be the high seeds within the second PSA Challenger of the HCL Squash Indian Tour to be staged on the Otters Membership in Mumbai from September 8 to 12.

Suraj Kumar Chand, Rahul Baitha, Om Semwal, Ayaan Vaziralli, Yusha Nafees and Gurveer Singh would be the different Indian gamers within the males’s occasion providing USD 9,000 prize cash.

The opposite gamers can be from Egypt, Malaysia, Japan, France, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Iran, Malta and New Zealand.

Akanksha Salunkhe can be seeded second within the ladies’s occasion which may also offer USD 9,000 prize cash. Tanvi Khanna, Shameena Riaz, Anjali Semwal, Nirupama Dubey, Janet Vidhi and Tanishka Jain can be
among the different Indian gamers. A few half dozen extra Indian gamers are additionally scheduled to determine within the ladies’s draw, together with Sanya Vats and Unnati Tripathi.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

Nafees, Rudra clinch U-19 titles at Indian Junior Open

Yusha Nafees and Rudra Singh clinched the boys’ and ladies’ under-19 titles respectively on the Indian Junior Open Squash Championships.

Nafees, who was a part of India’s bronze medal-winning squad on the Asian Junior Staff Championships earlier this yr, rallied to defeat Rachit Shah in a five-game thriller to safe the highest prize on the Rajasthan Squash Academy.

Within the ladies’ U-19 last, Rudra acquired the higher of Vyomika Khandelwal in straight video games.

– PTI

TABLE TENNIS

Give attention to Manush Shah, Payas Jain as UTT Rating occasion returns to Delhi after 13 years

The highlight can be on defending champion Manush Shah and native favorite Payas Jain when the second UTT Nationwide Rating Desk Tennis Championships return to the capital after 13 years on Sunday.

The absence of high paddlers Manav Thakkar, G Sathiyan and Sreeja Akula has not dimmed the size of the competitors, which has drawn shut to three,000 entries throughout 12 classes — surpassing the two,587 entries on the season opener in Vadodara.

The championships will open with the boys’s and ladies’s singles, the place Shah (RBI) and Anusha Kutumbale (Railways) — winners in Vododara — will look to increase their successful kind.

Manav, India’s solely males’s participant on the earth top-50, and Sathiyan are recovering from accidents forward of the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar subsequent month, whereas Sreeja, the lone Indian girl within the top-50, has opted out to concentrate on the continental occasion.

Their absence opens up the sphere for rising skills to make a mark.

Manush will face powerful checks from Jain, who will get pleasure from dwelling help. He had reached the semifinals at Vadodara. Then there are Sudhanshu Grover and Yashansh Malik, who’ve the wherewithal to beat the most effective in enterprise on a given day.

Amongst ladies, Anusha will face robust competitors from Diya Chitale, runner-up Swastika Ghosh, Yashaswini Ghorpade and Taneesha Kotecha.

Harmeet Desai, SFR Snehit and Akash Pal additionally add depth to the boys’s draw, whereas a brand new crop of Underneath-19 expertise — Ankur Bhattacharjee, Divyansh Srivastava, P.B. Abhinand and Syndrela Das will purpose to make an impression.

The junior sections (U-17, U-15, U-13, U-11) will as soon as once more showcase the game’s grassroots energy.

– PTI

MOTORSPORT

Stylish Rahil Pillarisetty wins Professional-Inventory 301-400cc Open race

Notching his third win in 5 begins within the premier Professional-Inventory 301-400cc Open class, Hyderabad’s Rahil Pillarisetty (RACR Castrol Power1) prolonged his lead on the factors desk within the third spherical of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian Nationwide Motorbike Racing Championship on the Madras Worldwide Circuit in Chennai.

The day’s different winners within the Nationwide championship included Rajender Beedani (MAI Racing) from Hyderabad within the Inventory 165cc (Novice) class, and Chennai’s Jagathishree Kumaresan (One Racing) who gained a truncated Women (Inventory 165cc) race.

In the meantime, Raj Kumar (Motul Sparks Racing) from Coimbatore, topped the Inventory 165cc (Novice) race and Mohamed Mikhail (Mad Rabbit Racing) from Thiruvallur, gained a detailed contest within the Inventory 301-400cc (Novice) race whereas Venkatesh Iyyappan (Rookies Racing) took the honours within the Professional-Inventory 200cc Open race that noticed fraction of a second separating the highest three.

– Staff Sportstar

MORE SPORTS

CISF recruits 332 athletes

The Central Industrial Safety Power (CISF) has performed a big half in strengthening the Indian sports activities ecosystem by recruiting 332 athletes, together with 179 ladies, in its largest ever drive for sports activities appointments.

With all of them being nationwide degree medallists, and greater than 75 per cent of the athletes within the 18-22 age group, the CISF hopes to groom them to achieve the rostrum within the Commonwealth Video games in 2030 and the Olympics in 2036.

From 14,000 purposes and 10,000 showing for the trials performed at 16 areas together with Guwahati, Chandigarh and Bhopal, the CISF was in a position to prune the most effective candidates which incorporates 18 worldwide gold medallists. The entire course of had began in Could, and the appointment letters are being despatched to the athletes.

With such a drive, the CISF goals to boost 34 new groups of women and men in a number of disciplines together with archery, tennis, badminton and biking. The primary focus can be to high the medals desk within the All India Police Video games.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

SHOOTING

Bhowneesh, Neeru keep high

Bhowneesh Mendiratta continued to remain on high in males’s entice with 99 out of 100 after 4 rounds within the fourth Nationwide shotgun choice trials on the Bhucho Village taking pictures vary in Punjab.

Vivaan Kapoor and Zoravar Singh Sandhu adopted with 95 every, Whereas Shardul Vihan and Kynan Chenai had shot 93.

Shapath Bhardwaj, Jaswinder Singh and Lakshay Sheoran slipped to 92, after having fared higher within the first two rounds.

In ladies’s entice, Neeru Dhanda continued to be within the lead with 92, and was adopted two factors adrift by Aashima Ahlawat. Kirti Gupta, Rajeshwari Kumari and Sabeera Haris have been on 89, whereas Preeti Rajak was on 86.

The fifth spherical can be adopted by the ultimate for the highest six on Sunday.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

GOLF

Pranavi Urs makes modest begin in Aramco Houston

Pranavi Urs of India acquired off to a good begin within the Particular person section of the Aramco Houston Championship, carding a good par-7 within the opening spherical on the Golfcrest Nation Membership.

Fellow Indians Avani Prashanth and Tvesa Malik shot similar 73s to be tied-56th.

– PTI

Annika win second leg of US Children Golf India Native Tour

Annika Chendira as soon as once more emerged because the standout performer, successful the second leg of the US Children Golf India Native Tour on the Traditional Golf and Nation Membership in Gurugram.

After carding a three-under 69 to clinch the opening leg, Annika returned an even-par 72 on Friday to edge out Aanya Dandriyal by one stroke.

– PTI

Shubhankar’s struggles proceed, makes early exit in Eire

Indian golfer Shubhankar Sharma shot one other disappointing spherical on the second day to make an early exit from the Amgen Irish Open on the Palmer North Course.

Sharma shot 7-over 79 to comply with up on his first day rating of 6-over 78 at The Ok Membership.

This took Sharma to a complete of 13-over par on the DP World Tour occasion.

– PTI

Saptak Talwar makes lower in Poland

India’s Saptak Talwar shot a one-over 71 within the second spherical of the GAC Rosa Problem on the Rosa Golf Membership to comfortably make the lower on the Resort Planner Tour occasion.

Talwar, who had missed the lower ultimately week’s Dormy Open after a run of eight successive cuts made on the Tour, sits tied-Forty eighth with a two-round whole of two-under 138 (67-71) on the par-70 course.

– PTI

HOCKEY

Amandeep hat-trick takes Roundglass to high

A hat-trick by penalty nook specialist Amandeep Singh helped Roundglass Academy to a 5-0 victory over Surjit Academy, Jalandhar, within the Punjab hockey league on the Balbir Singh Senior Worldwide Stadium.

Gursewak Singh and Gurwinder Singh scored the opposite objectives for Roundglass to place the workforce on high of the desk with 14 factors.

SAI, Sonipat, was within the second place with 12 factors following its 5-0 victory over Ghumanhera Risers.

SDAT Academy, Tamil Nadu, bounced again from being 0-2 after three quarters to prevail over SGPC Academy, Amritsar, 2-1 within the shoot-out after discovering the goal twice within the fourth quarter.

J Arun was the hero for the winner, as he transformed two objectives within the shoot-out together with a penalty stroke, after having scored one within the fourth quarter.

Goalkeeper S Karthikeyan made 4 saves for the Tamil Nadu workforce that included thwarting three penalty strokes. Skipper Jagjit Singh alone managed to seek out the goal for the Amritsar workforce within the shoot-out.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

TENNIS

Niki Poonacha wins Challenger title

Niki Poonacha, in partnership with Pruchya Isaro of Thailand, beat Jason Jung and Reese Stalder 6-4, 6-7(2), [10-8] within the doubles last of the $160,000 Challenger tennis match in Shanghai, China, on Saturday.

The champions collected 100 ATP factors and $7,960. The runners-up acquired 60 factors and $4,600. It was the nineteenth profession doubles title for Niki, and the primary of the season.

Within the $30,000 ITF males’s occasion in Thailand, high seed S Mukund arrange a last in opposition to third seed Dominik Palan of Czechia, by outplaying qualifier Dong Ju Kim of Korea 6-1, 6-2.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

CRICKET

KSCA Secretary’s XI inch nearer to victory in opposition to Gujarat in Thimmappiah Memorial Cricket Event

KSCA Secretary’s XI inched nearer to victory, skittling out Gujarat for 138 within the first innings after which lowering the guests to 195 for seven within the second (following on) on the third and penultimate day of their KSCA Dr. (Capt.) Ok. Thimmappiah Memorial Cricket Event encounter on the Kini Sports activities Enviornment right here on Saturday.

Gujarat began the day from an in a single day 73 for 5, however speedster M. Venkatesh scalped 5 wickets (5/53) within the first essay, together with the final 4 batters. 

By the point the rain stopped play, Gujarat had misplaced seven wickets within the second innings too, with 40 runs nonetheless required to make Secretary’s XI bat once more.

-Staff Sportstar

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