SQUASH
Rathika loses shut closing
India’s Rathika Suthanthira Seelan misplaced a fiercely-contested closing to Canadian prime seed Iman Shaheen over 5 video games within the NSW Open squash match in Sydney on Sunday.
The 24-year-old Rathika, second seed and world No. 180, rallied to win the third and fourth video games in what was her fourth PSA closing to take the Challenger occasion title-round right down to the wire.
Nonetheless, the Canadian edged her out within the decider to seal a hard-fought 11-8, 11-3, 4-11, 10-12, 12-10 in 61 minutes.
Earlier on Saturday, Rathika stormed into her fourth PSA closing with straight-games win over New Zealand’s sixth seed Emma Merson.
In the meantime, in Springfield (US), fifth seed and world No. 51 Veer Chotrani beat American world No. 32 and third seed Timothy Brownell 11-8, 11-8, 11-4 within the semifinals of the St James Expression Open, a PSA Copper occasion.
Chotrani will meet Mexican prime seed Leonel Cardenas within the closing.
-PTI
ARCHERY
Yashdeep, Deepshikha impresses at Asian Archery Championships
Promising archers Yashdeep Bhoge and Deepshikha gave nice performances to prime recurve males’s and compound ladies’s charts respectively within the qualification spherical of the Asian Archery Championships in Dhaka on Sunday.
Olympian couple Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari overcame the dearth of coaching because of household exigencies to shoot respectable scores.
V. Jyothi Surekha positioned third as 4 Indians completed inside the highest 5 in compound ladies’s particular person rankings.
The outcomes (qualification spherical):
Recurve: Particular person: Males: Yashdeep Bhoge (1st, 687), Atanu Das (seventh, 668), Rahul (eleventh, 666), B. Dhiraj (thirteenth, 665); Ladies: Anshika Kumari (fifth, 660), Ankita Bhakat (ninth, 655), Sangeeta (eleventh, 649), Deepika Kumari (twelfth, 649); Crew: India: Males’s staff (2nd, 2021), Ladies’s staff (2nd, 1964), Blended staff (2nd, 1347).
Compound: Particular person: Males: Abhishek Verma (2nd, 712), Sahil Jadhav (4th, 709), Prathamesh Fuge (sixth, 707), Prathamesh Jawkar (eleventh, 704); Ladies: Deepshikha (1st, 705), V. Jyothi Surekha (third, 703), Prithika Pradeep (4th, 702), Chikitha Taniparthi (fifth, 701); Crew: India: Males (2nd, 2128), Ladies (1st, 2110), Blended (2nd, 1417).
-Crew Sportstar
HOCKEY
Beighton Cup kicks off
Jharkhand XI pipped Punjab and Sind Financial institution 1-0 within the Beighton Cup on the Vivekananda Hockey Stadium in Kolkata.
Within the different match of the day, Canara Financial institution defeated Odisha XI 4-3 by way of penalty shootout following a 2-2 impasse within the regulation time.
– Crew Sportstar
GOLF
Ajeetesh Sandhu finishes T-37 as Japan’s Asaji clinches Moutai Singapore Open
Indian golfer Ajeetesh Sandhu completed at T-37 with a complete rating of 9-under 279 for the match after a 70 (-2) within the fourth spherical of the Moutai Singapore Open.
Meanwhike, Yosuke Asaji turned the primary participant from Japan to win the occasion in practically 50 years after he beat Korea’s Jeunghun Wang on the primary gap of a sudden-death play-off on the USD 2 million match.
– Crew Sportstar
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