TABLE TENNIS
Divyanshi wins bronze in U-15 class at Desk Tennis World Youth Championships
Rising Indian paddler Divyanshi Bhowmick continued her exceptional run in 2025 as she turned solely the second Indian to safe a singles medal within the Underneath-15 ladies class on the ongoing ITTF World Youth Championships on the BT Enviornment Cluj Napoca, Romania.
Within the semifinals, Divyanshi went down combating towards China’s Zhu Qihui 4-1 (12-10, 10-12, 6-11, 4-11, 8-11).
Earlier this yr, Divyanshi created historical past on the Asian Youth Desk Tennis Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, turning into the primary Indian in 36 years to clinch the U-15 ladies singles continental title.
India added to its medal tally in Romania with sturdy crew performances throughout classes. The U-15 ladies crew comprising Divyanshi, Ananya Muralidharan, Ankolika Chakraborty and Naisha Rewaskar clinched bronze whereas within the U-19 boys crew occasion, the quartet of Ankur Bhattacharjee, Abhinandh Pradhivadhi, Punit Biswas, and Priyanuj Bhattacharyya claimed a historic silver medal, marking the first-ever podium end for India within the boys’ crew class for the reason that inception of the ITTF World Youth Championships.
– Staff Sportstar
ITTF Combined Staff World Cup: India go down in opening fixture towards Croatia
India on Sunday misplaced its opening sport on the ITTF Combined Staff World Cup 6-8 towards Croatia on the Sichuan Gymnasium in Chengdu.
After G. Sathiyan-Diya Chitale and Manika Batra went 1-2 down of their respective combined doubles and singles encounters, Croatia established an enormous lead with a 3-0 drubbing of Manav Thakkar by the hands of Tomislav Pucar.
A 7-2 lead meant Croatia solely needed to win a single sport within the fourth tie to romp house, however the ladies’s pair of Yashaswini Ghorpade and Chitale delayed the inevitable with an 11-9, 11-9, 11-8 win over Mateja Jeger and Lea Rakovac.
Akash Pal and Sathiyan could have offered a slight scare to Frane Kojic and Ivor Ban, claiming the primary sport of the final tie 11-5, however the Croatian duo ensured there have been no additional let-ups.
-Staff Sportstar
SQUASH
Senthilkumar, Anahat begin favourites in HCL Squash Indian Tour 4
Velavan Senthilkumar and Anahat Singh, prime seeds and reigning males’s and ladies’s nationwide champions, respectively, begin as favourites within the HCL Squash Indian Tour 4, which begins on the Indian Squash Academy in Chennai on Monday.
The USD 15,000 PSA Challenger occasion options a mixture of worldwide and home contenders, together with the skilled Joshna Chinappa, a former ladies’s world No. 10, and males’s world No. 51 Veer Chotrani.
Senthilkumar, Anahat, Joshna, together with a number of Asian Video games medallist Abhay Singh, kind the Indian crew for the upcoming SDAT World Cup to be held within the southern metropolis between December 9 and 14.
Abhay is to compete in a PSA Platinum occasion in Hong Kong this week.
-Staff Sportstar
Sanya Vats baggage maiden PSA title at JSW Sunil Verma Memorial squash
Fifth seed Sanya Vats, a two-time former junior Nationwide champion, defeated fourth seed Nirupama Dubey 11-6, 11-9, 11-4 within the ladies’s last of the JSW eleventh Sunil Verma Memorial squash in Thane on Sunday.
It was Delhi lady Sanya’s first PSA title in what was additionally her maiden Challenger last.
Within the males’s last, French second seed Maceo Levy beat Egyptian prime seed Yassin Elshafei 11-8, 11-8, 11-4.
-Staff Sportstar
GOLF
Avani, Aditi rise to sixth after third spherical in Spain
India’s Avani Prashanth rose to tied sixth place after three rounds and was joined by compatriot Aditi Ashok on the Andalucia Costa del Sol Open de Espana.
Avani shot 68 and Aditi carded 69, they usually have been 8-under for 3 rounds.
Amongst different Indians, Pranavi Urs (71) was T-Forty fourth, Hitaashee Bakshi (70) was T-55 and Diksha Dagar (75) was T-69.
Avani had 5 birdies towards one bogey, whereas Aditi additionally had 5 birdies however gave away two bogeys.
Avani was tied sixth with Aditi, Anna Huang, Italy’s Alessandra Fanali plus the 2 gamers battling it out for the LET Order of Benefit crown Shannon Tan and Mimi Rhodes.
– PTI
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