Indian sports activities wrap, December 3: Esports amongst flagship occasions at Hornbill Pageant

ESPORTS

Esports championship will get flagship occasion standing at Nagaland’s Hornbill Pageant

The Division of Youth Sources and Sports activities (YRS) within the Nagaland Authorities on Tuesday introduced that the Hornbill E-Sports activities Championship Season 2 might be held as a flagship occasion of the continued Hornbill Pageant.

Addressing a press convention in Kohima, YRS director Kethosituo Sekhose mentioned the occasion scheduled for December 8 and 9 at Indira Gandhi Stadium will function expanded sport titles, elevated prize cash, and the highest-ever esports participation recorded within the state.

The match, being organised in collaboration with the E-Sports activities Affiliation of Nagaland (ESAN), will see 512 athletes and groups, with a further 240 particular person rivals. The prize cash has been raised from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 10 lakh.

The championship will function BGMI (Battlegrounds Cellular India), Moba Legends 5v5, E-Chess, E-Soccer and FC 2025.

The primary version final yr drew greater than 1.5 lakh on-line viewers and over 500 on-ground spectators, Sekhose mentioned.

-Staff Sportstar

SQUASH

Joshna upsets second seed Nardine; 4 Indians transfer to semis

Former world quantity 10 Joshna Chinappa rallied to beat Egyptian second seed Nardine Garas in a five-game thriller to maneuver to the semifinals of the HCL Squash Indian Tour 4 right here Wednesday.

Velavan Senthilkumar and Anahat Singh, the reigning males’s and girls’s Nationwide champions respectively, and high seeds, recorded straight-games victories on the Indian Squash Academy, whereas males’s second seed Veer Chotrani bowed out.

Within the semifinals on Thursday, Joshna, 39, who gained the Japan Open in October and completed runner-up within the Daly Faculty Indian Open final month, will meet sixth seed compatriot Tanvi Khanna, who edged out Hong Kong fourth seed Nga Ching Cheng over 5 video games.

The outcomes (Quarterfinals; Indians until specified): Males: 1-Velavan Senthilkumar bt 6-Joseph White (Aus) 11-9, 11-3,11-5; 5-Diego Gobbi (Bra) bt 3-Daniel Poleshchuk (Isr) 11-5, 11-4, 11-3; 7-Maceo Levy (Fra) bt 4-Ibrahim Elkabbani (Egy) 5-11, 11-5, 3-11, 14-12, 11-6; Adam Hawal (Egy) bt 2-Veer Chotrani 11-9, 11-7, 11-8.

Ladies: 3-Hayley Ward (RSA) bt 5-Ching Hei Fung (HK) 11-9, 11-8, -11, 7-11, 11-7; 1-Anahat Singh bt 8-Akari Midorikawa (Jpn) 11-2, 11-2, 11-8; 6-Tanvi Khanna bt 4-Nga Ching Cheng (HK) 7-11, 12-10, 14-12, 7-11, 11-4; Joshna Chinappa bt 2-Nardine Garas (Egy) 6-11, 11-7, 5-11, 11-6, 11-7.

-PTI

BADMINTON

Indian shuttlers dominate at Guwahati Masters

Indian shuttlers, together with Tanvi Sharma and Tharun Mannepalli, produced a dominant show on the Guwahati Masters Tremendous 100 match as a number of dwelling gamers progressed to the following spherical with commanding wins throughout males’s and girls’s singles draw right here Wednesday.

Moreover Tanvi, different high performers included Tanya Hemanth, Tasnim Mir, Ashmita Chaliha, Anmol Kharb, Anupama Upadhyaya, Isharani Baruah and Shreya Lele in girls’s singles.

Whereas within the males’s singles, Meiraba Luwang Maisnam, Sanskar Saraswat, Manav Choudhary, Saneeth Dayanand, Samarveer, Aryamann Tandon, Tushar Suveer, Pranay Shettigar, Mithun Manjunath and Ginpaul Sonna — all reached the pre-quarterfinals.

Eighth seed Tanvi, a world junior silver medallist, showcased exceptional grit as she bounced again from a shaky begin to defeat Indonesia’s Dalila Aghnia Puteri 6-21, 21-11, 21-19 in a tense three-game battle.

In an all-Indian conflict, Tanya overcame Aditi Bhatt 21-16, 21-12, former junior world No. 1 Tasnim Mir additionally superior with a gentle 21-13, 23-21 win over Aalisha Naik and native favorite Ashmita Chaliha needed to dig deep to safe her place within the subsequent spherical, beating Devika Sihag 21-17, 21-23, 21-18.

Fifth seed Anmol Kharb, one in every of India’s brightest younger prospects, registered a medical 21-18, 21-19 victory over Surya Charisma Tamiri, whereas fourth seed Anupama Upadhyaya registered a 21-15, 21-10 win towards Meghana Reddy Mareddy.

Isharani Baruah cruised previous Taiwan’s Yi En Hsieh 21-15, 21-8 and Shreya Lele shocked second seed Pornpicha Choeikeewong of Thailand 21-19, 21-18.

In males’s singles, Meiraba defeated Aditya Tripathi 22-20, 21-12, Mannepalli beat Indonesia’s Richie Duta Richardo 21-13, 21-16. The 2 will face off in an all Indian conflict subsequent.

There have been extra Indian successes as Sanskar Saraswat upset Syed Modi Worldwide winner Jason Gunawan 21-18, 21-19, whereas Samarveer fought again from a sport all the way down to beat Darshan Pujari 13-21, 21-13, 12-7 and arrange an all-Indian conflict with Sanskar.

Amongst different outcomes, Manjunath arrange a conflict with Settigar after getting a walkover from sixth seed S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian.

Manav Choudhary defeated Govind Krishna 21-14, 18-21, 21-18, and Saneeth Dayanand eased previous Numair Shaik 21-19, 21-11.

The blended doubles high seeds additionally impressed, with Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde rallying from a sport down to beat Indonesia’s Kenzie Yoe and Luna Rianty Saffana 18-21, 21-9, 21-18.

-PTI

EQUESTRIAN

India registers historic success at FEI Asian Equestrian Championship 2025

India completed its marketing campaign on the FEI Asian Equestrian Champioship in Pattaya, Thailand on Wednesday with a historic medal haul. A complete of 5 medals had been bagged throughout the Eventing and Dressage occasions. This was solely the second version of the Asian Championship; India didn’t take part within the inaugural version in 2019.

In Eventing, Ashish Limaye clinched a person gold in addition to a crew silver alongside fellow Shashank Singh Kataria and Shashank Kanmuri. In Dressage, Shruti Vora remained the star of the competitors for India, bagging three silvers – one within the particular person class, the second in Intermediate Freestyle–I, and the third within the Dressage Staff occasion. The Indian crew, consisting of Divyakriti Singh, Gaurav Pundir and Shruti had been part of the crew that clinched the silver.

“This was a really emotional win for us as a result of the final Asian Video games didn’t flip nice for us. So, I believe it was an enormous redemption type of feeling and a giant aid,” Ashish Limaye mentioned. “From the organising committee to our very personal Sports activities Ministry, everyone was very supportive. I believe it was additionally a really well-organised journey for us organized by the Ministry. They really made it fairly straightforward for us and in the long run all of it labored out, and I’m so completely satisfied.”

Exhibiting gratitude to his horse, Ashish added, “My horse ‘Willy Be Dun’ is a 13-year-old Anglo-European. I believe it could have been unattainable to bag this gold with out him as a result of he actually fought for us and he was all the time giving 100% to come back right here. I believe he knew that we had been at a championship and he was actually totally different and particular!”

A 16-member delegation (together with six athletes, six grooms, two coaches and one vet and ferrier every), travelled for the championship in Pattaya, at full value to the Authorities. The Sports activities Ministry facilitated an intensive logistics operation masking the transport and care of 12 horses, together with air and highway motion, pre-export quarantine, feed and bedding, farrier companies, insurance coverage and steady veterinary supervision for over 40 days.

The expenditure, amounting to Rs 2.73 Crore was supplied by way of the Help to Nationwide Sports activities Federations (ANSF) scheme, for the journey of the contingent. It included the athletes’ and coaches’ journey, visas, insurance coverage, boarding and lodging, entry charges, necessary veterinary checks, and important tools. The Sports activities Authority of India’s TAGG scheme additionally prolonged individualised help to its core athletes competing at Pattaya, together with Ashish Limaye, Shashank Singh Kataria and Divyakriti Singh. The trio had been supplied with devoted coaching help, tools help, and extremely specialised horse-care necessities.

GOLF

Kushal Singh’s scorching 63 helps him surge forward on day two

Kushal Singh’s terrific seven-under 63 helped him surge forward on day two of the Jaipur Open, a Rs 1 crore occasion, being performed on the Rambagh Golf Membership right here.

Gurugram’s Kushal Singh (64-63), whose fortunes have been on the upswing since his runner-up end on the PGTI NexGen occasion in Bhubaneswar final month, totalled 13-under 127 on the midway stage to realize one spot from his in a single day tied second place and maintain a one-shot lead.

PGTI Order of Benefit chief Yuvraj Sandhu (65-63) too shot a 63 to finish spherical two in second place at 12-under 128, thus rising 4 spots from day one.

Veer Ahlawat, the 2024 PGTI Rating winner, produced a match low rating of eight-under 62, an error-free spherical, that propelled him 9 spots to tied third at 11-under 129.

Becoming a member of Veer in joint third place was Ravi Kumar who moved up six positions because of his 63, one other bogey-free effort.

-PTI

Bhullar rises to 3rd, chases internationals Shah and Fuentes in IGPL Ahmedabad

High Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar fired 4 birdies in his final eight holes to show in a five-under 67 within the second spherical and leap 11 locations to Tied-third on the IGPL Invitational Ahmedabad on Wednesday.

Bhullar, who was 1-under for the primary spherical, carded six birdies towards one bogey to rise to 6-under with one spherical to go.

Within the first spherical, Bhullar had a hole-in-one.

Bhullar is chasing the worldwide duo of Indian American Manav Shah (67) who had a bogey free spherical, and Mexican Santiago de la Fuentes (70). They’re now 7-under and one forward of Bhullar.

Bhullar is bidding to make it three in three on the IGPL Tour after having gained the primary two IGPL occasions of the season in Chandigarh and Jaypee Greens. He then skipped the following six occasions to play Worldwide Sequence occasions and to attend household issues.

A win tomorrow will make him the primary participant to seize three wins on the IGPL Tour. Aside from Bhullar, the one different participant to win twice on the IGPL is Aman Ran.

Bhullar was tied third with younger rookie professional Raghav Chugh (68) who is also at 6-under for 2 days.

Shah, a former winner on the PGA Tour of Latin America, had one birdie on the entrance 9 and 4 extra on the again stretch towards no bogeys.

Mexican Fuentes, who’s a former winner of the Latin America Newbie championships and has performed Majors, shot 70. He had 5 birdies, together with two on the sixteenth and the seventeenth, towards three bogeys.

Younger Veer Ganapathy, who shot 8-under on the primary day, dropped to 3-over for the second day and is now Tied-Fifth with 5-under whole. Ganapathy is tied fifth with Karandeep Kochhar (69) at 5-under.

One other Indian American Varun Chopra (68), younger Kartik Singh (70) and Filipino Justin Quiban (70) are tied seventh, whereas the legendary SSP Chawrasia (72) and Sachin Baisoya (73) spherical off the High-10 and are each 3-under.

IGPL Pune winner, Kapil Kumar (73) at 2-under whole is sole twelfth.

The highest girl professional was Ridhima Dilawari (72) at 1-under and was Tied-Thirteenth total. She is tied with M Dharma (71), Aalaap IL (73) and Yashas Chandra (73).

Aman Raj, who leads the IGPL Order of Benefit, is tied seventeenth with Pukhraj Singh Gill and each are even par for 2 rounds, as is Saarthak Chibber.

OTHERS

Khelo India College Video games: Chandigarh College sweep canoe and kayak, go high of KIUG medal tally

Chandigarh College clinched 9 out of 10 gold medals on provide in Canoe and Kayaking on Wednesday to go high of the desk after Day 10 of the Khelo India College Video games Rajasthan right here on Wednesday.

Chandigarh additionally secured a males’s crew gold in desk tennis to push Guru Nanak Dev college to the second place within the total standings with 33 gold, 13 silver and 9 bronze medals.

Additional, 4 meet data tumbled on the athletics venue contained in the Sawai Man Singh Stadium right here for the second consecutive day.

Guru Kashi College’s Tongbram Roshan Singh clinched the Canoe single 500m race to keep away from a Chandigarh College clear sweep in Udaipur.

On Wednesday, most motion in Jaipur was targeting the athletics observe and it was an thrilling day of competitors.

Panjab College (males’s 4x400m), Shintomon CB (males’s 110m hurdles) of Mahatma Gandhi College, Guru Kashi College’s Sanya Yadav (girls’s Discus Throw) and Aleena T Saji (girls’s Triple Bounce) of Mahatma Gandhi College bettered the meet data to take the full rely of meet data damaged up to now on this version to 9.

The race that saved everybody on the sting of their seats was the lads’s 4x400m closing by which Mumbai College led the race until the final 100m stretch when Panjab College’s Lokesh Singh Gurjar overtook Yash Joshi to clinch the gold medal for his crew with a time of three:12.40s.

Actually, Mumbai College’s timing of three:12.73s was additionally higher than the earlier meet file of three:13.44s set by Mangalore College.

Earlier, Shintomon CB led the lads’s 110m closing from begin to end as he get the higher of former KIUG file holder Vikas Khodke and All India College file holder Rahil Sakeer VP of College of Calicut.

Khodke, who held the earlier KIUG file of 14.40s, gained the silver in a photo-finish with Rahil Sakeer as each completed with a time of 14.52.

Within the subject occasions, Guru Kashi College’s Sanya Yadav additionally improved the KIUG meet file in girls’s Discus Throw with a distance of fifty.73m in her second try, eclipsing the earlier file of fifty.60m set by Shalini Chaudhary of Barkatullah College.

The gold and silver medal winners in girls’s Triple Bounce additionally bettered the earlier KIUG file with Aleena leaping to a distance of 13.09m in her second try whereas Arshdeep Kaur of Panjab College clearing a distance of 12.80m in her fourth strive.

The earlier file of 12.78m was held by Aishwarya B of Mangalore College.

On the Jagatpura taking pictures vary, Paris Olympics bronze medallist Sarabjot Singh joined palms with Palak to win the 10m Air Pistol blended crew gold, beating Mukesh Nelavalli and Dwaram Pranavi of KLEF College 17-15 within the closing. Guru Nanak Dev College bagged the bronze medal.

Within the girls’s soccer closing on the Poornima College floor, Chaudhary Bansi Lal College, Bhiwani defeated Guru Nanak Dev College 2-0 due to a aim every by Pooja (tenth minute) and Nancy (83rd minute) to seize the gold medal.

Within the males’s hockey closing, Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya defeated Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith 5-1.

-PTI

PICKLEBALL

Bengaluru Blasters rating first win, Chennai on a roll, Hyderabad return to type

Bengaluru Blasters bounced again from successive defeats with a nail-biting 4-2 Grand Rally win over Mumbai Smashers, opening their account within the Indian Pickleball League (IPBL) right here on Wednesday.

In the meantime, league leaders Chennai Tremendous Warriors stretched their profitable run to 3 with a 5-1 victory over Capital Warriors Gurgaon and Hyderabad Royals returned to profitable methods with a 5-1 win towards Lucknow Leopards.

With each Bengaluru and Mumbai chasing their first IPBL win, the day’s opening match was thrilling as Asia’s high two gamers— Quang Duong (Mumbai) and Phuc Huynh (Bengaluru) — lit up the centre courtroom.

Huynh struck first, repeatedly pulling Duong towards the road earlier than firing winners into the backcourt.

However the World No. 3 responded with trademark precision, flipping the momentum and shutting out a pointy 15–10 win.

Huynh hit again, teaming up with teenager Arjun Singh to beat Duong and Ammol Ramchandani 15–11 within the males’s doubles.

Pei Chuan Kao then shifted the tie in Bengaluru’s manner, sweeping previous Allison Harris 15–7 within the girls’s singles.

Mumbai answered by way of Harris and Pearl Amalsadiwala within the girls’s doubles, pushing the competition right into a nerve-wracking Grand Rally.

Whereas Mumbai saved clawing again, Bengaluru held their nerve, edging a dramatic 21–20 golden-point end.

Later, Capital Warriors Gurgaon got here out swinging towards unbeaten Tremendous Warriors, beautiful the league leaders within the opening tie.

Arik Badami set the tone, utilizing sharp kitchen-line management to outplay Mitch Hargreaves 15–11 within the males’s singles.

However Chennai hit again, as Hargreaves and Harsh Mehta held agency in a high-speed males’s doubles battle, edging Stavya Bhasin and Jack Munro 15–14 to stage the tie.

From there, Chennai shifted gears. Roos van Reek powered previous Emilia Schmidt 15–12, earlier than partnering Aaliya Ebrahim to assert the ladies’s doubles by the identical margin.

Chennai capped their comeback in type, overturning a late deficit within the Grand Rally to win 21–18 and lengthen their flawless run.

In one other match, Lucknow Leopards and Hyderabad Royals squared off with each side in search of a fast return to profitable methods. Ryler DeHeart gave Lucknow a clear begin, dictating tempo in a peaceful 15–9 win over Divyanshu Kataria. Hyderabad hit again as Kataria and Ben Newell took the lads’s doubles 15–12 to stage the tie.

Megan Fudge then blitzed the ladies’s singles 15–4 and carried that management into the ladies’s doubles with Snehal Patil, profitable 15–10. With a 3–1 cushion, Hyderabad sealed the Grand Rally 21–12 for a commanding victory.

Capital Warriors Gurgaon will face Lucknow Leopards on day 4, Bengaluru Blasters tackle Chennai Tremendous Warriors and Mumbai Smashers might be up towards Hyderabad Royals.

Printed on Dec 03, 2025