BASKETBALL
India’s FIBA World Cup 2027 qualifier match in opposition to Lebanon, to be performed on Monday, has been postponed together with three different video games, as a result of rising tensions within the area attributable to the continued battle between USA-Israel and Iran.
Video games postponed:
Group C
- Iran vs. Syria
- Iraq vs. Jordan
Group D
- Lebanon vs. India
- Qatar vs. Saudi Arabia
“FIBA stays in shut contact with the Nationwide Federations involved and is taking essential measures with respect to the security and safety of groups, officers, and workers concerned in these video games,” FIBA mentioned in a press release.
“The aforementioned Group C and Group D video games will happen on the similar places initially of the third Qualification Window, set for late June. The up to date schedule might be communicated at a later stage,” it added.
Following its loss in opposition to Qatar on Saturday, India is on the backside of its group with three losses in three video games within the qualification event to date.
The Center East area has been on excessive alert since Saturday, when america and Israel launched air strikes on Iran. The Iranians retaliated by attacking targets across the area, together with within the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
-Crew Sportstar
TENNIS
Federico Cina clinches Maha Open title
Sixth seed Federico Cina saved 5 match factors to edge previous Britain’s Felix Gill to win the Maha Open ATP Challenger 75 Males’s Tennis Championship in Pune on Sunday.
In an exciting contest lasting two hours and 29 minutes, Cina held his nerve within the decisive tie-break to prevail 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(1).
Federico Cina (fifth from left) beat Felix Gill within the closing.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Federico Cina (fifth from left) beat Felix Gill within the closing.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
The Italian appeared in management after taking the opening set 6-3 with aggressive baseline play and stable serving. Nevertheless, Gill fought again strongly within the second set, breaking at an important stage to degree the match at one set apiece.
The third set witnessed high-quality rallies and intense baseline exchanges, with neither participant keen to concede floor.
Cina was down 5 instances on his serve at 5-6 along with his again to the wall and dealing with match factors, however he valiantly fought his means again each time to disappoint Gill in entrance of a capability crowd backing him.
He held on to drive a third-set tie-break, through which the 18-year-old Cina, a local of Palermo, raised his degree remarkably, dominating the breaker 7-1 to seal the championship in commanding vogue.
The singles champion was awarded a trophy, USD 17,000 and 75 ATP rating factors, whereas the runner-up obtained a trophy, USD 9,600 and 40 ATP rating factors.
-PTI
Zeel wins ITF title in Gurugram, Vaidehee loses in Burnie closing
Zeel Desai efficiently defended her title on the W15 ITF occasion in Gurugram on Sunday, defeating Belarusian teenager Polina Kuharenko within the closing.
Third-seeded Indian Zeel beat seventh seed Kuharenko 6-2, 7-6(3) in an hour and 51 minutes to clinch her fifth title on the ITF circuit.
Nevertheless, Vaidehee Chaudhari went down within the closing of the W35 event in Burnie, Australia.
Fourth seed Vaidehee, eyeing her fifth ITF title, misplaced 6-2, 6-3 to top-seeded Australian and World No. 275 Lizette Cabrera in 61 minutes within the summit conflict.
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ATHLETICS
Chandigarh Worldwide Marathon: 3,500 runners participate
Ethiopia’s Olbana Negasa Yadate and Meskerem Tesfaye Fikadu emerged winners within the males’s and ladies’s full marathon classes, respectively, as round 3,500 runners participated within the Chandigarh Worldwide Marathon on Sunday.
Within the half-marathon (21 km), Harmanjot Singh of India and Ethiopia’s Tsehay Desalegn clinched the lads’s and ladies’s titles, respectively.
The ten-km run noticed Sahil Kapoor win the lads’s race, whereas Soniya, additionally from India, completed first within the girls’s class.
Organised by the Chandigarh administration, the marathon featured 4 aggressive classes: 42 km (full marathon), 21 km (half marathon), 10 km, and 5 km.
A complete of 323 contributors competed within the 42 km, 740 within the 21 km, 1,270 within the 10 km, and 1,168 within the 5 km class.
The occasion additionally noticed 38 worldwide contributors from eight nations and 21 specially-abled contributors.
Punjab Governor and UT Chandigarh Administrator Gulab Chand Kataria, alongside along with his spouse Anita Kataria, flagged off the Chandigarh Marathon and in addition participated within the 5 km class.
Additionally current on the event had been Member of Rajya Sabha Satnam Singh Sandhu, Member of the Administrator’s Sports activities Advisory Council Sanjay Tandon, House Secretary Mandip Singh Brar, Director Normal of Police, Chandigarh, Sagar Preet Hooda, Sports activities Secretary Prerna Puri, Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav and different dignitaries.
-PTI
BADMINTON
Shaina secures bronze at Dutch Junior Worldwide
India’s rising shuttler Shaina Manimuthu secured a bronze medal on the Dutch Junior Worldwide.
Shaina, the U15 ladies’ champion on the Badminton Asia Championships, noticed her spectacular run finish within the semifinals, the place she went right down to China’s Yi Qing Yin 17-21, 8-21 in 35 minutes.
En path to the semifinals, Shaina registered notable victories over the third and thirteenth seeds, underlining her rising potential and consistency on the worldwide stage.
-PTI
Revealed on Mar 01, 2026