Indian sports activities wrap, Could 4: S8UL indicators Grandmaster M. Pranesh

CHESS

Esports World Cup 2026: S8UL confirms nationwide, worldwide athletes throughout 12 titles

S8UL, having introduced the signing of Indian chess Grandmaster M. Pranesh, confirmed its athlete roster throughout 12 titles for the 2026 Esports World Cup (EWC).

Pranesh joins Grandmasters Nihal Sarin and Aravindh Chithambaram, additional strengthening the lineup.

Following its debut at EWC final 12 months, chess returns to the distinguished match, the place the world’s finest gamers will compete for a $1.5 million (~INR 14 crore) prize pool from August 11 to fifteen. With the defending champion routinely qualifying together with two gamers from the Velocity Chess Championship 2025 and one from the Chess.com Open 2026, 4 spots have already been secured.

9 gamers will qualify via the Champions Chess Tour standings, the place S8UL’s Nihal presently ranks seventh and Pranesh fifteenth, making them the 2 highest-ranked Indians in competition.

Further qualification alternatives embody DreamHack Atlanta from Could 15 to 17, which affords 4 spots, and the Final Likelihood Qualifiers nearer to the match, which is able to award the ultimate 4 locations.

Alongside chess, S8UL will compete throughout cell, PC, console, preventing video games, racing, battle royale, and technique titles, fielding a mix of championship-winning present rosters and newly signed expertise because it appears to be like to make a serious influence at EWC 2026 in Riyadh from July 6 to August 23, the place over 2,000 gamers from 200 golf equipment throughout greater than 100 nations will compete for a record-breaking $75 million (~INR 711 crore) prize pool.

S8UL’s EWC 2026 roster throughout disciplines.
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GOLF

Diksha, Tvesa drop down on the ultimate in Mauritius

The Indian trio of Diksha Dagar, Tvesa Malik and Hitaashee Bakshi suffered a tricky closing spherical and slipped down the leaderboard on the 2026 MCB Girls Traditional – Mauritius.

After opening with 68-69, Diksha shot a 74 within the third spherical to complete T-21, whereas Tvesa, after 70-71, shot 73 and was T-38.

Hitaashee, who carded strong 71-69 on the primary two days had a spherical of 76 and dropped to T-58.

Diksha had only one birdie on the ninth and dropped photographs on the primary, tenth and the fifteenth.

– PTI

MORE SPORTS

Athletes ought to encourage youth to shun medicine and embrace sports activities: J&Ok Lt Governor

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha referred to as upon the athletes and sportspersons to behave as ambassadors of ‘Nasha Mukt Abhiyaan’ and encourage the youth to shun medicine and embrace sports activities.

Addressing the inaugural ceremony of All India Inter-College Wushu Championship on the College of Kashmir in Srinagar, Sinha requested athletes to create a brief video and share it on social media to unfold consciousness in opposition to substance abuse and encourage others to undertake sports activities and artistic actions for a optimistic way of life.

“You’re the function fashions for India’s new technology. Your attraction will encourage the youth to stroll on the suitable path,” mentioned Sinha.

The LG reiterated that the administration is dedicated to constructing a strong sporting tradition throughout greater academic establishments, making certain equal alternatives for each pupil to guide an energetic and wholesome way of life.

– PTI

SHOOTING

Ganemat Sekhon finest positioned to qualify for the finals in ISSF World Cup Shotgun

India’s Ganemat Sekhon shot 70 out of 75 targets to complete Day 1 only one level outdoors the highest eight locations within the Worldwide Capturing Sports activities Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun which obtained underway at this time on the Asanov Capturing Membership in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The Chandigarh shooter, who gained a silver in the identical vary three years again was the best-placed Indian to e-book a spot within the high eight of the competitors. The remaining 50 targets of qualification and the finals for each men and women will probably be held on Tuesday.

Within the males’s occasion, Olympian Mairaj Ahmad Khan began the primary sequence with an ideal 25 after which shot 23 in every of the following two sequence to complete the primary day on a rating of 71, presently in twenty seventh place. Fellow Olympian Anantjeet Singh Naruka additionally shot an ideal 25 in his first sequence however managed solely 23 and 21 within the subsequent two rounds to finish the day on a rating of 69. The third Indian within the competitors, Nationwide champion Gurjoat Singh Khangura shot a sequence of twenty-two,24,24 for a complete of 70 after 75 targets.

Sekhon was the best-placed Indian to e-book a spot within the high eight of the competitors. 
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Bhavtegh Singh Gill and Abhay Singh Sekhon, who’re collaborating for rating factors shot 71 (24,24,23) and 70 (23,24,23) respectively.

Olympian and Girls’s Nationwide Champion Raiza Dhillon completed day one with a rating of 69 after capturing 22,23 and 24 in her first three sequence whereas Parinaaz Dhaliwal shot 66 with scores of twenty-two,21 and 23 in her three rounds.

Vanshika Tiwari and Rashmmi Rathore, competing for rating factors shot 66 (24,21,21) and 62 (20,21,21) respectively.

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Anjali Shekhawat clinches gold in girls’s 10m air pistol

Rajasthan’s Anjali Shekhawat claimed the gold medal within the 10m air pistol girls’s occasion on the twenty fourth Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Capturing Championship, being held on the Dr. Karni Singh Capturing Vary in New Delhi.

Shekhawat, who had earlier certified fourth with a rating of 576-23x, stepped up impressively within the closing to shoot 240.5 and end on high of the rostrum. Haryana’s Kanak Budhwar clinched the silver medal with a rating of 238.7, whereas Punjab’s Agam Ranjit Kaur Grewal secured the bronze with 216.

Budhwar continued her tremendous kind within the 10m air pistol junior girls class, securing the gold medal with a rating of 238.4. She was carefully adopted by Haryana’s Priyanshi Purva, who claimed silver with 237.5, whereas Ketan, additionally from Haryana, accomplished a clear sweep for the state by taking bronze with 216.8.

Within the 10m air pistol youth girls’s occasion, Budhwar as soon as once more stood out with a dominant efficiency, clinching gold with a powerful 244.3. Haryana’s Navya secured the silver medal with 237.7, whereas Military’s Anjali Mahendra Bhagwat completed third with 215.3.

Haryana emerged victorious within the group occasion, with the trio of Priyanshi Purva, Navya, and Surbhi Rao combining for a gold medal-winning complete of 1718.0-48x. Railways, represented by Yuvika Tomar, Sakshi Anil Suryavanshi, and Riya Shirish Thatte, claimed silver with 1710.0-40x, whereas Uttar Pradesh’s Vanshika Chaudhary, Sanskriti Bana, and Anjali Chaudhary secured bronze with 1709.0-50x.

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PICKLEBALL

Arjun, Aditya win professional males’s doubles class in Maharashtra Pickleball Open

Arjun Singh and Aditya Singh gained the professional males’s doubles class, whereas the pair of Mihika Yadav and Snehal Patil clinched victory within the professional girls’s doubles class of the Maharashtra Pickleball Open in Mumbai.

The pair of Arjun and Aditya defeated Stavya Bhasin and Ammol in three units within the professional males’s doubles closing.

Arjun and Naomi Amalsadiwala had earlier overwhelmed Pearl Amalsadiwala and Stavya to win the professional combine doubles class.

Aahana Punjabi and Atharva Khisti gained the ladies’s and males’s singles titles respectively.

– PTI

BOXING

Asian Boxing U-15 & U-17 Championships 2026: Indian boxers register robust outcomes

India’s younger boxers continued their marketing campaign on the Asian Boxing Beneath-15 & Beneath-17 Championships 2026 with a sequence of robust performances throughout classes in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Within the U-17 boys’ competitors, Yadav Yash (50kg) secured a commanding 5:0 victory over Turkmenistan’s Suleyman Ahmedov, whereas Karuna Albertson Kom (60kg) impressed with a 4:1 win in opposition to Tajikistan’s Ali Nazarov.

Gopal Rameshwar Ganeshe (52kg) was concerned in a carefully fought contest however went down narrowly 2:3 in opposition to Tajikistan’s Nazarov Damir. Mishra Prashant (57kg) confronted a tricky opponent in China’s Tangjie Liu and misplaced 0:5.

Within the U-15 women’ quarterfinals, Khushi Rana (49kg) delivered a dominant efficiency, successful by RSC in Spherical 1 in opposition to Vietnam’s Thi Ngoc Truc Nguyen, whereas Hanshika Attri (46kg) secured a convincing 5:0 victory over Uzbekistan’s Visola Bakhtiyorova. Nitya Pandey (55kg) put up a powerful battle however was defeated by Kazakhstan’s Aruna Shalman.

Among the many U-15 boys, Samir Bohra (43kg) registered a convincing 5:0 victory over Chinese language Taipei’s Hao-Ting Chang within the preliminary spherical.

– Crew Sportstar

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