SQUASH
Veer, Anahat progress to finals of Asian Qualifiers for World Championship
Veer Chotrani and Anahat Singh superior to the finals of the World Championship Qualifying Occasion (Asia) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Saturday.
The second-seeded Chotrani prevailed 3-1 (11-7, 11-6, 7-11, 11-4) in opposition to Chi Him Wong, his eighth-seeded opponent from Hong Kong, China. The Indian can be up in opposition to Ameeshenraj Chandaran, the third seed from Malaysia, within the last.
The 17-year-old Anahat, seeded fifth, took down Helen Tang, eighth seed from Hong Kong, China, 3-0 (11-2, 11-7, 11-6). She is going to face Hong Kong, China’s Toby Tse within the summit conflict after the latter’s 3-1 (11-3, 12-10, 10-12, 11-8) win over Akanksha Salunkhe within the second semifinal.
The winners of the event will qualify for the world championships scheduled in Chicago from Could 9 to 17.
-Staff Sportstar
TENNIS
Kriish wins doubles title, reaches singles last in ITF junior tourny in Malaysia
Rethin Pranav and Kriish Tyagi, the doubles champions within the ITF junior tennis event in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
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Rethin Pranav and Kriish Tyagi, the doubles champions within the ITF junior tennis event in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
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Prime seed Kriish Tyagi beat fourth seed Connor Doig of South Africa 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 within the semifinals of the ITF junior tennis event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Saturday.
Within the last, Kriish will play sixth seed, Aussie Cruz Hewitt, the son of former World No.1 and Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt.
Kriish mixed with Rethin Pranav to clinch the doubles title, beating the second seeds, Jake Dembo and Attempt Host of Australia 4-6, 6-1, [10-6] within the last.
-Staff Sportstar
Riya Bhatia by means of to ladies’s doubles finals in ITF event in France
Riya Bhatia in partnership with Sada Nahimana of Burundi beat prime seeds Freya Christie of Britain and Petra Hule of Australia 7-6(9), 6-4 within the doubles semifinals of the $60,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event in Calvi, France.
RESULTS
Doubles (semifinals): Karol Drzewiecki & Piotr Matuszewski (Pol) bt Niki Poonacha & Sergio Gornes (Esp) 7-6(2), 2-6, [10-2];
Quarterfinals: Marco Bortolotti (Ita) & Victor Corena (Rou) bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Vijay Sundar Prashanth 5-7, 3-1 (retired).
$30,000 ITF males, Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Giovanni Fonio (Ita) bt Manas Dhamne 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Mario Diez & Bruno Navarro (Esp) bt Chinmaya Dev Chauhan & Marcel Sudzum (Ned) 6-3, 6-2.
$60,000 ITF ladies, Calvi, France
Doubles (semifinals): Riya Bhatia & Sada Nahimana (Bdi) bt Freya Christie (GBR) & Petra Hule (Aus) 7-6(9), 6-4.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia
Doubles (last): Vilma Hyllested & Johanne Svendsen (Den) bt Zeel Desai & Anastasiia Gureva 6-0, 5-7, [10-5]; Semifinals: Zeel & Gureva bt Georgina Hays (GBR) & Eliessa Vanlangendonck (Bel) 6-0, 7-5.
-Staff Sportstar
SHOOTING
Bhanwala, Sidhu miss out on 25-metre speedy fireplace pistol last at ISSF World Cup
Anish Bhanwala shot 575 and missed the ultimate by two factors in 25-metre speedy fireplace pistol within the World Cup in Lima, Peru, on Friday.
The champion of the final World Cup, 22-year-old Vijayveer Sidhu, scored 569 for the seventeenth spot.
Matej Rampula of the Czech Republic beat Su Lianbofan of China 30-27 for the gold.
RESULTS
25m speedy fireplace pistol: 1. Matej Rampula (Cze) 30 (585); 2. Su Lianbofan (Chn) 27 (583); 3. Christian Reitz (Ger) 24 (583);11. Anish Bhanwala 575; 14. Gurpreet Singh 572; 17. Vijayveer Sidhu 569.
-Staff Sportstar
BRIDGE
Indians qualify for worlds after dream run in Bridge Federation of Asia and Center East meet
India received three gold medals and a silver medal within the Bridge Federation of Asia and the Center East event in Dubai, with the medal-winning groups qualifying for the following world championships.
The Indian males, ladies and seniors groups clinched gold whereas the combined crew received silver within the event held between April 10-18 beneath the auspices of the World Bridge Federation.
All 4 Indian groups certified for the forty seventh world bridge championships to be held in Herning, Denmark from August 20-31. The 2025 world bridge championships will embody the Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup, D’Orsi Trophy, and Wuhan Cup.
India can be amongst 66 groups from 35 nations participating within the championships.
The Indian males’s crew that received gold included Sumit Mukherjee and Rajeshwar Tewari; Sagnik Roy and Kaustabh Nandi; Kaustubh Milind Bendre and Sayantan Kushari. The coach and non-playing captain was Debasish Ray.
The members of the ladies’s crew that received the yellow steel had been Puja Batra and Asha Sharma; Bindiya Kohli and Priya Balasubramanian; Bharati Dey and Alka M Kshirsagar. The coach and non-playing captain was Arvind Vaidya.
The members of the seniors’ crew that received the gold had been Ramaratnam Krishnan and B Prabhakar; Bachiraju Satyanarayana and Jaggy B Shivdasani; Subhash Gupta and Ravi Goenka. The coach and non-playing captain was Girish Bijoor.
The members of the silver medal-winning combined crew had been Rajeev Khandelwal and Himani Khandelwal; Rana Roy and Sheetal Bansal; Priya Ranjan Sinha and Bindiya Naidoo. The coach and non-playing captain was Vinay Desai.
-PTI
CHESS
Divya-Humpy shut in on chief Zhu Jiner
The FIDE Ladies’s Grand Prix Chess resumes at Amanora-The Fern, Pune, on Sunday with the Indian duo of Koneru Humpy and Divya Deshmukh in putting distance of chief Zhu Jiner of China.
After 5 rounds, they’re on 3.5 factors, half-a-point behind the second seed.
The final 4 days ought to see some fierce battles, starting with the video games within the sixth spherical, wherein Zhu will tackle R. Vaishali.
Prime-seeded Humpy ought to fancy her probabilities in opposition to Mongolia’s Munguntuul Batkhuyag, seeded ninth. Divya faces stronger opposition within the type of fellow-Indian D. Harika.
Sixth-round pairing:
Salome Melia (Geo) v Polina Shuvalova (Rus); D. Harika Dronavalli v Divya Deshmukh; Munguntuul Batkhuyag (Mng) v Koneru Humpy; Zhu Jiner v R. Vaishali; Alina Kashlinskaya (Pol) v Nurgyul Salimova (Bul).
Standings after 5 rounds: 1. Zhu 4 factors; 2-3. Humpy and Divya 3.5; 4-6. Harika, Shuvalova and Vaishali 2.5; 7-8. Salimova and Batkhuyag 2; 9. Melia 1.5; 10. Kashlinskaya 1.
-P. Ok. Ajith Kumar