FILMING
Shooting World Cup final to be held in Delhi in October
All Olympic shooters at the Paris Games are expected to qualify for the World Cup final to be held from October 13-18 at the Dr. Karni Singh Stadium in Delhi.
International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) President Luciano Rossi awarded the prestigious event to India at the world body's meeting in Chateauroux during the Paris Olympics.
Winners of the last World Cup in Doha, Qatar have also automatically qualified for the tournament. Moreover, the top six shooters from each of the 12 individual events will also qualify for the World Cup final. Each of the 12 events in each country will feature two penalty shootouts. India is also likely to welcome new entrants in addition to those who have qualified.
In this event, the gold, silver and bronze medalists of each event will receive prizes of €5,000, €4,000 and €3,000 respectively.
It is to be noted that this will be the tenth international event to be held in India in the last ten years. The Bhopal World Cup last year was the last international shooting event to be held in the country.
NRAI Vice President Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo said, “One of the reasons for our continued success in the international arena in the last few years has been our efforts to host world-class competitions in India on a regular basis. They perform at a high level, which attracts the younger generation to the sport. This enhances the reputation of the sport in the country.
NRAI General Secretary Sultan Singh said, “We hope our shooting stars take full advantage of the home event to win more international awards. It is an opportunity for fans to see their favourites alongside the best in the world.”
This will be the second World Cup final to be played in India after 2017.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
SPORT Index
Senior Kuist Satte defeated, West Indies Mushtaq progress in pool and snooker
Har Gymkhana student SL Satte fought valiantly but lost to Anil Kumar of Kolhapur while West Bengal's Saqlain Mushtaq qualified for the main draw of the West Indies Billiards and Snooker Championship on Thursday.
Satte showed fighting spirit despite losing the first frame by winning three colours in the final frame. But he could not match 55-year-old Anil of Kolhapur as Anil of Kolhapur won 4-1 (21-50, 56-42, 17-73, 27-66 and 50-77).
The West Bengal batsman beat Madhya Pradesh's Abhijit Airen 4-0, winning 71-26, 60-40, 51-28 and 56-7 to enter the main draw.
In the second round, Brijesh Nanavati of Mumbai beat his compatriot Om Sawant with a score of 4:3 (13-53, 27-65, 73-65, 1-78, 54-41, 68-43 and 49-33).
RESULTS
Senior Snooker – Round 3: Shashi Patel (GUJ) beat Mahesh Jagdale (MUM) 4-0 (61-50, 69-35, 70-41, 64-59); Aashith Pandya (MUM) and Joseph Menezes (MUM) 4-1 (67-29, 67-20, 40-66, 60-34, 81-16); Shakir Qureshi (MUM) beat Sanjiv Shah (MUM) 4-0 (72-29, 50-3, 74-15, 56-41); Saqlain Mushtake (WB) defeated Abhijit Airen (MP) 4-0 (71-26, 60-40, 51-28, 56-7); Kanishk Janjaria (MAH) defeated Sumit Naidu (MP) 4-0 (63(40)-17, 56-36, 58-38, 63-30).
Round 2: Brijesh Nanavati (MUM) against Om Sawant (MUM) 4-3 (13-53, 27-65, 73-65, 1-78, 54-41, 68-43, 49-33); Rebanta Sahijvani (MUM) against Sumit Ahuja (MUM) 4-3 (1-0, 66-34, 12-60, 76-54, 50-69, 46-78, 68-29); Kalpesh Mevada (MUM) defeated Akash Asroni (MUM) 4-1 (46-11, 68-28, 58-40, 28-54, 61-50); Ajinkya Yelve (MUM) defeated Tohan Jain (MUM) 4-2 (56-34, 65-40, 62-45, 49-57, 28-55, 67-29); Anant Mehta (MUM) defeated Akshay Gogri (MUM) 4-1 (22-39, 72-16, 59-33, 57-22, 62-24); Gaurav Chhabra (MP) defeated Birju Kanani (MUM) 4-2 (40-65, 54-35, 68-30, 33-46, 56-22, 51-16).
-PTI
SOCCER
Subroto Cup Results – August 8
Bangladesh Krira Shiksha Protshthan played to a goalless draw against Sikkim Government High School to advance to the quarter-finals of Group B of the 63rd U-17 Women's Football Cup on Thursday.
Christian High School, Meghalaya, Tripura Mission School, Mission Home School, Aizawl, Government High School, Alakpura, Mizoram are some of the other teams that reached the round of 16.
The quarter-final teams will be ready after the final league match on Friday.
Results (league):
Group A: Sri Lanka Schools Football Association v Coast Guard Public School, Daman & Diu, 7-0; Sant Baha Hari Singh Model School, Mahilpur, bt Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Meghalaya, 6-1.
Group B: Bangladesh Krira Shiksha Protishtan drew 0-0 with SSS, Government of Sikkim; Raja School, Goa, Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai, 15-0.
Group C: SRV Government Model HSS, Kerala, Army Public School, Patiala, 1-0; Infocus Indian Public School, West Bengal, bt Model SSS, Chandigarh, 5-0.
Group D: RSB Arya Vidya Mandir, Mumbai, Vdya Devi Jindal School Hisar, 1-0; Christian HSS, Meghalaya, bt GSSS, Kotala, Ludhiana, 10-0.
Group-E: Madar International School, Jharkhand, bt SSS, Arunachal Pradesh, 13-0; Iman HSS, Gujarat, Modern School, Barakhamba Road, 6-2.
Group F: Tripura Sports School v Springfield HSS, Mizoram, 3-0; Harish Panwar Ucha Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Uttarakhand, RKS Girls School, Bihar, 5-0.
Group G: Home Mission School, Aizawl, Bal Bharti Air Force School, Delhi, 9-0; HS Govt, Kohima, Nagaland, bt Sainik School, Sambalpur, 5-1.
Group-H: SSS Govt, Alakshpura, Haryana, bt Nandajar AT HS, West Bengal, 4-0; Shashkia HSS Kanya Vidyalaya, Chhattisgarh, BT Vidya Gyan School, Bulandshahr, 3-1.
TENNIS
200,000 Rs.200,000 AITA tennis ranking results
Qualifier Parv Nage beat sixth seed Moksh Puri 7-6 (5), 6-4 to win the title against Neeraj Yashpaul in the AITA HPCL-Mittal Rs.200,000 ranking tennis tournament at the CLTA Complex on Thursday.
In the women's final, Anjali Rathi will face second seed Sahira Singh.
Results (semi-finals)
Men: Neeraj Yashpaul against Sartak Suden 6-4, 6-1; Parv Nage defeated Moksh Puri 7-6 (5), 6-4
Doubles: Priyanshu Choudhary and Udit Kamboy against Anand Prakash Gupta and Wyatt O'Brien 6-2, 6-2; Ricky Chaudhary and Sajal Kesarwani defeated Keshav Dangi and Vaibhav Singh 6-3, 6-2.
Women: Anjali Rathi beats Chevika Reddy 7-6(4), 6-3; Sahira Singh beat Riya Sachdeva 6-1 (retired).
Doubles: Ayush Singh and Medhavi Singh against Samaira Malik and Chevika Reddy 7-6(4), 6-2; Diya Desai and Divya Sharma defeated Diva Bhatia and Sai Samhita 6-0, 6-1.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Arjun/Ramkumar into semi-finals of €74,825 Challenger tennis tournament
Arjun Kadhe and Ramkumar Ramanathan beat Italy's Andrea Picchione and Giorgio Ricca 6-4, 6-3 in the quarter-finals of the Challenger tennis tournament in Cordeno, Italy.
At the $25,000 ITF tennis tournament in Brazzaville, Congo, Dev Javia beat Ukraine's Eric Wanschelboim 6-2, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals. He joins Adil Kalyanpur, Karan Singh, SD Prajwal Dev and Yuvan Nandal in the last eight.
Results:
74,825 € Challenger, Bonn, Germany
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jevan Nedunchejian/Vijay Sundar Prashant and Daniel Da Silva/Mateus De Almeida (Bra) 7-5, 6-3.
€74,825 Challenger, Cordenone, Italy
Doubles (quarter-finals): Arjun Kadhe and Ramkumar Ramanathan v Andrea Picchione and Giorgio Ricca (Ita) 6-4, 6-3
Pre-quarter-finals: Arjun and Ramkumar v Inigo Cervantes and Daniel Rincon (Spain) 7-6(4), 6-1; Luis Brito (Bra) and Roy Stepanov (Isr) Sidhant Bantia and Courtney Lock (Zim) 7-6(5), 7-5.
$82,000 Challenger, Lincoln, USA
Doubles (pre-quarter-finals): Rithvik Bollipalli/Hans Verdugo (Mexico) and Mac Keeger (United States) and Calcum Puttergill (Australia) 6-7(3), 6-4, [14-12]; Anirudh Chandrasekar and Niki Poonacha v Ozan Baris and Nishesh Basavareddy (USA) 3-6, 6-3 [10-5].
$25,000 ITF Men, Brazzaville, Congo
Singles (until the quarter-finals): Dev Javia and Eric Vanschelboim (UKR) 6-2, 6-3; Adil Kalyanpur beat Ayush Bhatt (USA) 6-3, 7-5; Karan Singh defeated Raghav Jaisinghani 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-0; Bor Artnak (Slo) beat Aditya Balsekar 6-0, 6-0; SD Prajwal Dev beat Rishi Reddy 6-3, 7-6 (3); Yuvan Nandal defeated Rishabh Agarwal 7-6 (6), 7-5.
Doubles (quarter-finals): SD Prajwal Dev and Adil Kalyanpur with Julian DeSousa and Vincent Hobert (Ned) 6-2, 6-3.
$25,000 ITF Men, Taipei, Taiwan
Singles (pre-quarter): S Mukund vs Taiyo Yamanaka (Jpn) 6-1, 6-3.
Doubles (quarter-finals): Sai Karthik Reddy/Vishaya Troncharoenchaikul (Ta) beat Mitsuki Leong (Mas) and Stefanos Sakellardis (Gre) 6-4, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF Men, Monastir, Tunisia
Doubles (quarter-finals): Chirag Duhan/Shinji Khazawa (JPN) and Mohammad Makhlouf (Alg) and Savva Polukhin 6-2, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF Men, Courtea de Arges, Romania
Singles (pre-quarter): Ryan Oumaush (Fr) against Manas Dhamne 6-3, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF Women, Roehampton, England
Singles (pre-quarter-final): Ella McDonald (GBR) and Ankita Raina 6-1, 6-1.
ITF Women $15,000, Tbilisi, Georgia
Doubles (quarter-finals): Natela Dzalamidze/Zozia Kardava (Geo) and Shriya Atturu (USA) and Smriti Bhasin 4-6, 6-4, [10-1].
– Kamesh Srinivasan
PUMPKIN
Defending champion Velavan reached the semi-finals of the national championship
Defending champion and top seed Velavan Senthilkumar lost to Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu 11-8, 11-8, 11-8 in the quarterfinals of the 80th HCL National Squash Championship at Bombay Gymkhana on Thursday.
Velawan will face Veer Chothrani in the semi-finals, the semi-finals will feature Mahesh Mangaonkar and Abhay Singh.
In the women's event, defending champions Anahat Singh, Nirupama Dubey, Urvashi Joshi and Akanksha Salunkhe reached the semi-finals.
Results (quarter-finals):
Men: Velavan Senthilkumar beat Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu 11-8, 11-8, 11-8; Veer Chotrani defeated Rahul Baita 11-9, 11-8, 11-5; Mahesh Mangaonkar vs Suraj Chand 11-5, 11-4, 11-7; Abhay Singh beat Diwakar Singh 11-2, 11-2, 11-7.
Women: Anahat Singh beat Navya Sundararajan 11-4, 11-2, 11-3; Nirupama Dubey vs Pooja Arti 11-7, 11-9, 12-14, 11-6; Urvashi Joshi defeated Anjali Semwal 11-5, 11-4, 11-6; Akanksha Salunhe beat Yuvna Gupta 11-6, 11-9, 11-7.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
PICKLEBALL
LFW Open will take place on August 15th
The LFW Open Pickleball Championship will be held at Baselines Sports Academy, DPG Engineering College, Sector 34, Gurugram on August 15.
Singles, doubles and mixed doubles will be played in the men's, women's, men's and women's under-18, over-35, over-50 and over-60 tournaments.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
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