Indian sports wrap, September 3: India clinches gold in World Deaf Shooting Championship

Here are all the major updates, scores, and results of Indians in the world of sports on September 3.

Mahit Sandhu and Dhanush Srikanth, the mixed air rifle gold medallists in the World Deaf shooting championship in Hannover, Germany. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

SHOOTING

Dhanush, Mahit beat compatriots to clinch gold

Dhanush Srikanth and Mahit Sandhu beat compatriots Mohammed Vania and Natasha Joshi 17-5 to clinch the mixed air rifle gold in the second World Deaf shooting championship in Hannover, Germany.

It was a comprehensive victory for Dhanush and Mahit as they had topped qualification with a world record score of 628.8.

It was the second gold for Dhanush, who had won the individual gold in men’s air rifle with two world records.

In mixed air pistol, Abhinav Deshwal and Pranjali Dhumal were beaten 17-7 in the gold medal match by Oleksii Lazenyk and Inna Afonchenko of Ukraine. The Indian pair had topped qualification with 565, seven points better than the Ukraine team, but could not be at its best in the gold contest.

THE RESULTS

10m air rifle mixed team: 1. India (Dhanush Srikanth, Mahit Sandhu) 17 (628.2 WR); 2. India-2 (Mohammed Vania & Natasha Joshi) 5 (622.1); 3. Ukraine-1 16 (614.0); 4. Ukraine-2 6 (610.1).

10m air pistol mixed team: 1. Ukraine (Oleksii Lazebnyk, Inna Afonchenko) 17 (558); 2. India (Abhinav Deshwal, Pranjali Dhumal) 7 (185); 3. Croatia 17 (552); 4. Ukraine-2 13 (550); 5. India-2 (Anuya Prasad, Chetan Sapkal) 542.

TENNIS

Bhavani Kedia makes semifinals of Deaf Open in Germany

Bhavani Kedia beat Caroline Fassone of France 6-3, 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the Deaf Open tennis championship in Pinneberg, Germany.

In the semifinals, however, Bhavani was beaten 6-0, 6-0 by World No.3 and eventual champion Sara Twardowska of Poland.

-Team Sportstar

Shrivalli Bhamidipaty progresses in ITF tournament in Thailand

Shrivalli Bhamidipaty beat wildcard Watsachol Sawatdee of Thailand 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 in the first round of the $25,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, on Tuesday.

Shrivalli, seeded No.1 in doubles with Vaidehi Chaudhari, reached the quarterfinals, beating a Japanese team 7-5, 6-3.

In the $100,000 women’s event in Incheon, Korea, Prarthana Thombare in partnership with Arianne Hartono of the Netherlands made the doubles quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-2 win over a Korean pair.

RESULTS

$100,000 ITF women, Incheon, Korea: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Arianne Hartono (Ned) & Prarthana Thombare bt Jeong BoYoung & Wi Hwuiwon (Kor) 6-3, 6-2.

$25,000 ITF women, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic: Singles (first round): Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Mariana Barraza (Col) 6-1, 6-1.

$25,000 ITF women, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand: Singles (first round): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Watsachol Sawatdee (Tha) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2; Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Natsuho Arakawa & Kisa Yoshioka (Jpn) 7-5, 6-3; Lidia Podgorichani & Kamonwan Yodpetch (Tha) bt Humera Baharmus & Paris Corley (USA) 7-5, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Tanisha Kashyap & Zou Ruirui (Chn) bt Dilana Rsovac (Aus) & Mirabelle Tahiri (USA) 6-0, 6-0.

$82,000 Challenger, Istanbul, Turkey: Singles (first round): Duje Ajdukovic (Cro) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-3.

$25,000 ITF men, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Nick Chappell (USA) & Sai Karteek Reddy bt Tanakorn Srirat & Pannawat Suttisomboon (Tha) 6-3, 7-6(2); Yurii Dzhavakian (Ukr) & Mitsuki Leong (Mas) bt Chinmaya Dev Chauhan & Thando Longwe-Smit (RSA) 6-1, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF men, Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Singles (first round): Vishnu Vardhan bt Fayzullo Mirzaganiyev (Uzb) 6-3, 6-1; Petr Bar Biryukov bt Dev Javia 6-3, 6-4; Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Adil Kalyanpur & Vishnu Vardhan bt Parth Aggarwal & Sidharth Rawat 6-2, 6-1.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

FOOTBALL

Defending champion knocked out in group stage of Durand Cup junior boys tournament

Banganson scored the winner as Myngken Christian Higher Secondary School, Meghalaya, shocked defending champion Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector-37B, Chandigarh, in a group-F league match of the 63rd Subroto Cup junior boys football tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium here on Tuesday.

RESULTS

Group-A: Sri Lanka Schools Football Association bt Numaligarh HSS, Asssam, 2-1; Sainik School, Arunachal Pradesh bt Singapore International School, Mumbai, 5-0.

Group-B: RMSA HS, Mizoram, bt Government SSS, Punjab, 7-1; Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan bt CN Vidyalaya, Gujarat, 11-0.

Group-C: TG English School, Bishnupur, Manipur, bt Sainik Awassiya Mahavidyalaya, Nepal, 4-0; Chowbaga HS, West Bengal, bt Indore Public School, Madhya Pradesh 6-1.

Group-D: Amenity Public School, Uttarakhand, bt DG NCC Bengal Battalion 3-0; Guru Gobind Singh Sports College, Uttar Pradesh, bt The Air Force School, Gorakhpur, 10-0.

Group-E: Minerva Public School, Mohali, bt Farook HSS, Kerala, 6-0; Ramakrishna Mission Vivekanand, Chhattisgarh, bt Modern School, Barakhamba Road, 3-1.

Group-F: Kejriwal HS Vidyalaya, Bihar, bt St. Francis Xavier HS, Daman & Diu 14-1; Myngken Christian HSS, Meghalaya, bt Government Model SSS,Chandigarh, 1-0.

Group-G: Government SS, Arunachal Pradesh, bt Mahatma Gandhi SSS, Lakshadweep 2-0; Father Agnel Multipurpose HS, Goa, drew BSC HS, Jharkhand 1-1.

Group-H: Krida Prabodhini, Maharashtra, bt Tripura Sports School, 1-0; Mamta Modern School, New Delhi, bt Tyndale Biscoe School, Srinagar, 4-1.

-Kamesh Srinivasan