Indian sports news wrap, May 23

Catch the major updates and results from Indian sports on May 23.

FILE PHOTO: Indian table tennis player Manika Batra | Photo Credit: Getty Images

TABLE TENNIS

World Championships: Manika reaches third round

India’s top woman paddler, Manika Batra scripted a 11-9, 14-12, 11-4, 11-8 win against Wong Xin Ru of Singapore in the second round of the World table tennis championships in Durban on Tuesday. Manika will next take on Georgina Pota of Hungary.

India’s top-ranked men’s paddler, G. Sathiyan went down to World No. 9 Dang Qiu of Germany 11-6, 11-6, 11-5, 11-7 in the second round.

RESULTS (second round)

Men

Singles: Dang Qiu (Ger) bt G. Sathiyan 11-6, 11-6, 11-5, 11-7

Women

Singles: Manika Batra bt Wong Xin Ru (SGP) 11-9, 14-12, 11-4, 11-8; Nina Mittleham (Ger) bt Reeth Rishya 11-8, 11-3, 9-11, 11-8, 11-5

Doubles: Manika Batra & Archana Kamath bt Dora Madarasz & Georgina Pota (Hun) 11-5, 11-6, 11-7.

Mixed Doubles

Nikhil Kumar & Amy Wang (USA) bt Manav Thakkar & Archana Kamath 6-11, 11-9, 11-5, 5-11, 11-9.

-Team Sportstar

SWIMMING

India wins three gold medals at Speedo Long Course Meet

India finished with three gold and three bronze medals at the two-day Speedo Long Course meet held at Hamdan, Dubai on May 20-21.

Astha Choudhary picked gold in both 100m and 200m Butterfly events. She finished overall runner-up in Girls 16 and above category in 50m Butterfly.

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Shivangi Sarma won gold in the 50m Freestyle and bronze in the 100m Freestyle event.

Mahi Swetraj clinched bronze in the 50m and 100m Freestyle events.

-Team Sportstar

TENNIS

French Open: Ankita Raina reaches second round of qualifying

Ankita Raina progressed to the second round of qualifying at the French Open on Tuesday.

The Indian beat local wildcard Emeline Dartron 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 in two hours and 48 minutes.

Raina will next face Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima.

-Team Sportstar

National sub-junior championship: Arnav Paparkar reaches third round

Qualifier Arnav Paparkar knocked out third-seeded Arjun Rathi 6-4, 6-2 in the boys’ second round of the Ramesh Desai Memorial National sub-junior tennis tournament at the KDLTA Complex on Tuesday.

Results (second round):

Boys: Dhiraj Reddy bt Sreenivas Kurapati 6-4, 6-3; Praneel Sharma bt Rahul Lokesh 6-2, 6-3; Gandharv Kothapalli bt Nithik Sivakumar 6-1, 6-3; Aashravya Mehra bt Ayaz Aahil 6-2, 6-2; Samarth Sahita bt Advik Natekar 6-4, 6-0; Ranvir Singh bt Srikar Done 6-3, 1-6, 6-0; Sriniketh Kannan bt V Thirumurugan 6-3, 7-5; Arnav Paparkar bt Arjun Rathi 6-4, 6-2.

Girls: Sejjal Bhutada bt Pal Upadhyay 6-4, 6-2; Nainika Bendram bt Krishna Raj 6-2, 6-2; Janvi Asawa bt Arzan Khorakiwala 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Yuki-Saketh pair reaches quarterfinals in Lyon

Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni beat Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 7-6(4), 3-6, [10-8] in the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the ATP 250 tennis tournament in Lyon, France.

The Indian pair will play third seeds Nicolas Mahut and Matwe Middelkoop in the quarterfinals.

In the $15,000 ITF men’s tennis event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dev Javia beat third seed Kris Van Wyk of South Africa 3-6, 7-5, 7-5.

The results:

ATP250, Lyon, France

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yuki Bhambri & Saketh Myneni bt Juan Sebastian Cabal & Robert Farah (Col) 7-6(4), 3-6, [10-8].

€ 73,000 Challenger, Skopje, Macedonia

Singles (first round): Sumit Nagal bt Benjamin Hasssan (Lib) 6-1, 6-3

Qualifying singles (second and final round): Sumit bt Bogdan Bobrov 6-0, 6-2; First round: Sumit bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3, 6-3

$15,000 ITF men, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Singles (first round): Parth Aggarwal bt Dylan Salton (RSA) 6-4, 6-4; Alec Beckley (RSA) bt Ishaque Eqbal 7-5, 5-7, 6-3; Dev Javia bt Kris Van Wyk (RSA) 3-6, 7-5, 7-5; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Yabets Kebede (Eth) 6-0, 6-3; SD Prajwal Dev bt Denis Spiridon (Ita) 6-0, 4-1 (retired); Rishab Agarwal bt Guy Orly Iradukunda (Bdi) 6-3, 7-5; Digvijay Pratap Singh bt Abdella Nedim Mohammed (Eth) 6-4, 6-2; Karan Singh bt Jonathan Baron (Isr) 7-5, 6-4; Chirag Duhan bt Rafael Ymer (Swe) 6-3, 6-4.

$25,000 ITF women, Goyang, Korea

Singles (first round): Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Ya-Hsuan Lee (Tpe) 6-4, 6-4.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Vaidehi & Liu Fangzhou (Chn) bt Back Dayeon & lee Eunhye (Kor) 6-4, 7-6(4).

$25,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia

Singles (first round): Taylah Preston (Aus) bt Tanisha Kashyap 6-1, 7-5.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Lamis Aziz (Egy) & Sharmada Balu bt Huang Yifei & Xu Jiayu (Chn) 6-2, 6-1.

-Team Sportstar

KHELO INDIA UNIVERSITY GAMES

While the third edition of the Khelo India University Games will officially kick off from Thursday, competitive action began on Tuesday with kabaddi games at the SVSP Sports Complex, Gautam Buddha Nagar.

Four matches were played – two each in men and women -- with Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya University, Bilaspur losing 28-41 to Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University, Jind in the women’s opening game. The other women’s games saw HP University, Shimla beat HCY University, Durg 51–29.

Among the men, Adamas University, Kolkata suffered injuries to two players early on before losing 29-35 to Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo while Kota University won 28-23 against SRM University, Chennai.

The KIUG is expected to see more than 4000 athletes representing over 200 universities in 21 disciplines.

- Uthra Ganesan