Indian sports news wrap, April 14

Here are all the major updates in Indian sports on April 14.

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Karan Pratap Singh jumped four places to second at the PGTI Players Championship in Chandigarh. | Photo Credit: AFP

GOLF

Jamal Hossain stays on top, India’s Karan Pratap Singh in second position at PGTI Championship in Chandigarh

India’s Karan Pratap Singh, the runner-up in Noida last week, continued his fine form by posting the day’s best score of 68 and moving up four spots to second position at eight-under 208 in the PGTI Players Championship on Friday.

Bangladesh’s Jamal Hossain maintained his two-shot lead after signing for a steady three-under 69 in round three of the Rs. 1 crore event.

Dhaka’s Jamal (70-67-69), the overnight leader by two shots, was thus well-placed for a shot at his fourth PGTI title as his total moved to 10-under 206.

Chandigarh’s Harendra Gupta (70) kept local hopes alive as he closed the day in tied third place at seven-under 209 along with Delhi’s Kapil Kumar (69) and Greater Noida’s Arjun Sharma (70).

The Chandigarh duo of Jairaj Singh Sandhu (68) and Angad Cheema (71) were also inside the top-10. While southpaw Jairaj matched the day’s best of 68 to be tied sixth at six-under 210, Angad was in tied eighth place at five-under 211.

Faridabad’s Abhinav Lohan was the third player to shoot a 68, the day’s lowest, on Friday. He too was tied for eighth.

-PTI

TENNIS

Yuki and Saketh lose quarterfinals

Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni were beaten 6-2, 6-4 by Dustin Brown and Tim Sandkaulen in the doubles quarterfinals of the $160,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Sarasota, USA.

The results:

$160,000 Challenger, Sarasota, USA: Doubles (quarterfinals): Dustin Brown (Jam) & Tim Sandkaulen (Ger) bt Yuki Bhambri & Saketh Myneni 6-2, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia: Doubles (quarterfinals): Naima Karamoko (Sui) & Nina Radovanovic (Fra) bt Jennifer luikham & Julia Stamatova (Bul) 6-4, 6-2.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

AITA Championship series juniors: Top seed Rubani outplays Vanshika

Top seed Rubani Kaur Sidhu outplayed Vanshika Yadav 6-0, 6-0 to win the girls under-16 title in the AITA Championship series junior tennis tournament at the CLTA Stadium on Friday.

The results (finals)

Boys

Under-18: Aashravya Mehra bt Amtya Ohlyan 4-0 (conceded).

Under-16: Sukukh Marya bt Devansh Parajuli 6-7(2), 6-2, 6-1.

Girls

Under-18: Vanya Arora bt Bhumi Kakkar 6-1, 6-2.

Under-16: Rubani Kaur Sidhu bt Vanshika Yadav 6-0, 6-0.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Clean sweep for Korea in Asian under-14 tournament

Top seed Womin Kim of Korea beat Shivtej Shirfule 6-1, 6-0 in the boys final of the Asian under-14 tennis tournament at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Friday.

It was a Korean sweep yet again, as Yeri Hong won the girls title, beating Eva Korysheva of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-0.

The results (finals):

Boys (final): Womin Kim (Kor) bt Shivtej Shirfule 6-1, 6-0; Third place: Alex Lap Hang hui (Hkg) bt Abubakar Talha (Pak) 6-1, 6-3.

Doubles (final): Min Hyuk Cho & Womin Kim 9Kor) bt Ryu Kotikula & Dharma Pantaratorn (Tha) 6-3, 6-4.

Girls (final): Yeri Hong (Kor) bt Eva Korysheva (Kaz) 6-3, 6-0; Third place: Jiyun Oh (Kor) bt Maaya Rajeshwaran 6-4, 7-5.

Doubles (final): Eva Korysheva & Yerkezhan Zhantayeva (Kaz) bt Ilima Guseynova (Tkm) & Emily Kim (Uzb) 6-1, 6-2.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Billie Jean King Cup: Ankita loses to Japan’s Uchijima

Ankita Raina played hard but could not stop Japan from registering a 3-0 victory in the league match of the Asia-Oceania Billie Jean King Cup women’s tennis tournament in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Friday.

Ankita went down fighting 2-6, 7-5, 3-6 to the 136th ranked Uchijima.

Japan was comfortably on top of the table among the six teams, competing on a round robin format. China beat Thailand 3-0 to keep its qualification aspirations alive after having been shocked by Korea earlier.

India will play Korea in the last league match. Having beaten Thailand and Uzbekistan, India stays safe in the group, and would be playing for pride against Korea, which has a slightly better record in terms of sets and games.

The results (league)

Japan bt India 3-0 (Mai Hontama bt Rutuja Bhosale 6-1, 6-0; Moyuka Uchijima bt Ankita Raina 6-2, 5-7, 6-3; Shuko Aoyama & Eri Hozumi bt Vaidehi Chaudhari & Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-3, 6-4).

-Kamesh Srinivasan

SHOOTING

National selection trials: Former World No 1 Divyansh tops men’s air rifle; Anantjeet tops men’s skeet

Olympian and former world No.1 Divyansh Singh Panwar was in brilliant form as he outclassed the field to top men’s air rifle in the fourth National shooting selection trials at the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal on Friday.

Divyansh beat Surya Pratap Singh Banshtu 16-12 for the top spot. The real significance of his effort was in shooting an incredible 636.3 in qualification with a series of 107.3, 105.6, 106.8, 104.7, 106.7, 105.2. He was 4.2 point better than the second-best Sri Karthik Sabari Raj.

In the women’s 50-metre rifle 3-position event, Sift Kaur Samra topped with a thumping 16-4 victory over Olympian Anjum Moudgil.

In men’s 25-metre rapid-fire pistol, Vijayveer Sidhu was a class act as he beat Adarsh Singh 30-24 after having topped qualification with 584. Olympic silver medallist Vijay Kumar had to settle for third place.

Anantjeet Singh Naruka beat Gurjoat Singh Khangura 39-37 to top men’s skeet in the third National shotgun selection trials at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, on Friday.

Both Anantjeet and Gurjoat topped qualification with 123. Olympian Angad Vir Singh Bajwa climbed to the third spot ahead of Olympian and World Cup gold medallist Mairaj Ahmad Khan.

In the women’s section, Ganemat Sekhon was on top, as she beat Darshna Rathore 37-32, after having finished second in qualification, one point behind Parinaaz Dhaliwal (119).

The result

Men

10m air rifle: 1. Divyansh Singh Panwar 16 (265.0) 636.0; 2. Surya Pratap Singh Banshtu 12 (262.7) 630.0; 3. Samarvir Singh 261.6 (631.2); 4. Sandeep 261.1 (630.1).

Junior men: 1. Abhinav Shaw 16 (261.8) 629.0; 2. Parth Mane 8 (262.5) 631.0; 3. Srinjoy Datta 261.3 (628.2); 4. Pratham Bhadana 259.3 (630.3).

25m rapid fire pistol: 1. Vijayveer Sidhu 30 (15) 584; 2. Adarsh Singh 24 (18) 578; 3. Vijay Kumar 17 (13) 578; 4. Anirudh Singh Rana 12 (12) 577.

Junior men: 1. Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu 29 (15) 568; 2. Sameer Ghulia 28 (15) 581; 3. Mahesh Anandakumar 17 (10) 575; 4. Harsimar Singh Rattha 9 (10) 568.

Women

50m rifle 3-position: 1. Sift Kaur Samra 16 (404.6) 587; 2. Anjum Moudgil 4 (404.5) 583; 3. Tejaswini Sawant 400.2 (586); 4. Gaayathri Nithyanandam 399.4 (583).

Junior women: 1. Nikita Kundu 16 (398.2) 576; 2. Mahit Sandhu 2 (393.8) 578; 3. Melvina Angeline 390.2 (579); 4. Anushka Thokur 389.0 (568).

Skeet results

Men

1. Anantjeet Singh Naruka 39 (27) 123; 2. Gurjoat Singh Khangura 37 (27) 123; 3. Angad Vir Singh Bajwa 27 (29) 119; 4. Mairaj Ahmad Khan 17 (28) 117.

Junior men: 1. Bhavtegh Singh Gill 118; 2. Munek Battula 116; 3. Gurfateh Singh Sandhu 115.

Women

1. Ganemat Sekhon 37 (29) 118; 2. Darshna Rathore 32 (25) 110; 3. Parinaaz Dhaliwal 25 (24) 119; 4. Maheshwari Chauhan 16 (24) 115.

Junior women: 1. Raiza Dhillon 116; 2. Sanjana Sood 109; 3. Venkat Lakshmi Lakku 108.

-Kamesh Srinivasan