Indian sports news wrap, June 13

Catch the major updates and results from Indian sports on June 13.

Representative Image: Rajasthan’s Bhavesh Shekhawat won the men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event at the on-going 21st Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championship. | Photo Credit: REUTERS

Chennai

SHOOTING

Bhavesh Shekhawat wins in Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial

Rajasthan’s Bhavesh Shekhawat won the men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (RFP) event, at the on-going 21 ^st Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial (KSSM) Shooting Championship (Pistol), being held at the M.P. State Shooting Academy ranges in Bhopal.

The India international shooter had to get into a shoot-off twice with second placed Udhayveer Sidhu of Punjab, after both had tied with 26-hits in the 40-shot final.

Both Bhavesh and Udhayveer got four-hits in the first shoot-off series, before the former shot four yet again in the second series to claim the title, as the Punjab lad managed three. Delhi’s Arpit Goel won bronze in the Olympic event with a score of 21.

Sahil Dudhane of Maharashtra won the junior men’s RFP with a score of 28 in the final. Udhayveer was second again, this time with 25 hits while state-mate Jagvijay Partap Singh Sekhon was third.

Neeraj, Amrinder Singh and Ranjith KM also won the RFP team gold for their Army Marksmanship Unit, with a total of 1692, five points better than silver-winning CISF’s 1687.

The results:

25m rapid fire pistol: Men: 1. Bhavesh Shekhawat 26(8) 584; 2. Udhayeer Sidhu 26(7) 576; 3. Arpit Goel 21.

Junior men: 1. Sahil Dudhane 28 (569); 2. Udhayveer Sidhu 25 (576); 3. Jagvijay Sekhon 20 (568).

Rajasthan all the way at M.P. State Shooting Academy

In what was quite a remarkable day for Rajasthan Shooters as besides Bhavesh’s feat, Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Karttiki Singh Shaktawat, also led on day one of the Skeet competitions, being held at the same venue as part of the 4 ^th Shotgun National Selection Trials.

Anantjeet shot a three-round score of 72, to be ahead of Atul Singh Rajawat on countback in Men’s Skeet. In the Women’s Skeet, Karttiki also had the exact same result, this time over India number one Ganemat Sekhon of Punjab.

Gujarat’s Zahra Mufaddal Deesawala and the host state’s Atul Singh Rajawat were leading the junior women’s and men’s Skeet with scores of 70 and 72 respectively.

The Skeet Shooters come back on Tuesday for their final two rounds of qualification, before the top six move to the final.

-Team Sportstar

Shaktawat, Sekhon lead women’s skeet charts at National Shotgun selection trials

Karttiki Shaktawat matched World Cup silver medallist Ganemat Sekhon as the two led with 72 out of 75, in women’s skeet on the opening day of the fourth National shotgun selection trials at the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal on Tuesday.

Zahra Mufaddal Deesawala was third with 70, ahead of Areeba Khan, Maheshwari Chauhan and Raiza Dhillon who had all shot 69.

World Cup bronze medallist Darshna Rathore was not at her best, and was in the 10th place among 15 with 64.

In men’s skeet, Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Atul Singh Rajawat were in joint lead with 72, one point ahead of Bhavtegh Ssingh Gill, Karn Vikram Singh and Arjun Thakur.

Abhay Singh Sekhon was in the sixth place with 70, a point ahead of Olympian Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Gurjoat Khangura.

Two more rounds will be followed by the final for the top-six.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

FOOTBALL

SAFF Championship: Online ticket sales to commence on June 14

Online ticket sales for the SAFF Championship to be played in Bengaluru at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium from June 21 to July 4 will commence on June 14.

Tickets will be sold exclusively through Paytm Insider.

- Team Sportstar

TENNIS

Bopanna-Ebden pair reaches Stuttgart quarterfinals

Rohan Bopanna, seeded No.1 with Matthew Ebden, cruised into the doubles quarterfinals with a 6-0, 6-3 victory over Romain Arneodo and Gregoire Barrere in the ATP250 tennis tournament on grass in Stuttgart, Germany.

In the €225,480 WTA event, Ankita Raina was beaten in the second and final qualifying round 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 by fifth seed Emina Bektas of the USA. Ankita collected €1,804 and 12 WTA points.

RESULTS

ATP250 Stuttgart, Germany

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rohan Bopanna & Matthew Ebden (Aus) bt Romain Arneodo (Mon) & Gregoire Barrere (Fra) 6-0, 6-3.

WTA250 ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Qualifying singles (second and final round): Emina Bektas (USA) bt Ankita Raina 6-3, 5-7, 6-3; First round: Ankita bt Ellen Perez (Aus) 6-3, 7-5.

€118,000 Challenger, Bratislava, Slovakia

Singles (first round): Zsombbor Piros (Hun) bt Sumit Nagal 6-2, 7-5.

$15,000 ITF men, Chieti, Italy

Singles (first round): Rushil Khosla bt Alberto Morolli (Ita) 6-2, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF men, Monastir, Tunisia

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Alexander Merino (Per) & Christoph Negritu (Ger) bt Madhwin Kamath & Dharmil Shah 6-4, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF men, Tehran, Iran

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jagmeet Singh & Karan Singh bt Filip Duda (Cze) & Gabriele Pennaforti (Ita) 6-7(4), 7-6(7), [12-10]; Yash Chaurasia & Ishaque Eqbal bt Erik Arutiunian & Daniel Ibragiov 7-6(5), 2-6, [10-8]; Egor Agafonov & Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) bt Artiom Dorofeev (Fra) & Tushar Madan 7-5, 5-7, [10-7].

$15,000 ITF men, Jakarta, Indonesia

Singles (first round):Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Tomislav Papac (Aus) 6-4, 6-2.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Siddhant Banthia & Sai Karteek Reddy bt Chirag Duhan & Sidharth Rawat 4-6, 6-4, [10-5]; Nitin Kumar Sinha & Vishnu Vardhan bt Raghav Jaisinghani & Manish Sureshkumar 6-7(5), 6-4, [10-4]; Timmy Karpinski & Matthew Woerndle (Auss) bt Bharath Kumaran & Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF women, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand

Singles (first round): Haruna Arakawa (Jpn) bt Vaishnavi Adkar 6-3, 6-4.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Haruna Arakawa & Natsuho Arakawa (Jpn) bt Vaishnavi Adkar & Akanksha Nitture 6-1, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia

Singles (first round): Llya Fernandez (Mex) bt Ishwari Matere 6-1, 6-0.

- Team Sportstar

National School Games: Tirth, Anjali win singles titles

Tirth Doshi beat top seed Deepam Malik 8-6 in the under-19 boys final of the National School Games tennis championship in New Delhi.

The Gujarat boy, Tirth had earlier beaten the second seed Azmeer Shaikh 7-6(3) in the semifinals.

In the girls final, Anjali Rathi of Haryana outplayed Sanya Khan 8-0.

- Team Sportstar