SHOOTING
India's women pistol shooters make it five out of five wins at Suhl Junior World Cup
The Indian team of Esha Singh, Rhythm Sangwan and Manu Bhaker outplayed Germany 16-2 to clinch the team gold in 25-metre sports pistol in the Junior World Cup shooting in Suhl, Germany, on Tuesday.
In 50-metre rifle 3-position mixed team event, Pankaj Mukheja and Sift Kaur Samra were beaten 16-12 in the gold match by Michal Chojnowski and Julia Ewa Piotrowska of Poland.
In the women’s team competition in the 50-metre rifle 3-position event, the trio of Nischal, Ashi Chouksey and Sift Kaur Samra could manage the bronze behind Germany and Poland.
India took its tally to 11 gold, 13 silver and four bronze, for a total of 28 medals. The second best team was Italy with four gold and five bronze, while Poland, US and France had two gold medals each, apart from other medals.
In junior women’s skeet, Parinaaz Dhaliwal made the semifinals with a score of 109, but missed the medal by two points.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Sania Mirza in quarterfinals of Strasbourg 2022
Top seeds Sania Mirza and Lucie Hradecka overcame a hard start to beat Lyudmyla Kichenok & Tereza Mihalikova 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 in the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the € 203,024 WTA tennis tournament in France on Tuesday.
In the quarterfinals, the Indo-Czech pair will play Nadiia Kichenok and Raluca Olaru.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Sumit Nagal bows out of French Open qualifiers
Sumit Nagal was knocked out of the French Open qualifiers after a straight-sets loss in the opening round on Tuesday.
Nagal lost 2-6, 2-6 to Argentine Pedro Cachin in 63 minutes.
Ramkumar Ramanathan is the only Indian left in singles and takes on French wildcard Sean Cuenin in the second round on Wednesday.
- Nihit Sachdeva
Priyansh reaches Asian U-16 quarterfinals
Priyansh Barthwal fought his way Yash Panchaxari 3-6, 7-6(13) 6-0 in the boys pre-quarterfinals of the Asian under-16 tennis tournament at the Modern School courts, Barakhamba Road, on Tuesday.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ARCHERY - Abhishek, Avneet top among Indians
Abhishek Verma and Avneet Kaur topped among the Indian men and women compound archers in individual ranking rounds of the Archery World Cup Stage-2 at Gwangju, Korea, on Tuesday.
Abhishek totaled 709 points to place third in the overall rankings. He was followed by Aman Saini (702, 13th), Rajat Chauhan (698, 31st) and Mohan Bhardwaj (694, 42nd).
Avneet collected 689 points to take the 14 spot. She was followed by Muskan Kirar (689, 15th), Priya Gurjar (675, 35th) and Ragini Marko (673, 38th).
The Indian men’s team was fourth with 2109 points, while the women’s team was fifth with 2053 points.
The mixed team took the sixth position with 1398 points.
- Y.B. Sarangi
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BADMINTON - Ashmita, Malvika enter main draw of Thailand Open
Indian shuttlers Ashmita Chaliha and Malvika Bansod entered the women's singles main draw at the Thailand Open Super 500 tournament here on Tuesday.
While Ashmita beat USA's Jennie Gai 21-16, 21-18, Malvika defeated fellow Indian Anupama Upadhyaya 21-18, 21-8 in their respective opening round matches.
However, it was curtains for Thomas Cup winner Priyanshu Rajawat, Kiran George and Subhankar Dey as they failed to cross the second qualification round. Priyanshu, who had made it to the Thomas Cup squad after topping the selection trials, disposed off France's Christo Popov 21-17, 21-16 in his opening qualification round, only to go down 10-21, 24-22, 12-21 to China's Li Shi Feng.
Kiran, Odisha Open champion, beat Denmark's Victor Svendsen 21-19, 13-21, 21-13 before losing 17-21, 21-14, 16-21 to Germany's Kai Schaefer, while Subhankar defeated France's Arnaud Merkle 21-16, 17-21, 21-17 but suffered a narrow 14-21, 21-18, 7-21 loss to Denmark's Mads Christophersen.
Kidambi Srikanth, B Sai Praneeth and other Indians will start their campaign on Wednesday.
- PTI
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