The main developments from the world of sports activities on August 2 the place Indians took half are as follows:
TENNIS
WTA tennis match: Ankita Raina beats Barbora Strycova
Lucky loser Ankita Raina beat former world No.16 Barbora Strycova 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 within the first spherical of the $259,303 WTA tennis match in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday.
In the pre-quarterfinals, Ankita will problem fourth seed Linda Noskova of the Czech Republic.
The outcomes:
$946,975 ATP, Los Cabos, Mexico
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Santiago Gonzalez (Mex) & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Fra) bt Yuki Bhambri & Ben Mclachlan (Jpn) 6-3, 6-3; Dieg Hidalgo (Ecu) & Cristian Rodriguez (Col) bt Sriram Balaji & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-7(4), 6-4, [10-0].
$259,303 WTA, Prague, Czech Republic
Singles (first spherical): Ankita Raina bt Barbora Strycova (Cze) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
€145,000 Challenger, Porto, Portugal
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Niki Poonacha & Divij Sharan bt Aleksandr Braynin (Ukr) & Denis Yevseyev (Kaz) 6-3, 3-6, [10-5].
€73,000 Challenger, Liberec, Czech Republic
Singles (first spherical): Sumit Nagal bt Andrew Paulson (Cze) 6-0, 7-6(5).
$25,000 ITF males, Bolzano, Italy
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Giovanni Oradini & Nicolo Pozzani (Ita) bt Stefano D’Agostino (Ita) & Rushil Khosla 7-6(3), 6-2.
$25,000 ITF males, Astana, Kazakhstan
Singles (first spherical): Alexander Zgirovsky bt Karan Singh 6-2, 4-6, 6-3; SD Prajwal Dev bt Siddhant Banthia 6-4, 2-6, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Raanana, Israel
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Rishab Agarwal bt Roi Ginat (Isr) 6-3, 6-4.
$25,000 ITF girls, Foxhills, Britain
Singles (first spherical): Gabbriella Fick (Aus) bt Humera Baharmus 2-6, 7-5, 7-6(3).
$25,000 ITF girls, Astana, Kazakhstan
Singles (first spherical): Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Sonja Zhiyenbayeva (Ger) 6-4, 6-1; Haruna Arakawa (Jpn) bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty 6-4, 0-6, 6-2; Kira Pavlova bt Prathyusha Rachapudi 6-0, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Tbilisi, Georgia
Singles (first spherical): Riya Bhatia bt Lulia Ludenko 6-1, 6-0; Nino Natsvlishvili (Geo) bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-2, 6-3; Tanisha Kashyap bt Nina Rudiukova 6-1, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Zeel Desai bt Nour Gueblaoui (Tun) 6-0, 6-0.
ATHLETICS
World University Games – Bhavani picks bronze in girls’s lengthy soar
Bhavani Devi of India after profitable bronze in girls’s lengthy soar occasion.
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Bhavani Devi of India after profitable bronze in girls’s lengthy soar occasion.
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Bhavani Yadav introduced India its first medal in athletics, a bronze in girls’s lengthy soar with a last-round 6.32m, on the World University Games in Chengdu on Wednesday.
Bhavani, with a private better of 6.44m, had completed third on the inter-State Nationals in Bhubaneswar in June.
Meanwhile, Samardeep Singh Gill (17.84m) completed sixth in males’s shot put whereas Nirbhay Singh (53.91m) was eighth in males’s discus throw and Pradeep Kumar and Rohit Kumar completed thirteenth and 14th in males’s 10,000m.
Avanti Narale was sixth within the girls’s 100m semifinal in 11.70s and did not enter the ultimate whereas Laxita Sandilea (2:10.50s) completed eighth in girls’s 800m heats and did not progress additional. In the ladies’s 400m hurdles, Dhivya Jayaram crashed out after ending eighth (1:01.24s) within the semifinal.
The outcomes (gold medallists & Indian performances in finals):
Men: 100m: 1. Dwayne Kadrian Goldson (Jam) 10.04s.
10,000m: 1. Dismas Yeko (Uga) 28:59.25s; 13. Pradeep Kumar (Ind) 31:32.40s, 14. Rohit Kumar (Ind) 34:03.75.
Discus throw: 1. Oskar Stachnik (Pol) 63.00m; 8. Nirbhay Singh (Ind) 53.91s, Hari Behera (no mark).
Shot put: 1. Konrad Bukowiecki (Pol) 20.23m, 6. Samardeep Singh Gill (Ind) 17.84, 10. Sahib Singh (Ind) 16.98.
Women: 100m: 1. Patrizia Weken (Lux) 11.22s,
Long soar: 1. Nikola Horowska (Pol) 6.60m, 3. B. Bhavani Yadav (Ind) 6.32.
BASKETBALL
All-India Basketball Tournament: Navy, Income Tax, KSEB and Central GST in semifinals
Kerala Police’s Abhinandhu (No. 17) tries to thwart an try from Central GST’s Akshay within the CBC all-India basketball at Changanassery on Wednesday.
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Kerala Police’s Abhinandhu (No. 17) tries to thwart an try from Central GST’s Akshay within the CBC all-India basketball at Changanassery on Wednesday.
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Indian Navy, Chennai’s Income Tax, Thiruvananthapuram’s, KSEB and Kochi’s Central GST and Customs entered the lads’s semifinals of the CBC all-India basketball match on the SB College indoor stadium right here. Central GST defeated Kerala Police 83-80 in an extra-time thriller on Wednesday whereas Navy breezed previous Changanassery’s St. Berchmans College 93-55 on Tuesday evening and confirmed their semifinal berths.
The outcomes (league):
Central GST & Customs, Kochi 83 (Vaisak 26, Joshua Sunil Oommen 16) bt Kerala Police, Tvm 80 (Shanzil 15, Abhinandu 15, Shiraz 14).
Tuesday’s late match: Indian Navy, Lonavala 93 (Lalith 18, Gourav Chandal 16, Vivek Goti 11, A.J. Thomas 10) bt SB College, Chgy 55 (Jinu Devasia 20, Anand 16).
ARCHERY
World archery championships report)—YBS
The Indian compound girls’s staff, consisting of V.Jyothi Surekha, Aditi Swami, and Parneet Kaur, held its nerve to enter the ultimate within the World archery championships in Berlin on Wednesday.
The second-ranked Indian girls obtained a bye and beat Turkey 230-228, and Chinese Taipei 228-226 earlier than getting previous third-placed Colombia 220-216 in a intently fought semifinal. India received the primary 59-55 to seize a four-point lead earlier than tying the second 58-58. Colombia levelled the scores profitable the third 55-51 because the Indians slipped a bit. However, India received the ultimate finish 52-48 to arrange a title conflict with top-ranked Mexico.
Other Indian groups crashed out earlier than the medal rounds.
The outcomes: Team occasions:
Recurve: Men: 9-India (B. Dhiraj, Tushar Shelke, Mrinal Chauhan) bt Malaysia (Khairul Anuar Mohamad, Muhamad Zolkepeli, Muhammad Busthamin) 5-4 (28-26), bt France (Baptiste Addis, Jean-Charles Valladont, Nicolas Bernardi) 5-3, misplaced to Korea (Kim Woojin, Lee Woo Seok, Kim Je Deok) 1-5 (QF);
Women: 13-India (Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur) bt Kazakhstan (Alua Mukhtarkhanova, Alina Ilyassova, Medina Murat) 6-2, bt Ukraine (Anastasia Pavlova, Solomiya Hnyp, Veronika Marchenko) 6-0, misplaced to Netherlands (Laura van der Winkel, Quinty Roeffen, Gaby Schloesser) 2-6 (QF);
Mixed: 4-India (Ankita, Dhiraj) obtained a bye, misplaced to Italy (Tatiana Andreoli, Mauro Nespoli) 4-5 (16-17).
Compound: Men: 3-India (Ojas Deotale, Prathamesh Jawkar, Abhishek Verma) obtained a bye, bt France (Adrien Gontier, Nicolas Girard, Jean Philippe Boulch) 233-230, misplaced to Netherlands (Mike Schloesser, Jay Tjin-A-Djie, Sil Pater) 230-235 (QF);
Women: 2-India (V.Jyothi Surekha, Aditi Swami, Parneet Kaur) obtained a bye, bt Turkey (Ipek Tomruk, Hazal Burun, Irmak Yuksel) 230-228, bt Chinese Taipei (Wang Lu-Yun, Chen Yi-Hsuan, Chen Li Ju) 228-226 (QF), bt Colombia (Sara Lopez, Alejandra Usquiano, Juliana Gallego Lopez) 220-216 (SF);
Mixed: 1-India (Jyothi Surekha, Deotale) obtained a bye, bt Australia (Rhiannon Mills, Brandon Hawes) 156-152, misplaced to USA (Alex Ruiz, Sawyer Sullivan) 153-154.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com