TABLE TENNIS
India’s star paddler Sharath Kamal remained calm as he dealt with the boisterous crowd on the airport when he touched down in Chennai. His exploits on the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham - 3 gold, 1 silver - attracted reporters, desk tennis officers, and representatives of the PSBB Group of Faculties - his alma mater - amongst others in giant numbers.
The 40-year-old, who can also be a 10-time nationwide champion, stated: “Tamil Nadu is among the best states with regards to framing insurance policies for sports activities. It isn't that we've got schemes just for established sportspersons. We now have schemes for upcoming and proficient sportspersons just like the Champions Improvement Scheme and Mission Worldwide Medal Scheme.
“We even have 3 per cent sports activities quota recruitment [in government departments and public sector undertakings (PSUs). It would be great if we have more stadiums, which is the need of the hour It would also be great if sports is taught at a young age.”
TENNIS
Canadian Open: Sania Mirza beats top seeds
Sania Miirza and Madison Keys knocked out the top seeds Veronika Kudermetova and Elsie Mertens 3-6, 6-4, [10-8] within the pre-quarterfinals of the $2,527,250 WTA tennis match in Toronto.
Whereas the highest seeds had a bye within the first spherical in a doubles draw of 32, Sania and Keys have been higher ready with a primary spherical in opposition to Alize Cornet and Jil Teichmann.
Within the $25,000 ITF ladies’s occasion in Kazakhstan, qualifier Ashmitha Easwaramurthi reached the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Sofia Vaynberg.
The outcomes:
$2,527,250 ATP, Toronto, Canada Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Madison Keys (US) & Sania Mirza bt Veronika Kudermetova & Elise Mertens (Bel) 3-6, 6-4, [10-8].
$53,120 Challenger, Chicago, US Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yuki Bhambri & Saketh Myneni bt Luke Saville & Jordan Thompson (Aus) 4-6, 6-3, [14-12].
€ 45,730 Challenger, Meerbusch, Germany Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jonas Forejtek (Cze) & Sumit Nagal bt Adrian Andreev (Bul) & Alexey Vatutin 6-0, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Sasikumar Mukund bt Masamichi Imamura (Jpn) 6-4, 6-3; Yuta Shimizu (Jpnn) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 7-6(1); SD Prajwal Dev bt Kento Takeuchi (Jpn) 6-2, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Ust-Kamenogorsk, KazakhstanSingles (pre-quarterfinals): Daria Kudashova bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(9); Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Sofia Vaynberg 6-4, 6-3.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Parnu, Estonia Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Elena Mmalygina (Est) bt Zeel Desai 6-3, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Naho Sato (Jpn) bt Jennifer Luikham 6-2, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Cairo, Egypt Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Elena Pridankina bt Kundali Majgaine 6-1, 6-1; First spherical: Kundali bt Nathalie Mokhtar (Egy) 6-2, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
SQUASH
Anahat beats Van Riet within the World Junior Squash Championships 2022
After getting bye in 1st spherical, Anahat Singh outplayed Marie Van Riet of Belgium 11-1,11-3,11-4 in 2nd spherical match of girls’s singles class at WSF World Juniors 2022.
In one other match, Aishwarya Khubchandani beat Maiden-Lee Coe of New Zealand 11-2, 11-0, 11-4.
Indian outcomes
Males: Aryan Pratap Singh bt Tom Marshall (NZ) 12-10, 8-11, 11-8, 7-11, 11-6, Yuvraj Wadhwani bt Nero Harms (SWI) 11-7, 11-7, 11-5, Arnaav Sareen bt Nicholas Verwey (GUY) 11-1, 12-10, 11-5, Krishna Mishra
Ladies: Shameena Riaz bt Anabel Romero Gemmell (NZ) 11-8 11-6 11-3, Pooja Arthi Raghu misplaced to Spring Ma (CAN) 11-8, 14-16, 5-11, 11-6, 11th of September, Yuvna Gupta bt Sofie Hausknotzová (CZR) 11-5 11-5 11-5
GOLF
India teen golfer Avani Prashanth reaches spherical eight in Scotland
Golfer Avani Prashanth's progress on the Royal and Historic's Ladies Novice championships right here continued as she scored her largest win within the Spherical of 16.
The 15-year-old beat the Dutch woman Fleur Van Bleek 5&4 to progress into the quarterfinals.
Earlier within the Spherical of 32, she beat Italian Rebecca Galasso 3&2.
She's going to now meet England’s Rachel Gourley, who beat Spain’s Martina Lopez-Lanchares 2-Up.
Avani, enjoying on a Hyperlinks Golf Course for less than the third time, got here by means of to the Matchplay section after ending within the High 64 from a subject of 144 gamers.
With simply the topper, Paula Martin Sampedro scoring 2-under for the 2 rounds, all different scores have been over par on the notoriously robust Par-71, which can also be an Open venue.
Avani shot 74-76 as she completed 14th and made the matchplay stage on the Carnoustie Golf membership, thought of the fourth hardest Golf course on the planet.
Other than Avani, the occasion had one other Indian, Zara Anand (82-82), however she obtained eradicated with the highest 64 out of 144 making the matchplay stage, which is a knockout format.
Avani had been enjoying in a collection of occasions exterior India as she seeks to realize extra expertise.
Since Could, she has performed within the Queen Sirikit Cup in Singapore, the Ladies’s Novice in Scotland, and the Amundi German Masters in Germany on the Women European Tour, which is an expert Tour.
She took half within the R&A Junior occasion the place she completed at T-21 and took part within the European Women Amateurs as nicely.
-PTI
