The main developments from the world of sports activities on August 3 the place Indians took half are as follows:
Basketball
Eudrick’s three-point present goes in useless as Navy enters remaining
Eudrick Perera’s three-point present went in useless as Indian Navy defeated Kochi’s Central GST and Customs 70-61 and entered the ultimate of the CBC all-India basketball match on the SB College indoor stadium right here on Thursday.
Former worldwide Eudrick hoisted 5 threes whereas his Central GST teammate Abhin Sabu made 4 however Navy, which constructed up a robust 21-4 lead within the first quarter, gained the match. For Navy, Mahipal Singh, Mandeep Singh and Lalith had been in tremendous type.
The outcome (semifinal)
Indian Navy, Lonavala 70 (Mahipal Singh 16, Mandeep Singh 15, Lalith 15, Gaurav Chandel 10) bt Central GST and Customs, Kochi 61 (Abhin Sabu 19, Eudrick Perera 18, Vaishak 12).
Stan Rayan
Archery
World Archery Championships: Fine day for Indian archers
Indian compound archers had one other tremendous day with 4 of them reaching the person occasions’ quarterfinals and preserving medal hopes alive within the World archery championships in Berlin on Thursday.
Sixth-ranked Ojas Deotale within the males’s part and three ladies, second-placed V. Jyothi Surekha, sixth-seeded Aditi Swami and Parneet Kaur, entered the final eight. Since Parneet will tackle Jyothi Surekha within the quarterfinals, India is assured of not less than one place within the semifinals.
In extraordinarily windy situations, the Indian recurve archers couldn’t make an affect. Second-seeded B.Dhiraj and Simranjeet Kaur had been one of the best performers amongst women and men. Both exited within the pre-quarterfinals.
High efficiency director Sanjeeva Singh mentioned Dhiraj and Simranjeet would possibly safe particular person quota locations for the Paris Olympics as a number of archers within the top-16 would qualify by means of staff quota. Top-eight finishes of Indian women and men groups would additionally enhance their rankings and qualification probabilities.
Results
Individual: Men: 2-B. Dhiraj obtained two byes, bt Matheus Zwick Ely (Bra) 6-4, misplaced to Ricardo Soto (Chi) 4-6 (pre-QF); Mrinal Chauhan misplaced to Senna Roos (Ned) 4-6; Tushar Shelke bt Nakanishi Junya 6-4, misplaced to Mete Gazoz 0-6.
Women: Ankita Bhakat misplaced to Ku Nurin Afiqah Ku Ruzaini (Mal) 2-6; Bhajan Kaur bt Ane Marcelle Dos Santos (Bra) 6-2, misplaced to Elia Canales (Spn) 1-7; Simranjeet Kaur bt Dobromira Danailova (Bul) 6-5 (10-8), bt Lisa Barbelin (Fra) 6-4, bt Natalia Lesniak (Pol) 6-4, misplaced to Kang Chae Young (Kor) 0-6 (pre-QF).
Compound: Men: 6-Ojas Deotale obtained two byes, bt Federico Pagnoni (Ita) 136-135, bt Mohammad Ashikuzzaman (Ban) 144-138 to achieve QF; 14-Prathamesh Jawkar bt Miguel Becerra (Mex) 140-137, misplaced to Mario Vavro (Cro) 143-143 (Shoot-off: 10*-10, shot nearer to centre); Abhishek Verma misplaced to Sil Pater (Ned) 132-140.
Women: 2-V.Jyothi Surekha obtained two byes, bt Liko Arreola (USA) 139-136, bt Oh Yoohyun (Kor) 148-145 to achieve QF; 6-Aditi Swami obtained two byes, bt Chen Yi-Hsuan (Tpe) 141-130, bt Alejandra Usquiano (Col) 144-140 to achieve QF; Parneet Kaur obtained a bye, bt Jennifer Walter (Ger) 141-137, bt So Chaewon (Kor) 147-145, bt Mariya Shkolna (Lux) 145-145 (Shoot-off: 10*-10, shot nearer to centre) to achieve QF.
YB Sarangi
Tennis
Sumit Nagal loses to Gomez
Fourth seed Sumit Nagal was crushed 6-4, 6-2 by qualifier Federico Gomez of Argentina within the pre-quarterfinals of the €73,000 Challenger tennis match in Liberec, Czech Republic, on Thursday.
The outcomes
€145,000 Challenger, Porto, Portugal
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rithvik Bollipalli & Arjun Kadhe bt Jaime Faria & Henrique Rocha (Por) 3-6, 6-1, [10-7].
€73,000 Challenger, Liberec, Czech Republic
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Federico Gomez (Arg) bt Sumit Nagal 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Vit Kopriva & Jaroslav Pospisil (Cze) bt Jonas Forejtek (Cze) & Sumit Nagal 6-4, 5-7, [15-13].
$80,000 Challenger, Lexington, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Blake Ellis & Tristan Schoolkate (Aus) bt Purav Raja & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3, 6-4.
$25,000 ITF males, Astana, Kazakhstan
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Shuichi Sekiguchi (Jpn) bt SD Prajjwal Dev 6-7(5), 7-5, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF males, Raanana, Israel
Singles (quarterfinals): Jordan Hasson (Isr) bt Rishab Agarwal 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Caloundra, Australia
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Thomas Gadecki & Sam Oster (Aus) bt Nishant Dabas & Ryotaro Matsumura (Jpn) 4-6, 7-6(6), [10-8].
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Omar Brigida (Ita) bt Manas Dhamne 6-3, 6-4.
$60,000 ITF ladies, Lexington, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Alexis Blokhina & Ava Markham (USA) bt Chieh-Yu Hsu (Tpe) & Sahaja Yamalapalli 3-6, 6-1, [12-10].
$25,000 ITF ladies, Foxhills, Britain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Naho Sato & Eri Shimizu (Jpn) bt Humera Baharmus & Madison Frahn (Aus) 6-0, 6-1; Destanee Aiava (Aus) & Rutujja Bhosale bt Jjulie Belgraver (Fra) & Olivia Lincher (Pol) 6-3, 6-1.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Astana, Kazakhstan
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Polina Leykina bt Vaidehi Chaudhari 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Edda Mamedova & Saumya Vig 6-3, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Tbilisi, Georgia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Daria Frayman (Cyp) bt Riya Bhatia 6-4, 6-2; Esther Vyrlan (USA) bt Tanisha Kashyap 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Riya Bhatia & Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Lara Pfeifer (Ita) & Marijja Semenistaja (Lat) 6-0, 6-2.
Kamesh Srinivasan
Athletics
Tejaswin Shankar finishes joint-sixth, Poorva enters remaining
High jumper Tejaswin Shankar, with 2.15m, completed joint sixth on the World University Games in Chengdu on Thursday.
Shankar, the nationwide file holder with 2.29m, who certified for the ultimate with 2.20m, cleared all of the heights until 2.15m in his first try however failed on the subsequent peak, 2.20m. Ukraine’s Vladyslay Lavskyi took the gold with 2.25m whereas three athletes shared the bronze with 2.20m. Shankar shared the sixth place with two others.
Meanwhile, Asian champion Jyothi Yarraji topped her 100m hurdles warmth in 13.12s and breezed into the semifinal. Prasanti Sahu, the opposite Indian within the occasion, was fifth in her warmth in 13.75 and crashed out.
Yamandeep Sharma and Stalin Joes Stephen completed eighth and 10 th within the decathlon whereas nationwide record-holder Amlan Borgohain certified for the 200m semifinal after profitable his warmth in 21.00s and Poorva Sawant (12.81m, 7 th in qual. group) and progressed to the ladies’s triple leap remaining.
The huge disappointment was Tanya Chaudhary, who certified for the subsequent month’s Asian Games with a private finest 63.16m on the latest Inter-State Nationals the place she took the silver, may solely handle 54.27m and bowed out after ending seventh within the qualification spherical.
The outcomes (gold medallists & Indian performances in finals)
Men: 400m: 1. Ricardo Coelho (Por) 44.79s. 1500m: 1. Robert Benoit (Fra) 3:38.61s.
3000m steeple chase: 1. Christian Mergenthaler (Ger) 8:38.42s. High leap: 1.Vladyslay Lavskyi (Ukr) 2.25m, 6. Tejaswin Shankar (Ind) 2.15. Triple leap: 1. Su Wen (Chn) 17.01m. Decathlon: 1. Vilem Strasky (Cze) 7925 pts; 8. Yamandeep Sharma (Ind) 6897 pts, 10. Stalin Joes Stephen (Ind) 6393.
Women: 400m: 1. Marlie Viljoen (RSA) 52.38s. 800m: 1. Laura Pellicoro (Ita) 2:04.20s. 400m hurdles: 1. Alice Muraro (Ita) 55.48s. Javelin throw: 1. Eda Tugsuz (Tur) 59.05m
Stan Rayan
