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Capriati, Pierce sail through
British media slams Rusedski
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Lara’s
form worries Lanka ICC
flays players for issuing threats India A begin on winning note
Perez — Real Madrid’s hero and villain
India snatch draw from jaws of defeat Ganguly settles for a draw Prakash in final Alisha, Navjot in last four 4 Haryana boys in volleyball squad PSA welcomes move
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Capriati, Pierce sail through London, June 26 Women’s third seed Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium also reached the third round with a 7-6 (7/2), 6-1 win over Flavia Penetta of Italy. Capriati swatted Swiss youngster Marie-Gaianeh Mikaelian 6-2, 6-1 and Canadian-born Frenchwoman Mary Pierce beat Greek 14th seed Eleni Daniilidou 6-4, 6-1 to take their places in the last 32. Largely hugging the baseline, Capriati, a semi-finalist aged just 15 on her 1991 debut and a quarter-finalist last year, won through on the seeds’ “graveyard court” of court two to a meeting with either Akiko Morigami of Japan or Karolina Sprem of Croatia. She added she had fully recovered from recent surgery for sunspots on her eyes. Canadian-born Frenchwoman Pierce, champion at Roland Garros three years ago before injuries took a hold, now plays US 24th seed Lisa Raymond, who blitzed Marlene Weingartner of Germany 6-3, 6-0. Daniilidou smacked a low forehand into the net to concede the match in 1hr 13min and leave Pierce, a quarter-finalist here in 1996, with a big grin on her face after the 28-year-old comprehensively outplayed her rival, a 20-year-old from Crete who made the fourth round last year. Pierce is determined to launch a title bid here this season having crashed in the opening round at the French Open, where aside from her 2000 triumph, she has always had a love-hate relationship with the fickle fans. Emilie Loit gave France further good news when she saw off Italy’s Maria Elena Camerin 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. Among other early winners among the women was Russian tenth seed Anastasia Myskina, who defeated ranked compatriot Lina Krasnoroutskaya 6-1, 6-4. Myskina now meets either 1994 champion Conchita Martinez of Spain, seeded 18, or Austrian Barbara Schett. Another Russian progressing was 15th seed Elena Dementieva, who bludgeoned Spain’s Arantxa Parra 6-1, 6-1. Agassi, Henman win US second seed Andre Agassi blitzed Germany’s Lars Burgsmuller 6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 in 1hr 50min to reach the third round. A rejuvenated Tim Henman put his sluggish start to the Wimbledon championships well behind him today, surging into the third round with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 win over Frenchman Michael Llodra. Nalbandian is an Argentine baseliner who has played Wimbledon just once before. However, despite his fondness for lurking at the back of the court, last year he reached the final on his debut. The burly Argentine showed he is in fine form again in southwest London, pulverising Brazil’s Andre Sa 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 on court one. Women’s second seed Kim Clijsters of Belgium moved into the third round of women’s singles yesterday with a 6-1, 6-3 win in just 56 minutes over Virginie Razzano of France. Clijsters next faces Samantha Reeves of the USA who beat Fabiola Zulaga of Colombia 7-6 (8/6), 6-4. A fiesty Shinobu Asagoe reduced Daniela Hantuchova to tears of frustration as she overcame the Slovakian ninth seed 0-6, 6-4, 12-10 with an amazing fightback in a second-round match at Wimbledon. The two players produced an exceptional display of stamina as they battled out a third set lasting 104 minutes in the 2-3/4-hour match, each raising their fist with cries of ‘come on!’ with each point won.
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Paes-Rikl duo in second round NEW DELHI:
India’s Leander Paes and his partner David Rikl of Czech Republic moved into the second round of the men’s doubles event at the Wimbledon tennis championships with a fluent straight sets victory yesterday. The fifth seed pair of Paes and Rikl defeated Spanish team Juan Ignacio Carrasco and Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-3, 6-3
,6-4 in a first round match on court 19, according to information received here. Paes and Rikl will take on Germany’s Nicolas Kiefer and David Prinosil in the second round.
— PTI
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4 Indians in
main draw New Delhi, June 26 Karan Rastogi and Somdev Verman in the boys section and Sanaa Bhambri in the girls section are the other three Indians who will be playing on the hallowed lawns of the All England Club, according to information received here today. The
Wimbledon is part of the European tour programme for the Indian teenagers sponsored by the All Indian Tennis Association. The four players had earlier this week played at the Grade I junior event at
Roehampton. Sania Mirza made it to the girls second round where she lost to home wild card Katie
O-Brien 4-6, 1-6 while the others lost in the first round of the singles
events. Rastogi and Dev Verman won the first round of the doubles matches defeating Like Campbell of Great Britain and Rok Jarc of Slovenia 6-3, 6-4.
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British
media slams Rusedski
London, June 26 Television viewers witnessed Rusedski’s outrage in yesterday’s 7-6, 7-6, 7-5 defeat after the umpire had failed to replay a point when a spectator made a line call and despite his subsequent apology, the media has condemned his actions. “Crudedski” screamed the headline on the back page of the Daily Mirror adding that the player’s four-letter tirade had dragged Wimbledon into the gutter. Admonishing the player’s behaviour, the paper’s chief sports writer Oliver Holt went on to note that it was not the first time Rusedski had been made to look foolish by some ill-judged comments. “The way Rusedski tossed away his second round match was more suited to a 13-year-old on junior club night than a supposedly top pro on Centre Court,” he wrote. “The problem with Rusedski is he’s got previous form when things do not go the way he wants them to.” “After he lost to Pete Sampras in the U.S. Open last year he said the greatest player men’s tennis has ever seen was washed up.” “Unfortunately, Sampras went on to prove to be so washed up he actually won the tournament. Way to go, big Greg.” The Sun led its coverage with an article headlined “Sad Greg Blue It” adding, “Foul-mouth Rusedski goes berserk as hot Rodd sends the red-faced Brit packing.” “Rusedski had come into the match saying he had nothing to lose. `I’m going out there to have fun,’ he promised. Well, in a way it was funny.” “Actually, it was quite hilarious. But not, I expect for Greg,” the paper noted. Under headlines such as “Rudedski”, “Greg’s Shame” and “Crying Foul” a majority of the articles slammed the outburst as an embarrassing low point of the tournament so far. However, the Telegraph’s Paul Hayward believed that Rusedski’s behaviour whitewashed over another sorry display by home-based players. “The only stunning volley British tennis could manage was one of abuse,” he wrote. “On his way to an especially abject defeat on Centre Court, Greg Rusedski let rip at the umpire with a tirade that made the John McEnroe of old sound like a cub scout.” “Rusedski’s toxic interruption concealed a deeper shame. Three days into the Wimbledon fortnight, Tim Henman is on his own.” The Times appeared to be the only newspaper prepared to offer any sort of sympathy for Rusedski. “In the end, the match was about Rusedski’s furious and passionate embracing of defeat,” it said. “He has worked through nine months of surgery, pain and rehab with this tournament in mind, knowing that, at his rare best, he has a game to win here.” “And in a few minutes of mindless fury, he chucked it away. Alas, poor Greg.” — Reuters
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Flower powers Zimbabwe win
Nottingham, June 26 Tatenda Taibu (4) then threw away his wicket before Grant Flower and Stuart Matsikenyeri rebuilt the innings. Earlier Zimbabwe skipper Heath Steak claimed his 200th one-day wicket as England were restricted to 191 for eight on a dry, cracking pitch. All rounder Andrew Flintoff top-scored with a cautious 53. England had won their last nine matches against Zimbabwe. South Africa are the other side in the tournament. England: Trescothick c Flower
b Streak 38 Solanki c Ebrahim b Streak 1 Vaughan c Taibu b Ervine 13 Key b Price 11 Flintoff c Blignaut McGrath run out 14 Clarke b Blignaut 23 Read c Brent b Blignaut 23 Johnson not out 0 Giles not out 1 Extras:
(b-2, lb-2, w-7, nb-3) 14 Total: (8 wkts, 50 overs) 191 FoW: 1-9, 2-56, 3-57, 4-104, 5-134, 6-144, 7-190, 8-190. Bowling:
Streak 9-1-30-2, Blignaut 8-0-53-2, Ervine 8-1-26-1, Friend 1-0-14-0, Price 10-2-20-1, Marillier 10-0-30-1, Flower 4-0-14-0. Zimbabwe: Marillier c Clarke b Gough 0 Ebrahim c Flintoff b Johnson 1 Friend c Clarke b Gough 5 Flower not out 96 Taibu c Solanki b Johnson 4 Matsikenyeri c Clarke Streak run out 7 Ervine not out 26 Extras:
(lb-1 w-10 nb-1) 12 Total: (6 wkts, 48 overs) 195 FoW:
1-2 2-3 3-8 4-15 5-111 6-143 Bowling: Gough 10-2-40-2, Johnson 10-1-32-3, Flintoff 10-2-24-0, Clarke 3-0-13-0, Giles 9-0-50-0, McGrath 6-0-35-0.
— AFP
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Lara’s form worries Lanka
Kingston (Jamaica), June 26 Australian Don Bradman, Englishman Walter Hammond, Pakistani Javed Miandad and Sri Lankan Marvan Atapattu are the others to have achieved the feat. Sri Lanka suffered the most in recent years from Lara who has already compiled five hundreds against them in as many Tests, including two double-centuries. Sri Lankan captain Hashan Tillakaratne conceded his bowlers need to get Lara’s wicket cheaply in order to put pressure on the West Indies in the second Test. “We have a lot of respect for Brian and he has been batting very well. He is brilliant batsman, but we’ll have to raise our bowling standards,” he said. Lara has been dominating the Sri Lankan attack since 1997 when he cracked 115 in the second Test at St Vincent. The gifted left-hander was in awesome form in the next Test series against the same opponents four years later, scoring 178, 221 and 130 in Sri Lanka to aggregate 688 in three matches. Lara again returned to haunt the Sri Lankans, cracking his 21st Test hundred in the first Test of the current series. Top off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan looked the best Sri Lankan bowler, but failed to keep pressure on the West Indian batting superstar for long spells despite grabbing five wickets. “Murali and Vaas bowled well (in the first Test), but not our back-up bowlers,” said Tillakaratne. Lara said he was happy to score runs against Muralitharan, but other batsmen needed to put in an improved performance. “It was vital for me to get runs, especially against Murali,” said Lara.
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ICC flays players for issuing threats
London, June 26 Responding to FICA’s threat that it would make negotiations on players’ contracts for future ICC tournaments more difficult, ICC Chief Executive Malcolm Speed said instead of making such threats “FICA’s leadership should be taking a step back and trying to understand why so many of the boards around the world are so vehemently opposed to it”. Angry over ICC’s refusal to add a player representative on its management committee, the Federation of International Cricketers Association (FICA), which had initially opposed the controversial players’ contracts for the 2002 Champions Trophy and 2003 World Cup, had said it would not cooperate with the ICC on similar contracts in future. “Another battle is looming,” FICA chief executive Tim May was quoted as saying in `The Australian’ newspaper. May said the ICC’s refusal to have a players’ representative on the powerful management committee showed “a complete lack of respect for players around the world”. However, Speed today ridiculed the threat and asked FICA to set its own house in order. “Clumsy attempts to threaten or undermine all countries instead of working with countries which are currently opposed to it will only succeed in alienating all countries and set its cause back even further,” Speed said. Speed claimed support for FICA had gone down and despite repeated recommendations by the ICC, a majority of the cricket boards were not ready to give it official recognition. “ICC Management has argued on many occasions during the past two years in favour of recognising FICA but, if anything, support of it has gone backwards amongst the countries since this issue was last considered in Sri Lanka last October. “FICA’s stated objective is to work with local governing bodies but it is apparent that it is not doing this effectively,” he said. “If FICA’s leaders believe that recognition by all Boards at the ICC is needed to advance the cause of players they need to ask themselves why countries with FICA-affiliated player associations are blocking this move.” Speed also claimed that the ICC had been doing enough to make players a part of decision-making process. — PTI
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Real Madrid may
play in India
Kolkata, June 26 “We have received a favourable response from the agent and though we can not say anything for certain now, it is most likely that the Spanish soccer giant during their trip to Japan and Korea will make one stop visit of India either on August 12 or 14. We have made it clear we cannot afford to spend the amount of money like Korea and Japan are doing as we do not have any sponsor and accordingly the agent will put forward a draft contract which we will go through’’, he said. “There are so many factors involved money, infrastructure and support from the soccer body’’, he added.
— UNI
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India A begin on winning note
London, June 26 Set a competitive 222 to win, India were hardly troubled as they raced to the target in just 42.3 overs with eight wickets to spare. India lost Satyajit Parab (3) early in their innings, during the opening spell from Yorkshire’s David Wigley but that was the only hiccup for the Indians. Gambhir was joined by Rohan Gavaskar, who played the anchor role in a 146-run partnership for the second wicket. Gavaskar eventually became Wigley’s second wicket of the innings — caught behind by Ismail Dawood for 41 but Gambhir by this stage was literally flying. He reached his century off 96 balls with 18 fours, and with his run-hungry captain Hemang Badani (33 not out) for company, India romped home. Rohan Gavaskar made 41 runs with five boundaries while captain Hemang Badani was not out 39. Scoreboard British Universities: R White c sub b Mishra 52, J Adams c Patel b Balaji 14, J Francis c Gavaskar b Mishra 40, E Cowan c Bhandari b Mishra 14, M Pettini b Gavaskar 34, A Loudon c and b Mishra 1, R Ferley not out 35, I Dawood run out 10, J Bishop run out 0, D Wigley st Patel b Gavaskar 6, J Tomlinson not out 0. Extras
(b-1, lb-4, w-6, nb-4) 15. Total (for 9 wkts, 50 overs) 221. Fall of wickets:
1-31, 2-98, 3-125, 4-134, 5-140, 6-200, 7-212, 8-213, 9-221. Bowling:
Balaji 7-1-26-1, Pathan 6-1-24-0, Bharadwaj 10-1-35-0, Bhandari 4-0-16-0, Mishra 10-0-41-4, Rayudu 7-0-36-0, Gavaskar 5-0-31-2, Badani 1-0-7-0. India A: S Parab lbw b Wigley 3, G Gambhir not out 128, R Gavaskar c Dawood b Wigley 41, H Badani not out 33. Extras
(b-2, lb-4, w-13) 19. Total ( 2 wkts, 42.3 overs) 224. Fall of wickets:
1-10, 2-156. Bowling: Wigley 8-0-37-2, Tomlinson 7-0-36-0, Bishop 7.3-0-41-0, Loudon 10-1-62-0, Ferley 10-1-42-0.
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Perez — Real Madrid’s hero and villain
Madrid, June 26 “This unanimous decision by the club’s board will seem hard and cruel,” Perez recognised on Tuesday. “People have said that we have no hearts.” “We are running the most prestigious sporting club in the world, though, with hundreds of millions of people behind us, and we have to take decisions with our heads, not our hearts.” Perez, head of the hugely successful construction company ACS, swept to power in Real’s presidential election in July 2000 thanks in large part to the deal he had done to sign Figo from Barcelona. He added Zidane and Ronaldo over the next two seasons and under Del Bosque the team added a ninth European Cup and another league title. For next term, Perez has already settled on Manchester United’s Beckham, with the England captain due to be presented at the Bernabeu next week. His transition will be eased by the appointment on Wednesday of Carlos Queiroz, Manchester United’s assistant manager and formerly coach of Portugal and South Africa, as Del Bosque’s replacement at Real. The titles and the transfer scoops have combined to give Perez an extraordinary level of popularity among much of the Spanish sports media and the majority of Real Madrid fans. The president has not had the best of relationships with the squad, however, particularly after taking a series of increasingly ruthless decisions in the past 12 months. The first whispers of a fall-out between club directors and the playing staff came last year, when Perez was finalising the negotiations that would bring Ronaldo to the Bernabeu. On August 30, Real Madrid won the European Super Cup with a sparkling 3-1 victory over Feyenoord. Some of the shine was taken off the victory, though, by the club’s order that Fernando Morientes could not play in case he was needed as a makeweight in the Ronaldo deal. The Ronaldo transfer went through the next day but Raul and Hierro, furious at the way Morientes had been used, came out to defend the striker in public in what was seen as a challenge to the authority of Perez and his sporting director Jorge Valdano. A plan to parade the Super Cup trophy around the Bernabeu was cancelled and Hierro, asked for his opinion on Ronaldo, offered the barbed reminder that “footballers are not merchandise”. Perez next drew the ire of the players with the timing of the Beckham signing, as news broke just a few days before the decisive final league match of the season. The players were furious that their preparations for the match were disrupted by the scores of British journalists who descended on the club’s training ground, taking the focus away from the match and harassing the players and their families. Around the same time, Del Bosque admitted to having an “intuition” that he would not be kept on as coach, while popular midfielder Guti lost patience altogether and said the arrival of Beckham effectively meant he was being forced out. The players made their feelings known in a long series of interviews during which practically all of them offered their support to Del Bosque and Guti. The rift between the team and their employers widened still further after the team had clinched the league title with their win over Athletic Bilbao. Hierro, speaking on behalf of the players, refused to lead the team out for a second lap of honour at the Bernabeu, or to speak to the media. There are undoubtedly good practical reasons for not renewing Hierro’s contract. It looked as though the years were catching up with the 35-year-old centre-back last season, particularly in the team’s Champions League semi-final defeat by Juventus. Perez insisted that the decision was not linked directly to the players’ rebellion but it was clear that Perez, uncompromising business operator that he is, could not accept the challenge to his authority. “It’s absurd to think that 14 years of history can be wiped out in two minutes,” Perez said in reference to the long-serving Hierro. — Reuters
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India snatch draw from jaws of defeat New Delhi, June 26 India squandered a 1-0 lead and were trailing 1-2 when they were reduced to nine men in the last two minutes with both captain Dhanraj Pillay and Kanwalpreet Singh being sent out. But Jugraj kept his nerve and scored seconds before the hooter to draw parity, according to information received here. Earlier, Gagan Ajit Singh gave India an early lead when he scored a field goal in the fourth minute of the match. The Indians, fresh from a successful tour of Australia earlier this month, maintained the lead till the first half, keeping the German forwards at bay. However, the defence slackened a bit in the second half and Germany were able to pump in two goals through Reneat and
Kunst. — PTI
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Ganguly
settles for a draw Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan), June 26 The last day with two sessions in the boys’ event ended with mixed trends for Indians in the 50 players championship that has 13 rounds in all. The lead position, however, changed with local hope Kadir Guseinov taking the sole first position with 5 points in his kitty. Half a point adrift of the leader is Ganguly, top seed Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov, Vugar Gashimov (both Azerbaijan), Izoria Zviad (Georgia) and Zubov. The other Indian kingpin in the fray GM P. Harikrishna took his tally to four points after drawing with Jan Werle of Poland and moved to a pack of six players following Ganguly’s group. P. Magesh Chandran suffered his second loss in the championship - going down to Vugar Gashimov of Kazakhstan.
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Prakash
in final New Delhi, June 26 The top-seeded Prakash Amritraj will meet sixth-seeded Febi Widhiyanto of Indonesia in the title clash tomorrow evening. Withiyanto had to battle it out in the hot and humid conditions to overpower Yew-Ming Si of Malaysia at 3-6, 6-4, 7-5. The quick-footed Si won the first set, and then kept pressing hard though Widhiyanto was the better player when it came to snatching the crucial points to annex the second and third sets, Albeit after a tough fight, to settle the argument. Prakash was lucky that he was through with Sunil Kumar before the heat became prickly. But nothing seems to deter Prakash these days, and Sunil Kumar, the loner in the pack, at best could only push Prakash hard, and not make him bend. With his trade mark all-court craft, with serve and volley as the key weapons, Prakash dominated the arena, as he had displaying in the past few days. Sunil dropped serve once in the first set, and twice in the second to make things easy for Prakash. Sunil was broken in the fourth game of the first set and seventh and ninth games of the second, to enable Prakash to set up another title clash. When the going was good, Sunil produced many a stunning winner, his down the line passing shots and cross-court smashes being the pick of the lot, which earned him silent appreciation even from Prakash. Barring the break, Sunil held his ground in the first set, often matching Prakash in tit-for-tat exchanges. In the second set, Sunil became error-prone, hitting the ball deep and wide, to drop serve in the seventh game, and showed a defeatist attitude in the ninth game to be broken yet again, to hasten Prakash’s victory, which materialised when Sunil committed a double fault. Down 0-30, Sunil fought back to lead 40-30 but then smashed a backhand out, and committed two double faults in a row, to bow out. In fact, Prakash too had committed two double faults in the ninth game of the first set, but managed to hold serve, and win the set. It was rather smooth-sailing for the US-based Prakash in the second set. Prakash was not very happy playing his match early in the morning, but in the end, he had no complaint, whatsoever. |
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Alisha, Navjot in last four Chandigarh, June 26 The today’s results are: Girls Under 14 (quarterfinals:):
Taruka Srivastva (UP) b. Tanya Kapoor (DLI) 6-3, 6-3; Ramneek Rihal (CHD) b. Renuka Keswani (DLI) 6-1, 6-4; Alisha Talwar (PB) b. Rishika Sunkara (DLI) 6-0, 6-1; Navjot Saini (PB) b. Anushka Kapoor (DLI) 6-4, 6-1. (Pre-quarterfinals): Taruka Srivastva (UP) W/o Karina Ahuja (WB); Tanya Kapoor (DLI) b. Garima Raj Sonkar (UP) 7-6, 3-6, 6-4; Renuka Keswani (DLI) b. Manya Nagpal (DLI) 6-1, 6-1; Ramneek Rihal (CHD) b. Garima Vatwani (DLI) 5-4 (retd.); Alisha Talwar (PB) b. Ankita Singh (CHD) 6-2, 6-1; Anushka Kapoor (DLI) b. Mehak Thakur (CHD) 6-0, 6-0; Rishika Sunkara (DLI) b. Roop Saran Rihal (CHD) 6-1, 6-3; Navjot Saini (PB) b. Qudrat Paul (CHD) 6-0, 6-0. Boys Under 14 (quarterfinals):
Kush Jagga (DLI) b. Akshat Joshi (CHD) 6-2, 6-3; Vijayant Malik (CHD) b. Manav Dhawan (PB) 6-0, 3-6, 6-0; Deepinder Singh (CHD) b. Shantanu Rajput (DLI) 6-2, 6-2; Navinder Pal Singh (CHD) b. Varun Anand (UP) 7-5, 6-1. Boys Under 14 (Pre-quarterfinals):
Girls Under 18
(quarterfinals): Isha Toor (CHD) b. Amanpreet Kaur (CHD) 6-0, 6-3; Alipt Sandhu (CHD) b. Dhanashri C. Giri (DLI) 6-1, 6-1; Nikunj Kamal (DLI) b. Garima Raj Sonkar (UP) 6-0, 6-1. Girls Under 18 (pre-quarterfinals): Amanpreet Kaur (CHD) W/o Karina Ahuja (WB); Isha Toor (CHD) b. Ujala Joshi (CHD) 6-0, 6-1; Rishika Sonkar (DLI) W/o Tanya Ahuja (WB); Alisha Talwar (PB) b. Shradha Singh 6-2, 6-1;Garima Raj Sonkar (UP) b. Tanya Kapoor (DLI) 6-3, 6-3; Nikunj Kamal (DLI) b. Anushka Kapoor (DLI) 7-5, 6-2; Alipt Sandhu (CHD) b. Ankita Singh (CHD) 6-3, 6-1; Dhanashri C. Giri (DLI) b. Navjot Saini (PB) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Boys Under 18 (quarterfinals): Jitin Bishnoi (HAR) b. Manish Gupta (UP) 6-1, 6-1; Nitish Raj (UP) b. Manjeet Singh (CHD) 6-1, 6-1; Boys Under 18 (pre-quarterfinals): Jitin Bishnoi (HAR) b. Hazary Javed (PB) 7-6(2), 6-0; Manish Gupta (UP) b. Sangoj Kapoor (CHD) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Navinder Pal Singh (CHD) b. Izreek Singh (CHD) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Vijayant Malik (CHD) b. Jay Vinod (CHD) 6-2, 6-2; Pritam Singh (CHD) b. Deepinder Singh (CHD) 6-2, 6-2; Manav Dhawan (PB) b. Rajkanwar Singh (CHD) 5-7, 6-2, 7-6(2); Manjeet Singh (CHD) b. Gaurav Singh (MP) 6-3, 6-2; 2-Nitish Raj (UP) b. Karan Patnaik (CHD) 6-3, 6-1. |
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4 Haryana boys in volleyball squad New Delhi, June 26 The team is: Rathish (captain, Uttaranchal), Rampal, Sanjay Kumar, Darshan Singh, Dinesh Singh (all Haryana), G. Pradeep and P.S. Srikanth (both Andhra Pradesh), Vikas Tomar (Delhi), Ginson Verghese (Kerala), Mukesh Kumar (Uttar Pradesh), R. Kamaraj (Uttaranchal) and Kulwant Singh (Delhi). Stand-byes: Saravanan (TN), Sube Singh, Sathish Kumar (both Haryana), Anil Kumar (AP), Krishnan Raju (AP). Officials: G.E. Sridharan (SAI coach), Bir Singh Yadav (Chandigarh) and Kanwar Ali Khan (SAI trainer), H D Krishnappa (SAI) and E Manoharan. The team will leave for Bangkok on July 2. |
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PSA welcomes move Patiala, June 26 On the persistent demand of various state sports associations, the government had formed an eight-member committee, under the chairmanship of Mr Rajdeep Singh Gill, ADGP and president of the Basketball Federation of India (BFI), to study the feasibility of bringing these games under its gradation rules. The government has accorded recognition to these nine disciplines based on the report submitted by the committee.
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