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Listed here are all the important thing updates from November 23, Thursday:
Anahat Singh wins senior nationwide championships
15-year-old Anahat Singh gained the ladies’s singles title on the senior nationwide squash championships, after prime seed Tanvi Khanna needed to retire from the ultimate attributable to an damage.
Anahat is the youngest to win the title since 2000, when Joshna Chinappa turned the nationwide champion, aged 14. Earlier this yr, Anahat had gained two bronze medals on the Hangzhou Asian Video games – one within the girls’s group occasion and one within the blended doubles partnering Abhay Singh.
Ganemat Sekhon finishes fifth at ISSF World Cup Last
Ganemat Sekhon completed fifth within the girls’s skeet ultimate on the season-ending ISSF World Cup Last in Doha. The Indian was eradicated after 30 pictures, of which she hit solely 23.
Earlier, she had equaled the nationwide document rating of 120 once more. She topped the qualification spherical of the competitors, the place solely the highest 15 shooters of the yr compete. This outcome meant that India’s look forward to a medal on the season-ending occasion will proceed, into tomorrow, with Anish Bhanwala nonetheless competing for a spot within the 25m pistol ultimate.
Inaugural Khelo India Para Video games introduced
The inaugural Khelo India Para Video games shall be held in Delhi from December 10-17, Sports activities Minister Anurag Thakur introduced on Thursday.
There shall be 1350 athletes from 32 states and Union Territories competing in seven disciplines. The disciplines are para athletics, para taking pictures, para archery, para soccer, para badminton, para desk tennis, and para weightlifting.
The occasions shall be held throughout three SAI stadiums — the IG Stadium, Taking pictures Vary in Tughlaqabad and the JLN Stadium.
Hangzhou Asian Para Video games stars Sheetal Devi, Bhavina Patel, Ekta Bhyan, Neeraj Yadav, Singhraj, Manish, Sonal, Rakesh Kumar and Sarita are anticipated to signify their respective states within the Para Video games.
Prannoy advances at China Masters
In additional optimistic information from badminton, HS Prannoy can be via to the quarterfinals of the China Masters Tremendous 750. The eighth seed beat Denmark’s Magnus Johannesen 21-12, 21-18, a simple win after being stretched all to the decider by Chou Tien Chen on Tuesday within the first spherical.
He is the final Indian standing in singles after Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Priyanshu Rajawat and Akarshi Kahsyap misplaced within the first spherical. Subsequent up, he’ll face the winner of Kodai Naraoka vs Anders Antonsen – that ought to be a cracker quarterfinal conflict.
What Arsene Wenger needs for Indian soccer
On the ultimate day of Wenger’s go to to India, he held a press convention together with the AIFF president Kalyan Chaubey in Mumbai concerning the newly launched AIFF-FIFA Academy. Our correspondent Zenia D’cunha was there and this is what was mentioned about their objectives for Indians soccer:
Arsene Wenger, in his time as coach, has seen the event of many a younger expertise right into a footballing star. Now, as FIFA’s chief of World Soccer Growth, he’s working in the direction of laying the inspiration for the same growth in Indian soccer.
The primary concrete step was the launch of the first-ever AIFF-FIFA Expertise Academy in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday, which is aimed toward maximizing the potential of Indian soccer by focussing on high quality training – for the gamers and coaches – at an early stage at dwelling. Wenger is main the group from FIFA, eight of whom will keep again to information the grassroots growth in India.
Learn extra: No magic wand: With first AIFF-FIFA Academy, Wenger needs to maximise Indian soccer’s potential
Sat-Chi sail at China Masters
There’s excellent news from badminton early on, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advance on the China Masters Tremendous 750.
The highest seeds beat Akira Koga and Taichi Saito of Japan 21-15, 21-16 within the second spherical, to sail via to the quarterfinals.
This can be a good run for the Indians after early exits on the French Open and Japan Masters within the latest previous. They’re the highest seeds right here after reaching the world No 1 spot after the Asian Video games however fell down the rankings to world No 5 after the 2 early exits and lacking Denmark Open. (Word: the attracts had been made upfront, which suggests they maintain the highest seed place)
What’s in retailer at this time ?
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Extra motion from badminton on the China Masters, the place Satwik-Chirag and Prannoy are the one Indians to advance to the second spherical.
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India proceed their quest for a primary medal at this yr’s ISSF World Cup ultimate, the season-ending taking pictures occasion the place the highest 15 compete.
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Cricket is again and it is India vs Australia once more after the World Cup ultimate on Sunday, this time within the T20I format.
What occurred yesterday?
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A not so good day for India on the China Masters, as Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Priyanshu Rajawat and the Panda sisters misplaced within the first spherical.
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Within the aftermath of India shedding 3-0 to Qatar, our correspondent Sunaadh Sagar wrote on how Igor Stimac’s assertion about not taking the AFC Asian Cup critically is fraught with issues.
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Elavenil Valarivan completed seventh within the girls’s 10m air rifle on the the season ending ISSF World Cup ultimate
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Hriday Hazarika completed sixth within the males’s 10m air rifle on the the season ending ISSF World Cup ultimate
You’ll be able to examine all the main points of Wednesday’s information occasions right here.