India's highest-ranked Indian squash player Joshna Chinappa won back-to-back titles when she defeated Asian junior champion Wee Wern of Malaysia in straight games to clinch the NSC Super Satellite Series crown at the National Squash Centre, Bukit Jalil, on Friday afternoon. Joshna, ranked 39 in the world, played a tactical game to beat Wern 11-8, 11-7, 11-7 for her second title inside a week.
All but one of its players entered the third round in the Asian Junior Badminton Championships' singles.
Manu Bhaker claimed the gold medal in the women's 10am air pistol, while birthday boy Deepak Kumar gifted himself a bronze medal in men's 10m air rifle at the 14th Asian Championship.
India registered a no-medal day for the first time in the tournament. Even though Rhythm topped qualification with her 595, teammates Esha Singh and Manu shot 582 and 578 respectively to finish at 13th and 27th positions.
Aditi and Akshay Maliwal are mentoring young sports athletes from Asia to get through to top US universities.
The camp getting underway in Bengaluru on Sunday will conclude on September 18.
The Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) sought world body's intervention after it failed to secure visas for its team which is set to take part in the World Junior Squash Championship to be held in India next month.
The 19-year-old Panghal put up a dominant show in the 53kg category, winning all her bouts without much fuss.
The Grandmaster suffered a shocking defeat in the 2nd round of 43rd National 'A' chess championship.
The Junior Cricket Committee has picked India A squad for the upcoming ACC Men's Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2023 to be played from July 13th to 23rd in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
Eating 'tasteless' supplements, undergoing breathing exercises and yoga is not something a teenager would love to do daily but that is the routine of shooter Ramita Jindal who has emerged as a star for India in the Asian Games.
Asian junior girls champion Mary Ann Gomes made a stride forward for the gold medal after defeating Maria Ignacz of Hungary in the sixth round of the Under-18 section of World youth girls' chess championship in Antalya
The Pakistan Boxing Federation lambasted the country's interior ministry for their lethargic attitude
Pistol aces Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu bagged a bronze each to continue India's medal charge at the 10th Asian Championship 10m Rifle/Pistol in Wako City.
He defeated Arun Prasad at the 43rd National 'A' chess championship.
Deepan Chakravarthy secured his final norm after an exciting draw with defending champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly
Bajrang Punia claimed that Yogeshwar Dutt had several times asked him to lose matches on purpose in the past.
Second seed Krishnan Sasikiran was held to a draw by Oliver Barbosa of the Philippines in the first round of the ongoing Asian Individual Chess Championship in Mashhad, Iran. Fresh from his exploits in the Dubai International Open, where he finished second, Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi scored a thumping victory over Lou Yiping of China to start on a positive note.
Antim Panghal along with several other wrestlers were out on the streets to protest against IOA ad-hoc panel's "unfair" decision to exempt Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat from the Asian Games trials.
The Chennai collegian beat her team mate to take sole lead in the girls' section at the Asian junior chess championships.
Rising Indian midfielder Manpreet Singh was named the 'Junior Player of the Year' by the Asian Hockey Federation in its Congress held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Indian Grandmaster beat Evegeny Gleizerov in the ninth and final round in the Masters section of Abu Dhabi Chess Festival.
India was deprived of at least three medals at the Asian Cross Country Championships in Bahrain due to an apparent goof-up by the Athletics Federation of India which did not field the required number of participants to be considered for team standings. India fielded three athletes each in senior men, senior women, junior men and junior women categories in the championships and except in case of the first, the country should have won a team bronze each in the remaining three as they secured the third highest aggregate points. But strangely, India did not get any medal in the championships held in Manama. Sources told PTI this was due to the reason that each country was to field four runners in each event though only the top three would be considered for counting of aggregate points for team results. India fielded only three runners in each event. Points are counted according to the position of each runner like one point for the winner, two for the second-place finisher and three for the third. The team which gets the lowest aggregate point will get the gold and so on.
The Indian GM beat over compatriot WGM Nisha Mohota in the first round of the Masters' section in Abu Dhabi chess festival.
India's Lakshya Sen won his second successive BWF World Tour Super 100 title with a thrilling victory over China's Weng Hong Yang in the final of the SaarLorLux Open, in Saarbrucken, Germany, on Sunday.
Indian hockey had something to cheer about. Poonam Rani struck twice as India scored an upset victory over higher-ranked China 4-2 in their opening match of the third Asian Women Champions Trophy hockey tournament at Kakamigahara, Japan on Saturday.
Former Indian badminton ace Prakash Padukone will play in the the Legends Badminton Masters Reunion in Jakarta on Saturday.
Diwakar Prasad Singh beat her in the 13th round of the 43rd National 'A' chess championship.
They scored contrasting victories in the 8th round of the Asian Junior chess championships.
The India IM shares the lead with four others after the sixth round in the Asian Junior chess championship.
Indian judokas bagged two silver and three bronze in the Asian Youth and Junior Championships held in Chinese Taipei.
The result put the Indian Grandmaster in joint-third position after the seventh round in the Masters section of 14th Abu Dhabi chess festival.
The Asian Cricket Council only wanted to send Under-19 teams.
The 22-year-old tied for first place in the US $180,000 33rd World Open, in Philadelphia.
India have done reasonably well in the quadrennial continental event, only twice finishing outside the top eight since hosting the first Asiad in 1951.
Ragala Venkat Rahul won three gold medals to help India increase their medals tally to seven on the second day of the 14th Asian Youth (boys & girls') Weightlifting Championships at Yangon, Myanmar, on Friday. Competing in the 77 kg category, Rahul secured the yellow metal in snatch, clean and jerk and overall with a total lift of 280 kg.
The duo completed an Indian sweep winning the boy's and girl's event respectively of the Asian Junior Tennis Championship.
Udai Tambar, an Indian-origin CEO involved in youth development services in the US, is among 15 experts appointed as members of the newly-formed racial justice advisory board in New York City.
Joshna Chinappa beat Hong Kong's Annie Au to retain the women's title while Saurav Ghosal was outplayed by Amir Atlas Khan of Pakistan in the men's final of the 12th Asian Junior Squash championship.
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