Bhanwala dedicated the medal to his personal coach Harpreet Singh.
Greek second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Chilean qualifier Cristian Garin to reach the fourth round of the Miami Open.
The 20-year-old Aldrin had failed to qualify for the final round in the World Championships in Eugene (USA) in July, finishing 20th overall in the qualification round with a jump of 7.78m.
Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu clinched hard-fought wins in their first round matches at Indian Wells.
Grigor Dimitrov dispatched American 10th seed Frances Tiafoe in straight sets with a convincing 6-2 6-3 6-2 victory on Sunday.
The Australian won a tour-leading five titles this year including her second Grand Slam.
Chilean Taekwondo player Fernanda Aguirre, Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs and Czech TT player Pavel Sirucek were forced to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics and placed in quarantine.
World champion and season leader Anderson Peters of Grenada won the competition with a best throw of 90.31m which he came up with in this third attempt.
Neeraj Chopra began his quest for a World Championships gold medal with a false start in the men's javelin throw final in Eugen, Oregon, on Saturday. India's other contestant in the final Rohit Yadav had a throw a 77.95 metres.
In both the matches, Sathiyan staged a strong fightback after losing the first two games.
Italian 10th seed Jannik Sinner stunned world number one Carlos Alcaraz 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-2 in an epic Miami Open semi-final duel on Friday, as Petra Kvitova set up a meeting with Elena Rybakina in the women's championship match.
A round-up of all tennis action on Friday.
Winning the gold at the World Championships in August and breaching the magical 90m mark are Neeraj Chopra's targets this year.
Next up for the 35-year-old will be another American in 39th-ranked Tommy Paul with a potential semi-final clash against top-seeded Russian Daniil Medvedev, who he defeated in the Australian Open final from a two-sets deficit.
Glimpses from Tomsk in Russia, Prague in the Czech Republic and Brighton in England.
Chopra had set a new national record of 89.94m, just 6cm shy of the 90m mark, the gold standard in the world of javelin throw, at the prestigious Diamond League in Stockholm last month en route to a silver medal.
Japan's Naomi Osaka crashed out of the French Open in a 7-5, 6-4 first-round loss
The tournament, staged in 11 cities across Europe, will feature 24 of the best teams from June 12.
The 71-year-old, who has battled with cancer over the last year, concluded his third spell as the Netherlands coach with their penalty shootout loss and will be replaced by Ronald Koeman.
The Australian Open champion never faced a break point and used her hard and accurate serve to dispatch Gauff.
Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra returned to winning ways in the men's javelin following his silver at the World Championships last month. His effort of 89.08 metres with his first throw was enough for gold at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on Friday.
In the second round, Anand lost the first of the two-game mini-match to Rapport with black pieces. The second game ended in a draw with the Indian playing with white pieces.
World number one Ash Barty became the first Australian woman to win the Wimbledon singles title for 41 years on Saturday when she defeated Czech Karolina Pliskova in the final.
Serbian Dusan Lajovic beat Andy Murray at the Miami Open on Wednesday, sending the Briton packing in the first round with his first hardcourt win of the season.
The dominant Czech duo of Katerina Siniakova and Barbora Krejcikova rallied to beat Caty McNally and Taylor Townsend 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the US Open final on Sunday and collect their third Grand Slam doubles title of the year and sixth overall.
Marie Bouzkova has withdrawn from the French Open before her second-round match after she reported that she has tested positive for COVID-19
Raducanu was bundled out of the French Open in the second round
Carlos Alcaraz downed Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 6-4 to book an Indian Wells semi-final place
A round-up of all tennis action on Saturday.
Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra expects to breach the coveted 90m mark this year but doesn't want to think about "distance" going into the World Athletics Championships, in Eugene, United States.
A title match requires months of preparation and pulling out of other events, putting together a team of seconds, etc. Carlsen just says he lacks the motivation to do this again.
Krawczyk and Skupski became the first pair to successfully defend the mixed doubles title at the All England Club since Czech brother-sister duo Cyril Suk and Helena Sukova in 1997.
Former world No. 1 Saina, who missed a lot of tournaments last year due to multiple injuries, moved to the second round after her opponent, Czech Republic's Tereza Svabikova, suffered a back injury and retired mid-way while trailing 20-22, 0-1 in an opening round match.
As the tournament gets to the next round here's look at the quarter-finalists.
Indian Olympic Association's directive notwithstanding, champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra's participation in the upcoming National Games looks doubtful, as he is coming off a groin injury and a gruelling season.
Azarenka, who sits on the eight-person WTA players council, said that combating abuse was the group's top priority.
Paralympic medallist Singhraj Adhana won two gold medals on the final day as India produced their best-ever performance at the Para Shooting World Cup, finishing with 10 medals in Munich.
The first gold medal of the competition went to Italy's Danilo Sollazzo in the men's 10m Air Rifle, beating Slovakia's Patrik Jany 16-14. Jani is a Tokyo Olympics finalist. Czech Republic's Jiri Privratsky won bronze.
With two defeats from their opening two games, the Danes are now only two wins from improbable glory.
'I think it's (pressure) maybe because I haven't played in an Olympics before and for the first one to be here was a bit much.'
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