Anaka Alankamony bagged India's lone gold medal at the Asian Junior Squash championship, while Dipika Pallikal and Mahesh Mangaonkar settled for silver after losing their respective finals in Busan on Sunday. Anaka, the top seeded Indian, beat Hong Kong's Ho Ka Po 9-6, 9-6, 9-5 in the girls under-15 category final to clinch her eighth international title.
The Indian squash contingent on Thursday assured its best ever showing at the Asian Games in Incheon by reaching the men's and women's team semi-finals, ensuring it returns home with medals in all four categories on offer.
Joshna beat second seed Dipika Pallikal in the women's final while Ghosal downed Maharashtra's Siddharth Suchde in the men's.
The top 16 seeds in the men's section sailed into the second round, evens as the women side saw a few upsets in the 55th Senior ICL National Squash Championships.
Chasing a third successive Asian Games medal, Indian boxer Vikas Krishan (75kg) made a strong start, out-punching Pakistan's Tanveer Ahmed in his pre-quarterfinal bout in Jakarta, on Monday.
Malaysia's Nicol David celebrates her ninth year as world squash No 1 this week.
'The message has gone loud and clear (among the people of Assam) that the BJP is only interested in polarising (the country) and they are basically interested in (capturing votes in) the Hindi heartland and they don't bother much about rest of India.'
According to the Chief Minister, Pallikal will receive a government 'high cash incentive' of Rs 60 lakh for winning two silver medals, while Chinnappa and Ghosal will get Rs 30 lakh each for their respective single silver medals.
'Sreesanth bhai is playing the game well.'
Veteran goalkeeper Helen Mary Innocent has pulled out due to personal reasons.
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Sourav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa won the men's and women's titles respectively at the 54th National squash championships.
The Indian men's team however was beaten 2-0 by Pakistan in the team final at the South Asian Games.
India's Saurav Ghosal caused a major upset when he beat higher-ranked Tarek Momen of Egypt to enter the quarter-finals of the PSA Windy City Open squash tournament.
Delhi's Gaurav Nandrajog clinched the men's title after top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya conceded the final because of a knee injury.
Joshna Chinappa, the world number two junior trounced Tanya Ananda (Mayo) 9-0, 9-0, 9-1 on Saturday.
J N Biswal, deputy general manager, sales, IISCO, said that his daughter Dipika Dipanjali, a student of Class X, was missing since the morning of January 31, when she went out for a walk near the house.
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A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
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Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on the seventh day of the Asian Games on Saturday.
India's campaign in the Asian Games gymnastics ended, on Friday, without a medal after Dipa Karmakar finished fifth in the women's balance beam event final in Jakarta.
The eight players picked for the Asian Games have been training without a full-time coach and most of them don't train regularly with Kumari and Poncha, who has been a longtime national coach.
'Sreesanth creates unnecessary drama.' 'I request viewers to help him get out of the house.'
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India's schedule on Day 1 of competition at the Asian Games in Incheon.
Dinesh Karthik acknowledged that he has an onerous task of replacing a very successful Gautam Gambhir but asserted that he has it in him to steer Kolkata Knight Riders to at least the IPL Play-offs and get the best out of his side.
Joshna Chinappa held off a fighting Dipika Pallikal 13-15, 12-10, 11-13, 11-4, 11-4 in 78 minutes to win her biggest title till date.
India's 572 athletes hope to return home with an overflowing treasure chest of medals.
Senior players Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa lost their matches against Joey Chan and Annie Au, 1-3 and 0-3, respectively. Sunayna Kuruvilla, who is Pallikal's cousin, kept India in the hunt with a fighting win over Tze Lok Ho in the second singles.
India bagged two medals in Kurash, a form of wrestling indigenous to central Asia, with Pincky Balhara and Malaprabha Yallappa Jadhav winning silver and bronze respectively
Joshna Chinappa continued her impressive run to reach the quarter-finals of the $115,000 Qatar Classic squash tournament in Doha on Monday.
On the last day of the competition, Yash Vardhan and Shreya Agrawal bagged three gold medals each.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Tennis star Leander Paes and badminton player-turned-coach Pullela Gopichand were selected for the prestigious Padma Bhushan awards while cricketer Yuvraj Singh was among the seven sportspersons chosen for this year's Padma Shri award.
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Joshana Chinappa registered one of the biggest upsets of the PSA World Tour season as she stunned World No 1 Raneem El Welily of Egypt in the first round of the Qatar Classic Squash Championship, in Doha, on Saturday.
The experienced Ghosal, seeded second in the tournament and ranked 30th in the world, needed just 43 minutes to thrash the 10th-seeded Malhotra. Ghosal kept his rival on the run with an array of shots and dominated the proceedings.
The head of the World Squash Federation (WSF) said he was devastated for the sport's millions of followers after squash was again overlooked for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
