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Ravi Kumar headed to camp Russia before Worlds
Olympic silver medalist Ravi Kumar Dahiya will train at the Russian wrestling center Vladikavkaz ahead of the World Championships scheduled to be held in Belgrade, Serbia next month.
The 24-year-old will be accompanied by his coach Arun Kumar, partner Sahil and physiotherapist Munish Kumar in the 29-day camp, fully funded by the Union Sports Department in the Podium Program Target Olympic Lecturer (TOPS), said the statement on Wednesday.
Ravi, also a World bronze medalist, was banned from a special training camp in Bulgaria in addition to competing in Bulgaria, Turkey and Mongolia ahead of the Commonwealth Games. commonwealth. He won the gold medal in the 57kg class at the Sports Festival.
– YB Sarangi
World U-20 wrestling: Indians win 4 bronze medals
Four Indian wrestlers Abhishek Dhaka (57kg), Sujeet Kumar (65kg), Mulayam Yadav (70kg) and Niraj (97kg) won bronze in the men’s freestyle at the Under-20 Wrestling Championships. world age in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Mahendra Gaikwad (125kg) secured another medal by reaching the title clash. Mohit Kumar (61kg) and Sagar Jaglan (74kg) will compete for bronze.
-YB Sarangi
TAKE A SHOT
National selection test
Shooting India will join another round of super activities with two National Selection Tests scheduled at Karni Singh Range in Tughlakabad and Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal, for pistol and rifle events respectively .
Tests scheduled to last until the end of the month will help finalize the national team for the World Championships to be held in Cairo, Egypt, from October 12-25.
With 32 Olympic slots offered for the Paris Games in the World Championships, four each in the eight Olympic Games for men and women, Indian shooter will once again train himself to pursue its Olympic goals.
Bhopal will have his first final on Thursday in the men’s 3 position rifle event. This was followed by the women’s air rifle events and the women’s 3 rifle poses. The men’s airgun tests will be over.
In handguns, the first final will be in the rapid-fire pistol event on August 20, followed by the air pistol final in the afternoon. After men’s airguns and rapid-fire pistols, there will be women’s sports pistols, then women’s air pistols.
Center shot pistol, standard pistol and freestyle pistol, which are non-Olympic events without finals, will also be held concurrently.
Selected shooters will have a World Championship prep camp to ensure a strong start to India’s campaign in the new Olympic cycle.
The pistol team has been selected for the World Championships in Osijek, Crotia, and will have prep camp next month.
GOLF
Tvesa Malik returns to Spain in search of form
Indian golfer Tvesa Malik will be eager to get back in shape as he flourishes at the Aramco Series – Sotogrande in Spain.
Tvesa, who came close to achieving his first win in Finland last year when he finished second at the Gant Ladies Open, is yet to claim a Top 10 spot in 2022.
She made only six cuts in 17 starts. Her best was the T-26 in the individual category of the Aramco Series – Bangkok. She’s on a four-miss streak in the last four events, so she’ll be desperate to end that bad run.
World No 3 Nelly Korda and her sister Jessica, currently ranked 14th, will top this elite golf tournament to compete.
Nelly is the current Olympic champion, having won Japan in 2020 and has since won the 2021 women’s PGA championship, her first win in a ‘major tournament’.
On the other hand, her eldest brother, Jessica, has scored six LPGA Tour victories and placed second in this year’s Chevron Championship.
Other international stars competing at La Reserva Club Sotogrande include Anna Nordqvist and Sophia Popov, two of the three most recent winners of the AIG Women’s British Open.
Linnea Strom of Sweden who has fond memories of the first Aramco Team Series Tournament – Sotogrande, where she and her teammates finished second after losing a playoff match to Team Buhai.
Strom, a two-time Epson Tour winner, has chosen Italy’s Virginia Elena Carta, whom she has known since her younger days, as her partner. The third specialist on the team will be rookie Alexandra Swayne, from the US Virgin Islands.
The team competition took place across 36 openings and watched as the captain picked a player at the pre-event draft, where she was also allotted one pro and another amateur.
The two best scores for each hole are counted in the race for the top prize from a total prize fund of $500,000.
Add another $500,000 for the individual tournament, which runs concurrently and ends on the third and final day.
-PTI
TENNIS
Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan scored 2-6, 7-6 (3), [10-8] victory over Boris Arias and Federico Zeballos in the quarterfinals of the Challenger tennis tournament worth €67,960 in Poland.
In the $25,000 ITF women’s event in Aldershot, England, Ankita Raina defeated Andre Lukosiute 6-4, 6-2 in the first round.
Result:
Challenger $159,360, Vancouver, Canada
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Yuki Bhambri & Saketh Myneni bt Ruben Bemelmans & Zizou Bergs (Bel) 6-4, 2-6, [10-5].
€67,960 Challenger, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Sriram Balaji & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Boris Arias & Federico Zeballos (Bol) 2-6, 7-6 (3), [10-8].
15,000 USD Men ITF, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (1st half): Riccardo Mascarini (Ita) bt Tushar Madan 6-2, 6-0;
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Maximus Jones (Tha) & Kazuma Kawachi (Jpn) bt Nicolas Alviani (Esp) & Yash Chaurasia 7-5, 6-4; Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha bt Mohamed Ali Abibsi (Alg) & Yuichiro Inui (Jpn) 6-4, 6-3.
15,000 USD male ITF, Jakarta, Indonesia
Singles (1st round): SD Prajwal Dev bt Gunawan Trismuwantara (Ina) 6-0, 6-0; Moerani Bouzige (Aus) beat Lohithaksha Bathrinath 6-1, 1-0 (retired); Manish Sureshkumar bt Krittin Koaykul (Tha) 7-5, 6-0; Mitsuki Leong (Mas) beat Rishi Reddy 6-1, 6-4.
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Park Uisung & Son Ji Hoon (Kor) bt Takuya Kumasaka (Jpn) & Shashank Theertha 6-3, 6-2.
15,000 USD Men ITF, Memphis, USA
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Sathi Reddy Chirala & Vijay Sundar Prashanth vs Roberto Guimaraes & Seth Richey (USA) 6-2, 6-3.
15,000 USD Men ITF, Anseong, South Korea
Singles (1st round): Adil Kalyanpur bt Kim Hyeong Don (Kor) 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3;
$25,000 ITF Women, Ourense, Spain
Singles (1st half): Rutuja Bhosale bt Sowjanya Bavisetti 6-2, 6-2.
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Nahia Berecoechea (Fra) & Sowjanya
Bavisetti bt Ofer Kivity & Keren More (Isr) 6-2, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF Women, Aldershot, UK
Singles (1st round): Ankita Raina bt Andre Lukosiute (Ltu) 6-4, 6-2; En-Shuo Liang (Tpe) beat Humera Baharmus 6-0, 6-1.
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Erika Sema (Jpn) & Ranah Akua Stoiber (GBR) bt Brittany Collens (USA) & Humera Baharmus 6-3, 6-0.
15,000 USD female ITF, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (1st round): Jennifer Luikham bt Feryel Ben Hassen (Tun) 6-3, 6-1; Anastasia Iamachkine (Per) bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 2-0 (retired).
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Anastasia Kovaleva & Hanna Vinahradava bt Che Yujiao (Chn) & Tanisha Kashyap 7-5, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF Women, Egypt
Singles (1st half): Sanjana Sirimalla bt Aglaya Fedorova 0-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5.
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Ekaterina Kuznetsova & Kundali Majgaine bt Bianca Barbulescu & Alexandra Iordacha 6-4, 4-6, [10-7].
