Indian sports wrap, June 24: India ensures medals in men’s, women’s doubles at Asian Squash Championships – Sportstar

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FILE PHOTO: India’s Joshana Chinappa (left) and Anahat Singh (right) progressed to the women’s doubles semifinals of the Asian Doubles Championships in Kuching, Malaysia, on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: R RAGU/THE HINDU
Asian Championships: India ensures medals in men’s, women’s doubles
India confirmed medals in both men’s and women’s doubles categories at the 2nd Asian Doubles Squash Championships, in Kuching, Malaysia, on Tuesday.
In a thrilling men’s doubles quarterfinal, Abhay Singh and Velavan Senthilkumar defeated Korea’s Minwoo Lee and Jooyoung Na with a scoreline of 10-11, 11-3, 11-5 in 36 minutes. They will face Hong Kong’s Chi Him Wong and Ming Hong Tang in the semifinals.
In women’s doubles, experienced campaigner Joshana Chinappa partnered with youngster Anahat Singh to dominate the Philippines’ Jemyca Aribado and Yvonne Alyssa Dalida, winning comfortably 11-6, 11-3 in just 12 minutes in the last-eight clash. Joshana-Anahat pair will be up against Hong Kong’s Po Yui Kirstie Wong and Yee Lam Toby Tse for a place in the final.
Abhay-Anahat and Velavan-Joshana duos will compete in the mixed doubles quarterfinals on Wednesday.
– Team Sportstar
National U20 Athletics: Murad Sirman and Anushka Yadav win gold medals, set new meet records
Gujarat’s Murad Sirman broke the meet record while winning the gold in the men’s 400m hurdles on the final day of the 23rd National Junior (U20) Federation Athletics Championships in Prayagraj on Tuesday.
Sirman clocked 50.75 seconds to better the earlier meet record of 51.26 seconds set by Durgesh Kumar Pal in 2012.
Uttar Pradesh’s promising hammer thrower Anushka Yadav also improved the meet record of 57.09m set by Tanya Chaudhary in 2022. Anushka’s gold winning throw was 60.46m.
She also holds the junior national record of 62.89m set in February at the Uttarakhand National Games.
– PTI
Hockey India Masters Cup: Chandigarh beats Haryana in shootout to reach men’s semifinals
Chandigarh beat Haryana in shootout to reach men’s semifinals at the Hockey India Masters Cup in Chennai on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu, Hockey Association of Odisha, Hockey Haryana and Hockey Punjab progressed to the women’s semifinals of the inaugural Hockey India Masters Cup at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium in Chennai on Tuesday.
In the men’s category, Hockey Maharashtra and Hockey Chandigarh joined Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu and Hockey Association of Odisha in the semifinals.
– Team Sportstar
Vaidehi reaches second round of ITF event in Chinese Taipei
Vaidehi Chaudhari beat qualifier Lisa-Marie Rioux of Japan 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the $30,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Chinese Taipei on Tuesday.
– Team Sportstar
Aurionpro International Grandmaster Chess Tournament: Lalit edges Gharibyan on tiebreaks to become champion
It was a passed pawn that did the trick as Lalit Babu beat Levan Pantsulaia with the black pieces and emerged the champion with eight points from nine rounds in the Aurionpro Grandmaster chess tournament at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai on Tuesday.
The 32-year-old Lalit was tied with Mamikon Gharibyan, who also capitalised on a passed pawn to prevail in 95 moves against Neelotpal Das. The tie-break score put Lalit ahead.
The champion won INR four lakh and the runner-up INR three lakh. Deepan Chakkravarthy finished fifth behind Duc Hoa Nguyen and Boris Savchenko, and collected INR 1.25 lakh.
In the under-13 section, Madhesh Kumar won the title outright with eight points, and pocketed INR two lakh. Advik Agrawal finished runner-up and won INR 1.5 lakh.
– Team Sportstar
Indian racer Akshay Gupta claims SP3T podium at the 2025 24 Hours of Nürburgring
Indian endurance racer Akshay Gupta secured a third-place finish in the SP3T class at the 2025 24 Hours of Nurburgring last weekend.
Sharing the #808 Cupra Leon TCR DSG with Japan’s Junichi Umemoto and German duo Lutz Obermann and Dennis Leissing, the AsBest Racing quartet climbed the podium despite early gearbox gremlins and an overnight repair stop that cost nearly two hours.
The 24 Hours of Nürburgring combines the 20.8‑km Nordschleife and the modern Grand Prix loop to create the longest permanent race track on the planet, with more than 120 GT and touring cars ranging from factory‑backed GT3 machines to grassroots entries
-Team Sportstar
Asian 6-Red Snooker Championship: Paras Gupta reaches semifinals
India’s Paras Gupta, who outplayed reigning IBSF World 6-Red snooker champion Kamal Chawla earlier in the day, scored a crushing 5-0 win over Sunny Wang to storm into the semifinals of the ACBS Asian 6-Red Snooker Championship in Colombo on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old Agra cueist played the big points well to put it past the Singaporean, who had earlier shocked former champion Muhammad Sajjad of Pakistan 5-0.
In the semifinals, he will face either Habib Sabah (Bahrain) or Ali Al Obaidli (Qatar).
-PTI
Telangana High Court appoints Justice Naveen Rao to oversee HCA league matches
The High Court of Telangana has issued orders stating that Justice P. Naveen Rao (Retd.) will oversee the conduct of the Hyderabad Cricket Association’s league matches for the 2025-26 season.
Responding to a writ petition filed by Jai Hanuman Club, the High Court observed that the delay in conducting the annual HCA leagues was detrimental to the interests of players.
It also said that former India A cricketer Vanka Pratap will take up the role of a coordinator and assist and coordinate with Naveen and the HCA.
“All the respondents shall assist, co-operate and co-ordinate with Justice P. Naveen Rao in coordination with Vanka Prathap without causing any hindrance in conducting the league matches for the season 2025-26,” Justice E.V. Venugopal noted.
The court further ordered a fixed honorarium of ₹3 lakhs per month to be paid to Naveen and ₹2 lakhs per month to Pratap. It was also stated that the former is authorized to form a team — including selectors and observers — to conduct the league matches with the assistance and coordination of Pratap.
– Team Sportstar
Asian U-17 Championships: Rutuja, Manisha clinch gold medals
Women wrestlers Rutuja Gurav (46kg) and Manisha (69kg) landed gold medals at the Asian under-17 wrestling championships in Vung Tau, Vietnam, on Tuesday.
Cheshta (40kg) and Tina Punia (61kg) took silver medals, while Saarika (53kg) picked up a bronze. In Greco Roman, Sachin Kumar (80kg) claimed a bronze.
– Team Sportstar
National Aquatics Championships: Rujula, Bhavya break meet records
Karnataka’s Rujula S after her win in the 50m freestyle final during the 78th Senior National Aquatics Championship at the Kalinga Stadium Sports Complex in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: BISWARANJAN ROUT/THE HINDU
Rujula S. and Bhavya Sachdeva swam confidently to break women’s 50m and 1500m freestyle meet records respectively and clinch gold medals in the National aquatics championships at the Kalinga Stadium Aquatic Centre in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.
The 16-year-old Rujula benefitted from her strong mindset and good preparation to improve upon her previous personal best of 26.91 and secure her maiden gold. “The distance was short, so I went all out,” said Rujula.
Bhavya swam tactically and increased the gap with others after the half-way stage as she shattered Malavika’s 10-year-old record with a time of 17:35.07 and bagged her second gold. “It was slower than what I thought. After missing the mark in 2023, it feels good to achieve it,” said Bhavya, who relocated from Australia to Bangkok due to personal reasons and resume her training last year.
Competing in the lone 50m backstroke event, Olympian Srihari Nataraj, without a shave and clearly in training mode for the upcoming World University Games, clocked 25.86 in the heats and 25.70 in the final to claim the top honour. He narrowly missed his 2019 National record of 25.58.
Aryan Nehra, who set the National mark of 3:52.55 in 2023, fought back in the final 100m to regain the 400m freestyle crown with 3:55.96.
Tamil Nadu (Nithik Nathella, Danush Suresh, B. Benediction Rohit, Adhithya Dinesh) took the men’s 4x100m medley relay gold with a record.
– Y.B. Sarangi
Rugby Premier League: Dominant Kalinga Black Tigers Defeat Mumbai Dreamers; Hyderabad Heroes Win Against Chennai Bulls
While Kalinga Black Tigers saw off the challenge of the Mumbai Dreamers, Hyderabad Heroes defeated Chennai Bulls in Season 1 of the Rugby Premier League at the Shahaji Raje Bhosale Sports Complex (Andheri Sports Complex) on Tuesday. Interestingly, the Heroes and the Bulls had both secured qualification for the knockouts on Monday.
In the first game of the day, the Black Tigers produced a clinical and dominant display against the Dreamers, defeating them 33-5.
In the second game of the day, the Heroes won 17-0, making this only the second occasion in the tournament when a team had failed to register a point.
– Team Sportstar
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