Sindhu enters third round,Jwala-Ashwini pair bows out
Copenhagen: India’s teen sensation P V Sindhu stormed into the third round of the World Badminton Championship with a straight game victory over Olga Golovanova of Russia in women’s singles match here on Wednesday. The men’s doubles pair of Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy B stunned 15th seeded Japanese duo of Hirokatsu Hashimoto and Noriyasu Hirata 21-19 21-19 in 44 minutes to advance to the third round. However, it was curtains for women’s doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa after they lost their second round match to fifth seeded Chinese combination of Qing Tian and Yunlei Zhao without putting up a fight. Manu and Sumeeth will face the winner of the match between Korea’s Yong Dae Lee and Yeon Seong Yoo and Aussie pair of Raymond Tam and Glenn Warfe. Sindhu, seeded 11th, took 40 minutes to prevail over her Russian opponent 21-12 21-17 in the second round match at the Ballerup Super Arena here. She will next take on sixth seeded Yeon Ju Bae of Korea. (PTI)
India’s football, TT teams could be axed from Asian Games
New Delhi: A cloud of doubt hangs over the Indian football and table tennis teams’ participation in the upcoming Asian Games at government cost, with the Sports Authority of India (SAI) today hinting at dropping the two disciplines owing to slim medal hopes. SAI Director General Jiji Thomson said dropping of some disciplines was necessary after the the Indian Olympic Association came up with a jumbo list of 935 athletes and officials for the September 19-October 4 Games in Incheon, South Korea. The Indian contingent had 625 athletes at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou. India is not sending teams in baseball, bowling, fencing, karate, modern pentathlon, rugby, softball, soft tennis and triathlon. There is a bright chance of a medal in cricket but the BCCI has decided against sending a team. “Besides the sports we have already decided to drop, we could also add table tennis, football and handball to that list. There is no chance of a medal in these disciplines. Our football team performed quite badly against Pakistan recently. However, the honourable sports minister takes the final call on Monday,” Thomson said here at a press meet. (PTI)
NEHU Inter-college tournament results
SHILLONG: NEHU recently announced the winners of the NEHU Shillong zone inter-college badminton, table tennis and chess tournament. In Badminton, Synod college was declared the winner while St. Anthony’s college was announced the runner-up, in the men’s category while NEHU and St. Mary’s college were declared the winner and runner-up respectively, in the women’s category. In the Table tennis tournament, St. Anthony’s college and NEHU achieved the first and the second place, in the men’s category and St. Anthony’s college and Union Christian college won the first and the second position respectively in the women’s category. Finally, in the Chess tournament, which was a combined event, St.edmunds achieved the first position followed by St. Anthony’s college.All the winners are qualified for the NEHU Inter Zonal Inter Tournament 2014 which will be on August 28 at NEHU Permanent
Campus, Shillong.
Sports camp
Jowai: The Office of the District Sports Officer, West Jaintia Hills District, Jowai, will be organizing a 6 months coaching camp in 8 disciplines from the starting from September 5. The eight distinct sporting disciplines include: Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Karate, Table Tennis, and Taekwondo.
Interested individuals can register at the office of the District Sports Officer. The last date for registration is on September 4.
In regards to this, the District Sports Office invites all interested players from West-Jaintia Hills District to be part of the camp as this will help the Office to identify and nurture the sports talent in the district.
For further information contact the following numbers. Athletic (8014861397), Badminton (9856500508), (9856924031), Football (9863048115), Karate, Taekwondo and Table Tennis 8575090918.