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22 Saturday,October 4, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of , New Delhi

CAPITAL SPORT INDIANS ABROAD Sajal moves up: Sajal Khan- delwal overcame Yatin Chahan Abhinn loses Rupesh in final IHF names 24 probables 4-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-8 while Ku- By Vineeta Pandey AAG HOCKEY It’s the same situation nal Kathuria overcame Sarabjit New Delhi: The dream run New Delhi: It will be an all- TIMES NEWS NETWORK here.’’ The camp for the Singh 13-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-8 in of national champion Ab- Indian final after Rupesh Singh, Dinesh Naik and Di- Games begins in New Delhi the sub-junior boys section of hinn Shyam Gupta came to a Roy and Sumit Prakash New Delhi: The Indian dar Singh to rest even though from October 6. the 64th Delhi State Table Tennis tame end when he went Gupta entered the boys sin- Hockey Federation (IHF) on Probables: , Adrian D’- they were hardly tested in re- Souza, Raj Rajan, , Sandeep championships at the Talaktora down to Jang Young Soo of gles of the Grade 5 ITF jun- Friday named 24 probables stadium on Friday. cent tournaments. Coach Ra- Singh, Harpal Singh, Len Aiyappa, Bimal Korea in the pre-quarterfi- ior tennis event in for the upcoming Afro- jinder Singh, while dismiss- Lakra, , V S Vinay, Prabodh Ram triumphs: Sita Ram of nal of the German Open Islamabad on Friday. Asian Games hockey event. ing the impression that Tirkey, , Vivek Gupta, While a few players have , , Gagan Army Public School and Reena Badminton tournament. Top seed Rupesh defeated there was any friction be- been ‘‘rested, Tushar Khan- Ajit Singh, , , of S.V. Co-Ed School were the Gupta, who pulled off an home favourite Shahzad tween him and Pillay, sup- Sandeep Michael, Tushar Khandekar, dekar, , winners in the under 18 boys upset by defeating 13th seed Khan 6-3, 6-1 to set up a sum- ported the senior players: Adam Sinclair, Sardar Singh, Hari Prasad, and girls events in the Milo-Sal- Vivek Gupta, Sandeep . Officials: Rajinder Singh Roslin M Hashim of mit clash with Sumit who ‘‘They have played their (chief coach), Baldev Singh (coach), A B wan marathon races held on Singh, Harpal Singh, Len Malaysia in the first round, overcame a tough challenge hearts out in tournaments Subbaiah (goalkeeping coach), Sampath Thursday. Aiyappa and Sardar Singh this year.Everyone watched Kumar (trainer). came a cropper against the from compatriot Vivek are those call-ups who were Korean qualifier losing in Shokeen 7-6 (8/6), 3-6, 6-1 in their heroics on TV. Only PTI adds: India, Pak- not in the Asia Cup team. goalscorers should not be straight sets 8-15 5-15. PTI the semifinals. PTI Interestingly,there doesn’t istan, South Africa and considered heroes.’’ Malaysia will figure in the seem to be any pattern in He added: ‘‘Why didn’t resting the players. If on one men’s hockey event of the anyone question the Ger- Afro-Asian Games. IOA side senior stars like Dhanraj man coach when he did not Pillay, Baljeet Singh Dhillon president Suresh Kalmadi field his top players for the said Korea, Egypt, Zimbab- and Baljeet Singh Saini have Champions Trophy? Be- been given breaks, the IHF we and Ghana were the oth- cause, he didn’t want to er countries which have con- has also asked youngsters wear out his best players. like Kamaldeep Singh, Tejbir firmed their participation. CROSS COUNTRY Praveen shocks Humpy TIMES NEWS NETWORK dian duo, Vijay Kannan and Ajay Ra- maswamy,also scored an easy 6-2, 6-4 victo- New Delhi: Unheralded Praveen Kumar ry over Marcello (Ger) and Oliver Marach caused a stir by shocking (AUT) to land a last four berth. PTI in the second round of the Parsvnath international tournament here on Friday. Later, Humpy managed to Indians reach final garner full points by overcoming Local lad Himanshu Kumar in 3rd round. Praveen Margao: With atleast one finalist in the built up an advantage in the middle game each category, India has a great chance of in a queen pawn opening and gained the ex- taking the team championship but would change. The Tamil Nadu player earned full have to face a stiff challenge from the points by overcoming the Philippine and Hungarian pugilists in the girl in 50 moves. Goa International Boxing Championship Important 3rd round results: (2.5) played at Colva here. drew with Dmitry Svetushkin (MDA) (2.5), P Harikrishna (3) beat Results: Featherweight: Junard Ladon (Phillipines) bt Sadek Gurpreet Pal Singh (2), A Kunte (2.5) drew with Atanu Lahiri (2.5), Abdul Latif (Qatar) 22-7, Naveen Dev (India-Blue) bt Pandharinath G B Joshi (2.5) drew with S S Ganguly (2.5), Tahir Vakhidov (Uzb) Shirodkar (India-Green) RSC. Lightwelter: F Loumic (Phillipines) bt (2.5) drew with Somak Palik (2.5), R B Ramesh (3) beat O T Anil Aakash Korgaonkar (India-Green) 39-31, Vijender (India-Red) bt Kumar (2), Lanka Ravi (3) beat Rafiq Khan (2). Harvinder Singh (India-B) 21-5. Welterweight:V Lavi (India-Green) bt Nawaf Mohammad Bennor (Qatar) 24-21, Balog Wilmos (Hun- gary) bye. Lightheavy: Parvinder Singh (India-Blue) bt Mohammed Amritraj-Rik in semis Suherman (Singapore) RSC. PTI Tumkur: Fourth seed Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, fifth seed Michal Tabara of Canoeists reign supreme Czekoslavia, Great Britain’s Lee Childs and Bhopal: Maintaining their medal winning Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany sailed spree, India raised its tally to 15, including into the semifinals, overwhelming their re- four gold, on the penultimate day of Asian spective rivals in the $25,000 ATP Chal- Kayaking and Canoeing Championship lenger tennis event here on Friday. here on Friday while China remained on In doubles, India’s Prakash Amritraj, top with 22 medals. Sailing through a scin- pairing with Rik De Voest of South Africa, tillating race, India’s energetic Wamutombi entered the semifinal, beating Taipei’s pair bagged the gold medal in C-1 500 metres Ti Chen and Tzuoo Yeu 6-4, 6-3. Another In- junior men category at the Boat Club. PTI Dancing Greens favoured New Delhi: Dancing Greens, an impres- sive winner in her last outing, should complete an encore in the October Hand- icap, in the Pune races on Saturday. Selections: Deep Secret Plate; 1,200m: 2.45pm: Flag Bear- er 1, Arabian Boy 2, Tagged For Terror 3. Sir HM Mehta Tro- phy: 1,600m: Special Place 1, Brave Victor 2, Queen Ernest 3. Ripples Plate; 1,600m: Maracaibo 1, Secret Obsession 2, Tralee 3. Mansab Plate; 1,200m: Different Strokes 1, High Handed 2, Tasmac 3. October Handicap: 1,200m: Dancing Greens 1, Anna Karenina 2, Caladium 3. Recovery Plate: 1,000m: Rich Treat 1, Thunderball 2, Sphinx 3. TNN

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