WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2017 (PAGE 14) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Kashmiri Spanish Club footballers call on CM Indian U-17 Djokovic, Serena share stage World Cup squad Hope lost glory of football comes loses by 0-1 to Iran with record man Karlovic back to J&K: Mehbooba NEW , Jan 17: MELBOURNE, Jan 17: "This is what I will, after my zling starts. Excelsior Sports Correspondent their forthcoming matches, The Indian U-17 World Cup career, remember. If it was easy Williams, back after an injury Mehbooba Mufti hoped that Squad lost by 0-1 against Iran in Novak Djokovic and Serena match or I lost easy, I wouldn't lay-off, demolished the danger- JAMMU, Jan 17: Two Basit and Asrar would become the Granatkin Tournament in St. Williams launched their Australian remember. But this one definitely ous Bencic 6-4, 6-3, while Nadal Kashmiri young football players, role models for many of our Petersburg, Russia today. Open campaigns in style today as I will remember forever," said the was also impressive in his 6-3, 6- Basit Ahmad and Mohammad young people. She reminded the The Indian Colts will now Ivo Karlovic smashed a record 75 Croatian. 4, 6-4 win over Florian Mayer. Asrar, who are going to play for two young players of a glorious face Tajikistan in a play-off aces in an unprecedented, 84- As the drama played out on Williams has barely played Spanish Football Cub, called on past the State had in football match on January 20, which game marathon. Court 19, Djokovic gave further since her shock defeat in the US the Chief Minister, Mehbooba adding that at one time Jammu & will decide whether the Colts Djokovic and Williams have evidence of his return to form as Open semi-finals in September Mufti here today. Kashmir gave the country cap- will finish 15th or 16th in a Students of 12th standard, the tain of the national soccer team. Triumphant JU Football team posing alongwith coach after Tournament that featured 16 two young Valley footballers She hoped the lost glory of foot- registering emphatic win over Kurukshetra University on Tuesday. teams from across the globe. have been playing the game from ball would come back to the However, the Indian U-17 childhood and one of them- State and players like Basit and JU registers solitary goal win World Cup team dominated the Asrar-has even played the Asrar would be instrumental in early minutes of the match and Santosh Trophy, Durand Cup that. as early as the 8th minute and Indian League whileas as The two young players over Kurukshetra University Abhijit Sarkar failed to tap the ball home into an empty net Basit has played the sub junior informed the Chief Minister Excelsior Sports Correspondent As per the reports reaching nationals and Indian League about the multi stage selection after he latched onto a Komal here, the first half ended goal- cross. besides other national level foot- process and the rigorous coach- JAMMU, Jan 17: Jammu less and it was Pankaj Sharma ball tournaments. ing schedules they have been In the 36th minute, Amarjit University men's football team of Jammu University who dis- created a one versus one sce- Congratulating the two, the through. They also shared their defeated Kurukshetra University played extraordinary soccer Chief Minister said she was thoughts about improving the nario against the Iranian custo- by a solitary goal (1-0) in the skills and pelted a brilliant dian, but failed to find the back Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams in action during their respective matches in Austrailian Open happy to see young boys and game in the State. ongoing Inter-University Football goal in the 52nd minute of the of the net as pressed for a at Melbourne. girls from the State breaking new The duo is shortly leaving for Championship, being played at match to give his team a much goal. grounds in sports. She said it is Madrid for the coaching and Desh Bhagat University, needed lead. JU team players both dropped to world number he convincingly saw off and she made, by one count, 88 not a mere coincidence that our other preparations. Four minutes later, Iran two and faced awkward opposi- Verdasco 6-1, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 on unforced errors in her second- Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab. defended their lead up to the found the back of the net as young generation is attaining stipulated time and finally won tion, but they won in straight sets Rod Laver Arena. round loss to Madison Brengle at feats in different fields but it is Sharifi chipped Tamal Naskar against Fernando Verdasco and Djokovic fell off the top of this month's Auckland Classic. Sandeep, Rajneesh shine as by (1-0). with ease to hand Iran the lead. the talent in them which is get- Jammu University will lock Belinda Bencic respectively. the rankings during a sudden But she came through a tight ting attracted. "Our youth have After the half-time, Joysana Rafael Nadal also rolled into slump last year but he showed first set against Bencic before horns with LPU Jallandhar in its ample talent but do they have missed a one-to-one scenario in round two before Karlovic out- signs of a revival by beating new dominating the second in what next match tomorrow at the same ample opportunities to display Haryana enter PWL-2 final the 68th minute against the lasted Horacio Zeballos in an world number one Andy Murray turned out to be an emphatic vic- venue. it”, she questioned. , Jan 17: blocked today and all nine Iranian custodian and then epic that stretched for five hours, in this month's Doha final. tory on the centre court. The team is being accompa- shortly after Abhijit also failed Wishing them success in bouts were fought, negating nied by Gagan Kumar as coach, 15 minutes and ended 6-7 (6/8), He fended off five match (Agencies) Sandeep Tomar, Rajneesh any advantage to any of the to apply the finishing touches as 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 22-20. points against Verdasco in the while Dharam Pal is the skipper the Colts struggled to find a along with Haryana Hammer's semifinalists. of the team. Karlovic beat Thomas Doha semis, and had to fight Harsheel, Pratul, Hemanth reach foreign exports helped the team Georgia's Jakob goal. (PTI) Johansson's Australian Open through a 71-minute second set register a came-from-behind Makarashvili gave Jaipur record of 51 aces in a match, set against the Spanish left-hander win to enter the final of the Pro Ninjas an early lead by defeat- in 2005, and 84 games was a new for his win on Tuesday. second round at Wrestling League season two ing Sumit Sehrawat 10-0 in the mark for the tournament in the It was Djokovic's 15th SARAWAK (MALAYSIA), Jan Ryan Ng 15-21 21-16 24-22 in a by beating new entrants Jaipur opening bout of the match. tiebreak era, edging the 83 in straight win at the Australian 17: hard-fought battle in the men's Ninjas 6-3 in the first semifi- Jakob was clinical against Andy Roddick's 2003 defeat of Open as he seeks his third Young Indian shuttlers singles competition. nals here today. Sumit as he took him down Younes El Aynaoui. straight title and his seventh Harsheel Dani, Pratul Joshi and Unheralded Hemanth M After Magomed with surprising agility on mul- It was one of the longest overall, which would break Roy Hemanth M Gowda advanced to Gowda also reached the second Kurbanaliev and Marwa Amri tiple occasions to deny the matches in the tournament's his- Emerson's record set in the the second round of the season- round, beating Indonesia's levelled the scores for Haryana, Indian wrestler any chance of tory in terms of time, although 1960s. opening Malaysia Masters Grand Yehezkiel Fritz Mainaky 21-14 Rajneesh, Sandeep and Sofia making a comeback in the bout. still short of the five hours, 53 "I'm very pleased with the Prix Gold tournament 21-15 in another match. Mattsson ensured group stage Having taken the 4-0 lead after minutes played by Djokovic and first round, considering I had one here today. Among others, Siril Verma table toppers, Haryana's the first round, Jakob went on Nadal in the 2012 men's final. of the toughest first-round draws, The 20-year-old Harsheel, suffered a narrow 10-21 21-18 17- smooth entry into the final with extending the lead in the sec- The denouement, when it definitely considering his form, who reached the quarterfinals at 21 loss to Thailand's Pannawit a dominating show. ond round as well and won it finally came, was almost comical how well he played against me in Syed Modi International Grand Thongnuam, while Abhishek Haryana will clash with easily in the end in men's 74kg. as an exhausted Karlovic chipped Doha," Djokovic said. Prix Gold last year in Lucknow, Yelegar lost 13-21 14-21 to 13th winner of the second semifinals Up next was youngest of the a hopeful lob over Zeballos, only In afternoon play, Williams saw off Malaysia's Zii Jia Lee 21- seed Zulfadli Zulkiffli of between Punjab Royals and Phogat sisters, Ritu of Jaipur Chief Engineer Bikram Singh inaugurating Annual Sports for the Argentine to send a way- and Nadal made light of hot tem- 19 21-17 in little over half an hour. Malaysia and Rahul Yadav Mumbnai Maharathis on against Indu Chaudhary of Meet of NHPC Sewa II employees on Tuesday. ward forehand rocketing out of peratures and doubts over their Pratul, who clinched the Chittaboina suffered a 16-21 11- Thursday. Haryana Hammers in women's the court. own form as they got off to siz- Bahrain International title last 21 loss to Chinese 's Hsueh Unlike in the group stage, 48kg. NHPC Sewa-II PS employees year, saw off Singapore's Zin Rei Hsuan Yi. (PTI) none of the categories were With both sisters Babita KC Sports Club Winter Cup 2017 and Sangeeta supporting from the sidelines, Ritu did very organize Annual Sports Meet well to take down Indu thrice Excelsior Sports Correspondent mium on the health of its SCC Rawalpura outplays in the opening round to surge employees and these events ahead with a 6-0 lead at the JAMMU, Jan 17: Annual that should be played in the break. KCSC Junior XI In round two, Indu tried to Sports Meet for the employees right sportsman spirit should make a comeback but Ritu posted at NHPC Sewa-II PS, encourage each one of us to Excelsior Sports Correspondent liance. For KCSC Junior XI, Mashka was inaugurated stay in good shape". Ritham, Rocky and Devats denied her any chance. In fact, once it seemed that Indu would today by Bikram Singh, Chief He further said, "Our coun- JAMMU, Jan 17: Splendid Sharma scalped 2 each. Engineer today in the pres- try has already become the 50 runs knock by Talha Ashraf In reply, KCSC Junior XI gain a couple of points when she could pull down Ritu but ence of all the project staff world's diabetes & high BP coupled with good bowling dis- managed to score 119 runs in the and family members. capital. This trend not only play by Umar Aand Khalid allotted overs to lose the match the Phogat girl turned things on The chilling climate could needs to be halted but Khan helped Striker by 20 runs. Kasif Ayoub was the her rival itself and managed to hardly dampen the high spirits reversed so as to avoid unnec- Club (SCC) Rawalpura to top scorer with 47 runs, while earn two more points to bag the of female players of Table essary loss of men and trounce KCSC Junior XI by a Zamin Zahid contributed 27 bout 8-0 and extend Jaipur's Tennis & Carrom events. The money." narrow margin of 20 runs in the runs to the total. For Strikers XI, lead. Volleyball, Badminton, Chess "While promoting the pos- ongoing KC Sports Club Winter Umar and Kahalid took 2 wick- Haryana's foreign imports -- & Tug-of-war championships itives of health and well Cup, being played at KC School ets each. Magomed Kurbanaliev and will also be played during the being, NHPC Ltd. has made ground, here. Talha Ashraf was adjudged Marwa Amri -- then proved J&K Ball Badminton team posing for a group photograph after its selection at Gindun Stadium in week. annual complete body health Earlier, first, Striker as man of the match for his mag- their dominance on the mat Srinagar. Bikram Singh while checkups mandatory for all its Cricket Club scored a fighting nificent innings of 50 runs. with contrasting victories to declaring the event open said, employees above the age of 40 total of 139 runs in the stipulat- The matches are being con- help the team level the scores Tendulkar much "NHPC Ltd puts a lot of pre- years," added Mr Singh. ed 20 overs. Talha and Umar ducted by the Club, with an State Ball Badminton team selected 2-2. (PTI) contributed 50 and 22 runs to the objective to provide opportunity Excelsior Sports Correspondent February 18, 2017, while the better player than total respectively. Talha was in to young cricketers to fine-tune Junior team will participating in awesome touch and hit the ball their cricketing skills and hone JAMMU AND KASHMIR MEDICAL SRINAGAR, Jan 17: Jammu 62nd Junior Nationals Kohli: Yousuf with fluid grace and utter bril- their talent. and Kashmir Ball Badminton Championship to be held at KARACHI, Jan 17: SUPPLIES CORPORATION LTD. Association selected State senior Bellampalli in Telangana from (Public Sector Undertaking of Govt of Jammu & Kashmir) IISM Gulmarg celebrates and junior teams for the pre- February 8, 2017. Former Pakistan batsman Corporate Head Office: 1st Floor. Drug Store Building, Govt. Medical College, Bakshi Nagar, Jammu national coaching camp at Gindun The selection trials were held Muhammad Yousuf rates leg- Corporate Office Kashmir: 121, Green Avenue, Hyderpora, Opp. AJ-Farooq Masjid, Srinagar Stadium, here today. under the supervision of Basit endary as a Telephone: 0191-2580842, Fax: 0191-2581845 (Jammu); Telefax: 0194-2432008 (Srinagar) World Snow Day The senior team will be partic- Ahmad Khan, general secretary better performer than Excelsior Sports Correspondent event. They brought 30 children ipating in the forthcoming 62nd J&K Ball Badminton Association, despite the current India captain's NOTICE INVITING TENDER from Central University of Senior National Championship while Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar, recent astounding form. Subject: Empanelment of firms by JKMSCL for the procurement/Re-filling of Toners/Cartridges of SRINAGAR, Jan 17: Indian Kashmir who participated in the for boys and girls to be held at Manager Sports Stadium “I don't want to take anything various models from authorised dealers/suppliers Institute of Skiing and event at Gulmarg along with Mangalore in Karnataka from Pulwama was the observer. away from Kohli. He is an On behalf of Managing Director, JKMSCL. NIT is invited for the empanelment of authorized dealers of origi- Mountaineering (IISM) Gulmarg IISM, it said. exceptional talent. But I rate nal manufacturers/direct importers, operating within the state of J&K to supply/to replaced/to refill genuine Tendulkar much higher because tonners/cartridges. drums etc of printers, fax: photocopier etc at Corporate office Jammu & Srinagar and at celebrated World snow day with All stake holders including inducted into RDW's of the Corporation. an aim to attract the youth to snow Gulmarg Tourism, Cable Car of the era he played in, against NIT along with quoted rates should reach the office of the MD, JKMSCL within 21 days from the date of pub- sports and reverse the decline of Corporation and Army took active the best teams, fast bowlers and lication. youth participation in snow sports. part in the event and offered differ- Legends Club 'Hall of Fame' spinners," Yousuf said in an The details of NIT along with specifications/Models of photocopies, printers etc can be downloaded from A statement issued here said ent services to the participants. JS interview. JKMSCL website- www.jkmsclbussiness.com or can be collected in person from Corporate office that the celebrating World snow Dhillon, the principal of IISM , Jan 17: but we had no one to teach. In “Nowadays, the quality of Jammu/Srinagar, free of cost. day also gives an opportunity to Gulmarg, welcomed all guests and Mumbai, there were a lot of teach- Sd/- players is not the same as it was Dr. Rajinder Kr. Khajuria, KAS the youth of remote areas to participants and provided all Cricket icon Kapil Dev was ers. When we played cricket, there say in the 90s and until 2011. today inducted into Legends Club were no turf wickets in DIP/J-2214-P General Manager explore snow sports as well as administrative support to them After 2011 World Cup the quali- Dated: 17-1-2017 J&K Medical Supplies Corporation Ltd. attracts the new comers to join free of cost. 'Hall of Fame' in presence of for- Chandigarh, what was there is ty has come down. Tendulkar these sports. "This is the world's "These types of events not mer India captains , passion," he remembered. was a world class player and this biggest event over the snow where only provide an opportunity to our and Nari Dev, also recalled that his wife can be judged by the number of Contractor at the Cricket Club of Rommie's grandfather had asked millions of ski lovers participate youth to pursue snow sports but runs and hundreds he scored India here. "ladka kya karta hai (What does every year," it said. also go a long way to promote against strong opposition in all The statement said that IISM winter tourism. IISM Gulmarg Dev, who led India to the the boy do), wo cricket kelta hai, conditions and in all formats," Gulmarg invited youth of the val- celebrates this day every year and emphatic World wo theek hai, par wo karta kya hai Yousuf said. ley and other parts of the country makes elaborate arrangements for Cup victory in (he plays cricket, but what does he “I played a lot against and gave them an opportunity to the local youth to join this event. 1983, is consid- do)". Tendulkar and he was a master- participate in various snow sports These types of events could be ered as the coun- Describing Kapil as India's class and produced match win- free of cost. J&K Ski Federation fully exploited by tourism depart- try's greatest all- greatest match winner, Gavaskar ning knocks many a times. I don't lead by its secretary Yousef ment to attract tourists in the val- rounder. He was said, "For me it was an absolute think Kohli is facing the same Mandoo, took an active part in the ley," the statement issued said. presented with a honor to have played in the same quality bowlers or opposition.” citation by for- team (as Kapil). With due respect Yousuf, 42, who ended with mer India player and Legends to all those wonderful players who Gyapo elected as vice president an impressive average of 52.29 Club President Madhav Apte. have won matches for India over and 41.71 in 90 Tests and 288 Gavaskar, who was the first the last years, there has been ODIs, also slammed the Pakistan J&K Ice Hockey Association batsman to score 10,000 runs in nobody who has turned around team for losing the Test series in Excelsior Sports Correspondent manent Membership with voting , was also presented a with bat and ball as Kapil has. Australia by three-nil. right to the Association in next citation by Wadekar. He was "It has been hardwork for him, “This was one of the weakest KARGIL, Jan 17: Namgyal AGM. already inducted into the club's it has not been easy. His enthusi- Australian teams we have seen Angchuk Gyapo, president of The issue of granting Hall of Fame on July 11, 2013. asm is absolutely incredible. (It Ladakh Winter Sports Club, Leh Membership to KIHA was raised Accepting the honour, the was) hard time for me as a captain and a series we should have won wass elected as vice president of by its general secretary, Mohd Haryana Hurricane said, "There is to stop him," recalled Gavaskar. ended up three-nil. The tragedy is J&K Ice Hockey Association dur- Yousuf. nobody in this country who do not Gavaskar remembered that the that the last two Tests could have ing the Annual General Body The Meeting also decided to want to be Sunil Gavaskar. For idea of dropping Kapil from the been drawn easily by us but our Meeting (AGM) held under the grant Life Membership to the Sunil, was he best in the best in team did not come from him and batting failed miserably on good Chairmanship of Aga Sayed Jamal, Founder Members of J&K Ice the game, no, he was best for the referred to an article. batting tracks,” said Yousuf. vice president J&K Ice Hockey Hockey Association with voting game. While Dev was the first Indian He also dismissed observa- Association at Old Hall of J&K right with effect from January16, "Lot of people will come in, to take 400 Test wickets, Gavaskar tions by head coach Mickey Arts, Cultural & Language, Baroo, 2017. but this name (Sunil) will remain was the first Indian batsman to Arthur that Pakistan's bowlers here. The Meeting further decided on the top. We had a passion for score 10,000 runs in the five-day had let the team down in New The AGM granted that the Annual J&K State Ice the game and were not looking for game. Gavaskar had led India to Zealand and Australia. Membership to Ladakh Winter Hockey Championship 2017 will rewards and awards, anything. At win the World Championships in “It was the batting which let Sports Club Leh and Kargil Ice & be held at Leh subject to that time we had so much of pas- 1985. us down badly in all five Tests in Snow Sports Club with voting favourable weather conditions. sion. With our success, if people Cricket writer Devendra both countries," Yousuf said. rights. The meeting also decided to get happiness, you feel proud Prabhudesai narrated several He also advised Test captain It also granted provisional amend Article No 15, 17 and 21 of about it. Now I feel, cricket has memorable incidents involving Misbah-ul-Haq to call it a day Membership to Kashmir Ice J&K Ice Hockey Association relat- changed (and) it feels so nice," Dev and Gavaskar. Former India and retire gracefully instead of Hockey Association (KIHA) from ed to Doping Rules & Regulation said Dev. captain Nari Contractor was pres- trying to prolong a career which Srinagar and decided to grant per- and Banking Operation etc. "I was not technically correct, ent for the event. (PTI) was already extended. (PTI)