India Shows Pakistan No Mercy Sathiyan in Last16 Ramkumar Begins Proceedings with a Double Bagel; Nagal Wraps It up with Another Easy Win
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DAVIS CUP two deuce points. The second match was a lit Agence France-Presse Nagal then earned his tle tighter and tough, though Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) firstever Davis Cup win, it looked simple. Sumit kept beating Hufaiza Mohammed the level high and came Ruthless India raced to a 20 Rehman 60, 62 in the se through with flying colours,” lead in the Davis Cup tie for cond singles which lasted 64 he said. the loss of just two games as minutes. Veteran Leander Paes and Ramkumar Ramanathan and Pakistan badly missed its debutant Jeevan Nedunchez Sumit Nagal toyed with their top players who pulled out, hiyan will now look to seal Moving up: G. Sathiyan made the knockouts with an allwin teen rivals from Pakistan protesting against shifting of the tie when they clash with record in his group * COURTESY: ITTF WEBSITE here on Friday. the matches to a neutral Hufaiza and Shoaib in the venue. doubles on Saturday. wered past Denmark’s Jo “I gave my best on every ITTF WORLD CUP nathan Groth 113, 1210, 711, point. We are happy with Paes’ record Sports Bureau 1614, 811, 118 to finish atop 20 on the first day. Now we India has never lost a tie to Chengdu Group D. Groth, the 14th are looking forward to see Pakistan in six meetings. India’s G. Sathiyan pro seed, had lost his first match Jee ( Jeevan) and Leander A win on Saturday will gressed to the knockout stag against Gauzy. fire some bombs tomorrow. stretch Paes’ record for most es of the 2019 International Let’s get the job done,” said number of doubles wins in Table Tennis Federation To face Boll next Ramkumar, who also Davis Cup history. He is lead (ITTF) men’s World Cup, af Sathiyan will now face fifth thanked fans who had gath ing the chart with 43 wins. ter winning all his group seed Timo Boll in the round ered to support them. “It will be interesting to matches, here on Friday. of16. Boll, a twotime World While the first match was Cup champion and former see how the Pakistan young The World No.30 started not even a contest, promis World no. 1, is appearing in sters cope with our world his campaign with a spirited ing youngster Hufaiza re the tournament for the 16th class players. comeback to defeat World sisted Nagal as much as pos time. “Let’s see how it goes,” No. 22 Simon Gauzy 1113, 9 sible by engaging the Indian Speaking to Sportstar, Day to remember: Sumit Nagal defeated Hufaiza Mohammed Rehman for his firstever Davis said Rajpal. 11, 118, 1412, 711, 115, 118. in long rallies. Twice he Cup win. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Sathiyan said: “The name is The winner of the tie will Sathiyan, who had lost to In a total mismatch, Ram pushed Nagal to deuce in the travel to Croatia for the enough. I am a huge fan of However, it just delayed the “We did not want to lose. but has a long way to go,” the 12th seed in three pre kumar doublebagelled 17 second game of the second World Group qualifiers, to be him, but pressure is on him inevitable as Nagal wrapped They are juniors but they said Nagal. vious meetings, dropped the yearold Muhammed Shoaib set and finally put Pakistan held on March 67. to deliver. I will be playing in just 42 minutes in the on board by holding the up the match in the eighth played well and did whatever India’s nonplaying cap first two games. He, howev against him in an interna The results: India leads Pakis- er, clinched four of the next opening singles. The only third game after squander game. they could. tain Rohit Rajpal was also tan 2-0 [Ramkumar Ramanath tional tournament for the five games to complete a suc time Shoaib made it look like ing four gamepoints. “I started decent and fin “The guy I played came up pleased with the perfor an bt Muhammed Shoaib 60, first time and I’m looking a match was in the sixth He returned and held ished it pretty strong. Both of with some really good shots. mance. “It is a fantastic day 60; Sumit Nagal bt Hufaiza cessful turnaround. forward to putting up a great game of the second set when again, staying close to Nagal. us had a lot of fire today. “He played to his potential for India. Ram gave us a nice Mohammed Rehman 60, 62]. Later in the day, he po show.” Mithun in Karnataka thrashes Haryana, enters final the news, for Clinical TN routs Rajasthan Sensational Mithun takes four wickets off four balls and five in a brilliant last over S. Dipak Ragav good and bad SURAT MUSHTAQ ALI Everything went right for Ta Sports Reporter mil Nadu, right from the S. Dipak Ragav Surat toss, as it produced a clinical Surat Within a span of 24 hours, allround performance to Haryana was 192 for three in Abhimanyu Mithun found beat Rajasthan by seven 19 overs after being asked to himself in the news for two wickets in the second semifi bat by Karnataka in the first contrasting reasons. On nal of the Syed Mushtaq Ali semifinal of the Mushtaq Ali Thursday, he was sum Trophy at the Lalbhai Con Trophy here on Friday. moned by the Bengaluru tractor Stadium here on What followed was so police for questioning in Friday. mething sensational. Abhi connection with matchfix TN will meet Karnataka in manyu Mithun, who had gi ing allegations in the Kar a summit clash for the se ven away 37 in his first three nataka Premier League. cond time this year after the overs, came up with a bril But on Friday evening, two Southern powerhouses liant over, picking up five the former India pacer had met in the final of the Vi wickets, four off the first four found himself in the record jay Hazare Trophy last deliveries. He gave away on books after taking five month. Karnataka had out ly two runs, finishing with wickets, including a hat played Tamil Nadu then. 5/39. trick, in one over. Choosing to field, the Ta Mithun had picked up a mil Nadu bowlers restricted In the zone: Washington Sundar continued his good form Oneway traffic hattrick in the Hazare Tro Rajasthan to 112 for nine. with the bat. * VIJAY SONEJI From there, it was oneway Incredible: Mithun will forever remember his final over against Haryana. * VIJAY SONEJI phy final against Tamil Na traffic as Devdutt Padikkal du last month. Sai gets Chahar early the 30run eighthwicket dia offspinner made a valua and K.L. Rahul thrashed the After being watchful for <> I knew we had to Rana (61) and Chaitanya He has now become the Deepak Chahar, who stand between Chandrapal ble 31 (33b, 4x4), adding 69 Haryana bowlers all over the two overs, Rahul went after pull it back in the Bishnoi (55) before Mithun first bowler to have a hat slammed an unbeaten 55 in Singh and Ravi Bishnoi. Vijay for the second wicket with park and the team crossed Ashish Hooda in the fourth last over and I muzzled them in that final trick in all three formats in the previous match, chose to Shankar scalped two wickets Washington Sundar. over. He began with a six ov over. the finish line in 15 overs backed myself to domestic cricket. open the batting but per in the middle overs to tight The latter came good with eight wickets to spare. er longon and three boun The scores: Haryana 194/8 in About the final over, ished cheaply. He was cas en the screws, while M. Sid deliver 20 overs (Himanshu Rana 61, again, remaining unbeaten The India opener daries square on the offside Mithun said, “I just needed tled by leftarm spinner R. darth, T. Natarajan and R. Mithun Chaitanya Bishnoi 55, Harshal on 54 (46b, 3x4, 3x6). slammed 66 (31b, 4x4, 6x6) before Padikkal finished the to keep it one side of the Sai Kishore after hitting the Ashwin picked up one each. over with a four. Patel 34, Rahul Tewatia 32, Ab The scores: Rajasthan 112/9 in while Padikkal made a bril fiddle to Rahul before himanyu Mithun 5/39) lost to wicket because there was a bowler for a six earlier. Ashwin, promoted as 20 overs (Vijay Shankar 2/13) liant 87 (42b, 11x4, 4x6), the Padikkal’s first six scoring launching an onslaught. Karnataka 195/2 in 15 overs long boundary and I bow Rajasthan never strung to opener, lost partner C. Hari lost to Tamil Nadu 116/3 in 17.5 duo adding 125 in just 9.3 ov shots were boundaries and Earlier, Haryana rode on (Devdutt Padikkal 87, K.L. Ra led a lot of slower deliver gether any meaningful part Nishanth who was bowled overs (Washington Sundar 54 ers. he initially played second the shoulders of Himanshu hul 66). ies.” nership, the highest being by Chahar for a duck. The In n.o., R.