https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU DELHI TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2019 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Krishna Nagar Siddharth Desai is prize catch wins two golds Telugu Titans picks up last season’s best debutant for ₹1.45 crore Press Trust of India Dubai PKL AUCTION Match card. Each of the 12 Asian Para Games bronze teams is allotted a purse of medallist Krishna Nagar of ₹4.4 crore to recruit a mini­ India won two gold medals Nandakumar Marar mum of 18 and maximum 25 at the second Fazza­Dubai Mumbai players. para badminton interna­ Djokovic heads into clay Raider Siddharth Desai has Paltan used the Final Bid tional championships here season as World No. 1 moved up the ranks, in terms Match card to bring back re­ on Sunday. PARIS of value at the Pro­ Kabaddi puted raider Nitin Tomar for A day after upsetting Novak Djokovic moves into League Season­7 player ₹1.2 crore, the second high­ World No. 1 Jack Shepherd his 20th week as World No. 1 auction. est bid. Thalaivas had beaten in the men’s singles SS6 on Monday as the clay season In only his second season off challengers to get the semifinals, Nagar pulled off gets under way. The Serb is as pro, the Kolhapur­born player, only to see him taken the second upset in as ma­ almost 2,500 points ahead of player (base price ₹30 lakh) away on a technical point. ny days when he defeated Rafael Nadal. Japan’s Naomi was picked up by Telugu Ti­ Tomar represented Pune Osaka maintained a slender England’s World No. 2 tans for a staggering ₹1.45 lead over Romanian Simona last season, so the team held Krysten Coombs 20­22, 25­ Halep at the top of the WTA crore on Monday. Last sea­ the right to match the high­ 23, 21­12 in the most excit­ rankings released on Monday. son’s highest earner, Monu est bid by any other fran­ ing final of the day, that Osaka now sits 185 points Goyat (₹1.51 crore) moved to chise for a former player re­ went over an hour. ahead of Halep, with Czech UP Yoddhas for ₹93 lakh. leased into the pool. “This is the biggest win pair Petra Kvitova and Puneri Paltan and Tamil Thalaivas got Rahul of my career,” an elated Na­ Karolina Pliskova in third and Thalaivas were involved in a Chaudhari for ₹94 lakh in a gar said before he went on fourth. AFP frenetic three­way bid for the straight bid. to make it two­for­two, former U Mumba sensation, Nineteen domestic winning the mixed doubles Desai. Named the ‘Best deb­ players went under the ham­ title along with Raja utant’ last season for his mer. Iranian Esmaeil Nabi­ Magotra. power­packed raiding and baksh, taken by Bengal War­ Team India had a good speed, Desai will team up riors for ₹77.75 lakh, became run, at the event finishing with Iranian coach Gholam­ the second­highest paid fo­ with nine medals including reza Mazandarani again. reigner (Fazel Atrachali at ₹1 four golds on Sunday. Titans convinced the only crore last season is the Among others, World foreign head coach in PKL to topper). No. 1 Pramod Bhagat and Caparros suffering switch from U Mumba and Several team manage­ Parul Parmer took the gold from leukemia bid successfully for the 28­ ments used the Final Bid deep (Patna Pirates), Mahen­ diga (UP Yodhas) and Shri­ in SL3 men’s and women’s SEVILLE year­old player, a crowd­pull­ Match card to retain stars re­ der Singh (Bengaluru Bulls), kant Jadhav (Yodhas). singles. However, Asian Pa­ Sevilla coach Joaquin er in his own right. leased earlier into the pool. Parvesh Bainswal (Gujarat Last season, five domestic ra Games winner Tarun Caparros announced on Thalaivas came close at Those returning to last Fortunegiants), Vishal Bha­ players earned upwards of ₹1 went down to French Sunday that he has chronic ₹1.44 crore before Titans season’s squads were Ravin­ radwaj (Titans), Chandran crore, a season later only two World No. 1 Lucas Mazur in leukemia but says the sealed the deal. U Mumba der Pahal (Dabang Delhi), Ranjith (Dabang), Nitin To­ have made the crorepati Value for money: Siddarth Desai’s power­packed raiding in the straight games 13­21, 17­21 in condition is under control did not execute the Final Bid Girish Ernak (Paltan), Jai­ mar (Paltan), Rishank Deva­ club. first season has reaped rich dividends. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT men’s singles SL4 final. and will not prevent him continuing in his job. “I have chronic leukemia,” Caparros said at a post­match press Chenai starts well conference. “I have caught it Chris Cowdrey — a less demonstrative auctioneer early and can live a normal with 29 others on 48. life. I want to enjoy my job SHOTGUN WC Player auction is a fantastic new concept, says former England cricketer In women’s trap in which and for everyone to stay Sports Bureau Caroe Cormener of France calm. I’ve had no treatment G. Viswanath once, twice and done”. cricketer and captain, the to us English people because and am grateful for the club Al Ain (UAE) and Kirsty Barr of Britain Mumbai The gavel is hit hard on late Colin Cowdrey. Chris, you are not bidding money giving me the opportunity [to won the Olympic quota Chris Cowdrey had his own the sound block and this now 61, played for Kent and for a cause, but actually to Olympian Kynan Chenai continue coaching],” he said. places with the gold and sil­ AFP way of being less demonstra­ time the little­known player made his Test debut against buy a player for a franchise. shot 49 following rounds of ver medals respectively . tive while conducting the VI­ goes unsold. India at the Wankhede Stadi­ It’s very different and excit­ 24 and 25 in trap in the shot­ Shagun wound up well with VO ProKabaddi League Auc­ But Chris had a busy um in 1984. ing. I watch the game, but it gun World Cup on Monday. rounds of 23 and 25, but had tion 2019 at a South Mumbai morning session as franchis­ Talking to The Hindu he doesn’t make any difference However, there was stiff dropped eight birds earlier five star hotel on Monday. es bid hard for Iran’s Mo­ said: “I do a lot of charity to the auction. competition, in a strong in the first three rounds. Picking a card from a bag hammad Esmaeil Nabi­ auctions in the UK, mainly “My job is only to put it field of 142 shooters, as 11 The results: Women’s trap: bakhsh and Abozar Mighani. children’s. out there and see who wants shooters shot the perfect held by his wife, the former 1. Carole Cormener (Fra) 44 cricketer­turned­auctioneer, Having done the PKL auc­ “This thing is quite new, I to bid. It’s not for me to say “I score of 50 in two rounds, (121); 2. Kirsty Barr (GBR) 41 Chris was business­like, say­ tion for the first time last did this last year. think he is a good player. I while 22 others were on 49. (120); 3. Silvana Stanco (Ita) 33 Ko claims first Major title ing: “Anybody wants to kick year, most in the 12 franchis­ have done mainly cricket Prithviraj Tondaiman #70929 (121); 26. Shagun Chowdhary at ANA Inspiration Chris Cowdrey. me of… I am asking for ten es knew who Chris was — son ‘New concept’ auctions, cricket memorabi­ shot 48, following rounds of 115; 50. Rajeshwari Kumari LOS ANGELES * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT (₹10 lakh), he is going back in of the celebrated England “It’s a fantastic new concept lia, but nothing like this.” 24 and 24. He was on par 109; 69. Varsha Varman 92. Reigning Rookie­of­the­Year Ko Jin­young captured her first Major title on Sunday, holding off fellow South Korean Lee Mi­Hyang to win Goa is the next hurdle for Chennai City the ANA Inspiration by three strokes. Ko, who is in her The latter is expected to be high on confidence second year, finished with a ty (pre­quarterfinals) and competitive enough to try 10­under 278 for her fourth SUPER CUP LPGA title. Ko celebrated her then against Bengaluru FC. and reach the final,” Lobera With these wins, City is said, while suggesting idfiel­ win by taking the traditional Amitabha Das Sharma expected to be high on confi­ der Hugo Boumous is the dip with her caddie in BHUBANESWAR Poppie's Pond — the water dence while taking on the likely replacement. hazard located off the right Chennai City FC, having might of FC Goa, the two­ Chennai City will be be and back of the green on the sprung the biggest surprise time ISL runner­up. banking on its tested combi­ 18th. AFP of the tournament by knock­ With a trophy eluding it nation of the Spanish troika ing out holder and ISL cham­ ever since it was founded in — Pedro Manzi, Sandro Ro­ pion Bengaluru FC in the 2014, the Super Cup crown driguez and Nestor Gordillo Coach will be quarterfinals, the I­League is high up in the priority of — that has spearhead the winner now has the task of FC Goa, which has promised team’s fortune. With M. Re­ appointed at challenging ISL runner­up to go full steam in the match. gin suspended, Charles FC Goa in the first semifinal The side will be missing Anandraj will possibly make the earliest: of the Hero Super Cup at the its key Spanish player in the his way back in the side.