THURSDAY, JULY 25, 2019 (PAGE 14) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Sindhu, Prannoy progress; Srikanth, Nikhat, Deepak storm into semis; JU staff sports meet gets underway India on a roll at Thai boxing tourney Excelsior Sports Correspondent rounds in the discipline of Bhatia beat Sumeet Dograa and Carrom and Badminton in both Naresh Sharma beat Sham Lal NEW DELHI, July 24: Manju Rani (48kg), Brijesh Sharma. Sameer bow out of Indonesia Open Yadav (81kg) and JAMMU, July 24: men and women sections. Organised by Campus Sports The Results: CARROM: BADMINTON: MEN: Former junior world champi- Commonwealth Games bronze- TOKYO, July 24: ranked Srikanth 13-21 21-11 22- made a second-round exit from Committee, University of WOMEN: Sunita Amla beat Vishal Sudan beat Sunil Kumar; on Nikhat Zareen (51kg) and medallist Mohammed 20 in a match that lasted 59 min- the Indonesia Open last week. Anita Kapoor; Komal Bakshi Pawan Singh beat Rajesh Asian silver-medallist Deepak Husammuddin (56kg). Jammu (JU), the annual sports Ace Indian shuttlers P V utes at the BWF World Tour It was good news for India in beat Meghna Dhar; Veenu Kumar; Rajesh Kumar beat Singh (49kg) were the promi- Ashish defeated Jamaica's meet for the staff of the institu- Sindhu and HS Prannoy moved Super 750 tournament. the men's doubles competition Gandotra beat Nidhi Gandral; Parvesh Ratta; Vivek Slathia nent ones to assure themselves Joshua Frazer 5-0, putting in a tion got underway at into the second round of Japan It was disappointment for as Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Pooja Manhas beat Sonika beat Subash.C. Raina; Abhinav of medals on Wednesday as dominating performance. Gymnasium Hall on the campus, Open with contrasting wins over Sameer Verma as well as he lost Chirag Shetty defeated the Sharma; Veenu Gandotra beat Sharma beat Sanjeev Chadha; Indian boxers continued their Husammuddin also toyed here today. their respective rivals in the to Denmark's Anders Antonsen English pair of Marcus Ellis and Shewta Khajuria; Sunita Amla Surjeet Singh beat Prekshat commanding performance at the with his Korean rival Lee The event was inaugurated women's and men's singles in straight games in another Chris Langridge 21-16 21-17 to beat Veenu Gandotra; Sunita Dev Singh; Pankaj Gupta beat Thailand International Yechan before fetching a 5-0 by Chairman of the Campus events here today. men's singles match. The enter the second round. Amla beat Lakshmi Bhalwal. Vishal Sharma; Niranjan Singh Tournament in Bangkok. verdict, putting on quite a show Sports Committee, Dr Daud Fifth seed Sindhu, who came unseeded Indian lost 17-21 12- They will next be up against MEN: Niranjan Singh beat beat Gursharan Singh; Sumeet Nikhat, also an Asian with his attacking game. Iqbal Baba. out second best in last week's 21 in the contest that lasted 46 the winner of another first-round Jagdev Sharma; Gursharan Kapoor beat Sham Lal Sharma; Championships bronze-medal- Brijesh, on the other hand, Prominent among those Indonesia Open, took 37 min- minutes. match between Korean pair of Singh beat Bhushan Kumar; Sumeet Dogra beat Tarun list, recorded a 5-0 triumph over had to toil a bit to edge past present at opening of the event utes to get the better of unseeded The eighth seed Srikanth, Solgyu Choi and Seung Jae Seo Abhinav Sharma beat Harinder Sharma; Sandeep Arya beat Uzbekistan's Sitora Shogdarova. Thailand's Jakka Pong Yomkhot were Vivek Salathia (Deputy Chinese Han Yue 21-9 21-17 who holds a superior head-to- and China's Kai Xiang Huang Pal Singh; Rajesh Kumar beat Bhushan Kumar. WOMEN: In the men's draw, Deepak 4-1. Registrar Accounts), Pawan and set up a clash against Aya head record against Prannoy, and Cheng Liu. Rajesh Kumar; Varun Sawhney Komal Bakshi beat Meena took barely a couple of minutes But Manju had no trouble Singh Bhau (President NTEU), Ohori of Japan. started of well clinching the first But the women's doubles beat Satinder Singh; Nikhil Sharma; Sonika Sharma beat to leave his rival Samak Saehan out-punching Italy's Roberta Sham Lal Sharma (General Sindhu came agonisingly game 21-13. combination of Ashwini Ponappa Kumar beat Inderjit Singh; Anita; Pooja Manhas beat of Thailand with a bloodied Bonati in the women's draw. The Secretary), Raj Kumar (JU close to winning her first title of However, the unseeded and N Sikki Reddy crashed out Sunil Kumar beat Deepak Shewata Khajuria; Sunita Amla forehead, forcing a stoppage in Indian won on a unanimous Cricket coach), Ravish Vaid (JU the year before losing to another Prannoy came back strongly tak- after losing 16-21 14-21 against Anand; Pankaj Gupta beat beat Veenu Gandotra and Nidhi the first round itself. decision. Table Tennis Coach), Gagan Japanese Akane Yamaguchi at ing the second game 21-11. The Korea's So Yeong Kim Korea and Vishal Sharma; Deepak Anand Sahni beat Meenakshi Sharma. "The bout went well for me However, Asian silver- Kumar (JU Football Coach), the Indonesia Open last week. decider went down to the wire Hee Yong Kong. beat Vivek Mahajan; Rajesh TABLE TENNIS: MEN: and I think my game is coming medallist Manisha Moun (57kg) Padam Dev Singh (Sports But it was curtains for eighth with Prannoy having the last The Indian mixed doubles pair Kumar beat Gurmeet Singh; Rajesh Kumar beat Vivek together very nicely," Nikhat lost to Russia's Luidmila Supervisor) and Jai Bharat seed K Srikanth, whose poor run laugh. He will face Rasmus of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki Sahil Gupta beat Noor-ul- Mahajan and Satinder Singh told PTI from Bangkok. Vorontsova in a unanimous ver- (Sports Supervisor). of form continued as he crashed Gemke of Denmark in the sec- Reddy also bowed out of the tour- Asrar; Sandeep Arya beat beat Varun Sawhney. Also advancing to the medal dict to sign off without a medal The opening day witnessed out after suffering defeat at the ond round. nament, losing 11-21 14-21 to top competition in the preliminary Bhupinder Khajuria; Sachin hands of compatriot Prannoy Srikanth, the former world seeded Chinese duo of Zhend Si rounds were Ashish (69kg), at this event. (PTI) earlier in the day. No. 1, has been struggling for Wei and Huang Ya Qiaong in just Prannoy stunned the higher- consistency this season. He 26 minutes. (PTI) ADGP honours JKP athlete Reyaz Excelsior Sports Correspondent level and wished him more suc- cess in his future endeavours. SRINAGAR, July 24: ADGP The ADGP also stressed Armed J&K SJM Gillani today upon Reyaz Ahmad to work felicitated Reyaz Ahmad for hard and do regular practice to winning two bronze medals one bring more laurels for the in 5000 mtrs (40 + men) event Organization, State as well as and other in 1500 meters (40 + Country. SSP Dushyant Sharma, Winners along with other participants of KC Gurukul PS after shining in 11th AIMS Talent Exam'. men) event in 6th Masters Staff Officer Sports APHQ was Israr scores 14-ball fifty as Athletics Sri Lanka Open also present on the occasion. KC Gurukul PS shines in 11th Championships 2019 held at Reyaz, an athlete of J&K Poonch XI scripts big win Sugathadasa Stadium, K. Cyril Police Central Sports Athletic Excelsior Sports Correspondent C. Perera Mawatha, Colombo in Team who is presently serving AIMS Talent Exam Sri Lanka, recently. as Sg. Constable in J&K Armed POONCH, July 24: Israr While interacting with Police is eager to compete in Excelsior Sports Correspondent on January 21, 2019 across Charak scored a quick-fire 14- Reyaz Ahmad, the ADGP forthcoming World Police Fire India. ball half-century to help Winners Stadium Orange team posing for a group photograph after a win during a Hockey Armed congratulated him for his Games being hosted by China JAMMU, July 24: KC The gold medallists included Poonch XI thrash Singh Tournament in Poonch. achievement at the International this year. Gurukul Public School Paloura Avni (II A), Aarav Mahajan Warriors by a Jammu added yet another feath- (IIIA), Muskan (IVB), Sanjana big margin of er in their illustrious cap with Tickoo (VA), Stuti Dhar (VIA) 80 runs in the Stadium Orange outplays JK Cricket on upswing from few students making their alma and Arnav Singh (IX B). ongoing mater proud as they won medals The Management, Academic Poonch T20 and certificates in the 11th All Director, Principal and staff Cricket BHSS by a solitary goal years: Former First-Class Cricketers India Maths, Science Talent lauded the efforts of the students Tournament, Excelsior Sports Correspondent match officiated by the technical (DYSS), Prem Prakash Luthra Excelsior Sports Correspondent parency, fair treatment to crick- Examination 2018-19, conduct- for this achievement. being organ- penal including Novjot Singh was the chief guest and other eting fraternity and upholding ed by the centre for excellence ised by District POONCH, July 24: Stadium and Ranveet Singh (umpires) prominent present were Nirdosh JAMMU, July 24: Rebutting the prospect of local former Police Poonch, under the over- Orange defeated Government while Meenakshi Khajuria, Kumar (Manager Sports the statement issued by a galaxy cricketers, Mr Sharma said that Selectors should be consistent, Shubman all supervision of DySP Boys Higher Secondary School Urvashi Sharma and Shewani Stadium), Parvaiz Ahmed Afridi of former Ranji trophy players, JKCA had entrusted the job of Sheezan Bhat, here. (BHSS) by a solitary goal to Sharma were on the technical (Chairman EHSAAS on the other day, with regard to selection to these local crick- should have been in team: Ganguly Earlier, winning the toss strengthen their position in the table. Foundation), Pawan Kumar, non-implementation of Lodha eters only, but they failed in jus- and batting first, Poonch XI ongoing Poonch Hockey In today's match, retired dis- Matinderpal Singh (Hockey Recommendations in Jammu tifying the same and resigned NEW DELHI, July 24: Caribbean.