EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI THE HINDU 22 SPORT WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TV PICKS ICC World Cup: Star Sports 1 & Divij Sharan looks to step on it 2 (SD & HD), 3 p.m. FIFA Women’s World Cup : Sony Ten 2 (SD & HD), 12.30 He’s happy to have qualified for the ATP­500 event in Halle a.m. (Thursday) TENNIS once in a while, I get to know yan, Purav Raja, Leander what is happening,” said the Paes, Sriram Balaji, Vishnu Veteran coach Kamesh Srinivasan 32­year­old Divij, who made it Vardhan being regular on the Lingappa New Delhi to the Wimbledon quarterfi­ doubles circuit, there is a Divij Sharan is totally devoted nals last year. strong Indian presence from passes away to his tennis, travelling across He did start the season Challengers upwards. the globe. Despite not having well by winning the Pune ATP regular partners, he has man­ event with Rohan Bopanna Good sign Sports Reporter aged to get good results in the apart from the Davis Cup “It is good that we have so BENGALURU professional circuit, in which doubles rubber against Italy many of our players in the Veteran athletics coach N. he feels “doubles is crazy, es­ in Kolkata. Then, the two opt­ tournaments. We get along Lingappa, 95, passed away pecially on grass”. ed to part ways in pursuit of well. Singles is hard, but Su­ due to age­related illness Happy to have qualified for higher goals, after the Phoe­ mit Nagal is getting good re­ on Tuesday here. Lingap­ the ATP­500 event in Halle, nix Challenger in the second sults now after being a bit pa, who had trained sever­ Divij said that he would be week of March, and ended up down,” said Divij. al international athletes partnering Marcelo Demolin­ facing each other in the first “Somdev (Devvarman) during the course of his ov­ er of Brazil till Wimbledon. round of the ATP event in had the best fitness and did a er 60­year career, received “Earlier, players used to Munich. great job at this level. Looking the Dronacharya Award in make a team for the whole at Rafael Nadal, it is amazing 2014. year. Now, in a few weeks or Quick changes how he has been able to cope Inter­State National “In the match tie­break, we maybe two to three months, New arrangement: Divij Sharan will partner Marcelo with it despite all the injuries were up 8­2 or so and then and still find a way to win the Lakshmi players in the top­30 to 40 Demoliner of Brazil till Wimbledon. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT rankings change partners if Bopanna and partner were French Open,” said Divij. athletics in Lucknow Sahithi stuns things do not work well,” said leading 9­8. fourth tournament as a pair. points on our serve, and they With the World Cup crick­ Special Correspondent now from August 27 to 30. Divij from Halle. “We managed to pull it off “In Stuttgart, we had 10 played great points. I take it et on, Divij said that he would KOCHI Yubrani at 12­10. Doubles matches match points against Denys in my stride. But Demoliner, like to catch up with the ac­ The 59th National inter­ The championships will Different world change very quickly,” re­ Molchanov and Artem Sitak. is quite serious about his ten­ tion once in England as it was State senior athletics cham­ be the Athletics Federation Sports Bureau “It is a different world. We are called Divij, who went on to Eight of them were on their nis and feels the loss more,” difficult to watch cricket on pionships, scheduled to be of India’s main qualification CHANDIGARH travelling all the time. Only make the final in that event serve. Not that we played said Divij. television in some of the Eu­ held in Kolkata in mid­July, event for the World cham­ Qualifier Lakshmi Sahithi when I come home briefly, with Demoliner, in only their bad. We had two match With Jeevan Nedunchezhi­ ropean countries. will now be held in Luck­ pionships in Doha. Reddy beat top seed Yubra­ ni Banerjee 7­6(6), 6­1 in the women’s pre­quarterfi­ nals of the ₹200,000 AITA IOA heaves a sigh of relief Kiran Jadhav trumps strong field for air rifle gold ranking tennis tournament here on Tuesday. SHOOTING Shahu Tushar Mane 250.1 Pre­ quarterfinals: Men: Mo- Sports Ministry guarantees participation to all athletes (629.2), 3. Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar 228.7 (631.0). hit Mayur bt Udayan Bhakar SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT bearers, executive board and Special Correspondent Junior men: 1. Dhanush Sri- 6-3, 6-1; Neeraj Yashpaul bt NEW DELHI all members of the IOA for NEW DELHI Garry Tokas 6-4, 6-0; Suraj Kiran Jadhav of Navy beat a kanth 252.5 (627.1), 2. Aish- The confusion and threat their unconditional support Prabodh bt LR Balaji 6-2, 6-0; strong field, that included warya Pratap Singh Tomar 251.9 around international sport­ and trust which motivated (631.0), 3. Surya Pratap Singh Hardeep Singh Sandhu bt the Asian Games gold medal­ Atharva Sharma 6-4, 6-2; ing events to be hosted by In­ and encouraged me,” IOA 229.1 (623.3). list Deepak Kumar, to win Jagmeet Singh bt Shubham dia seems to have abated af­ president Narinder Batra Youth men: 1. Shahu Tushar the gold in men’s air rifle in Malhotra 7-6(5), 6-4; Dalwin- ter the Sports Ministry said. Mane 251.1 (629.2), 2. Dhanush the 19th Kumar Surendra der Singh bt Sai Karteek Red- categorically reaffirmed that It may be noted that India Srikanth 250.6 (627.1), 3. Surya Singh shooting champion­ dy 7-5, 3-6, 6-3; Puru Upad- all qualified athletes from all had lost quota places in two Pratap Singh 229.0 (623.3). ship at the Dr. Karni Singh * hyay bt Karan Singh 6-3, 3-0 recognised countries would events at the shooting World On target: Kiran Jadhav struck it rich . KAMESH SRINIVASAN 50m rifle 3­position: Women: (retired); VM Ranjeet bt Kavin Range in Tughalakabad on 1. Tejaswini Sawant 455.7 be allowed participation re­ Cup earlier this year due to Masilamani 6-2, 6-3. Narinder Batra. * PTI Tuesday. (1155), 2. Lajja Gauswami 451.0 gardless of political issues. lack of visas for Pakistani back­to­back three finals by clinching the bronze me­ Women: Lakshmi Sahithi Red- The brilliance of Jadhav (1149), 3. Anjali Bhagwat 439.3 shooters, followed by loss of with ease. dal behind former World dy bt Yubrani Banerjee 7-6 the country of origin of the was such that he not only Champion Tejaswini Sawant (1150). (6), 6-1; Prerna Bhambri bt Clarifies position hosting rights for the Junior Mane looked to have pre­ athletes,” the letter, a copy of won the gold with a 2.2 point and World Cup medallist Laj­ Junior women: 1. Nischal 454.5 Sarah Dev 6-1, 6-1; Sravya In a letter to the Indian Olym­ The Hindu Asian wrestling cChampion­ served the best for the youth (1159), 2. Zenab Hussain Ban- which is with , margin over Youth Olympics ja Gauswami. Shivani bt Akanksha Nitture pic Association (IOA) on ship in March. competition, as he beat Dha­ dookwala 446.8 (1136), 3. said. silver medallist Shahu Tush­ In men’s 25­metre stan­ 6-4, 1-6, 7-6(4); Avika Sagwal Tuesday, the ministry clari­ “Last year, there had been nush Srikanth by 0.5 point Yashika Shinde 432.9 (1126). “This stated policy gua­ ar Mane, but had also dard pistol, Olympian Gur­ bt Shilpi Swarupa Das 4-1 fied its position and guaran­ trouble after a Kosovan boxer with a fine last shot. 25m standard pistol: Men: 1. (retd.); Renne Singhla bt rantees the participation of topped qualification with preet Singh won the gold, teed participation to all ath­ was denied visa for the Wo­ Gurpreet Singh 581, 2. Achal Rashi Malviya 6-4, 6-4; Kash- all eligible athletes, sport­ 631.2 ahead of Aishwarya In the women’s rifle 3­po­ with a 581, beating Achal Pra­ letes. men’s World Pratap Singh Grewal 575, 3. Vi- ish Bhatia bt Anaam Almas spersons and officials in in­ Pratap Singh Tomar, in a sition event, Olympian Anjali tap Singh Grewal and Vijay­ jayveer Sidhu 575. Championships. 6-3, 6-1; Bhargavi Kalaga bt “It is the policy of the go­ ternational sporting events field that had 322 shooters. Bhagwat showed that she veer Sidhu by six points. Junior men: 1. Vijayveer Sidhu Rutuparna Choudhary 6-3, vernment that India will hold organised in India under the However, things had eased The youngsters were in still could give the young The results: 10m air rifle: Men: 575, 2. Dilshaan Kelley 572, 3. 6-1; Salsa Aher bt Ayush international sporting events auspices of the IOC. Such a bit after the IOC clarified to energetic form, and endured guns a run for their money 1. Kiran Jadhav 252.3 (631.2), 2. Anish Bhanwala 569. Singh 6-0, 6-0. and will permit all qualified commitment stems from our The Hindu in March this year athletes belonging to any world view of ‘Vasudhaiva that there was no blanket ban Heartbreak for NOC recognised by IOC, or Kutumbakam’, which in es­ on India’s hosting rights in an any national federation affi­ sence is also the spirit behind important sporting year with Sasi Kumar liated to the International the International Olympic several Olympic qualifying Federations concerned, to movement,” the letter added.