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 DELHI, 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 India 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. NEW DELHI, 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 Malaysia 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 badminton 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.