SHOOTING
Adriyan Karmakar opened India’s medal account at the ISSF Junior World Cup on Tuesday with a silver on debut in the 50m rifle prone event, ensuring a positive start for the country in the tournament.
The 20-year-old junior 3P national champion aggregated 626.7 after 60 shots and missed out on gold by just 0.3 points to Sweden’s Jesper Johansson.
USA’s Griffin Lake won the bronze with 624.6.
Adriyan, who has earlier represented India juniors at the world championships but never in a World Cup, shot confidently and was one of the earliest participants to finish. His effort was also a junior national record in the event.
Among other Indians in the fray, 15-year-old Rohit Kanyan finished 12th with a score of 620.2, while Vedant Nitin Waghmare shot 614.4 to end in 35th place.
-PTI
TENNIS
Korea beats India in Asia-Oceania Junior Davis Cup tournament
Third seed Korea beat seventh seed India 3-0 in a group-C league match of the Asia-Oceania Junior Davis Cup under-16 boys tennis tournament in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday.
It was the second defeat in two matches following the one against unseeded Uzbekistan for India.
With both Korea and Uzbekistan registering two wins each, India was ruled out of the quarterfinals meant for the top two teams from each of the four groups.
Australia, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Hong Kong, China and host Kazakhstan were the other six teams to confirm their qualification for the quarterfinals. Like India, eighth seed New Zealand also lost out in the race for quarterfinals.
The top four teams will make it to the World Group stage.
The results (league):
Korea bt India 3-0 (Kim Dongjae bt Prakaash Sarran 6-1, 6-2; Kim Dongmin bt Tavish Pahwa 6-3, 6-7(1), 6-2; Cho Min Hyuk & Kim Dongmin bt Tavish & Prateek Sheoran 7-6(1), 6-2).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Challenger Skopje: Manas beaten by Cachin in first round
Qualifier Manas Dhamne was beaten 6-2, 6-1 by Pedro Cachin of Argentina in the first round of the €91,250 Challenger tennis tournament in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Tuesday.
The 17-year-old Manas, who had made the qualifying draw as an alternate and had won two rounds which included a victory over second seed Andrej Martin Slovakia, collected four ATP points and €950.
Results
€91,250 Challenger, Skopje, North Macedonia Singles (first round): Pedro Cachin (Arg) bt Manas Dhamne 6-2, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF men, Bucharest, Romania Singles (first round): Gianmarco Ferrari (Ita) bt Chirag Duhan 6-2, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF men, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) & Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Madhwin Kamath & Kriish Tyagi 6-3, 6-4; Ishaque Eqbal & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Damir Abdusamadov & Rakhimbek Ibrakhimov (Uzb) 6-3, 6-3; Alexey Aleshchev & Ivan Zaytsev bt Aayush Bhat (USA) & Yuvan Nandal 6-4, 3-2 (retired); Maan Kesharwani & Atharva Sharma bt Ying Hou (GBR) & Bharath Kumaran 6-4, 3-6, [10-7]; Aleksandr Lobanov & Karan Singh bt Sukhrob Saidov & Abdulaziz Usmonjonov (Uzb) 6-3, 6-2.
$30,000 ITF women, Andong, Korea Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rutuja Bhosale & Sohyun Park (Kor) bt Gaeul Jang (Kor) & Ena Koike (Jpn) 6-2, 6-3.
$30,000 ITF women, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Singles (first round): Prathyusha Rachapudi bt Maria Aguilo (Esp) 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-5.
$15,000 ITF women, Tsaghkadzor, Armenia Singles (first round): Noelani Teso (Jpn) bt Pooja Ingale 7-5, 7-6(5); Iveta Dapkute (Ltu) bt Akanksha Nitture 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Akanksha NItture & Soha Sadiq bt Anastasia Efremova & Marta Makarova 6-4, 7-6(4); Alina Yuneva & Valeriya Yushchenko bt Priyanka Rodricks & Elizaveta Rozhkova 6-0, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
CRICKET
Top cricketers drafted for second edition of BPTL
Several top cricketers have been drafted by eight teams for the second edition of the Bengal Pro T20 League (BPTL).
Key players
Shahbaz Ahmed (Shrachi Rarh Tigers)
Akash Deep (ServoTech Siliguri Strikers)
Mukesh Kumar (Sobisco Smashers Malda)
Abishek Porel (Lux-Shyam Kolkata Royal Tigers)
Manoj Tiwary (Harbour Diamonds)
Sudip Kumar Gharami (Murshidabad Kings)
Sudip Chatterjee (Rashmi Medinipur Wizards)
Aamir Gani (Adamas Howrah Warriors).
-Team Sportstar