Gujarat, Bengal win in kabaddi
Gujarat Fortunegiants defeated Puneri Paltan 35-21 in the fifth Pro Kabaddi League here. Fazel Atrachali scored nine tackle points to lead his team to victory and also created the record of scoring most points in Pro Kabaddi League. In another game, Bengal Warriors sneaked past UP Yoddhas 32-31. Bengal led 19-14 in first half.
India’s celebrated GM Harika Dronavalli finished a disastrous 29th, even as 15-year-old GM Aryan Chopra finished a creditable third at the 24th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival, that concluded on Tuesday. Chopra with ELO Rating of 2507 beat Leven Pantsulaia of Georgia in 42 moves to finish with 6.5 points.
An ankle strain has forced defending champion Dipika Pallikal to pull out of the Senior National Squash Championship at the last minute, dealing a blow to the premium domestic event to be held in Greater Noida this week.
Gyanender narrowly missed out on a bronze medal play-off berth as Indian GrecoRoman wrestlers finished their campaign without a medal at the World Wrestling Championships here.
Aiming to go one better than their final appearance in the last edition, Bengaluru Football club will lock horns against a lesser known North Korean side April 25 in the first of the two-legged AFC Cup inter-zone semi-final match here on Wednesday.
Country’s top ranked squash player Saurav Ghosal rued the lack of quality coaches in the country. “To raise the standard of the discipline, there should be experts of high calibre. Otherwise it will be difficult for budding players to improve their global rankings in the near future,” he said on the inaugural day of the national squash.