Badminton teams score victories

BANGKOK: Indian men’s and women’s teams dumped a lowly Australia 5-0 and 4-1 respectively in the Thomas and Uber Cup but the road to the quarterfinals remains a difficult one.

Indian women’s team, led by Saina Nehwal, notched up a dominating 4-1 win against Australia in the second Group A match of the Uber Cup. The men’s team blanked Australia 5-0 in the Thomas Cup. Saina defeated Hsuan-yu Wendy Chen 21-14, 21-19. Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka and Anura Prabhudesai also won their singles matches. Sanyogita Ghorpade and Prajakta Sawant won in doubles.

In the men’s competition, world no 9 H S Prannoy, B Sai Praneeth and Lakshya Sen won the singles matches while MR Arjun /Shlok Ramchandran and Arun George/sanyam Shukla won the doubles matches.

SATHIYAN-SANIL WIN SILVER IN THAILAND

NEW DELHI : The Indian pair of G Sathiyan and Sanil Shetty won a silver medal in men’s doubles in Thailand Open table tennis .

Sathiyan and Sanil beat Japan 3-1 and Malaysia 3-0 . In the semi- finals they edged past compatriots Harmeet Desai and Manav Thakkar 3-2. In the final, the Indian duo lost 11-9, 12-14, 9-11, 7-11 to Tobias Hippler and Kilian Ort of Germany.

AMIYA MALLICK TO TRAIN IN EUROPE

NEWDELHI: National 100m champion Amiya Mallick will train in Europe to prepare for the Asian Games. The four-week training stint started on Monday and the runner will be based in Finland. He will compete in two-three races before heading back to India to participate in inter-state meet in Guwahati from June 26.