Archer Deepika wins bronze in World Cup Finals

India’s Deepika Kumari held her nerves in an intriguing play-off to down Lisa Unruh and win the bronze medal in the Archery World Cup Finals here on Sunday.

Both the players were tied at 5-5 at the end of five sets, which necessitated a shoot-off. Kumari and Unruh both shot 9 but Kumari won bronze because her arrow was closer to the centre. This was Kumari’s fifth World Cup Finals podium.

The Indian archers thus concluded their campaign with two bronze medals and one silver in the exhibition fixture for compound mixed event, which had only two teams, including the host nation. In his second World Cup Final appearance, Abhishek Verma had clinched a bronze in the men’s compound event Saturday.

SAMSUN,TURKEY:

KADHE EYES NATIONALS

Eager to complete some unfinished business, Arjun Kadhe has returned to the Fenesta National tennis championship and will start as firm favourite for the men’s singles title when the tournament begins at DLTA here from Monday. The 24-year-old has competed for the national title a number of times and reached the final in 2012 and 2013 but lost to Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Mohit Mayur Prakash, respectively.

Challenging Kadhe would be Manish Sureshkumar, 2014 finalist Sidharth Rawat, lefthanded Sidharth Vishwakarma, who ended runner-up in 2016, the talented Nitin Kumar Sinha and Mohit Mayur. In the women’s singles, it is again expected to be battle between diminutive defending champion Mahak Jain and Zeel Desai.

NEW DELHI:

HALEP RETIRES HURT

World number one Simona Halep said that she was “worried now” after a persistent back problem forced her out of the China Open after just 31 miserable minutes on Sunday. The Romanian never looked comfortable against Tunisian qualifier Ons Jabeur before calling it quits.

BEIJING: