SAI promises better deal for our coaches
NEWDELHI:COACHES employed with Sports Authority of India have been promised better deals. At its meeting on Tuesday, SAI bosses agreed that home-spun coaches deserved better deals and salaries of those at national academies could, depending on merit, go up to ~2 lakh each.
Poor pay scales have been an issue with SAI coaches. Compared to an average salary of $10,000 (~7.35 lakh) paid to foreign coaches, Indian coaches are badly paid. All that is expected to change as SAI will initiate a Comprehensive Coach Development Programme to attract and retain the best coaches, and to introduce incentives to spur better performance from them.
SAI also wants to improve its relationship with corporates.it wants companies to spend at least two per cent of its net profit on CSR activities.
ADVANI IN FINAL OF ASIAN SNOOKER
JINAN, CHINA: Top cueist Pankaj Advani on Tuesday stormed into the final of the Asian Snooker Tour’s second leg event here after impressive wins in the quarterfinals and semifinals of the championship. Advani bettered his own performance by moving into the title round after settling for bronze last month in Doha. RESULTS
Semifinal: P Advani bt Md Bilal (Pak) 93(93)-0, 5-56, 62(58)-1, 42(40)-34, 3723, 85(84)-4; Quarterfinal: P Advani bt Amir Sarkhosh (Iran) 53-18, 53-31, 1560(47), 75(75)-0, 52-40, 80(80)-17.
GHOSAL WHIPS AU TO ADVANCE IN DOHA
DOHA: Taking revenge for his Asian Games semi-final loss to Leo Au, squash star Saurav Ghosal defeated his Hong Kong opponent in straight games to move to the third round of the Qatar Classic, a PSA World tour platinum event, here on Tuesday.
Ghosal, who had a bye in the first round, defeated Au 11-2, 11-3, 11-5 and will face second seed Ali Farag of Egypt next.
Interestingly, Ghosal also has a score to settle with Farag, who four years ago had knocked him out in first round of the CCI event in Mumbai.
RAMKUMAR, SASI WIN; PRAJNESH BOWS OUT
NEW DELHI: Sasi Kumar Mukund got the better of Chinese wonderkid Yibing Wu but in-form Prajnesh Gunneswaran suffered a shock first round defeat at the ATP Challenger event in Shenzen, China. Sasi won 7-6(4), 6-2.
Prajnesh, who played intense tennis in the past two weeks, lost 3-6, 4-6 to Alejandro Davidovick Fokina from Spain.
In a battle between Indians, Ramkumar Ramanathan fought off qualifier Sumit Nagal with a 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(2) win.