Sable among Arjuna nominees, Lad in line for Dronacharya

NEW DELHI: Table tennis ace Achanta Sharath Kamal has been recommended for this year’s Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, the country’s highest sporting honour. The awards committee, headed by Justice (retd) AM Khanwilkar, chose Sharath as the lone nominee, which makes him only the second paddler to bag the award after Manika Batra.

The committee also shortlisted 25 athletes for the Arjuna award. They include serial national record breaker in 3000m steeplechase, Avinash Sable, boxer Amit Panghal, triple jumper Eldhose Paul and boxer Nikhat Zareen.

Rohit Sharma’s coach Dinesh Lad has been recommended for the Dronacharya Award in the lifetime category.

Djokovic in Paris final; Alcaraz out for season

PARIS: Novak Djokvoic beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(4) to advance to the final of the Paris Masters on Saturday.

He will play Danish teenager Holger Rune who defeated the in-form Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 6-2 to reach the first Masters final of his career.

Meanwhile, top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz will miss the rest of the season after sustaining an abdominal muscle tear while playing at the Paris Masters.

At Fort Worth, Aryna Sabalenka beat Jessica Pegula 6-3, 7-5 and advanced to the semi-finals of the WTA Finals as secondranked Ons Jabeur exited.

Hyderabad FC notch up fourth straight win

HYDERABAD: Table-toppers Hyderabad FC defeated Odisha FC by a solitary goal to register their fourth consecutive win in the Indian Super League here on Saturday.

Mohammad Yasir scored the only goal of the game in the eighth minute as he headed in a Halicharan Narzary cross to help Hyderabad secure all three points from the crunch tie. With this win, Manolo Marquez’s men took a lead at the top of the league table with 13 points from five games.

In another match, Kerala

Blasters beat NorthEast United 3-0 to return to winning ways.

Dominant Railways win women’s T20 trophy

LUCKNOW: Railways won the Senior Women’s T20 Trophy for the 11th time in 13 editions, beating Bengal by six wickets in Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday.

Left-arm seamer Anjali Sarvani, who took 3/6 (17 dot balls) to be named Player-of-theMatch, hoped her performance will help draw the attention of an IPL franchise. “I am looking forward to the women’s IPL next year,” Sarvani said.

106/7 (R Ghosh 32, D Gujjar 32; A Sarvani 3/6, T Kanwar 3/18) lost to Railways 108/4 in 18.2 overs (N Parween 35, D Hemlata 35) by 6 wickets.

Schumacher’s 2003 Ferrari up for auction

GENEVA: The Ferrari in which Formula One legend Michael Schumacher drove to the 2003 World Championship title is set to be auctioned on Wednesday.

The F2003-GA, Chassis 229 is estimated to fetch between 7.5 and 9.5 million Swiss francs ($7.6 and $9.6 million) when it goes on offer in Geneva.

It is “one of the most significant Formula One cars of all time”, the auctioneers said.

Dinesh Lad