Rublev battles past Auger-Aliassime to clinch the title
Indian boxers claimed ve gold medals in the youth category — three men and two women — while nine others nished with silver medals at the ASBC Asian Under-22 & Youth boxing championships in Astana on Monday.
Easily done
Brijesh Tamta (48kg) and Aryan Hooda (51kg) registered unanimous 5-0 wins against Tajikistan’s Muminov Muinkhodzha and Kyrgyzstan’s Kamilov Zafarbek in their respective nals.
Meanwhile, Yashwardhan Singh (63.5kg) had to work hard against Gafurov Ruslan of Tajikistan before registering a 4-1 victory.
India also won nine silver medals The country ended the competition with 22 medals
Among the women, reigning junior World champion Nisha took gold in the 52kg, winning 5-0 against Kazakhstan’s Otynbay Bagzhan.
Laxmi (50kg) dominated completely to force a Referee Stops Contest in the second round against Enkh Nomundari of Mongolia.
Sagar Jakhar (60kg), Priyanshu (71kg), Rahul Kundu (75kg), Aryan (92kg), Tamanna (54kg), Nikita Chand (60kg), Shrushti Sathe (63kg), Rudrika (75kg) and Khushi Pooniya (81kg) came second best.
India nished the Youth competition with 22 medals.
Paris Saint-Germain is bidding to overturn a 0-1 rstleg decit and beat Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League seminal return match on Tuesday, with the aim of bringing the curtain down on the Kylian Mbappe era at the club in the nal at Wembley. The only time PSG has previously appeared in the biggest match in club football turned out to be a depressingly §at occasion, with the French side losing 0-1 to Bayern Munich in 2020.
Reaching the June 1 showpiece would be a di¡erent occasion entirely. Getting there would give Mbappe the chance to end his seven-year stay with the Qatar-owned outt in the best possible way.
Match starts at 00.30 a.m (Wednesday).
Andrey Rublev won the Madrid Open with a hardfought 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 victory over Felix Auger-Aliassime on Sunday to secure his second title of the year.
The Russian World No. 8 had lost four consecutive matches before arriving in the Spanish capital, but came from a set down to beat his Canadian opponent and claim a career second Masters 1000 victory.
Rublev, 26, triumphed at the Hong Kong Open in January but struggled since before turning around his form in Madrid, dropping just one set on the way to what proved a tense nal.
Auger-Aliassime reached the nal after his opponent Jiri Lehecka retired hurt in the seminals, and quarternal opponent Jannik Sinner withdrew with a hip injury, with the ATP draw at the clay-court tournament struck by misfortune.
The result: Final: Rublev bt Auger-Aliassime 4-6, 7-5, 7-5.