SQUASH
Seasoned Indian squash player Joshna Chinappa defeated Egyptian Nardine Garas in straight games to storm into the semifinals of the Japan Open PSA Challenger event in Yokohama, Japan.
The 39-year-old former women’s world No 10 beat Egyptian second seed Garas 11-8, 15-13, 11-9 in the quarterfinals on Saturday.
Joshna will now take on fourth seed Egyptian Rana Ismail in the last-four stage.
Earlier, the former Asian champion and world doubles champion defeated French fifth seed Lauren Baltayan 11-7,11-4, 11-9 in the second round, and Malaysian Anrie Goh 11-6, 11-6, 11-6 in the opening round.
-PTI
Abhay Singh makes winning start at Silicon Valley Open
India’s Abhay Singh made a winning start at the Silicon Valley Open squash, a USD 130,500 PSA Gold event, in Redwood City (US), on Saturday, while compatriots Velavan Senthilkumar and Ramit Tandon lost their opening matches.
Reigning National champion and world No. 29 Abhay beat Karim El Hammamy of Egypt 12-10, 11-7, 13-11, and will meet French world No. 9 and fifth seed Victor Crouin in the second round.
Meanwhile, Senthilkumar lost to Egypt’s Kareem El Torkey 3-11, 5-11, 9-11, while Tandon went down to Balazs Farkas in a five-game thriller, which the Hungarian won 12-10, 5-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-8.
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SWIMMING
Keerthi, Telheiba emerge National junior aquathlon champions
Keerthi Saktivel of Tamil Nadu and Telheiba Soram of Manipur won the junior girls’ and boys’ titles, respectively, in the National Sub-Junior and Junior Aquathlon Championships in Bhopal on Sunday.
The results:
Juniors:
Boys: 1 Telheiba Soram (Manipur) 27:58.3; 2 Ashwin S (Maharashtra) 28:27.0; 3 Aman Chahar (Haryana) 29:00.7.
Girls: 1 Keerthi Saktivel (TN) 31:46.3; 2 Kanakshree Dharwal (MP) 32:59.8; 3 Gauri Jagtap (Mah) 34:06.1.
Sub-Juniors:
Boys: 1 Nongmaithem Dhanajoy Meitei (Manipur) 15:53.8; 2 Varunraj Dongle (Mah) 15:58.3; 3 Shivaram Madhira (Kar) 16:13.7.
Girls: 1 Ishwari Kalmegh (Mah) 17:56.7; 2 Rutuja Jade (Mah) 18:27.8; 3 Manva Pable (MP) 19:12.9.
-Team Sportstar
Published on Oct 12, 2025
