Indian Sports Wrap, 8 September: India’s Rifle, Pistol Mixed Team Events to start the show in Ningbo World Cup

Shooting

India’s rifle, gun mixed team events to start the show in Ningbo World Cup

It will be mixed events of air rifle and air gun on the opening day of the shooting ISSF World Cup in Ningbo, China, on Tuesday.

After having all his best shooters compete hard in the recent Asian championship in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, with great success, the National Rifle Association of India (Nrai) gave the opportunity for others to take advantage of the last world cup of the season.

The mixed air rifle is expected to contain Ramita Jindal, Umamahsh Maddini, Divyansh Singh Singh Panwar and Meghana Sajjanar.

The mixed air gun has rhythms Sangwan, Nishant Rawwat, Amit Sharma and Surbhi Rao.

There will be 10 finals for the next five days, with a sports gun for women and fast fire gun for men, apart from the air gun, air gun and rifle 3-position events.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

SQUASH

Gurveer until through the second round PSA Challenger

Gurveer Singh fought its way along Sebastiaan Hofman of the Netherlands from 11-3, 6-11, 7-11, 11-5, 11-1 in the first round of the $ 9,000 PSA Challenger HCL Squash Tournament in the Otters Club on Monday.

In the pre-quarterfinals, Gurveer will challenge the second seed Elia Thomas of New Zealand.

In another competition in the men’s section, Yusha Nafees Vechten went to Sri Lanka in four games in four games.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

TABLE TENNIS

U-19 Girls Groups conclude, all eyes on knockouts from Utt National Rankings Championships

The group stage in the category among the 19 girls of the second UTT National Ranking Table Tennis Championships was closed here on Monday in the Thyagaraj Stadium, with 52 of the 53 group winners who seal their places in the knockout phase.

All eyes will be on Tuesday in group 2 where Divyanshi Bhowmick, high driving after her Doubles Triumph in the Under-15 category with Tamil Nadu’s Ananya Muralidharan in the WTT Youth Star Contender Sopje (Macedonia), is expected to close the procedure.

Divyanshi plays back-to-back matches against Diva Ahuja by Haryana and Mohana Shree from Pondicherry.

Together with the 53 group winners, the eight seeds will form the Knockout stage of 64 players, which sets the stage for intense battles for us.

With the U-19 girl section almost completed, group competitions collected in the events of men and women at the momentum. Their qualifying rounds end on Tuesday, after which the top 16 seeds will do the competition.

-Pti

FOOTBALL

Minerva Public School, St. John High School among semi -finalists

Minerva Public School, St John High School and Vidyachal International School belonged to the teams that the semi-final of the Sub-Junior Boys (U-15) category of the 64th Subroto Cup International Football Tournament here on Monday on Monday.

Minerva Public School (CISCE) rushed into the semi-final with an impressive 10-0 win over SFS Higher Secondary School (Namaland).

St. John High School (Jharkhand) ran past Manikpara Vivekananda Vidyapith (West Bengal) 3-2 to book their semi-final berth.

Vidyachal International School (Bihar) insured a hard-fought 2-1 win over Mothers Pride Public School (Himachal Pradesh).

In the last quarter final, River Side Natural School (Madhya Pradesh) achieved a 2-0 win over Anand Niketan School (Gujarat).

-Pti

Published on September 8, 2025