.jpg "Indian sports news wrap, December 2: Rethin, Aishi win ITF junior titles; Elavenil clinches shooting nationals gold")
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Here are all the major updates, results and developments from the world of Indian sports on Saturday, December 2.
TENNIS
Rethin wins third singles title of season
Fifth seed Rethin Pranav played a fluent all-round game to beat Hiromasa Koyama of Japan 6-3, 6-3 in the final of the ITF junior tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex in New Delhi on Saturday.
Serving strong and stroking with purpose, the 16-year-old Rethin gave little room for the Japanese to execute his counter-punching style of play. The Japanese had beaten a string of quality players including the top seed Kriish Tyagi, but was unable to match up to Rethin this day.
It was the third singles title of the season and fourth of his career for Rethin, who aspires to rise in the rankings in time to make the cut for the Australian Open junior event.
Rethin had earlier won the doubles title in partnership with Moise Kouame of France.
In the girls section, the California-based Aishi Bisht proved too much of a competitor for the comfort of Laxmisiri Dandu in eking out a 7-5, 7-5 victory.
It was a maiden singles title in the ITF junior circuit for the 14-year-old Aishi, ranked a modest 2,612 in the world. She stayed calm right through the match and played to the best of her abilities. She did not drop a set on her way to the singles title, after having gained a wild card entry.
Aishi had made the doubles final as well, in partnership with Aradhyaa Verma.
THE RESULTS (FINALS)
Boys: Rethin Pranav bt Hiromasa Koyama (Jpn) 6-3, 6-3.
Girls: Aishi Bisht bt Laxmisiri Dandu 7-5, 7-5.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
SHOOTING
Elavenil wins in Nationals
Former world No.1 Elavenil Valarivan shot close to her best both in qualification and final to clinch the women’s air rifle gold in the 66th National shooting championship at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, in New Delhi on Saturday.
The 24-year-old Elavenil shot 253.4 in the final to beat Asian Games medallist Ramita Jindal by 0.9 point for the gold. Elavenil had qualified with the second best score of 632.9 in an exceptionally strong field of 722 shooters.
Nancy won the bronze ahead of World Championship bronze medallist Mehuli Ghosh.
Qualification topper, the 16-year-old Isha Taksale (633.3) finished eighth, both in the women’s and junior finals.
Sanjeeta Das, Disha Dhankhar and Ayushi Podder were the others to make the women’s final.
Ramita won the junior gold, beating Disha by 2.2 points. Gautami Bhanot won the bronze ahead of the Olympic quota winner Tilottama Sen. Gautami won the youth gold, beating Ramita by 0.9.
Isha won the sub-youth gold, on the basis of her qualification score, as the event does not feature a final.
THE RESULTS
10m air rifle: Women: 1. Elavenil Valarivan 253.4 (632.9); 2. Ramita Jindal 252.5 (632.5); 3. Nancy 231.7 (632.5).
Juniors: 1. Ramita Jindal 254.9 (632.5); 2. Disha Dhankhar 252.7 (631.5); 3. Gautami Bhanot 231.6 (629.3).
Youth: 1. Gautami Bhanot 252.9 (629.3); 2. Ramita Jindal 252.0 (632.5); 3. Sanjeeta Das 230.5 (630.9).
Sub-youth: 1. Isha Taksale 633.3; 2. Hazel 630.5; 3. Hrudya Kondur 629.6.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
BASKETBALL
Punjab men, Railways women begin quest to defend National titles
Punjab men and Railways women will try to defend their titles in the 73rd National basketball championship being hosted at the Guru Nanak Indoor Stadium in Ludhiana from Sunday.
It will be a strong field of 33 teams in the men’s event and 30 in the women’s event.
The top-10 teams in both the men’s and women’s sections will compete on a league basis in two groups. The rest of the teams will compete at the secondary level to try and make it to the knock-out stage.
ELITE GROUPS
MEN
Group-A: Punjab, Rajasthan, Telangana, Services, Madhya Pradesh; Group-B: Tamil Nadu, Railways, Delhi, Kerala, Gujarat.
WOMEN
Group-A: Railways, Karnataka, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh; Group-B: Kerala, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
TABLE TENNIS
Jennifer-Divyanshi pair in final of World Youth TT C’ship
India’s Jennifer Varghese and Divyanshi Bhowmick produced exceptional teamwork in the U-15 girls’ doubles semifinal to down French-Chinese duo of Leana Hochart and Nina Guo Zheng 3-0 to enter the final of the ITTF World Youth Championships in Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
The Indian pair won 14-12, 11-9, 11-8 on Friday night.
The Indian duo will face Japan’s Yuna Ojio and Mao Takamori in the final later on Saturday night.
The Jennifer and Divyanshi pair struggled to win the extended game 14-12. But soon, they played cleverly against the French-Chinese pair and led 2-0.
After that, the Indians raised their game to outlast their opponents and enter the final, assuring themselves of a silver at least, which would be a first in the World Youth for the junior paddlers.
In the U-15 mixed doubles, Jenifer combined with R. Abhinandan to claim another bronze when the pair beat the Chinese duo, also a first for India.
India had claimed the youth girls under-19 bronze medal in the team events, scoring an upset win over Egypt in the quarterfinals a few days ago.
– PTI
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