Sathiyan enters Round of 32 at World Table Tennis Championships

Houston

India’s G Sathiyan progressed to the men’s singles third round at the World Table Tennis Championships with a 4-0 win over Russia’s Vladimir Sidorenko here. The world No. 37 from India defeated his 179th-ranked opponent 11-9 11-9 11-8 11-6.

New Delhi

Saurabh Chaudhary wins pistol gold at Nationals

Participating in the men’s 50m pistol event for the very first time, Olympian Saurabh Chaudhary struck gold with a score of 564 at the 64th National Shooting Championships here today.

Bloemfontein (South Africa)

Easwaran’s ton, Panchal’s 96 take India A to 308/4

Abhimanyu Easwaran scored a hundred but skipper Priyank Panchal missed out as India A reached 308/4 against South Africa A before bad light forced an early stumps to the third day’s play in the first unofficial Test here. Easwaran made 103 off 209 balls, with 16 boundaries. Panchal fell at 96. South Africa A had declared their first innings at 509/7. Prithvi Shah made 48 off 45 balls.

Phuket

Solid starts for Kapur, Chikka as Asian Tour returns

Indian golfers Shiv Kapur and S Chikkarangappa carded a solid 4-under 68 each in the opening round as the Asian Tour made a return to action after 20 months with the Phuket Championship. Kapur and Chikkarangappa were tied-fifth after the opening day. Honey Baisoya, Karandeep Kochhar and Viraj Madappa were tied-10th at 3-under 69. SSP Chawrasia, Ajeetesh Sandhu and Veer Ahwalat were T-24 at 2-under. Jeev Milkha Singh and Khalin Joshi were T-42 at 1-under.

Chandigarh

Surinder appointed coach of Indian senior badminton team

Chandigarh’s badminton coach Surinder Mahajan has been appointed the Indian team coach for the World Senior Badminton Championships, to be held at Huelva, Spain, from November 28 to December 4.

Fatorda

ISL: NorthEast, Kerala share points in intense duel

NorthEast United FC and Kerala Blasters FC shared the spoils after playing out a goalless draw at the Indian Super League here today.

Colombo

West Indies flunk trial by spin, Sri Lanka grab lead

Sri Lanka flexed their spin muscles to crush West Indies by 187 runs in the opening Test today and take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series. — Agencies