Rathore’s son wins silver
New Delhi: Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore’s teenaged son Manavaditya Rathore won a silver medal in the Trap Event at the 5th Junior International Shotgun Competition being held at Orimatiila, Finland. Rathore Junior scored 110 out of possible 125 to clinch the second position in the event. later, he teamed up with Sunil Sharan and Abhay Rathore to win gold in the team championship as well. The girls also weren’t left behind as Malika Vig and Varsha Varman battled hard to win silver and bronze medal in the individual trap event.
IBl auctions on July 19 in Delhi
New Delhi: The Indian Badminton league (IBl) is all set to hold its first players auctions here on July 19 with more than 150 shuttlers expected to go under the hammer for 66 slots in six teams. Each franchisee can feature 11 players, including a maximum of four foreign shuttlers and one under-19 player from their catchment area. There will be a total of six icon players starting with a base price of USD 50,000 in the auction, for whom franchisee will bid from draw of lots. Indian stars Saina Nehwal, Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponnappa, Parupalli Kashyap and P V Sindhu will have icon status in the auction, while a leading foreign star will be the sixth icon player. Each franchisee will be allotted a maximum of Rs 1.5 crore to bid for players with the icon player receiving 10 per cent more than the highest-bid player in the team.
Chhetri to talk to lisbon
Bangalore: India football Captain Sunil Chhetri on Friday said he would return to Sporting lisbon to complete his contract obligations but has decided to play domestic football if the Portugal club rejects his plea for a loan to some other club. The former Sporting Kansas player said in the last six months that he had been to Portugal he has played six matches which wasn’t good for him. The former Dempo star had come back to India in a bid to see more playing time after he had endured a tough few months as part of Sporting lisbon’s B team. Chhetri played just five matches in Portugal, failing to start even a single game before moving to Churchill on a loan.
Miserable start by Atwal
Bethesda: Arjun Atwal’s miserable form continued as he plummeted an eight-over 79 at the Congressional, a course that hosted the US Open last year. Atwal had four bogeys, three doubles and just two birdies and was sure to miss the cut at 127th after first round. Roberto Castro led the field with a round of five-under 66 on course yielded only about a dozen scores in the 60s and the average score was just over 73. Bud Cauley, Billy Horschel and Graham Delaet shot 68 each to tie for second. Atwal has made just one cut in four previous starts on PGA Tour and made two other cuts in eight starts on Web.Com Tour.
Miserable start by Atwal
Bethesda: Arjun Atwal’s miserable form continued as he plummeted an eight-over 79 at the Congressional. Atwal had four bogeys, three doubles and just two birdies and was sure to miss the cut at 127th after first round. Roberto Castro led the field with a round of five-under 66 on course yielded only about a dozen scores in the 60s and the average score was just over 73. Bud Cauley, Billy Horschel and Graham Delaet shot 68 each to tie for second. Atwal has made just one cut in four previous starts on PGA Tour and made two other cuts in eight starts on Web.Com Tour.
Jeev, Chowrasia struggle
Kildare: Jeev Milkha Singh and SSP Chowrasia are sure to miss the cut after carding 75 and 73 in the first two rounds of the Irish Open at Carton House on Friday. The Indian pair was way down at four-over for 36 holes, where the cut looked likely at even par. At the top of the leaderboard, where Peter Uihlein and Robert Rock shared the lead midway through the second round. Uihlein has been in good form after winning his first European Tour event at the Madeira Islands Open last month, while Rock had missed six cuts in nine tournaments since finishing tied for seventh in Dubai.
Ishfaq in contract trouble
Kolkata: Seasoned midfielder Ishfaq Ahmed on Friday rubbished media reports that he had breached his IMG-Reliance contract for the IPl-style football tournament to play for I-league club East Bengal. "I’ve signed a contract with IMG-Reliance for their proposed franchisee tournament. It’s my privilege to play for the tournament and I’m fully committed to honour my contract," Ishfaq said about recent reports that he was in "talks" with East Bengal officials. IMG-Reliance is in the process of contracting Indian footballers and will also look at the possibility of taking I-league players on loan for the tournament which is slated for early next year in the empty slot of AIFF calendar.