Palpreet enters nba Draft
Mumbai: Palpreet Singh, winner of National Finals of ACG-NBA Jump, India's first national basketball talent search program, was selected 11th in the fourth Round of the NBA D-league Draft held in New York. The 21-year old was drafted by the long Island Nets, affiliate team of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, on Sunday. The 6ft 9in hoopster, who has been training at the New York Athletic Club in Manhattan, said he had trained hard and was confident of getting picked by a D league team in the draft. Palpreet, who impressed NBA champion Brian Shaw in the national finals of the 2016 ACG NBA Jump program held in February, was part of the 2016 NBA D-league National Tryouts held on August 14 in New York. More than 200 pro basketball prospects showcased their skills in front of NBA D-league player personnel executives, coaches, and industry scouts that day.
Verma brothers To lead India
Saarbrucken: Young shuttlers, including Sourabh Verma and Sameer Verma, will spearhead the Indian challenge at the $120,000 Bitburger Open Grand Prix Gold which will get underway here on Tuesday. Sourabh, who clinched the Chinese Taipei title early this month, and his younger brother Sameer, who became the senior National champion this year, will open their campaign against qualifiers on Tuesday. Among others in men's singles, Siril Verma will clash with sixth seed Ihsan Maulana Mustofa of Indonesia, Anand Pawar will face third seed Marc Zwiebler of Germany and Subhankar Dey will take on Indonesia's Jonatan Christie, seeded fifth.
Shocker for dipika
Cairo: India's top squash player Dipika Pallikal Karthik went down against qualifier Mariam Metwally of Egypt in the first round of the Wadi Dagla Open, a PSA world tour event, here on Monday. Dipika squandered a two-game advantage to go down 11-5, 11-9, 6-11, 7-11, 8-11 to the Egyptian in a dramatic opening round match of the squash event which is being held alongside the men's world championship here. With two games in the kitty, Dipika seemed well on course. The change came there as a slip turned into a slide and the Egyptian made the best of the situation to carve out the win in just under an hour. With Dipika's exit, the Indian presence in this event ended.
92-yr-old Indian wins gold
Perth: In a first, a 92-year-old Indian Navy veteran has won a gold medal in a 5,000-metres race walk at the World Masters Athletics Championships being held here. Commodore V Sriramulu (Retd), a veteran settled in Visakhapatnam, has won the Gold Medal in the Race Walk event in the age group of 90-95 years. He is also participating in two other race walks — one of 10 kms and another of 20 kms this week.