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Basketball

India qualifies for 2025 FIBA ​​Asia Cup with thrilling win over Bahrain

India dominated in a thriller on Saturday night to qualify for the FIBA ​​Men’s Asia Cup 2025, showcasing a resurgent side and a stellar finishing skillset.

India will now travel to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from August 5 to August 17.

Of course not dear, India have beaten Iraq — 7777 and then Bahrain have beaten the third-placed teams in Group-H. At half-time, India led Bahrain 3-3-38 and then they moved to third place with a lead of 52-55. This was the fourth and final quarter of the famous victory. India last defeated Bahrain in 21.

Harsha Dagar was the star for India with 20 points – 3-5 pointers. He had three rebounds, three assists and two steals. Gurbaaz Sandhu was the next top scorer with 19 points. Kanwar Sandhu participated in the perfection, scoring 5 points and Prince and Hafeez picked up 5 points each. The main reason for India’s victory was his three pointers, which are the main reason for Scott Fleming’s head coach. This was converted 14 times out of 29 attempts.

India seemed to be in control of the match with a 62-55 lead entering the fourth quarter. However, Bahrain struggled to find two points to tie the game at 777-755. Aurobindo Krishnan made a three-pointer with just one minute and 38 seconds left to make it 78-77. It was an exciting final few seconds as both sides fought hard. In the second second, Prince forced a turnover when he pulled off the most rash inbounds pass. The team erupted in celebration after the final whistle.

India has now qualified for the Asia Cup for the 11th time.

“Our boys are really proud to be here and have won two games when they could have easily gone the other way. Now it’s our third win in the Asia Cup qualifiers and these are unchartered territories that we haven’t had in India for a long time. It’s all about them. I’m trying to work on these things…” We’ve worked on these things.”

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National Under-25 Basketball Championship 2025: Tamil Nadu to finalize Kerala’s back row

Top-scoring Nikita. .

Karnataka will face Tamil Nadu in the final semi-final.

In the fourth quarter of the quarter, Haryana defeated Karnataka, who took the lead in the third and fourth after sharing the honours in the first, 3-705, and set up a summit clash with Punjab, who defeated Rajasthan in the men’s section.

– Team Sportster

Lust

Jasprit Kaur breaks national record in powerlifting to play India Para Games in 2025

Punjab powerlifter Jasprit Kaur won the gold medal in the women’s freestyle event on the fourth day of the India Para Games (KPG) in New Delhi on Sunday.

4-year-old Kaur from KPG 2025 has become the first athlete to break the national record by lifting 101 kg.

In the 2023 edition, Kaur won the gold medal in the same event, setting her own national record of 100 kg.

“I wanted to do better this time. Setting a national record helped me move up the national rankings,” he told SAI Media.

It wasn’t easy to gain over 16 kg in less than two years. Kaur trained intensely, studied various new strategies and changed her diet to maintain her fitness.

However, the biggest challenge to overcome is working with anxiety issues.

“I introduced Citizens in 2022. So, I always feel like I’m pretty new to this game.”

“It didn’t happen overnight. It took me three years to achieve this kind of achievement,” said Kaur, who was three years old.

– PTI

Hockey

Mohun Garden defeats East Bengal to win Kolkata Premier Hockey League

Mohun Bagh defeated East Bengal 4-1 in their bid to reclaim the Kolkata Premier Hockey League crown at the Dumurajla Hockey Ground in Hawa on Sunday.

The traditional rivals confirmed the top two spots in the points table after the Kolkata derby clash.

The garden has a prize pool of 5 lakhs, while the runner-up, EB, Inor, got 2 lakhs. The highest scorer in the league, Garden of Garden and the best player, each got 10,000 dollars per EB’s deep.

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Tennis

Miami Open 2025: Yuki Vambri is ready to replace Rohan Bopanna as doubles-1.

In the opening round of the men’s doubles at the Miami Open on Saturday, Yuki Vambri and Nuno Borges of Portugal lost to Rohan Bopanna and Ivan Dodig of Croatia 3-6, 6-6 (5-7).

As a result, Vambri Bopanna will take India’s place as the number one player in the ATP doubles rankings.

Bopanna won the title in Miami last year with Matthew Abben in Australia. However, due to his first-round performance, the 45-year-old has moved up the rankings from 21st to 43rd. On the other hand, Vambrie has jumped from 37th to 29th.

Vambrie and Borges will face the Czech-British pair of Adam Pavlasek and Jamie Murray for a place in the quarter-finals. Murray and Pavlasek defeated fourth-seeded Spaniard Marcel Graner and Argentine Horacio Zeballos 10-7 in a super tie-break.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

ITF Men’s Tournament: Top seed Jay Clarke defeats Italian Alexandra Binda

Britain’s top seed J. Clarke defeated Italy’s second seed Alexandra Bind 3-6 (6) in the final of the ITF Men’s Tennis Championship at the Gujarat University Tennis Academy on Sunday.

The 26-year-old’s victory was his second consecutive title, following his victory last week in Chandigarh.

This was the lone title of the 5th career Wong, who participated in four Challengers of India tournaments in Chennai, Bengaluru, Pune and Delhi earlier this season, but he won just three matches in all.

J, who had a career-best 153 in two weeks in 2019, was placed in ITF tournaments and was in the semi-finals at the current event against Arya Shah.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Golf

Women’s NSW Open: Mimi Rhodes Joy is 5th in Australia, Pranav is 5th in the 5th.

Digger Digger and Pranabi missed a crucial shot near the Urs finish and missed the top-10 of the Ford Women’s NSW Open in Australia.

After Diksha and Sweetheart T-1 and T-1 each, 72 shots in 1 over, fellow Indian Avani Prashant reached a strong finish with a triple bogey in the 18th.

Australian Mimi Rhodes climbed onto two early birdies at second and fourth and overcame the remaining holes with a 2-under 69 for a 2-under 69, giving her her first Women’s European Tour title.

The 26-year-old was followed by Kirsten Ruzley (68) and Italian Alessandro Fanali (61), who were 5-to-1 in second place.

Starting with six purses, the seventh and eighth initiations fell behind.

However, he made it up with birdies at the 10th, 11th and 14th.

He is seen in top-10 finishes until he doubles in the 16th to finish 1 over and has an 8-over total.

– PTI

Kim Vidal reigns supreme over Delhi Challenging Champion Joshua England

Spaniard Quim Vidal won the third hole of the final round of the Delhi Challenge golf tournament in England to defeat the defending champion of the tournament in the United States at the Classic Golf and Country Club on Sunday.

It was a bright finish for Vidal. After starting the day with a three-shot lead, Vidal had to birdie the 18th to force a play-off with a one-and-done 71 for the fourth round.

Joshua had six birdies and two bogeys for a 689-round total.

Arjun Prasad made six birdies and a bogey in his fourth round, finishing sixth with a 15-under 273.

The champion won INR 41,28,000 and the runner-up INR 28,38,000. Arjun pocketed INR 7,53,360.

“I knew I had to make a play-off. I was really focused on making that putt. It was probably the only long putt that day. It was special,” said Vidal, who finally secured the title with a brilliant birdie on the third play-off hole.

“The play-offs were very strong. I didn’t know how it would end,” Vidal admitted.

-Kamesh Srinivasan