Joshna goes down fighting to Annie

MUMBAI: India’s Joshna Chinappa settled for second place in the JSW Indian Squash Circuit Otters International 2016 on Sunday when she went down in straight games

Published on: Oct 3, 2016, 06:43:01 IST

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MUMBAI: India’s Joshna Chinappa settled for second place in the JSW Indian Squash Circuit Otters International 2016 on Sunday when she went down in straight games to Hong Kong’s Annie Au in the women’s final.

Joshna, the current world No 10, gave a very good fight to her world No 13 ranked opponent in the first two games before losing 9-11, 11-13, 7-11 in 55 minutes at the Otters Club.

In the all-Spanish men’s final, top seed Iker Pajares Bernabeu who is ranked 99th in the men’s PSA circuit, defeated second seed Edmon Lopez in three

straight games.

HARIKA OFF TO WINNING START

DOUGLAS (ISLE OF MAN): Indian Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli started her campaign in the Isle of Man International chess tournament on a winning note, comfortably beating Rocabado Fernando of Argentina.

World No 10 Harika, with a ELO rating of 2542, hardly broke into a sweat against her lower ranked opponent (ELO 2187) on Saturday.

Seeded 36 for this event, Harika plays American Grandmaster So Wesley in the next round.

INDIAN JUNIORS HELD 1-1 IN AHL

PERTH: India’s junior team and Canberra Lakers played a tough 1-1 draw in their Pool B game of the Australian Hockey League (AHL) on Sunday.

In the final minute of the first quarter, Ajit Pandey scored to give the Indian juniors the lead.

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