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Indian girls clinch four medals in Bahrain Open TT

New Delhi: India’s young paddlers stole the limelight in the Bahrain Junior and Cadet Open, clinching a rich haul of four medals — a gold, two silver and a bronze.



New Delhi
India’s young paddlers stole the limelight in the Bahrain Junior and Cadet Open, clinching a rich haul of four medals — a gold, two silver and a bronze. All the three Indian teams in the fray in the cadet girls’ team category entered the semifinals. Yashaswini Ghorpade and Kavya Sree Baskar beat Egypt’s Farida Badawy and Hana Goda 3-2. Suhana Saini and Anargya Manjunath beat compatriots Radhika Sakpal and Hardee Patel 3-0. In the final, Suhana and Anargya beat Yashaswini and Kavya 3-0 to clinch title. 

Gwalior
Punjab to play Railways in hockey Nationals final
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Windies’ Paul gives England early setback
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Bangladesh’s Shakib ruled out of New Zealand ODIs 
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Coulter-Nile suffers vertigo bout during BBL game
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Indore
Advani enters finals of snooker Nationals
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