Paddlers beat Chile in World TT Team C’ships opener

Busan
The Indian men’s team secured a comfortable 3-0 victory over Chile to open its World Table Tennis Team Championships campaign on a winning note here today. Sharath Kamal, won 11-5 11-8 11-6 over world No. 53 Nicholas Burgos. Harmeet Desai beat Gustavo Gomez 11-8 11-7 11-6 win, G Sathiyan then won 12-10 11-8 11-8 over Olivares Felipe.

Los Angeles
Tiger Woods withdraws from Riviera with flu symptoms
Tiger Woods returned to the PGA Tour and lasted only 24 holes, withdrawing Friday from the Genesis Invitational with flu-like symptoms and dehydration after hitting his tee shot on the seventh hole at Riviera.

New Delhi
Mehuli and Divyansh lose in bronze medal match
The Indian 10m air rifle mixed team pairing of Mehuli Ghosh and Divyansh Singh Panwar went down 9-17 to Hungary’s Eszter Meszaros and Istvan Peni in the bronze-medal match to finish fourth at the ISSF World Cup 10M in Granada, Spain, today. India continues to lead the standings with four gold and 10 medals.

Cairo
Pranati Nayak wins bronze in gymanstics World Cup
Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak clinched the bronze medal in the women’s vault event at the FIG Apparatus World Cup, a Paris Olympics qualifying event, here today. She aggregated 13.616 points. Agencies