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Bangkok, Jan 22 (UNI) Ace Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Sameer Verma crashed out of the Toyota Thailand Open Super 1000 while Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa entered the mixed doubles semifinals, here on Friday.
Olympic silver medallist Sindhu bowed out of the badminton tournament after a 21-13, 21-9 loss to local favourite Ratchanok Intanon in the quarter-finals,
‘I think I made a lot of unforced errors and gave away easy points. I didn’t play my best, it wasn’t my day. Intanon is a great player and I was prepared for that. I was responding to all her strokes, but I was making mistakes. If I had won the first game, I think things would have been comparatively different,” Sindhu said after the game.
Galle, Jan 22 (UNI) Angelo Mathews’s impressive, unbeaten century (107*) helped Sri Lanka to recover from a nervy start and close the opening day of the second Test against England at 229/4, here on Friday.
Jammu, Jan 22 (UNI) The Pinto Club spikers and Khalsa Warriors have won volleyball and hockey matches respectively on the second day of Jammu edition of Premier League matches being played at different venues here.
New Delhi, Jan 22 (UNI) The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Friday won the Ice Hockey Association of India (IHAI)’s 10th National Ice Hockey Championship trophy after a superb win over Ladakh UT team in the finals at Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir.

Bangkok, Jan 22 (UNI) India’s mixed doubles duo Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa entered the semifinals of the Toyota Thailand Open badminton tournament after beating fifth seeded Malaysian pair Peng Soon Chan and Liu Ying Goh in a hard-fought contest, here on Friday.