Randhawa down to fifth

Ace Indian golfer Jyoti Randhawa dropped a rung to fifth but Gaganjeet Bhullar held on to the sixth spot in the Asian Tour’s Order of Merit list issued on Monday. Randhawa has earnings of $ 318,350, while Bhullar has $ 308,916. The two are the only Indians in the top-10 bracket. At the top, the race for the Order of Merit crown is now down to Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand and Liang Wen-chong of China.

India thrashed

Indian men got off to a dismal start after suffering two humiliating defeats, while the women’s team experienced a mixed day at the Asian Rugby 7s Circuit in Borneo. It was a hapless performance on the men’s part on Sunday as they were left totally beaten by both China and fourth seeded Chinese Taipei 0-45 and 0-24, respectively. Meanwhile, the women team came out with fine all-round performance to overcome Malaysia 21-10, but failed to maintain the rhythm in their next match that they lost to Thailand 0-45.

Ghosal in round two

India's lone challenge Saurav Ghosal shrugged off a one-game deficit and battled back to beat French qualifier Mathieu Castagnet in the first round of the Men's World Squash Open in Kuwait. Ghosal, India's number one, defeated Castagnet 0-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-5 in 56 minutes in the $ 277,500 PSA world tour event at the Salmiya Club in the Kuwait city. "It was just weird," explained the 29th seed from Chennai after his match. "He played really well - but I was in the rallies, but everything was wrong, even my body language, but I'm really happy to win.

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