Daily Sports Catch-Up: India Juniors excel, Bopanna thrills, Advani wins again...

Snooker

Star of the day: Pankaj Advani has won another World Championship– 15 World titles in all! He defeated Zhao Zingtong of China 8-6 in the IBSF World snooker Championship final and is now foraying into the Pro snooker Circuit. Advani only recently shifted his focus to Snooker from Billiards, where he won every major event- Federeresque!

Hockey

Asia Juniors Hockey Cup: India thrashed Japan 6-1 thanks to another brace from Harmanpreet Singh and will face Pakistan in the final. Interesting match on the cards.

Stat of the day: 10 goals from 4 games– Harmanpreet is the leading scorer of the tournament and a star for the future!

Tennis

Bopanna/Mergea continue their dream run, comfortably disposing off 3 seeded Dodig/Melo 6-4, 6-2 to enter the final of the ATP World Tour Finals#MakingIndiaProud

#LetsFootball

Stiven Mendoza scored a hat-trick as Chennaiyin FC thrashed Kerala Blasters 4-1, to keep their qualification chances alive. Mendoza is now ISL-2015's sole leading goal-scorer (9 goals) and also across both seasons (13 goals)! Joint leader until yesterday, Sunil Chhetri is right at the center of the firing line of manager Anelka who has ranted at his players, again!

Quick-Bytes

• Cricket: India U-19s defeated Afghanistan U-19s by 33 runs
• Blow to I-League! Royal Wahingdoh, 2nd runners-up this season, become 3rd team to pull out from the next season
• Did you know? Harbhajan Singh runs five cricket coaching academies and wants to unearth talent from rural India– Respect!

Key matches today!

• ATP World Tour Finals: Bopanna/Mergea vs Rojer/Tecau for the title!
• Junior Asia hockey Cup: India vs Pakistan for the championship!
• India vs World champions Australia in hockey: 2nd Test

Feature of the day!

 Story of Anas Edathodika, the auto-driver who now plays for Delhi Dynamos in ISL

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