angeovers to work on his upper back as a ruthless Shapovalov moved in for the kill, breaking him to lead 4-3 and again take the set. Patna slowed down for a few minutes after that but were back in the game when they inflicted an all out in the 17th minute. The three leading teams all avoid each other in Monday’s games, when Poland can reassert itself with a home game against the last-place Kazakhs. However, for the shorter formats, young Rishabh Pant took over the reins. “We try hard everywhere, but probably the emotions would be bigger here. Continuing their fine form in the tournament, the Chandigarh Hockey Academy girls maintained their supremacy in the final. How he develops a working relationship with Gautam Gambhir — the team’s senior-most player— would be crucial to the team’s fortunes. The panic-stricken federation hastily decided to send the wrestlers to Paris 17 days before the world championship began. But it is very clear now that the team needs a foreign expert,” said Sushil, who hired Mestvirishvili as the chief coach of his academy in Delhi. It summed up India’s woeful preparation, resulting in none of the 24 wrestlers crossing the quarterfinal stage of the world championships, which concluded in Paris last week.