Indian sports activities information wrap, December 24

TENNIS

Priska Nugroho of Indonesia stayed on target for her second successive title as she beat Anastasia Kulikova of Finland 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-3 within the semifinals of the $25,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event on the Ganesh Naik Advanced on Saturday.

Within the ultimate, Priska will play Valeria Savinykh who ousted third seeded Ankita Raina for the lack of 5 video games.

Priska partnered Ekaterina Yashina to win the doubles ultimate 6-3, 6-1 towards the highest seeded Indian duo of Ankita Raina and Prarthana Thombare who had emerged champions final week in Solapur.

The outcomes:

Singles (semifinals): Valeria Savinykh bt Ankita Raina 6-1, 6-4; Priska Nugroho (Ina) bt Anastasia Kulikova (Fin) 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-3.

Doubles (ultimate): Priska Nugroho (Ina) & Ekaterina Yashina bt Ankita Raina & Prarthana Thombare 6-3, 6-1.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

High seed Jason David beat sixth seed Satwik Murali 1-6, 6-2, 6-2 within the boys ultimate of the AITA Nationwide series under-18 tennis event on the Singha Sports activities Academy on Saturday.

Jason had not dropped a set within the first rounds, however recovered after shedding the primary set within the ultimate to claim his sturdy sport.

The outcomes:

Underneath-18 boys (ultimate) Jason David bt Satwik Murali 1-6, 6-2, 6-2.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

SHOOTING

World champion Rudrankksh Patil, Parth Makhija, Kiran Jadhav, Yukthi Rajendra, Ashi Chouksey and Shriyanka Sadangi might be among the main shooters competing within the thirteenth RR Lakshya Cup capturing championship on the Kamala Sports activities Academy, Panvel, on Sunday.

The championship, which has been selling gender equality for the reason that first version in 2008, lengthy earlier than the Worldwide federation adopted swimsuit, because of the foresight of Dronacharya awardee Suma Shirur, will provide Rs.150,000 for the champion of the principle occasion, and Rs.75,000 for the junior champion. Each the champions can even get high of the road Capapie Jacket-Trouser set.

There can even be money prizes for the second and third place holders, aside from three particular pizes of Rs.25,000 every to the shooters of “most interior tens”, “greatest series”, and “most 10.9s”.

A number of the champions and medallists of Lakshya Cup through the years, like Divyansh Singh Panwar, Deepak Kumar and Anjum Moudgil have gone on to characterize the nation within the Olympics. The junior gold winner of 2017, Shahu Tushar Mane went on to win the silver within the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires in 2018.

-Kamesh Srinivasan