BOXING
Sub-Junior Nationwide Boxing C’ships: 5 boxers from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh enter quarterfinals
Boxers from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh displayed spectacular present on the 2022 Sub-Junior Ladies and Boys Nationwide Boxing Championships as 5 boys progressed into the quarterfinals on the Encourage Institute of Sports activities in Bellary, Karnataka.
Vinit Kumar started the day brilliantly for Haryana when he outclassed Rajasthan’s Chandra Shekhar by unanimous determination within the 40kg pre-quarter remaining. Hunny (43kg), Mahesh (46kg) and Lokesh (64kg) additional prolonged Haryana's dominance with victories by related margins. Whereas Hunny and Mahesh thrashed Telangana’s Sana Ulla and Nikhil Goud respectively, Lokesh defeated Uttar Pradesh’s Pritam Gupta.
Yogesh Danda was the fifth Haryana boxer to make his method into the Final-8 stage after beating Pondicherry’s Prithvi by RSC verdict within the 52kg class.
Producing equally dominant performances, 4 Uttar Pradesh pugilists—MD Faiz (61kg), Lakshya Singh Parihar (40kg), Vishal Yadav (67kg) and Vishu Rajtun (70kg) clinched sensational RSC wins of their respective pre-quarterfinals whereas Ravi Gond needed to work exhausting throughout his 55kg match in opposition to Assam’s Shahiman Newar however managed to win by a cut up 4-1 determination.
Whereas Faiz and Lakshya defeated Andhra Pradesh’s Teja Krishna Yadav and Uttarakhand’s Karan Adhikari respectively, Vishal and Vishnu outpunched Maharashtra’s Shivam Ijagaj and Orissa’s Akash Kumar Panigrahi.
Delhi’s Shivam and Lovjeet, and Chandigarh’s Loven and Nittin had been among the many different pugilists who entered quarter-finals with robust performances.
Shyam (49kg) and Lovjeet (58kg) registered an identical 5-0 wins in opposition to their respective opponents from Maharashtra, Atharva Naik and Atharva Bhatt.
Alternatively, Nittin made gentle work of Telangana’s Pranav Shiva to win by 5-0 within the 37kg class whereas, within the 70kg Final-16 bout, Loven notched up a commanding RSC win in opposition to Madhya Pradesh’s Suryabhan Singh.
The on-going championship has been witnessing participation of 621 boxers, together with 348 within the boys’ part, from 31 groups throughout the nation.
TENNIS
Karan Singh beat Michell-Alexandre Fortin in $25,000 ITF males’s tennis match
Karan Singh beat Michell-Alexandre Fortin of Canada 6-0, 6-4 within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis match in Monastir, Tunisia, on Tuesday.
Within the $25,000 ITF ladies’s occasion in Georgia, Zeel Desai acquired off to a superb begin in a draw of 64, beating Anastasia Ponomariova 6-0, 6-2.
The outcomes:
$25,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (first spherical): Karan Singh bt Michel-Alexandre Fortin (Can) 6-0, 6-4. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shivank Bhatnagar & Dharmil Shah bt Sam Bind (GBR) & Tang Jinpeng (Chn) 6-2, 7-5. $15,000 ITF males, Oran, Algeria Singles (first spherical): Reyan Ghedjemis (Alg) bt Jagmeet Singh 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. $25,000 ITF ladies, Tbilisi, Georgia Singles (first spherical): Zeel Desai bt Anastassia Ponomariova (Geo) 6-0, 6-2. $15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (first spherical): Helenna Narmont (Est) bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-2, 1-6, 6-2; Milana Zhabrailova bt Kaaviya Balasubramanian 6-2, 6-0. $15,000 ITF ladies, Oran, Algeria Singles (first spherical): Ela Platenikova (Svk) bt Snehal Mane 6-1, 6-1. |
-Kamesh Srinivasan
FOOTBALL
India drawn in Group D and H of AFC U-17, U-20 Asian Cup qualifiers
India has been drawn in Group D and Group H of the AFC U-17 and U-20 Asian Cup Qualifiers, respectively, that are set to happen later this 12 months.
The AFC U-17 Championship Qualifiers will see the India U-17 boys' staff coached by Bibiano Fernandes tackle Maldives, Kuwait, Myanmar and hosts Saudi Arabia in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, in October.
In the meantime, the India U-20 males's staff, coached by Shanmugam Venkatesh will face hosts Iraq, Australia, and Kuwait in Basra, Iraq, in September.
In each circumstances, the group toppers and the 5 finest second-placed groups will earn qualification to the AFC U-17 and the AFC U-20 Asian Cups in Bahrain and Uzbekistan, in 2023.
- PTI
CHESS
Abhijeet Gupta takes sole lead in Sharjah Masters
Abhijeet Gupta received the top-board battle in opposition to fellow chief Misratbin Iskandarov in 34 strikes to change into the one participant with a 'excellent' rating after 4 rounds of Sharjah Masters chess match in Sharjah, on Tuesday.
The outcomes (involving Indians):
Fourth spherical: Abhijeet Gupta (4) bt Misratbin Iskandarov (Aze, 3); Gabriel Sargissian (Arm, 2.5) drew with Raunak Sadhwani (2.5); Arjun Erigaisi (2.5) drew with Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2.5); Pavel Ponkratov
(FIDE, 2.5) drew with S. L. Narayanan (2.5); Nodirbek Abdusattarov (Uzb, 3) bt Aryan Chopra (2); Aleksandar Indjic (Ser, 2.5) drew with D. Gukesh (2.5); Aravindh Chithambaram (2) misplaced to Haik Martirosyan
(Arm, 3); S. P. Sethuraman (2.5) drew with Shant Sargsyan (Arm, 2.5); B. Adhiban (2.5) bt Sankalp Gupta (1.5); Meruert Kamildenova (Kaz, 1.5) misplaced to Abhimanyu Puranik (2.5); Nihal Sarin (1.5) drew with
Mamikon Gharibyan (Arm, 1.5); Omran Al Hosani (UAE, 1) misplaced to Aditya Mittal (1.5).
GOLF
Modest begin by Avani and Sneha at Queen Sirikit Cup golf
The Indian trio led by the prodigious Avani Prashanth had a modest begin on the Queen Sirikit Cup right here on Tuesday.
Avani, the highest-ranked newbie girl in India, at 116th on the earth, and Sneha Singh, ranked a hundred and fortieth, shot 3-over 75 every whereas the third participant, Jaaniya Dassani carded 8-over 80 on the Laguna Nationwide Resort, Masters Course, Singapore.
They had been each tied nineteenth and 9 pictures behind the chief, Lee Jihyun, who carded 6-under 66.
Whereas Avani had two birdies in opposition to 5 bogeys, Sneha had only one birdie in opposition to 4 bogeys.
India was additionally method behind in staff rankings at ninth out of the 13 groups within the competitors.
Lee Jihyun helped to set the early tempo by firing 66 to steer her nation to the highest of the chief board.
Ranked 56th on the World Novice Golf Rating, Lee traded eight birdies in opposition to two bogeys below scorching warmth situations to take pleasure in a four-shot lead over the Japanese pair of Mizuki Hashimoto and Tezuka Ayaka, Singapore’s Shannon Tan, Korea's Kim Minbyeol and Fiona Xu from New Zealand. Hashimoto, the reigning Girls's Novice Asia-Pacific Championship (WAAP) champion, battled by the weather.
Lee along with compatriot Kim, who signed for a 70, led Korea to the highest of the chief board with a complete gross rating of eight-under-par. Japan trails by 4 in second place at four-under with Hashimoto and Ayaka an identical spherical scores of 70.
Of the three gamers in every staff, the 2 finest scores every day are considered for staff rankings.
Chinese language Taipei's Ting Hsuan Huang had the honour of carding the match's first hole-in-one after she aced the par-three 12 with a nine-iron from 135 yards. Huang signed for a 73 to share eleventh place.
-PTI
