More Sports Boxing Boxing Saweety, Meena in semifinals of Strandja Memorial Boxing Meena defeated Italian Giulia Lamagna 5-0 to make the last-four stage, along with Saweety, who outpunched American Leah Cooper in her quarterfinal bout. PTI Sofia (Bulgaria): 20 February, 2018 22:50 IST Saweety Boora (75kg) and Meena Kumar Devi (54kg) assured themselves of medals by entering the semifinals. - GETTY IMAGES PTI Sofia (Bulgaria): 20 February, 2018 22:50 IST Former world silver-medallist Saweety Boora (75kg) and Meena Kumar Devi (54kg) assured themselves of medals by entering the semifinals on a second successive day of mixed results for Indian boxers at the 69th Strandja Memorial Tournament here.Meena defeated Italian Giulia Lamagna 5-0 to make the last-four stage, along with Saweety, who outpunched American Leah Cooper in her quarterfinal bout.Advancing to the quarterfinals was Lovlina Borgohain (69kg), who got the better of another American Oshae Jones 5-0 in her last-16 stage fight. Borgohain and Saweety had claimed gold medals at last month’s India Open in New Delhi.Among the men, last edition’s silver-medallist Mohammad Hussamuddin (56kg) outpunched China’s Xu Boxiang in a thoroughly lopsided encounter. Boxiang was lucky not get a warning for failing to keep his head up for most of the bout.However, there were a couple of setbacks as well for the country as world championships silver-medallist Sonia Lather (57kg) bowed out with an opening-round loss along with Pwilao Basumatary (64kg). Both the boxers lost in split 2-3 verdicts.Sonia, who had lost early in the India Open too, went down to China’s Xu Zichun for a second successive preliminary exit from an international competition.She was joined by Basumatary, a gold-medallist at the India Open last month. The Assam-boxer was beaten by Norway’s Elisabeth Angelsen in her opening contest.In the men’s competition, world youth bronze-medallist Naman Tanwar (91kg) became the first to bow out. The youngster lost to Russia’s Ivan Sagaidak in a round of 16 clash. Read more stories on Boxing. For more updates, follow Sportstar on :