Indian sports news wrap, July 26

Here are all the major updates and results from Indian sports on July 26.

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Quarterfinals of the AITA Super Series junior tennis tournament are concluded. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

Get all the major updates, scores and results from Indian sports on July 26.

TENNIS

Sumit Nagal goes down to Federico Gaio in Verona

The champion of last week, Sumit Nagal was beaten 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-2 by Federico Gaio in the first round of the €118,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Verona, Italy, on Wednesday.

The results:

€118,000 Challenger, Verona, Italy: Singles (first round): Federico Gaio (Ita) bt Sumit Nagal 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-2.

$40,000 Challenger, Astana, Kazakhstan: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): SD Prajwal Dev & Niki Poonacha bt Arslanbek Aitkkulov & Islam Orynbasar (Kaz) 6-1, 6-4.

€ 118,000 Challenger, Segovia, Spain: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Miguel Damas & John Echeverria (Esp) bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Arjun Kadhe 7-6(8), 4-6, [10-7].

$25,000 ITF men, Brazzaville, Congo: Singles (first round): Liova Ajavon (Tog) bt Chirag Duhan 6-2, 6-1; Alexander Stater (USA) bt Anurag Agarwal 6-0, 6-2; Rishab Agarwal bt Atharva Sharma 6-1, 7-5. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Tauheed Browning (USA) & Brandon Perez (Ven) bt Aayush Bhat (USA) & Arjun Mahadevan 6-3, 7-5; Guy Iradukunda (Bdi) & Aziz Ouakaa (Tun) bt Chirag Duhan & Sebastian Pino (Ven) 6-2, 6-4; Rishab Agarwal & Ishaque Eqbal bt Anurag Agarwal & Daniil Savelev 6-2, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Caloundra, Australia: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Blake Bayldon & Thomas Fancutt (Aus) bt Nishant Dabas & Ryotaro Matsumura (Jpn) 6-4, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Monastir, Tunisia: Singles (first round): Kody Pearson (Aus) bt Manas Dhamne 7-6(8), 6-1.

$60,000 ITF women, Dallas, USA: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Madison Brengle & Samantha Crawford (USA) bt Robin Anderson (USA) & Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-3, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia: Singles (first round): Zeel Desai bt Amira Badawi (Egy) 6-0, 6-1.

- Kamesh Srinivasan

Akshat beats Jatin in AITA Super Series

Akshat Dhull beat fourth seed Jatin Nain 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 in the under-18 boys quarterfinals of the AITA Super Series junior tennis tournament at the CLTA Complex on Wednesday.

The results (quarterfinals):

Under-18 boys: Aditya Chauhan bt Vansh Bisht 6-1, 6-0; Shanker Heisnam bt Anirudh Sangra 6-3, 6-2; Akshat Dhull bt Jatin Nain 2-6, 6-1, 6-2; Arjun Rathi bt Bhicky Segolshem 6-3, 6-4.

Under-18 girls: Divya Sharma bt Tamanna Walia 7-5, 6-3; Isheeta Midha bt Bhumi Kakkar 6-2, 6-4; Sherry Sharma bt Ananya Dhankhar 3-6, 6-0, 6-3; Rubani Kaur Sidhu bt Vanya Arora 6-2, 7-5.

- Kamesh Srinivasan