TENNIS
ITF women’s tournament: Makarova beats Saki Imamura
Top seed Ekaterina Makarova saved a match point in the tenth game of the second set to beat Saki Imamura of Japan 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-1 in the quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament at the Ganesh Naik Sports Complex on Friday.
In the semifinals, Makarova will play Diana Marcinkevica. The other semifinal will be between Misaki Matsuda and Moyuka Uchijima.
Makarova did it once again in doubles, as she in partnership with Kamilla Bartone, survived two match points at 7-9 to beat Hiromi Abe and Saki Imamura 11-9 in the super tie-break of the semifinals.
The results:
-Kamesh Srinivasan
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ITF women’s tournament: Tanisha Kashyap loses pre-quarterfinals
Tanisha Kashyap was beaten 6-1, 6-1 by Kateryna Lazarenko of Ukraine in the pre-quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Monastir, Tunisia.
The results:
$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Kateryna Lazarenko (Ukr) bt Tanisha Kashyap 6-1, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
WEIGHTLIFTING
Mukund Aher aggregated 249kg to win the men’s 55kg title in the National weightlifting championships at Itanagar on Friday.
Aher’s superior showing in snatch helped him take a comfortable lead and ultimately the title.
Jharkhand lifter Babulal Hembrom (193kg) rewrote the National men’s 49kg total record by surpassing S. Gurunaidu’s 192kg.
- Team Sportstar
The results (elite only):
ATHLETICS
National women’s inter-university championships: Meera, Gug strike gold
Calicut University’s Meera Shibu was close to her personal best as she won the triple jump gold with 12.79m in the National women’s inter-university athletics championships which concluded at the KIIT-deemed to be university here on Friday.
Meanwhile, Chandigarh’s Gug Kaur clocked a personal best as she took the 800m title in 2:06.60s.
The results (winners only):
Women: 200m: Kusum Thakur (Himachal Pradesh Uni.) 24.13s. 800M: Gug Kaur (Chandigarh) 2:06.60s. 5000M: Renu Singh (MJP Rohilkhand) 15:58.33s. 100M hurdles: Pranvan Prasant Sahu (KIIT) 14.20s. 400M hurdles: K. Anaswara (Calicut) 59.52s. Half marathon: Reshma Dattu Kevate (Shivaji) 1:10:05.00s. 3000M steeple chase: Navale Bhagyash Lahanu (Shri Govind Guru) 10:14.00s. Long jump: Bhagavathi Bhav Yadav (Mangalore) 5.94m. Triple jump: Meera Shibu (Calicut) 12.79m. High jump: K.H. Saliha (Calicut) 1.74m. Shot put: Jasmine Kaur (Lovely Professional) 14.63m. Discus throw: Seema (Chaudhary Bansi Lal) 49.45m. Javelin throw: Jyoti (Chaudhary Devi Lal) 52.53m. 4X100m relay: Calicut University (46.87s). 4x400m relay: M.D. University (3:45.20s). Heptathlon: Tanushree (Mangalore) 4626 points.
-Stan Rayan
PICKLEBALL
National Pickleball medalists felicitated
Ajeet Bhardwaj was felicitated by the Vasant Vihar Club for winning two gold medals in the recent National pickleball championship.
The president of the club Lt. Gen. Shankar Prasad felicitated Ajeet Bhardwaj who also plays Masters tennis in the international circuit.
The women’s doubles champions from Delhi, Khushi Sachdeva and Monica Menon were also felicitated, for helping Delhi win three gold medals in the National pickleball championship in Ahmedabad.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
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