TENNIS - AITA Ranking Tournament
Qualifier Vaishnavi Adkar beat Pooja Ingale 6-4, 6-1 to clinch the women’s title in the ₹5,00,000 AITA ranking tennis tournament at the Singha Sports Academy on Saturday.
Pooja won the doubles title with Ishwari Matere. The men’s doubles title was bagged by Dhruv Hirpara and Aryan Shah. G Manish had won the men's singles title earlier.
The singles champion collected ₹31,250 and the runners-up ₹21,000. The doubles champions pocketed ₹15,500 and the runners-up ₹9,500.
The results (finals)
- Kamesh Srinivasan
SHOOTING
Digvijay Singh shotgun c’ships: Anantjeet, Gurjoat lead in men’s skeet
Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Gurjoat Singh led with 72 out of 75 after three rounds of men’s skeet in the Digvijay Singh shotgun championship at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, on Saturday.
Abhay Singh Sekhon was one point behind the leaders, while Olympian and World Cup gold medallist Mairaj Ahmad Khan was on 69, along with two others, Arjun Thakur and Parampal Singh Guron, following increasingly better rounds of 22, 23 and 24. Amrinder Singh Cheema and Kuldeep Sanyashi were on 68.
In the women’s section, Ganemat Sekhon and Maheshwari Chauhan led with 70, one point ahead of Raiza Dhillon and Parinaaz Dhaliwal, the junior women leaders.
Areeba Khan and Zahra Mufaddal Deesawala were on 68. Sanjana Sood (67), Rashmmi Rathore (65) and Darshna Rathore (64) will be trying to step up their score so as to ensure a top-eight finish and a progress into the semifinals.
Karttiki Singh Shaktawat was struggling with 54, following rounds of 20, 16 and 18.
Abhay Singh Sekhon (71) led in the junior men’s event, comfortably ahead of Rajveer Singh Gill and Bhavtegh Singh Gill (67).
Two more rounds will be followed by the semifinals and medal rounds on Sunday.
- Kamesh Srinivasan
Tennis: ITF men’s tennis tournament
Top seeds Purav Raja and Divij Sharan were beaten 6-3, 3-6, [10-8] in the doubles semifinals of the $25,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament in Edwardsville, US.
In the $15,000 event in Colombo, SD Prajwal Dev beat third seed Manish Sureshkumar 6-4, 6-4 to set up a title clash with second seed Eric Vanshelboim of Ukraine.
Manish won the doubles title with Parikshit Somani, beating the top seeds Quentin Folliot and Vanshelboim.
The Results
- Kamesh Srinivasan
CRICKET
Mayank Agarwal will be part of Kalyani Bengaluru Blasters and Manish Pandey will feature for Gulbarga Mystics in the Maharaja Trophy KSCA T20 tournament, which is set to begin in Mysuru on August 7.
At the player draft held here on Saturday, six sets of a head coach, assistant coach and a selector each — handpicked by the KSCA — were responsible for assembling the six outfits. Mysore Warriors, to be coached by P.V. Shashikanth, went first and picked Karun Nair, raising more than a few eyebrows. The batter is not necessarily seen as a T20 specialist and the onus will be on him to prove otherwise.
It also emerged that Abhimanyu Mithun will turn out for Hubli Tigers, K. Gowtham for Shivamogga Strikers and Abhinav Manohar for Mangalore United. Devdutt Padikkal will team-up with Pandey at Gulbarga.
Of the 13 players in Pool A, comprising India and IPL players, ‘mystery spinner’ Shivil Kaushik and left-arm tweaker K.P. Appanna did not find takers.
Team composition
-N. Surdarshan
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