Anirudh Chandrasekar and Vijay Sundar Prashanth beat Pedro Martinez and Andrea Pellegrino 6-2, 6-4 in the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the €145,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Heilbronn, Germany, on Wednesday.
The results:
€145, 000 Challenger, Heilbronn, Germany: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Nicolas Barrientos (Col) & Diego Hidalgo (Ecu) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan & Nenad Ziimonjic (Srb) 6-1, 6-3; Anirudh Chandrasekar & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Pedro Martinez (Esp) & Andrea Pellegrino (Ita) 6-2, 6-4.
Palak Gulia won the women’s air pistol gold as she beat a strong field with a big margin in the 21st Kumar Surendra Singh pistol championship at the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal on Wednesday.
Palak shot 241.5 in the final to beat Anuradha Devi by 3.4 points for the gold. Priya Raghav won the bronze ahead of Arshdeep Kaur, Manu Bhaker, Surbhi Rao, Ruchita Vinerkar and Harnavdeep Kaur.
Palak was pushed to the silver medal in the junior event by Drishti Sangwan.
Interestingly, Palak won the bronze in the youth section, behind Harnavdeep Kaur and Drishti.