Indian sports news wrap, November 20

Here are all the major updates and results from Indian sports on November 20.

Kundali Majgaine | Photo Credit: Deepthi Indukuri / KSLTA

TENNIS

Rutuja top seeded amongst Indians at Bowring Institute ITF Women’s World Tennis Tour

Rutuja Bhosale who had won the gold medal for India at the recently concluded Asian Games in China, will shoulder another responsibility of flying the Indian flag flying high when she begins her quest for glory in the Bowring Institute ITF Women’s World Tour. Given the tag of the third seed, the 27-year-old takes on fellow Indian Smriti Bhasin in the US $ 25,000 prize money event, the main rounds of which begin at the Bowring Institute tennis courts from Tuesday.

Sonal Patil | Photo Credit: Deepthi Indukuri / KSLTA

The only other Indian in the top eight seeds is Vaidehi Chaudhari who is seeded fourth and takes on wild card entrant Anjal Rathi in her opening encounter. Rutuja The field is headed by Uzbekistan’s Nigina Abduraimova who will meet Ekaterina Yashina in her first round while Thailand’s Lanlana Tararudee has been handed the tag of second seed and will clash with India’s another wild card entrant Sharmada Balu.

Pooja Ingale | Photo Credit: Deepthi Indukuri / KSLTA

Meanwhile, Indians grabbed all the eight qualifying spots, registering contrasting wins which saw the exit of three seeded players. In the biggest upset of the day, 11 ^th seed Kundali Majgaine knocked out the top seed Sandeepti Singh Rao 6-3, 2-6, 10-6 in a match that lasted for two hours while Sonal Patil continued her dream run in the qualifiers after she stunned second seed Sravya Shivani in straight sets 6-4, 6-2 to make it to the main round. In another upset match, Pooja Ingale overcame the fancied fifth seed Soha Sadiq 6-3, 7-5.

Results

Qualifying Round-2 (All Indians unless mentioned in brackets)

Yashaswini Panwar bt Apurva Vemuri 6-1, 6-3; Sonal Patil bt 2-Sravya Shivani 6-4, 6-2; 6-Saumya Vig bt Abhilasha Bista (NEP) 6-0, 6-3; 8-Paavanii Paathak bt Sejal Gopal Bhutada 7-6 (5), 6-4; 11-Kundali Majgaine bt 1-Sandeepti Singh Rao 6-3, 2-6, 10-6; Vanshita Pathania bt Arthi Muniyan 0-6, 6-4, 10-7; Pooja Ingale bt 5-Soha Sadiq 6-3, 7-5; Lakshmi Prabha Arunkumar bt Nidhitra Rajmohan 6-1, 6-4.

Seedings for main draw

1-Nigina Abduraimova (UZB); 2-Lanlana Tararudee (THA); 3-Rutuja Bhosale (IND); 4-Vaidehi Chaudhari (IND); 5-Zhibek Kulambayeva (KAZ); 6-Jenny Duerst (SUI); 7-Zhibek Kulambayeva (KAZ); 8-Punnin Kovapitukted (THA).

BADMINTON

Krishna Khaitan junior badminton: Top seed Anmol beats second seed Tanvi

Top seed Anmol Kharb pipped second seed Tanvi Sharma 21-13, 21-23, 21-16 in the under-19 girls final of the All India Yonex-Sunrise 30th Krishna Khaitan junior badminton tournament at the Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex here on Monday.

Champions Anmol Kharb (left) and Vennala K with the doubles trophy in the All India Krishna Khaitan junior badminton tournament in Panchkular on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

It was a double crown for Anmol, a trainee of Sri Krishan Sagar Academy in Noida, as she won the doubles title in partnership with Vennala K.

Pranauv Ram emerged the boys champion as his opponent Lalthazuala He retired early in the second game of the final.

The results (finals)

Under-19 boys: Pranauv Ram bt Lalthazuala H 21-15, 11-2 (retired).

Doubles: Mayank Rana & Sanskar Saraswat bt Rohan Kumar & Rahul Batti 21-15, 21-16.

Under-19 girls: Anmol Kharb bt Tanvi Sharma 21-13, 21-23, 21-16.

Doubles: Vennala K & Anmol Kharb bt Taarini Suri & Shravani Walekar 17-21, 21-15, 21-11.

Mixed doubles: Bharath Sanjai & Pravandhika R bt Bhavya Chhabra & Manya Ralhan 21-12, 21-11.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

TENNIS

ITF men’s tennis: Sandesh Kurale and three others given wild card entries

Sandesh Kurale, Raghav Jaisinghani, Sarthak Suden and Parth Aggarwal have been given the wild card entries for the $25,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament being hosted by the MSLTA at the GA Ranade Tennis Centre.

While the qualifying event started on Monday, with a majority of Indian players reaching the second and final round, the main draw matches will be played from Tuesday.

A player of impressive quality, and quite familiar to Indian fans, Evgeny Donskoy, who had beaten Roger Federer on the Tour, will be the top seed.

Ramkumar Ramanathan, Sidharth Rawat and SD Prajwal Dev are the Indian players who have got seeded third, sixth and seventh respectively.

National champion Siddharth Vishwakarma, Karan Singh, Nitin Kumar Sinha and Manish Sureshkumar will be the other prominent Indian players, trying to assert their game.

The seedings: 1. Evgeny Donskoy, 2. Louis Wessels (Ger), 3. Ramkumar Ramanathan, 4. Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr), 5. Ryuki Matsuda (Jpn), 6. Sidharth Rawat, 7. SD Prajwal Dev, 8. David Pichler (Aut).

The results:

Qualifying singles (first round): Harrison Adams (USA) bt Rishit Dakhane 66-2, 6-2; Gabriele Volpi (Ita) bt Tarun Karra 6-4, 6-2; Ryotaro Taguchi (Jpn) bt Siddharth Arya 6-2, 6-2; Jagmeet Singh bt Omar Rehan Sumar 6-4, 7-6(6); Madhwin Kamath bt Dhruv Hirpara 6-4, 6-2; Adil Kalyanpur bt Anurag Agarwal 6-3, 6-2; Rohan Mehra bt Lohithaksha Bathrinath 6-4, 6-3; Ha Minh Duc Vu (Vie) bt Dharmil Shah 6-0, 6-1; Bharath Kumaran bt Tommaso Schold (Ita) 6-3, 6-1; Ajay Malik bt Nirav Shetty 6-3, 6-4; Kabir Hans bt Anuj Maan 6-2, 6-0; Deepak Anantharamu bt Yash Yadav 6-1, 1-6, [10-7]; Rishi Reddy bt Tushar Madan 6-3, 6-1; Aryan Shah bt Arjun Mahadevan 6-2, 6-4; Shivank Bhatnagar bt Maan Kesharwani 6-0, 6-4; Abhishek Bastola (Nep) bt Yash Chaurasia 6-3, 6-3.

- Team Sportstar