July 4, Indian sports news wrap

July 4 sports wrap: Here are all the major developments in Indian sports today.

Qualifier Sonal Patil knocked out the top seed Sachi Sharma 6-1, 6-2 in the first round of the Rs 100,000 AITA women’s tennis tournament at the Joygaon Academy on Monday. (Representative Image)

TENNIS

AITA women's tournament: Qualifier Sonal knocks out top seed Sachi in first round

Qualifier Sonal Patil knocked out the top seed Sachi Sharma 6-1, 6-2 in the first round of the Rs 100,000 AITA women’s tennis tournament at the Joygaon Academy on Monday.

The champion of the last tournament at the same venue, Sonal will play qualifier Abhilasha Bista in the pre-quarterfinals.

Second seed Shefali Arora beat lucky loser Gurleen Singh 7-5, 6-3 to set up a second round against Kanupriya Rajawat.

The results: Singles (first round): Sonal Patil bt Sachi Sharma 6-1, 6-2; Abhilasha Bista bt Shilpi Das 6-4, 6-0; Sanjivani Kutwal bt Muskan Prajapati 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; Hannah Nagpal bt Ritu Rai 6-3, 6-4; Kavya Khirwar bt Bhumika Rohilla 6-0, 6-3; Harnoor Kaur Sidhu bt Jigyasa Narsinghani 6-3, 7-6(5); Sanjami Arora bt Danica Fernando 6-4, 6-3; Shruti Gupta bt Shikha Tyagi 6-1, 6-0; Riya Uboveja bt Tamanna Panwar 6-1, 6-0; Medhavi Singh bt Ayushi Singh 6-2, 6-2; Gia Alana Pereira bt Vanshika Pathak 6-0, 6-3; Hitakamya Singh Narwal bt Veshnavi Basnet 6-1, 6-1; Ritu Ohllyan bt Gnana Ashwitha Boyanapalli 6-2, 6-4; Joell Nichole bt Diya Tyagi 6-0, 6-1; Kanupriya Rajawat bt Pragati Solankar 6-3, 6-1; Shefali Arora bt Gurleen Singh 7-5, 6-3.

- Kamesh Srinivasan

Asian under-14 tournament

Ridhima Singh beat top seed Prasamsa Moktan of Nepal 7-5, 6-4 in the girls first round of the Asian under-14 tennis tournament at the Tennis Project, Baliawas, on Monday.

In the pre-quarterfinals, Ridhima will play Vennela Gaarugupati who outplayed Khushi Gaur for the loss of one game.  

The results (first round):Boys: Om Verma bt Jaiditya Seth 6-0, 6-0; Chandra Kopparapu bt Avi garwal 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Kanishk Dhingra bt Gurshaan Mehta 6-1, 6-0; Shashank Sai Prasad Karnati bt Ronit Bhola 6-4, 6-4; Tavish Pahwa bt Ranvir Singh 6-1, 7-5; Amrit Dhankar bt Devansh Singh 6-0,6-1; Mrigank Rawat bt Dishender Lamba 7-6(4), 7-5; Mohd. Shees bt Aarav Chawla 6-4 (retired); Kushagra Arora bt Advit Tiwari 6-0, 6-0; Ayan Dahiya bt Om Choudhary 6-4, 2-1 (retired); Aarav Dhekial bt Rehaan Malhotra 6-1, 6-0; Rudra Batham w.o. Mokshak Challa; Praneeth Reddy bt Lakshya Dhiman 6-0, 6-0; Tanush Gureja bt Parth Sane 6-0, 6-1; Prakaash Sarran w.o. M Dhanush; Saksham Shah (Nep) bt Adhrit Gautam 6-0, 6-1. Girls: Ridhima Singh bt Prasamsa Moktan (Nep) 7-5, 6-4; Vennela Gaarugupati bt Khushi Gaur 6-0, 6-1; Vaishnavi Singh bt Navya Sharma 6-4, 6-3; Neelakshi Lather bt Alexa Jagdeep 6-3, 6-3; Nandini Kansal bt Mokshika Yadav 6-2,6-1; Miraya Agrawal bt Aashritha Maheshwari 6-1, 6-1; SarahChaudhary bt Varneka Dixit 6-3, 6-3; Sri Lakshmi Purmani bt Arshia Yaav 6-2, 6-0; Maanvi Gupta bt Kevika Singh 6-2, 6-0; Saanvi Erva bt Srinithi Sai Patolu 6-0, 6-0; Diya Chaudhary bt Katyaini Rawat 6-3, 5-7, 6-2; Hirwa Rangani bt Aarusha Balpande 6-2, 6-1; Aura Malik bt Sara Sonu 7-5, 6-3; Snigdha Ruhil bt Agrima Jaiswal 6-2, 6-2; Aleena Farid bt Sana Sesh 6-1, 6-2.

- Kamesh Srinivasan

AITA championship series juniors Qualifier Abhinav Sangra bat seventh seed Aryan Aggarwal 6-1, 6-2 in the under-18 boys first round of the AITA Championship series junior tennis tournament at the CLTA Complex on Monday.

The results (first round): Boys: Under-18: Parmarth Kaushik bt Harsh Shandilya 6-4, 6-2; Svarmanyu Singh bt Aryan Jolly 6-3, 6-1;Gagneesh Chugh bt Tanav Gupta 6-3, 7-5; Arnav Bishnoi bt Krishanpal Rajput 6-2, 6-1; Bhicky Sagolshem bt Chaitanya Soni 6-2, 6-0; Arnav Chaudhary bt Dilshan Singh 7-, 7-5; Daksh Rajpurohit bt Ayush Singh 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Abhinav Sangra bt Aryan Aggarwal 6-1, 6-2. Under-12: Heet Kandoriya bt Divyansh Dhuper 6-1, 6-2; Nikunj Bansal bt Tanmay Singla 6-2, 5-7, 6-4; Sarthak Jaglan bt Shaurya bisht 7-5, 6-1; Kabir Mehta bt Ansh Sharma 6-2, 7-5; Astiya Sodhi bt Tanisqa Makhija 7-6(4), 6-2. Girls: Under-18: Rhosyn William bt Tanishq Yadav 6-3, 6-4; Ananya Chaudhary bt Yana Gupta 6-4, 6-2. Under-12: Ekam Kaur Shergill bt Navya Singla 6-3, 7-5; Amaira Aulakh bt Sanvi Verma 6-1, 7-6(5); Avni Uttam bt Riya Jangid 7-6(6), 6-2.

- Kamesh Srinivasan