SAG roundup: India continues dominance in cyling, volleyball

India won the men’s and women’s team time trials to continue its dominance in the cycling events. In volleyball, both the men’s and women’s teams won their respective semifinals against Maldives and Nepal to progress to the title round.

Meanwhile, Indian women's hockey team hammered Sri Lanka 12-1 in a pool match on Monday.

India won the men’s and women’s team time trials to continue its dominance in the cycling events. In volleyball, both the men’s and women’s teams won their respective semifinals against Maldives and Nepal to progress to the title round.

The results:

Cycling: Men 70km team time trial: 1. Manjeet Singh, Arvind Panwar, Deepak Kumar, Manohar Lal Bishnoi (Ind) 1:29:37.840, 2. Nisar Ahmed, Habibullah, Najeebullah, Awais Khan (Pak) 1:31:31.500.

Women’s 40km team time trial: Bidyaluxmi Tourangbam, Rutuja Satpute, G. Manisha, Chaoba Devi Elangbam (Ind) 0:59:23.52, 2. Udeshani Niranjani, Lasanthi Krishna Gunathilaka, Sriyalatha Wickramasinghe, Sudarika Priyadarshani (Sri) 1:02:07.530.

Hockey: Women’s pool match: India 12 (Jaspreet Kaur - 5, Soundarya Yendala - 2, Ritu Rani- 1, Sonika - 1, Jyoti Gupta - 1, Deepika - 1, Gurjit Kaur ) bt Sri Lanka 1 (Premasiri).

Tennis: Men’s singles, round 2: Ramkumar Ramanathan bt B. Samrakshyak ((Nep) 6-1, 6-0.

Doubles: Round 2: Second round: Ramkumar Ramanathan & Vijay Sundar Prasanth (Ind) bt Aisam Qureshi & Aqeel Khan (Pak) 6-4, 6-1, Divij Sharan & Sanam Singh (Ind) bt Roy & Ram (Ban) 6-1, 6-1.

Women’s singles, round 2: Ankita Raina (Ind) bt Thisuri Molligoda (Sri) 6-0, 6-2, Prerna Bhambri (Ind) bt Bibhuti Karki (Nep) 6-0, 6-0.

Mixed doubles, round 2: Divij Sharan & Ravinder Kaur (INd) bt R. Ram & A. Islam (Ban) 6-2, 6-1, Sanam Singh & Prarthana Thombare (Ind) bt S. Magar & I.M. Rawat (Nep) 6-0, 6-0.

Volleyball: Men’s semifinals: India bt Maldives 25-17, 25-20, 25-19.

Women’s semifinals: India bt Nepal 25-10, 25-9, 25-15.