TENNIS
Lakshmi Prabha reaches AITA ladies’s tennis match closing
Third seed Lakshmi Prabha beat high seed Sahira Singh 6-3,, 5-7, 6-0 within the semifinals of the Rs.100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis match on the Joygaon Academy on Thursday.
In the ultimate, Lakshmi willl play fourth seed Kavya Khirwar.
Kavya made the doubles closing as properly in partnership with Tanushri Pandey, beating the highest seeds Ishwari Matere and Kashish Bhatia in straight units.
The outcomes (semifinals)
Singles: Lakshmi Prabha bt Sahira Singh 6-3, 5-7, 6-0; Kavya Khirwar bt Kashish Bhatia 5-3 (conceded).
Doubles: Tanushri Pandey & Kavya Khirwar bt Ishwari Matere & Kashish Bhatia 6-4, 7-6(5); Prathiba Narayan & Arthi Muniyan bt Gauri Mangaonkar & Diya Malik 1-6, 6-3, [11-9].
– Kamesh Srinivasan
ROWING
Indian rowing contingent leaves for Asian Games
A 43-member Indian rowing contingent, together with 10 help workers, left for the Hangzhou Asian Games scheduled to begin on September 23.
The rowers, 20 males and 13 ladies, will bear a week-long acclimatisation-cum-training camp in Hangzhou earlier than checking into the Games Village on September 16.
The authorities has sanctioned Rs one crore for the camp in Hangzhou.
India will likely be fielding its largest contingent of girls rowers on the Asian Games as that is the primary time Women’s Eight has been included within the continental occasion.
The contingent was given a rousing send-off by the Sports Authority of India officers on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, Indian sailors and the primary batch of boxers additionally left for China to coach forward of the multi-sport occasion.
While the Indian boxers are coaching in Wuyishan City, the sailors are coaching in Ningbo Xiangshan Sailing Centre, which can also be the venue for the Asian Games Sailing competitions.
– PTI
Atharva Sharma beats Dylan Salton in South Africa
Qualifier Atharva Sharma beat seventh seed Dylan Salton of South Africa 6-4, 6-3 within the pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis match in Kigali, Rwanda, on Thursday.
Atharva will problem second seed Benjamin Lock of Zimbabwe within the quarterfinals. Rishab Agarwal and Ishaque Eqbal additionally made the quarterfinals, and can face the primary and third seeds respectively.
The outcomes:
€145,000 Challenger, Seville, Spain: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sriram Ballaji & Fernando Romboli (Bra) bt Geoffrey Blancanezux & Calvin Hemery (Fra) 6-4, 6-4.
$25,000 ITF males, Kigali, Rwanda: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Oliver Crawford (USA) bt Sai Karteek Reddy 6-2, 6-3; Rishab Agarwal bt Yash Yadav 6-2, 6-1; Vadym Ursu (Ukr) bt SD Prajwal Dev 6-2, 0-6, 6-3; Atharva Sharma bt Dylan Salton (RSA) 6-4, 6-3; Damien Wenger (Sui) bt Raghav Jaisinghani 6-0, 6-1; Ishaque Eqbal bt Lawrence Bataljin (Aus) 6-1, 6-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Siddhant Banthia & Sai Karteek Reddy bt Guefo Baldovinetti (Ita) & Raghav Jaisinghani 6-3, 6-2; Crentin Denolly (Fra) & Damien Wenger (Sui) bt Michael Sobhy (Egy) & Rishi Reddy 6-1, 6-1; Rishab Agarwal & Nichola Bybel (USA) bt Tushar Madan & Atharva Sharma 6-3, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Pruchya Isaro (Tha) bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-4, 7-6(2); Sidharth Rawat bt Wang Chukang (Chn) 6-3, 5-7, 6-3.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Maximus Jones (Tha) & Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) bt Mitsuki Leong (Mass) & Faisal Qamar 6-4, 7-6(5).
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia: Doubles (quarterfinals): Samir Banerjee (USA) & Chirag Duhan bt Samir Reguig (Alg) & Denis Spiridon (Ita) 6-4, 5-7, [11-9].
$100,000 ITF ladies, Tokyo, Japan: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Arianne Hartono (Ned) & You Xiaodi (Chn) bt Ankita Raina & Kateryna Volodko (Ukr) 7-5, 6-1.
$40,000 ITF ladies, Saint-Palais-sur-Mer, France: Doubles (quarterfinals): Victoria Muntean (Fra) & Vasanti Shinde bt Tiphanie Lemaitre (Fra) & Ilay Yoruk (Tur) 7-5, 7-5.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Daria Lodikova bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Yu-Yun Li (Tpe) & Lanlana Tararudee (Tha) 3-6, 6-4, [10-2]; Yu-Chieh Hsieh (Tpe) & Salakthip Ounmuang (Tha) bt Adithya Karunaratne (Hkg) & Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-0, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Magdalini Adaloglou (Gre) & Krisstina Voznyak (Ukr) bt Chahd Berriri (Tun) & Vanshita Pathania 6-1, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
CHESS
Tata metal junior chess championship set to start on Friday
Tata Steel Chess India match has introduced a few of the world’s largest stars to Kolkata, which is about 300 km from Jameshedpur. The Tata Steel Asian junior chess championship, which opens right here on Friday, has attracted a few of the future stars from the continent.
The match, which was inaugurated by five-time Viswanathan on Thursday, may have competitions in all of the three codecs – classical, fast and blitz. More than 100 gamers from nations akin to Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Indonesia will compete.
Players from Russia will play beneath the FIDE flag. The high seed within the classical occasion within the open part is in reality a Russian – Aleksey Grebnev, with an Elo ranking of 2486. L.R. Srihari is the highest-rated Indian.
Kazakhstan’s Nazarke Nurgali (2268) heads the women’ listing, adopted by the host’s Saina Salonika (2140).
The match begins with the fast championship, adopted by classical and blitz. It concludes on September 15.
-P.Ok. Ajith Kumar
GOLF
Viraj Madappa finest Indian in Korea in Tied-Twenty sixth place
India’s Viraj Madappa, who has had a patchy season, opened with a stable three-under 69 to lie tied Twenty sixth on a low-scoring day on the Shinhan Donghae Open golf right here on Thursday.
Spain’s younger star David Puig fired an eight-under-par 64 to take the lead on the opening day regardless of arriving solely on Tuesday evening from Spain, for his first-ever go to to Korea.
The different Indians had a modest begin as Veer Ahlawat hauled himself up from 1-over after 14 holes to 2-under 70 with three birdies in final 4 holes and he was mendacity tied 46, whereas Ajeetesh Sandhu (72) was mendacity T-94.
– PTI