Here are all the most important updates, outcomes and developments from the world of Indian sports activities on Tuesday, December 5.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Akta wins title
Akta Banjare rode on her clear and jerk efficiency to win the 71kg gold medal within the Asmita Khelo India girls’s weightlifting championships in Kolkata on Tuesday.
THE RESULTS
71kg
1. Akta Banjare (Cht) snatch 77kg, clear and jerk 98kg, complete 175kg; 2. Songita Sadhanidar (Asm) 79kg, 95kg, 174kg; 3. Shandrella (Man) 73kg, 98kg, 171kg.
76kg
1. Maganthi Keerthi (Odi) 75kg, 95kg, 170kg; 2. Soweta Kundu (WB) 68kg, 90kg, 158kg; 3. Cindy Lalparmawii (Miz) 53kg, 67kg, 120kg.
– Y.B. Sarangi
SHOOTING
Vivaan Kapoor beat Zoravar Singh Sandhu 4-3 within the shoot-off to win males’s entice within the National taking pictures choice trials on the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, on Tuesday.
Both Vivaan and Zoravar had shot very effectively in qualification to high the record with 121 out of 125. Former World Champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu was third, forward of Gyanchand Susheel Sharan, Balabhadra Tarasia and Shardul Vihan.
World Cup medallist this season, Prithviraj Tondaiman was tenth with 117. Olympic quota winner Bhowneesh Mendiratta was thirteenth with 116. Olympian Kynan Chenai was twenty fifth with 114 in a area of 82 shooters.
In girls’s entice, Olympic quota winner Rajeshwari Kumari beat Bhavya Tripathi 1-0 within the shoot-off after being tied on 43 for the highest spot. Rajeshwari had topped qualification with 118.
THE RESULTS
Trap: Men: 1. Vivaan Kapoor 44(3) 121; 2. Zoravar Singh Sandhu 44(2) 121; 3. Manavjit Singh Sandhu 35 (118). Women: 1. Rajeshwari Kumari 43(1) 118; 2. Bhavya Tripathi 43(0) 114; 3. Shreyasi Singh 32 (116).
– Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Prarthana and Anastasia sail into quarters in Dubai
Prarthana Thombare in partnership with Anastasia Tikhonova beat Alevtina Ibregimova and Anastassia Kovaleva 3-6, 6-1, [11-9] within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the $100,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Dubai, UAE, on Tuesday.
THE RESULTS
$100,000 ITF girls, Dubai, UAE: Singles (first spherical): Emily Appleton (GBR) bt Ankita Raina 6-2, 6-2. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Prarthana Thombare & Anastasia Tikhonova bt Alevtina Ibregimova & Anastasia Kovaleva 3-6, 6-1, [11-9]; Stefania Bojica (Rou) & Ekaterina Yashina bt Eva Busaad & Jigyasa Narsinghani 6-0, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Filiberto Fumagalli & Samuel Ruggeri (Ita) bt George Gregoriou (Gre) & Aryan Lakshmanan 6-3, 6-3.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Sonal Patil beats Aditi Rawat to enter quarterfinals of AITA Women’s match
Top seed Sonal Patil overcame a sluggish begin to beat qualifier Aditi Rawat 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 within the pre-quarterfinals of the Rs.2,50,000 AITA girls’s tennis match on the Ace Academy, Padilia, on Tuesday.
In the quarterfinals, Sonal will play fifth seed Priyanshi Bhandari. Second seed Nemha Sarah Kispotta was additionally in a spot of hassle earlier than recovering for a 5-7, 6-4, 6-0 victory over Richa Chougule. Nemha will play Vidula Amar within the quarterfinals.
THE RESULTS (PRE-QUARTERFINALS)
Sonal Patil bt Aditi Rawat 2-6, 6-2, 6-4; Priyanshi Bhandari bt Apurva Vemuri 6-3, 6-2; Yubrani Banerjee bt Vidhi Jani 6-2, 6-1; Khushali Modi bt Divya Bhardwaj 6-0, 6-1; Sanjana Sirimalla bt Saily Thakkar 6-3, 6-4; Pooja Ingale bt Siri Patil 6-3, 6-2; Vidula Amar bt Nidhitra Rajmohan 6-2, 6-2; Nemha Sarah Kispotta
bt Richa Chougule 5-7, 6-4, 6-0.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Lakshya and Amalgam Steel launch programme for ladies
Lakshya Sports in collaboration with Amalgam Steel has launched Project Grand Slam to nurture women in tennis from the grassroots degree to Grand Slam stage.
The brainchild of Lakshya’s Vice President, Sunder Iyer, and Sourav Mishra, the Joint Managing Director of Amalgam Steel, the mission goals to help the chosen gamers in each potential approach to assist them evolve into world class stars.
“Though this program, we want to see at least four to five girls play at all the junior Grand Slams regularly, and start a new chapter for Indian tennis. This will also help the girls make an entry via the junior wild cards into the professional events”, mentioned Sunder Iyer.
Maaya Rajeshwaran with Sunder Iyer of Lakshya Sports and
Vijay Pandey of Amalgam Steel on the launch of Project Grand Slam in
Pune.
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Special Arrangement
Maaya Rajeshwaran with Sunder Iyer of Lakshya Sports and
Vijay Pandey of Amalgam Steel on the launch of Project Grand Slam in
Pune.
| Photo Credit:
Special Arrangement
“We believe that sports is essential for holistic development, building character and instilling values such as team work, discipline and resilience. We want to have junior Grand Slam champions from India. Our objective is to give selected players essential resources and assistance”, mentioned Vijay Pandey, president of HR at Amalgam Steel.
After rigorous evaluation, the mission has already chosen gamers within the 14-15 age group, Maaya Rajeshwaran, Prisha Shinde, Kaashvi Sunil, Aishwarya Jadhav, Rishitha Basireddy, Nainika Reddy, Yashika Shokeen, Sejal Bhutada and Akruti Sonkusare.
These gamers can be additional assessed via a collection of ITF junior occasions in India, earlier than additional pruning by April. There can be coaches touring for these occasions to help the gamers and consider them. The mission may have famend coach Hemant Bendrey because the information. Coaches S Narendranath, Shivika Burman and Namita Bal will journey for the tournaments, together with physios and energy conditioning specialists.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Leading Indian golfers to be in motion at SSP Chawrasia Invitational from Dec 7
Leading golfers together with present Order of Merit chief Om Prakash Chauhan, defending champion Manu Gandas, Kapil Dev-Grant Thornton Invitational champion Karan Pratap Singh and Rashid Khan can be seen in motion within the second version of the S.S.P. Chawrasia Invitational occasion to be performed on the Royal Calcutta Golf Club course from December 7 to 10.
The Rs. 1 crore occasion, collectively staged by Take Sports and the Tata Steel Professional Golf Tour of India, will characteristic 124 professionals.
The city-based Chawrasia, a a number of Asian Tour winner and a two-time Indian Open champion, is the second Indian skilled golfer after Jeev Milkha Singh to have a PGTI occasion named in his honour.
“This is very special for me. I am hosting the event at my home course. I will try to put up a good show,” mentioned 45-year-old Chawrasia at a press convention right here on Tuesday.
Sixteen-year-old Canadian Sukhraj Singh Gill is the youngest golfer within the area, which may have round 10 city-based gamers.
– Team Sportstar
BADMINTON
Namita Pathania clinches girls’s title in Inter-Ministry match
Namita Pathania of Delhi Audit beat crew mate Bhavya Rishi 21-19, 22-20 to clinch the ladies’s title within the Inter-Ministry badminton match on the AIIMS Gymkhana courts on Tuesday.
Lalita Dahiya of Ministry of Finance pipped Swati Sharma of Delhi Audit, after shedding the primary recreation, for the bronze medal.
The secretary of Central Civil Services Cultural and Sports Board (CCSCSB), Kulbhushan Malhotra, had inaugurated the match.
THE RESULTS
Women (closing): Namita Pathania bt Bhavya Rishi 21-19, 22-20; Third place: Lalita Dahiya bt Swati Sharma 16-21, 21-7, 22-20.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Ayush Shetty, Isharani Baruah qualify for primary draw at Guwahati Masters
Junior world championship bronze medallist Ayush Shetty convincingly booked a primary draw spot within the inaugural Guwahati Masters Super 100 badminton match on Tuesday.
Shetty first defeated seventh seed Kiran Kumar Mekala 21-12, 21-15 earlier than taking down Siddharth Pratap Singh 21-14, 22-21. The teenager will face compatriot Arunesh Hari within the opening spherical.
Assam’s upcoming star Isharani Baruah was the lone Indian qualifier in girls’s singles.
Isharani first defeated compatriot Shriyanshi Valishetty 21-15, 21-12 earlier than getting the higher of Indonesia’s Deswanti Nurtertiati 21-19, 21-16 to qualify.
The teenager, who had performed an essential position in serving to the state clinch the ladies’s crew gold within the just lately concluded National Games in Goa, will now face third seed Sung Shuo Yun of Chinese Taipei within the opening spherical.
– Team Sportstar
BASKETBALL
Railways girls march into National Championship quarters
Railways girls gained their matches with conviction to make sure a quarterfinal berth within the 73rd National basketball championship on the Guru Nanak Dev Indoor Stadium right here on Tuesday.
Railways outplayed West Bengal 152-50, after having crushed Tamil Nadu 89-53 in a single day.
Kerala girls additionally confirmed their berth from the second group. In the boys’s part, defending champion Punjab and Tamil Nadu stayed unbeaten to make sure their quarterfinal berths.
THE RESULTS (LEAGUE)
MEN
Group A: Madhya Pradesh 86 (Rakesh Kumar 20, Shreyesh Raj 18, Harsh Tomar 14) bt Telangana 63 (Billa Nathan Abraham 27, G Suryakumar 17). Punjab 106 (Kanwar Gurbaj Singh 24, Nawaz Singh 22, Amritpall Singh 19, Manjot Singh 16, Yadwinder Singh 10) bt Madhya Pradesh 67 (Akash Bhasin 15, Harsh Singh 12, Deepak Chowdary 11).
Group B: Delhi 84 (Arjjun Singh 15, Vishesh Bhriguvanshi 14, Joginder Singh 14, Ravi Bhardwaj 13, Rachit 11, Vishal Kumar 11) bt Gujarath 69 (Kuldeep Thamalia 19, Sagar Modi 17).
WOMEN
Group-A: Railways 152 (H Bhandhavya 23, Sruti Aravind 23, Madhu Kumari 18, Priyanka 17, Poonam Chaturvedi 16, Nisha Sharma 15, Kiran Yadav 10, Harshita 10) bt West Bengal 50 (Paulami Chatterjee 11, Megha Singh 10). Karnataka 72 (Roshni John 24, Varsha Nandhini 20, Chandana 11) bt Chhattisgarh 47 (Divani Ganwal 14, D Kirti 14). Railways 89 (Pushpa Senthilkuar 23, Sruti Aravind 15, Madhu Kumari 12, Rasi Kotan 12, Harshita 10) bt Tamil Nadu 53 (Nitika 13, Iswarya 11, Nishanthi 11).
Group-B: Kerala 79 (Aneesha Cleetus 17, Kavitha 13, Grima Merlin 11) bt Uttar Pradesh 48 (Megh Singh 19, Liprmaye Satapathy 16). Delhi 67 (Raspreet Sidhu 33, Ishika Choudhary 16) bt Punjab 64 (Manmeet Kaur 37, Kavya Singhla 18).
– Kamesh Srinivasan