Indian sports activities information wrap, December 8

TENNIS

Gade Marine ITF Juniors: Laxmisri Dandu beats second seed Farzami

Laxmisiri Dandu overcame a sluggish begin to beat the second seed Mandegar Farzami of Iran 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 within the women semifinals of the Gadre Marine ITF junior tennis match on the Deccan Gymkhana Membership on Friday.

Within the last, Laxmisiri will play the highest seed Maaya Rajeshwaran who beat Ariana Gogulina of Kazakhstan in straight units.

It was the primary victory in three conferences for the 14-year-old Maaya over the Kazakh, who had overwhelmed her in Gurugram and Dehradun in three-set battles earlier this season.

Within the boys part, Arnav Paparkar sustained his dream run and beat the second seed Kriish Tyagi in three units. He’ll play Moise Kouame of France within the last. The French boy received a walkover from Hiromasa Koyama because the Japanese suffered a abdomen an infection.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

AITF officers proceed in ITF

The secretary normal of the All India Tennis Affiliation (AITA), Anil Dhupar, has been reappointed to the ITF juniors committee for the 2024-25 season.

The joint secretary of AITA, Sunder Iyer, continues to be a part of the ITF coaches fee.

The AITA expressed its happiness and satisfaction in regards to the two officers representing the nation within the worldwide federation.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Harven Professional Tennis League: Sahaja, Rushil guides Ichiban Samurai to resounding win

Sahaja Yamalapalli and Rushil Khosla gave a powerful begin for Ichiban Samurai which cruised thereafter to a 89-71 victory over Indraprastha Warriors in a group-A league match of the Harven Professional Tennis League on the DLTA Advanced on Friday.

Sahaja beat Soha Sadiq 17-3 and Rushil, the reigning nationwide junior champion, strengthened the place for the staff by beating Suvrat Mall 14-6. Thereafter, Indraprastha fought again a bit by the combined doubles staff of Soha and VM Ranjeet, and Mukund Sasikumar asserting his recreation towards Nitin Kumar Sinha.

Rushil Khosla celebrates some extent throughout Ichiban Samurai’s victory within the Professional Tennis League in Delhi on Friday.
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Kamesh Srinivasan

Finally, Ichiban sealed the competition with Nitin and Rushil beating Mukund and Suvrat 18-12.

It was the second victory for Ichiban because it had overwhelmed Gurgaon Sapphires 83-77 in a single day.

Within the different group, Sankara Stag Babolat Yoddhas scored a 95-65 win over Lucknow Aviators. It was the primary victory for Babolat Yoddhas because the staff had misplaced to Paramount Proec Tigers within the opening match.

It was the primary loss for Lucknow after it had overwhelmed DMG Delhi Crusaders earlier.

The highest two groups from the 2 teams will make the semifinals, after the final set of league matches on Saturday. Each the semifinals and last are scheduled for Sunday.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

AITA Girls’s match: Pooja Ingale beats Priyanshi Bhandari

Pooja Ingale beat Priyanshi Bhandari 6-4, 6-4 within the last of the Rs.2,50,000 AITA girls’s tennis match on the Ace Academy, Padolia, on Friday.

Pooja gained a double crown, as she partnered Priyanshi to beat the Vemuri twins, Abhaya and Apurva, 6-3, 6-4 within the doubles last.

The singles champion collected Rs.31,250 and the runner-up Rs.21,000. The doubles title fetched Rs.15,500 and the runners-up received Rs.9,500.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

ITF Girls’s tennis: High seeds Timea, Vera beart Prarthana, Anastasia in doubles semis

High seeds Timea Babos and Vera Zvonareva beat Prarthana Thombare and Anastasia Tikhonova 6-4, 6-2 within the doubles semifinals of the $100,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Dubai, UAE, on Friday.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

SHOOTING

Anantjeet takes high spot in Nationwide Choice trials

Asian Video games silver medallist Anantjeet Singh Naruka asserted himself by beating Mohd. Sheeraz Sheikh 58-56 for the highest spot in males’s skeet within the Nationwide taking pictures choice trials on the Dr. Karni Singh Vary, Tughlakabad, on Friday.

Anantjeet had topped qualification with 121 together with Zorawar Singh Bedi who ultimately completed fifth. Gurjoat Khangura received the third place forward of Smit Singh.

Olympian Angad Vir Singh Bajwa was eighth with 119. He missed qualifying for the ultimate within the shoot-off. World Cup gold medallist Mairaj Ahmad Khan was 18th with 115.

Raiza Dhillon was sensible in girls’s skeet as she first topped qualification with 122 out of 125, after which beat World Cup medallist Ganemat Sekhon 58-54 for the highest spot. Maheshwari Chauhan positioned third forward of Yashasvi Rathore, Areeba Khan and Vanshika Tiwari.

Different main girls shooters, Karttiki Singh Shaktawat (115), Parinaaz Dhaliwal (115) and Darshna Rathore (114) completed seventh to ninth in that order.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

CRICKET

Hassan Shah-Ashok T20 match newest scores

Murugan CC and Rovers CC recorded wins within the Hassan Shah-Ashok Varma all-Kerala T20 cricket match right here on Friday.

Murugan CC defeated Youngsters CC bt 4 wickets whereas Rovers beat KRC by three wickets.

KCA North Zone U-14 inter-district: Palakkad crush Kannur

Host Palakkad crushed Kannur by 9 wickets within the KCA North Zone under-14 inter-district cricket match on the Fort Maidan right here on Friday.

-Praveen Chandran

WRESTLING

Nationwide wrestling championships 2023 to start out from Jan. 2

The Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA)-appointed ad-hoc committee, which runs the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), on Friday introduced that the Nationwide Championships 2023 shall be held in Jaipur from January 2 to five.

Following the turmoil surrounding wrestlers’ protest over varied allegations, together with sexual harassment, towards the WFI high brass, and the delayed elections of the WFI, there have been doubts over the conduct of this 12 months’s Nationwide championships.

As per a discover issued by the ad-hoc committee, the Railways Sports activities Promotion Board (RSPB) will host the occasion. Competitions shall be held in 10 weight lessons every in males’s freestyle, Greco Roman and ladies’s kinds.

In the meantime, following the Supreme Courtroom order that paved the best way for the lengthy overdue WFI elections, returning officer Justice (retd.) M.M. Kumar has resumed the method by in search of needed inputs from ad-hoc committee member Bhupinder Bajwa.

-Y.B.Sarangi

GOLF

S.S.P. Chawrasia Invitational: Om Prakash Chouhan, Rahil Gangjee joint clubhouse leaders after second day

Order of Benefit chief Om Prakash Chouhan and Rahil Gangjee had been the joint clubhouse leaders with an mixture of five-under 139 after the second day’s play within the S.S.P. Chawrasia Invitational occasion on the Royal Calcutta Golf Membership (RCGC) right here on Friday.

Chouhan, who picked up three birdies and an eagle on the fifteenth towards three bogeys, carded a three-under 69 within the second spherical in overcast circumstances.

The Kolkata-bred Gangjee, who was flawless between tenth and 18th holes, garnering 4 birdies earlier than being distracted by a ache in his proper calf, scored 70.

When the primary spherical, which was interrupted by rain on the opening day, concluded, Gangjee led with 69, adopted by Chouhan on 70.

Syed Saqib Ahmed (74, 67) was third within the clubhouse with a complete of three-under 141.

Solely 59 gamers might full the second spherical as play was suspended attributable to fading mild.

-Y.B.Sarangi

BASKETBALL

Nationwide basketball championship: Delhi beats Providers in males’s quarterfinals, Tamil Nadu outplays Delhi in girls’s

Vishesh Bhriguvanshi scored 32 factors to energy Delhi previous Providers 83-70 within the males’s quarterfinals of the 73rd Nationwide basketball championship on the Guru Nanak Dev Indoor Stadium right here on Friday.

Within the girls’s part, Tamil Nadu outplayed Delhi 81-55 within the quarterfinals. It can run into Railways within the semifinals. The opposite semifinal shall be between Kerala and Karnataka.

-Kamesh Srinivasan