TENNIS
$40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event outcomes
Funa Kozaki of Japan beat Zeel Desai 6-1, 6-7(4), 6-2 within the first spherical of the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event on the Ganesh Naik Sports activities Advanced on Tuesday.
Zeel, nonetheless, reached the doubles quarterfinals in partnership with Ksenia Zaytseva, beating Nanari Katsumi and Honoka Kobayashi of Japan 10-2 within the tremendous tie-break.
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty and Vaidehi Chaudhari had a powerful begin as they beat the highest seeds Zhibek Kulambayeva and Justina Mikulskyte 7-6(5), 6-2 within the doubles pre-quarterfinals.
The outcomes:
Singles (first spherical): Funa Kozaki (Jpn) bt Zeel Desai 6-1, 6-7(4), 6-2; Misaki Matsuda (Jpn) bt Ksenia Zaytseva 6-3, 6-4; Ekaterina Yashina bt Harshali Mandavkar 6-1, 6-1; Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre) bt Suhitha Maruri 6-3, 7-5; Naho Sato (Jpn) bt Anna Sedysheva 6-4, 2-0 (retired).
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudharibt Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) & Justina Mikulskyte (Ltu) 7-6(5), 6-2; Kamilla Bartone (Lat) & Ekaterina Makarova bt Snehal Mane & Madhurima Sawant 6-0, 6-2; Hiromi Abe & Saki Imamura (Jpn) bt Ekaerina Maklakova & Ekaterina Yasshina 6-4, 3-6, [10-5]; Beatrice Gumulya (Ina) & Akiko Omae (Jpn) bt Vaishnavi Adkar & Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-1, 2-6, [14-12]; Rutuja Bhosale & Prarthana Thombare bt Ekaterina Kazionova & Akanksha Nitture 6-1, 6-3; Zeel Desai & Ksenia Zaytseva bt Nanari Katsumi & Honoka Kobayashi (Jpn) 6-1, 4-6, [10-2]; Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) & Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre) bt Kundali Majgaine & Saumya Vig 6-1, 6-2.
FOOTBALL
Kochi Company to honour Kerala’s first Santosh Trophy-winning crew
Fifty years in the past, Kerala gained the Santosh Trophy – the most important prize in Indian soccer then – for the primary time on the Maharaja’s Stadium in Kochi.
The Kochi Company will felicitate the triumphant 1973 Kerala crew and its coach, Olympian Simon Sundararaj, on Wednesday and has deliberate a number of occasions across the perform.
Money prizes and mementoes will likely be offered to the 1973 stars on the perform on the Durbar Corridor.
-Stan Rayan
BOXING
Minakshi upset former Worlds silver-medallist Manju Rani 5-0 to enter the 48kg last within the Nationwide girls’s boxing championships on the Gautam Buddha College Sports activities Advanced in Better Noida on Tuesday.
Minakshi, a 2022 Asian silver medallist in 52kg, will tackle former World youth champion Gitika within the title conflict.
Simranjit Kaur edged previous fellow Worlds medallist Manisha Moun, 4-3, following bout evaluation to achieve the 60kg last.
RESULTS
48kg: Gitika (Har) bt Nivedita Karki (Utk) 4-3, Minakshi (AIP) bt Manju Rani (RSPB) 5-0
50kg: Anamika (RSPB) bt Maibam Rosemary Chanu (Man) RSC-R2, Kalpana (Har) bt Ekta Saroj (Pun) 5-0
52kg: Jyoti Gulia (RSPB) bt Bhupali Hazarika (Asm) RSC-R2, Shivnder Kaur Sidhu (AIP) bt Simran Verma (Mah) ABD-R3
54kg: Sonia (UP) bt Darsana (AIP) 4-1, Shiksha (RSPB) bt Hetal Dama (Guj) 5-0
57kg: Sonia Lather (RSPB) bt Mandeep Kaur (Pun) 4-1, Sakshi Chaudhary (SSCB) bt Sovi Jajo (Man) 5-0
60kg: Jaismine Lamboria (SSCB) bt Menka Devi (HP) 5-0, Simranjit Kaur (Pun) bt Manisha Moun (Har) 4-3
63kg: Prachi (Har) bt Niharika Gonella (Tel) 5-0, Sonu (AIP) bt Rinky Sharma (UP) 5-0
66kg: Arundhati Choudhary (SSCB) bt Sanju (Nag) 5-0, Ankushita Boro (Asm) bt Deepika (HP) 5-0
70kg: Shalakha Singh Sansanwal (Del) bt Khushi (Pun) 4-0, Lalita (Raj) bt Anupana (RSPB) 5-0
75kg: Nandini (RSPB) bt Komal (Pun) 4-1, Pooja Rani (Har) bt Deepika (UP) 5-0
81kg: Lalfakmawii Ralte (Miz) bt Sushma (AIP) 4-1, Saweety Boora (Har) bt Bhagyabati Kachari (Asm) 5-0
+81kg: Nupur (RSPB) bt Elura Borgohain (Asm) 5-0, Ritika (Har) bt Monika (AIP) 4-1.
-Workforce Sportstar
ATHLETICS
Nationwide varsities championship: Gold for Reshma
Shivaji College’s Reshma Dattu Kevate gained the ten,000m gold within the Nationwide inter-university girls’s athletics championships which started in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday.
The ladies’s and males’s championships are being held individually this yr. And whereas the boys will first have the zonals after which the inter-zone Nationals (in Chennai, January), the ladies immediately compete within the all-India meet.
Outcomes (winners solely)
10,000m: Reshma Dattu Kevate (Shivaji Uni.) 33:32.33s.
Pole vault: Nidhi (MDU) 3.50m.
-Stan Rayan