TENNIS
$25,000 ITF girls’s tennis: Fifth-seed Yamalapalli beats Japan’s Koshishi in first spherical
Fifth seed Sahaja Yamalapalli warmed up for the challenges forward with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Ayumi Koshishi of Japan within the first spherical of the Federal Financial institution $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis match on the Tennis Mission, Baliawas, on Wednesday.
Sahaja stroked with depth and transformed 4 of eight break factors to snuff the Japanese problem. She did drop serve as soon as however total dealt with her service video games with competence.
Within the pre-quarterfinals, Sahaja will play Riya Bhatia who has been with out match apply for a while. Riya overcame the fluent play of qualifier Anjali Rathi 7-6(5), 6-4.
Riya did properly to make the doubles quarterfinals with Michika Ozeki of Japan.
Qualifier Vaishnavi Adkar unleashed her forceful strokes on each flanks to beat Akiko Omae of Japan in three units. Vaishnavi will subsequent face the highest seed, the 218th ranked Dalila Jakupovic of Slovenia.
Shirvalli Bhamidipaty had little hassle in getting previous the Japanese qualifier Ikumi Yamazaki. She’s going to face seventh seed Jacqueline Cabaj Awad of Sweden within the second spherical.
The outcomes
Singles (first spherical): Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) bt clara Vlasselaer (Bel) 7-5, 6-4; Vaishnavi Adkar bt Akiko Omae (Jpn) 6-4, 2-6, 6-1; Riya Bhatia bt Anjali Rathi 7-6(5), 6-4; Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Ayumi Koshishi (Jpn) 6-4, 6-2; Yasmine Mansouri (Fra) bt Ranah Akua Stoiber (GBR) 6-1, 7-6(4); Ekaterina Kazionova bt Ekaterina Yashina 7-5, 6-2; Anastasia Gasanova bt Abhilasha Bista (Nep) 6-3, 6-0; Fanny Ostlund (Swe) bt Michika Ozeki (Jpn) 6-2, 6-4; Yeonwoo Ku (Kor) bt Madhurima Sawant 6-0, 6-2; Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) bt Humera Baharmus 6-1, 6-2; Rinon Okuwaki (Jpn) bt Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) 7-5, 6-4; Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Ikumi Yamazaki (Jpn) 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) & Ankita Raina bt Zeel Desai & Rinon Ikuwaki (Jpn) 2-6, 6-3, [11-9]; Riya Bhatia & Michika Ozeki (Jpn) bt Akanksha Nitture & Saumya Vig 6-3, 6-1; Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Kashish Bhatia & Sahira Singh 6-0, 6-1; Jacqueline Cabaj Awd (Swe) & Justina Mikulskyte (Ltu) bt Snehal Mane & Madhurima Sawant 6-2, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
SHOOTING
Nationwide choice trials: Chouksey tops girls’s 50-metre rifle with world document rating
Ashi Chouksey was in good kind as she topped the ladies’s 50-metre rifle 3-position occasion, with a world document rating besides, within the Nationwide taking pictures choice trials on the Madhya Pradesh Academy on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old Ashi shot 597 out of 600 in qualification, one level higher than the world document shared by Jenny Stene of Norway and Sagen Maddalena of the USA, and gained the ultimate with 461.8, She was 4.3 factors forward of second-placed Vidarsa Vinod who had 588 in qualification. Himani Poonia positioned third forward of Lajja Gauswami, Priya, Dhyaneshwari, Heena Gohei and Surabhi Bharadwaj.
Vidarsa Vinod, topper Ashi Chouksey and Himani Poonia in girls’s rifle 3-position occasion in Nationwide taking pictures trials in Bhopal on Wednesday.
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Vidarsa Vinod, topper Ashi Chouksey and Himani Poonia in girls’s rifle 3-position occasion in Nationwide taking pictures trials in Bhopal on Wednesday.
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Ashi had been overwhelmed by 0.1 and 0.2 factors within the two choice trials earlier in air rifle. Within the 25-metre girls’s sports activities pistol, Asian Video games gold medallist and a number of World Cup gold winner, Rahi Sarnobat topped with 33, three factors forward of Jaspreet Kaur. Olympian Annu Raj Singh positioned third, forward of Anisa Sayyed, Shital Desai, Kirandeep Kaur, TS Divya and Esha Singh.
Arjun Babuta topped males’s air rifle with 252.5 as he beat Sri Karthik Sabari Raj by 0.3 level. The latter had a powerful 634.2 in qualification. The qualification topper Dhanush Srikanth (635.4) didn’t shoot the ultimate.
The outcomes
10m air rifle: Males: 1. Arjun Babuta 252.5 (630.6); 2. Sri Karthik Sabari Raj 252.2 (634.2); 3. Yash Vardhan 230.8 (632.0).
25m sports activities pistol: Ladies: 1. Rahi Sarnobat 33 (583); 2. Jaspreet Kaur 30 (579); 3. Annu Raj Singh 27 (577).
50m rifle 3-position: Ladies: 1. Ashi Chouksey 461.8 (597); 2. Vidarsa Vinod 457.5 (588); 3. Himani Poonia 446.5 (585).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
POLO
Radha Mohan Rajinder Mohan Gold Vase: Shergill scores 4 in Jindal Panther win
Simran Shergill scored 4 targets to assist Jindal Panther to a 6-5 victory over Rajnigandha Achievers in a league match of the Radha Mohan Rajinder Mohan Gold Vase polo match on the Military Equestrian Centre, Delhi Cantonment, on Wednesday.
The outcomes (league)
Mayfair Polo 8 (Daniel Otamendi 4, Gaurav Sahgal 3, Salim Azmi) bt Delta Polo 7 (Santiago Marambio 5, Shamsheer Ali, Akshai Malik).
Jindal Panther 6 (Simran Shergill 4, Siddhant Sharma 2) bt Rajnigandha Achievers 5 (Chris Mackenzie 4, Dhruvpal Godara).
-Kamesh Srinivasan