TENNIS
Jeffrey and Jeetesh win titles at AITA Junior Championship Sequence
Jeffrey Kushwin and Jeetesh Kumari received the girls and boys titles respectively within the AITA Championship collection junior tennis organised on the MM Public Faculty, Pitampura.
Jeffrey beat Anmol Saini in three units, whereas Jeetesh Kumari beat Neelakshi Lather in straight units within the finals.
Lakshay Dahiya who had misplaced the singles semifinals to Anmol in three units, received the doubles title in partnership with Sameer Gulia.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
The outcomes:
Underneath-18 boys (ultimate): Jeffrey Kushwin bt Anmol Saini 2-6, 6-2, 6-4; Semifinals: Jeffrey bt Kartik Uttam 6-3, 6-2; Anmol bt Lakshay Dahiya 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles (ultimate): Lakshay Dahiya & Sameer Gulia bt Shubham Sehrawat & Tanmay Mittal 6-3, 6-4.
Underneath-18 ladies (ultimate): Jeetesh Kumari bt Neelakshi Lather 6-1, 7-5; Semifinals: Jeetesh bt Miraya Agarwal 6-4, 6-1; Neelakshi bt Shivangi Sharma 6-1, 6-1.
AITA rating tennis event: Hridayeshi beats fifth seed Saily in first spherical
Hridayeshi Pai knocked out fifth seed Saily Thakkar 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 within the ladies’s first spherical of the Rs.200,000 AITA rating tennis event on the Ace Academy on Monday.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
The outcomes (first spherical):
Males: Utkarsh Tiwari bt Sagar Kumar 6-3, 6-2; Moksh Puri bt Paritosh Pawar 7-5, 6-0; Nishith Naveen w.o. Parth Chavda; Nirav Shetty bt Azmeer Shaikh 6-2, 6-3; Chandan Shivaraj bt Tanik Gupta 7-5, 6-2; Ricky Chaudhary bt Gautam Kale 6-3, 6-1; Deep Munim bt Bhavya Joshi 6-4, 6-0.
Ladies:Aditi Singh bt Priyanshi Bhandari 3-1 (retired); Hridayeshi Pai bt Saily Thakkar 6-4, 1-6, 6-2.
BOXING
5 Indian youth boxers strike gold at ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024
5 younger Indian boxers Brijesh Tamta, Aryan Hooda, Yashwardhan Singh, Laxmi and Nisha put up spectacular performances to clinch gold medals on the ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan on Monday.
Brijesh gave India its first gold medal of the event with a unanimous 5-0 win over Tajikistan’s Muminov Muinkhodzha within the males’s 48kg ultimate. Aryan (51kg) continued the momentum with an equally dominant 5-0 victory in opposition to Kyrgyzstan’s Kamilov Zafarbek.
Yashwardhan Singh (63.5kg) needed to work laborious in opposition to Gafurov Ruslan of Tajikistan as each boxers confirmed nice attacking intent but it surely was the Indian who in the end clinched the win with a 4-1 verdict.
Within the ladies’s class, reigning junior world champion Nisha grabbed the yellow metallic within the 52kg class as she outperformed Kazakhstan’s Otynbay Bagzhan in a 5-0 win. Later, Laxmi (50kg) received India’s fifth gold medal with a referee cease the competition (RSC) win within the second spherical of the bout in opposition to Enkh Nomundari of Mongolia.
In the meantime, 9 youth boxers, Sagar Jakhar (60kg), Priyanshu (71kg), Rahul Kundu (75kg), Aryan (92kg), Tamanna (54kg), Nikita Chand (60kg), Shrushti Sathe (63kg), Rudrika (75kg) and Khushi Pooniya (81kg) ended campaigns with silver medals after shedding of their respective finals.
On Saturday evening, Olympic-bound boxer Preeti (54kg) entered the U-22 finals together with 5 different Indian ladies.
With, Muskan (75kg) and Alfiya Pathan (81kg) already within the finals after receiving byes of their respective semi-finals, nation’s eight ladies and 4 males pugilists will compete within the U-22 finals on Tuesday.
With 22 medals within the youth part and 21 within the U-22, the Indian contingent has secured 43 medals on the prestigious event which has been witnessing high-voltage motion with the presence of 390-plus boxers from greater than 24 nations, together with robust boxing nations comparable to China, India, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan preventing for the medals throughout 25 weight classes.
– Group Sportstar