HOCKEY
Defending champion Punjab opened its marketing campaign on a rousing word with a 10-1 victory over Chhattisgarh in a Pool-A match of the Senior Nationwide males’s hockey championship on Friday.
In a keenly contested Pool-G contest, Maharashtra resolutely fought again from a 0-2 deficit to drag off a 2-2 draw. With two wins in Pool F, Uttar Pradesh might be eager to beat J&Ok on Saturday in its ultimate group match and high the group to enter the quarterfinals.
In one other attention-grabbing Pool-H match on Saturday, the winner of Bengal and Manipur will probably high the group and attain the final eight.
The outcomes:
Pool-A: Punjab 10 (Gursahibjit Singh 5, 35, Ravneet Singh 15, Pardeep Singh 16, Balwinder Singh 41, 55, Angad Bir Singh 52, Maninder Singh 53, Gurjinder Singh 54, Sudarshan Singh 58) bt Chhattisgarh 1 (Tarun Yadav 44).
B: Mizoram 6 (Mohit Kathoute 5, C. Stalin Abilash 18, Zothanpuia 27, H. Trishul Ganapathi 34, 39, Lalramlua 58) bt Himachal 3 (Dharmesh Singh 37, Harsh 41, 46).
E: Rajasthan 4 (Keshav Pandey 26, 45, Vijendra Singh 31, 40) bt Arunachal 3 (Sandeep Pathak 2, 44, Abhinav Singh 33).
E: Odisha 6 (Amandeep Lakra 11, Sanjeep Nilam Xess 18, Sudeep Chirmako 34, Pratap Lakra 37, Rajat Akash Tirkey 43, Kerobin Lakra 55) bt Le Puducherry 2 (Nabin Kujur 21, T. Arun Kumar 45).
G: Maharashtra 2 (Sayyad Niyaz Rahim 35, Devindar Walmiki 60) drew with Jharkhand 2 (Simon Bodra 23, Love Gentle Kujur 34).
H: Bengal 11 (Rajendra Oram 2, 44, Raushan Kumar 4, Amon Mirash Tirkey 6, 45, Alsam Lakra 12, 49, Tarun Adhikari 20, Nitish Neupane 22, 36, 41, Santosh Barla 60) bt Bihar 1 (Saurav Kumar 24, Anuj Raj 55).
-Group Sportstar
TENNIS
AITA ladies’s event: Third seed Anjali beats second seed Sahira
Third seed Anjali Rathi beat second seed Sahira Singh 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 within the ultimate of the Rs.2,50,000 AITA ladies’s tennis event on the Joygaon Academy on Friday.
The 18-year-old Anjali had earlier knocked out the highest seed Yubrani Banerjee in straight units. In truth, Anjali had dropped solely 22 video games in all within the first 4 rounds.
It was one other addition to the trophy assortment of the Rathi household, as Anjali’s brother Arjun Rathi had gained the ITF junior title in Nairobi, Kenya, final week. Each gamers prepare on the Roundglass Academy in Chandigarh, underneath chief coach Aditya Sachdeva.
Yubrani gained the doubles title in partnership with Kashish Bhatia, beating the second seeds, Divya Bhardwaj and Chandana Potugari in straight units.
The outcomes (finals)
Singles: Anjali Rathi bt Sahira Singh 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Doubles: Yubrani Banerjee & Kashish Bhatia bt Divya Bhardwaj & Chandana Potugari 6-1, 7-6(3).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Males’s ITF event: Aryan Shah beats nationwide champion Rethi in quarterfinals
Davis Cupper Aryan Shah asserted his constant recreation as he beat the nationwide champion Rethin Pranav 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 within the quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis event on the Kalinga Stadium on Friday.
In a battle of wits that lasted two hours and 26 minutes, Aryan transformed six of 9 breakpoints to drag via, at the same time as Rethin misplaced the grip on his serve within the decider.
Within the semifinals, Aryan will problem the highest seed, Dalibor Svrcina of the Czech Republic.
Two different Indian hopes Karan Singh and S.D. Prajwal Dev have been additionally crushed, as Bogdan Bobrov arrange the opposite semifinal towards Nick Chappell.
Within the doubles semifinals, high seeds Egor Agafonov and Bogdan Bobrov turned the match round from the brink of defeat, to beat Ishaque Eqbal and Faisal Qamar 10-8 within the tremendous tie-break.
They may play Rishab Agarwal and Kabir Hans within the ultimate.
The outcomes
Singles (quarterfinals): Dalibor Svrcina (Cze) bt Dev Javia 6-4, 6-1; Aryan Shah bt Rethin Pranav 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; Bogdan Bobrov bt Karan Singh 6-3, 6-0; Nick Chappell (USA) bt S.D Prajwal Dev 5-7, 7-5, 1-0 (retired).
Doubles (semifinals): Egor Agafonov & Bogdan Bobrov bt Ishaque Eqbal & Faisal Qamar 3-6, 7-6(6), [10-8]; Rishab Agarwal & Kabir Hans bt Siddhant Banthia & Vishnu Vardhan 6-2, 7-6(4).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Helsinki Challenger: Divij-Daniel duo crushed in doubles quarterfinals
Divij Sharan in partnership with Daniel Cukierman of Israel was crushed 3-6, 6-4, [10-8] by Marco Borlotti and Patrik Niklas-Salminen within the doubles quarterfinals of the €148,625 Challenger tennis event in Helsinki, Finland.
The outcomes
€148,625 Challenger, Helsinki, Finland Doubles (quarterfinals): Marco Bortolotti (Ita) & Patrik Niklas-Salminen (Fin) bt Daniel Cukierman (Isr) & Divij Sharan 3-6, 6-4, [10-8].
$25,000 ITF males, Maputo, Mozambique Doubles (quarterfinals): Ryoto Tachi (Jpn) & Yash Yadav w.o. Olaf Pieczkowski & Kacper Szymkowiak (Pol); Thando Longwe-Smit & Dylan Salton (RSA) bt Parth Aggarwal & Atharva Sharma 6-1, 6-4.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
The Poona Membership Open: Kaul establishes two-shot lead, Parikh matches course document of 63
Kshitij Naveed Kaul of Delhi, the in a single day joint chief, posted a stable four-under 67 in spherical three to ascertain a two-shot lead at a complete of 16-under 197 at The Poona Membership Open on Friday.
Ahmedabad’s Varun Parikh, a winner on the PGTI final month, matched the course document of eight-under 63 to climb into second place at 14-under 199 within the Rs 1 crore occasion.
TATA Metal PGTI Rating chief Veer Ahlawat of Gurugram signed for an error-free 66 to maneuver into tied third place at 13-under 200. Chandigarh’s Karandeep Kochhar, the in a single day joint chief, struck a 70 on Friday that pushed him right down to tied third together with Ahlawat.
Divyansh Dubey (66) was the highest-placed among the many Pune-based professionals as he was positioned tied eighth at nine-under 204.
Olympian Udayan Mane submitted a card of 70 to finish the day in tied twenty fifth at four-under 209.
The 26-year-old Parikh (67-69-63), a two-time winner on the PGTI and at the moment positioned seventeenth on the PGTI Order of Advantage, equalled the course document held by six different gamers (Kapil Kumar, Samarth Dwivedi, C Muniyappa, Chikkarangappa S, S Madaiah and Vijay Kumar) and jumped seven spots from his in a single day tied ninth, courtesy his 9 birdies that got here at the price of a lone bogey.
Parikh’s spherical featured 5 consecutive birdies from the tenth to the 14th.
-PTI