Indian sports activities information wrap, December 28

TENNIS

Japan Sato beats India’s Yamalapali pre-quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event

Naho Sato of Japan scotched the Indian hopes as she beat Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-2, 6-4 within the pre-quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event on the Ganesh Naik Sports activities Complicated on Thursday.

It was a medical efficiency by the Japanese as she transformed 5 of eight breakpoints to race to victory. Sahaja’s serve acquired damaged early in each the units, and she or he was unable to meet up with the Japanese, regardless of changing two of 4 break factors.

The opposite Indian within the singles discipline, Vaidehi Chaudhari discovered high seed Ekaterina Makarova too scorching to deal with and managed to win three video games in an hour-long duel.

Within the doubles quarterfinals, Zeel Desai and Ksenia Zaytseva recovered from being down 1-5 within the tremendous tie-break to have a match level at 9-8, however the second seeds Diana Marcinkevica and Sapfo Sakellaridi eluded their grasp and reached the semifinals. Zeel and associate had earlier been within the driver’s seat at 6-4, 5-3.

The sturdy staff of Rutuja Bhosale and Prarthana Thombare, seeded third, misplaced in straight units to Funa Kozaki and Misaki Matsuda. With Shrivalli Bhamidipaty and Vaidehi shedding to Kamilla Bartona and Ekaterina Makarova 5-10 within the tremendous tie-break, the Indian problem ended.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

$15,000 ITF girls’s tennis event: Tanisha beats France’s Alyssa to achieve pre-quarters

Tanisha Kashyap beat Alyssa Reguer of France 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 to achieve the pre-quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Monastir, Tunisia.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

VOLLEYBALL

Prime Volleyball League: Blue Spikers signal Brazil’s Athos Costa

Athos Costa.
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Kochi Blue Spikers has signed Brazil’s Athos Ferreira Costa as their second overseas participant for the approaching Prime Volleyball League which begins in Chennai on February 19.

A center blocker, the 35-year-old Costa has performed for main groups in Portugal, Greece, Brazil, Italy and the UAE.

The Blue Spikers, owned by the owned by Muthoot Pappachan Group, had earlier signed Poland’s Jan Krol, their first overseas participant.

– Stan Rayan

CHESS

A. Uday Kumar turns into first Worldwide Arbiter in chess from Rayalaseema Area, fourth from Andhra

A. Uday Kumar of Anantapur grew to become the primary Worldwide Arbiter in chess from Rayalaseema Area and the fourth from Andhra Pradesh having accomplished all of the 4 obligatory norms this yr within the KIIT Worldwide Chess Pageant, Nationwide girls’s chess in Ahmedabad (2023), Nationwide Championship in Pune and inaugural Matrix Worldwide FIDE-rating event in Delhi.

A. Uday Kumar of Anantapur grew to become the primary Worldwide Arbiter in chess from Rayalaseema Area.
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The 27-year-old Uday, who’s an enormous fan of world champion Magnus Carlsen, can be the youngest arbiter from Andhra Pradesh.

The chess official acquired the letter of appreciation from the FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich.

-V V SUBRAHMANYAM

ATHLETICS

Nationwide varsities girls’s championships: Sudeshna quickest athlete

Shivaji College’s Sudeshna Hanman Shivankar emerged because the quickest athlete whereas Chandigarh’s Rashdeep Kaur was the perfect quartermiler within the Nationwide inter-university girls’s athletics championships on the KIIT-deemed to be college right here.

-Stan Rayan