TENNIS
ITF Juniots Tennis Match: Mahika Khanna units up semifinal conflict towards prime seed Laxmisiri Dandu
Mahika Khanna eased previous fourth seed Prisha Shinde 6-3, 6-3 to arrange a semifinal towards prime seed Laxmisiri Dandu within the ladies part of the ITF Junior tennis event on the Vijay Khand tennis enviornment on Thursday.
The opposite semifinal shall be between Aishwarya Jadhav and Jaya Kapoor.
Within the boys part, prime seed Kandhavel Mahalingam outplayed Tavish Pahwa for the lack of two video games to arrange a semifinal towards third seed and champion of the final event, Praneel Sharma.
The opposite semifinal shall be between Pradyumna Tomar and second seed Shanker Heisnam.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Boys: Kandhavel Mahalingam bt Tavish Phawal 6-2, 6-0; Praneel Sharma bt Adhiraj Thakur 6-1, 6-3; Pradyumna Tomar bt Aarav Chawla 6-3, 6-2; Shanker Heisnam bt Fateh Singh 6-0, 6-4.
Ladies: Laxmisiri Dandu bt Shaivi Dalal 6-3, 6-2; Mahika Khanna bt Prisha Shinde 6-3, 6-3; Jaya Kapoor bt Princy Mandagalla 5-7, 6-1, 6-2; Aishwarya Jadhav bt Aakruti Sonkusare 6-1, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Nationwide Sequence Juniors: Sara Hooda reaches semis
Sara Hooda beat fourth seed Disha Kumar 6-4, 3-6, 6-0 within the ladies’ quarterfinals of the AITA Nationwide Sequence under-16 tennis event on the Joygaon Academy on Thursday.
Sara will play Simar Gill within the semifinals. The opposite semifinal shall be between prime seed Swasti Singh and third seed Aaradhya Meena.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Below-16 boys: Uttam Karthik bt Mohd. Shees 6-0, 6-1; Advit Tiwari bt Paranjay Siwach 6-3, 6-3; Viraj Choudhary bt Rohan Hariharan 6-2, 6-2; Abhiudai Singh bt Dishender Lamba 6-2, 5-7, 6-1.
Below-16 ladies: Swasti Singh bt Avika Yadav 6-2, 6-1; Aaradhya Meena bt Deepshika Vinayagamurthy 6-3, 6-4; Sara Hooda bt Disha Kumar 6-4, 3-6, 6-0; Simar Gill bt Sara Kandwal 6-3, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Rutuja Bhosale reaches quarterfinals after beating Aoi Ito
Rutuja Bhosale outplayed Aoi Ito of Japan 6-2, 6-0 within the pre-quarterfinals of the $60,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event in Kurume, Japan, on Thursday.
Within the €205,000 Challenger in Bordeaux, France, alternate entrant Harold Mayot beat Sumit Nagal 6-2, 6-2 within the first spherical.
The outcomes:
€100,000 WTA, Parma, Italy: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Jule Niemeier (Ger) bt Ankita Raina 6-1, 6-3.
€205,000 Challenger, Bordeaux, France: Singles (first spherical): Harold Mayot (Fra) bt Sumit Nagal 6-2, 6-2.
€74,825 Challenger, Oeiras, Portugal: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Anirudh Chandrasekar & Arjun Kadhe bt Gustavo Heide & Gabriel Sidney (Bra) 7-6(5), 6-3.
$82,000 Challenger, Taipei, Taiwan: Doubles (quarterfinals): Ray Ho (Tpe) & Nam JiSung (Kor) bt Remy Bertola (Sui) & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-2, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Kingston, Jamaica: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Leo Borg (Swe) & Aryan Shah bt Amir Elbayoumy (USA) & Aleksandar Petrovic (Can) 6-2, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Maik Steiner (Ger) bt Siddhant Banthia 7-6(7), 7-6(4); SD Prajwal Dev bt Kazuma Kawachi (Jpn) 6-3, 6-2; Eliakim Coulibaly (CIV) bt Dev Javia 6-4, 7-6(7); Philip Henning (RSA) bt Chirag Duhan 6-3, 6-0; Ishaque Eqbal bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Chirag Duhan & Maik Steiner (Ger) bt Luca Fantini & Giuseppe (Ita) 7-5, 6-4; Siddhant Banthia & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Tushar Madan & Arthav Neema 6-2, 6-1.
$60,000 ITF ladies, Zagreb, Croatia: Doubles (semifinals): Emily Appleton (GBR) & Prarthana Thombare bt Mariana Drazic (Cro) & Ekaterine Gorgodze (Geo) 7-5, 6-2.
$60,000 ITF ladies, Kurume, Japan: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ruruja Bhosale bt Aoi Ito (Jpn) 6-2, 6-0.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Bethany Seashore, USA: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ashton Bowers & Mia Yamakita (USA) bt Martina Okalova (Svk) & Sahaja Yamalapalli 7-6(5), 6-3.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Monzon, Spain: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ana Candiotto (Bra) & Tiphanie Lemaitre (Fra) bt Sharmada Balu & Sowjanya Bavisetti 6-0, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Toyama, Japan: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Miyu Nakashima & Ayaka Ozeki (Jpn) bt Smriti Bhasin & Kim Haram (Kor) 6-1, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
CRICKET
Goswami Ganesh Dutt event
Imaginative and prescient Panchal took three wickets and scored an unbeaten 19 to assist Sporting Membership to a four-wicket victory over Delhi Challengers within the semifinals of the forty ninth all-India Goswami Ganesh Dutt cricket event on the Khalsa Faculty floor on Thursday.
Delhi Challengers scored 263, due to fluent knocks by Dheeru Singh (84) and Bhagmender Lather (72). Sporting CC reached the goal with three overs to spare due to effective batting by Himanshu Rana, Hardik Sharma and Rishabh Drall.
Imaginative and prescient Panchal was declared the Kimati man-of-the-match.
Within the second semifinal, Sehgal CC will play Rajnigandha Achiever on Friday.
The scores:
Delhi Challengers 263/6 in 40 overs (Dheeru Singh 84, Bhagmender Lather 72, Imaginative and prescient Panchal 3/38) misplaced to Sporting CC 264/6 in 37 overs (Himanshu Rana 53, Hardik Sharma 41, Rishabh Drall 37).
-Kamesh Srinivasan