SHOOTING
Madhya Pradesh duo of Gautami Bhanot and Swapnil Kusale topped the ladies’s 10m air rifle and males’s 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) qualification rounds, respectively, on the sixty fifth Nationwide Capturing Championship right here on Thursday.
Bhanot and Kusale, each from Railways, lead the eight finalists who go into the rating spherical on Friday the place the 2 prime finishers will combat it out for the gold subsequently.
Jabalpur’s Gautami shot a surprising 632.5 to prime a high quality 648-strong area within the ladies’s air rifle, falling simply 0.5 in need of the nationwide mark within the occasion.
Bhakti Khamkar, Nancy, Shriyanka Sadangi, Elavenil Valarivan, R. Narmada, Aishwarya Murlidhar and Yukthi Rajendra, had been the opposite seven to comply with Gautami into the rating spherical.
Within the males’s 3P, Swapnil shot 590 to prime the sector over the Navy’s Niraj Kumar, who shot 588.
Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, Ganga Singh, Akhil Sheoran, Chain Singh, Sanjeev Rajput and Harshit Binjwa are the opposite finalists.
-PTI
TENNIS
AITA ladies’s event
Riya Sachdeva overcame a tough begin to beat prime seed Kavya Khirwar 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 within the semifinals of the Rs.100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis event on the Joygaon Academy on Thursday.
Within the different semifinal, second seed Riya Uboveja had an equally robust battle as she pipped seventh seed Radhika Yadav 6-1, 5-7, 7-6(4).
The outcomes (semifinals): Riya Sachdeva bt Kavya Khirwar 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Riya Uboveja bt Radhika Yadav 6-1, 5-7, 7-6(4).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ITF tennis event
Oscar Moraing of Germany beat prime seed Sasikumar Mukund 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(6) within the pre-quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF tennis event in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on Thursday.
Within the battle of wits that lasted three hours and 20 minutes, Mukund saved three match factors, together with two within the twelfth sport of the decider to drive the tie-break. Each gamers broke serve 4 occasions within the match, and Mukund didn’t capitalise on the early change of breaks within the third set.
The outcomes:
$15,000 ITF males, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Oscar Moraing (Ger) bt Sasikumar Mukund 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(6).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Girls’s hockey event
Gagandeep Kaur scored twice to information Railway Sports activities Promotion Board to a 3-1 victory over Central Reserve Police Drive (CRPF) within the league part of the Nehru ladies’s hockey event on the Shivaji Stadium on Thursday.
Each the groups, nonetheless, made the semifinals.
The Railway workforce will tackle Madhya Pradesh Academy, Gwalior within the semifinals at 12.30 p.m., and the CRPF will problem Pritam Siwach Academy, Sonipat, at 2.30 p.m. on Friday.
The outcomes:
SAI, Delhi (Mamta Bhatt 3, Arti Kashyap 2, Mudita) bt Maharaja Ranjit Singh Academy, Amritsar (Jaspreet Kaur) 6-1.
Railway Sports activities Promotion Board (Gagandeep Kaur 2, Amrinder Kaur) bt CRPF (Supriya Mundu) 3-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
