Indian sports activities news wrap, January 23

TENNIS

Prozorova knocks out Vaidehi in opening spherical of ITF match in Pune

Tatiana Prozorova overcame a combating Vaidehi Chaudhari for a 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory within the first spherical of the NECC $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis match on the Deccan Gymkhana on Tuesday.

In a battle of wits that lasted two hours and 41minutes, Vaidehi fought again from 2-5 within the second set, however Prozorova pulled by on the important thing factors, changing her probabilities higher.

Second seed Anastasia Tikhonova beat wild card entrant Vaishnavi Adkar 6-3, 7-6(7).

In the doubles pre-quarterfinals, third seeds Rutuja Bhosale and Ankita Raina beat Anouk Koevermans and Ekaterina Yashina 10-5 within the tremendous tie-break to offer a silver lining for the Indian camp.

The outcomes:

Singles (first spherical): Moyuka Uchijima (Jpn) bt Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; AnoukKoevermans (Ned) bt Madhurima Sawant 6-2, 6-1; Anca Alexia Todoni (Rou) bt Camilla Rosatello (Ita) 7-6(0), 6-1; Tatiana Prozorova bt Vaidehi chaudhari 1-6, 7-5, 6-4; Tina Nadine Smith (Aus) bt Punnin Kovapitukted (Tha) 6-3, 6-0; Anastasia Tikhonova bt Vaishnavi Adkar 6-3, 7-6(7).

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Naiktha Bains (GBR) & Fanni Stollar (Hun) bt Pooja Ingale & Akanksha Nitture 6-2, 6-3; Anastasia Kulikova (Fin) & Diana marcinkevica (Lat) bt Vaishnavi Adkar & Sahaja Yamalapalli 3-6, 6-4, [10-6]; Rutuja Bhosale & Ankita Raina bt Anouk Koevermans (Ned) & Ekaterina Yashina 6-4, 4-6, [10-5]; Jessie Aney (USA) & Lena Papadakis (Ger) bt Snehal Mane & Soha Sadiq 6-2, 6-1; Alexandra Eala (Phi) & Darja Semenistaja (Lat) bt Yu-Yun Li (Tpe) & Eri Shimizu (Jpn) 6-7(7), 6-1, [10-7]; Saki Imamura & Naho Sato (Jpn) bt Rina Saigo & Yukina Saigo (Jpn) 6-3, 6-2.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Sasikumar, Tomic, Palan progress into pre-quarters of ITF match in Chennai

Mukund Sasikumar of India produced an excellent efficiency to get the higher of Korean qualifier Yunseok Jang within the opening spherical of the primary draw within the ITF Futures Men’s USD 25,000 International Tennis Championship right here on Tuesday.

The Indian prevailed in three units.

Mukund struggled within the ninth sport of the opening set, shedding his serve and taking place 4-5, as Jang held onto his serve to take the primary set.

In the following set, Mukund got here up with a composed serve and performed immaculate tennis, breaking the Korean’s resolve and profitable the set simply to take the match to the decider.

Mukund continued in similar vein and received the ultimate set 6-1 to maneuver into the second spherical the place he will probably be taking over the second seed Dominic Palan of Czech Republic on Thursday.

Top seed Bernard Tomic additionally performed with ease and outplayed Kazakhstan’s Grigoriy Lomakin till the Kazakh retired at 2-6, 2-5 within the second set.

Tomic served nicely and managed the match all through to win comfortably.

Meanwhile, second seed Palan demonstrated high quality tennis to oust Parth Agarwal in straight units.

Results (Indians)

Men’s Singles – Round 1: Nam Hoang Ly defeat Karan Singh 6-3, 6-4; Sasikumar Mukund defeat 4-6, 6-2, 6-1; M Rifqi Fitriadi defeat Aryan Shah 6-2, 3-1 (retired), Dominic Palan beat Parth Aggarwal 6-2, 6-4.

Men’s Doubles – Round 2: Bogdan Bobrov-Adil Kalyanpur defeat Woobin Shin-Kris Van Wyk 6-3, 6-4; S2-Luca Castelnuovo-Eric Vanshelboim defeat Ishaque Eqbal-Karan Singh 6-4, 6-4; Orel Kimhi-Ofek Shimanaov defeat Parth Aggarwal-Yash Chaurasia 4-6, 6-1, 6-6 [10-4]; Lohithaksha Bathrinath-Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam defeat Bharath Nishok Kumaran-Arjun Mahadevan 7-5, 6-1; Sandro Kopp-David Pichler defeat Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta-Vishnu Vardhan 6-4, 3-6, 6-6 [10-4], Parikshit Somani-Manish Suresh Kumar defeat Yunseok Jang-Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong 6 -2, 6-2.

– PTI

HOCKEY

Beighton Cup: Army XI beats Eastern Railway, Harman Singh scores brace

Harman Singh scored a brace in Army XI’s 3-0 win over Eastern Railway Sports Association within the Coal India 125 ^th Beighton Cup hockey match on the SAI astro-turf floor in Kolkata on Tuesday.

The outcomes: Army XI 3 (Harman Singh-2, Manpreet Singh) bt Eastern Railway Sports Association 0; Indian Oil 6 (Affan Yousuf, Ankit Pal, Gurinder Singh, Nitish Neupane, Bharat Chikara, Raghunath V.R.) bt All India FCI 3 (Gurmukh, Dhananjay, Nitin)

-Y.B. Sarangi

sixth KHELO INDIA YOUTH GAMES

Anupriya breaks meet document in shot put

V. S. Anupriya of Kerala created a brand new meet document within the ladies’ shot put, heaving the iron ball to a distance of 17.22m in her sixth and final try within the sixth Khelo India Youth Games in Chennai on Tuesday. In truth, she had erased the document in her fourth try itself (17.11). The earlier document was held by Vidhi (17.07m, 2023). “I wanted to break the record and I am so happy that I could do it,” the 17-year-old from Kazargod advised The Hindu. 

Top seeds, Tavneet Singh Mudra of Madhya Pradesh and R. Pooja Arthi of Tamil Nadu bagged the boys’ and ladies’ singles squash titles.

Results:

Athletics

Boys: 110mH: 1. Vishnu (TN) 13.79; 2. Sandip Gond (Mah) 13.89; 3. Okay. Kiran (Ker) 14.11; 400m: 1. M. Sharan (TN) 48.42; 2. N. Dhruva Balal (Ker) 49.06; 3. Shaik Azaruddin (TS) 49.15; pole vault: 1. Arya Dev (UP) 4.40m; 2. Aman Singh (MP) 4.30; 3. S. Kavinraja (TN) 4.30; lengthy soar: 1. Mohd. Shazid (Har) 7.34m; 2. Aarya Kandakumar (Mah) 7.10; 3. Md. Tausif (UP) 7.06.; discus: 1. Devansh Jagga (Pun) 56.50m; 2. Ritik (Chd) 56.00; 3. Okay. C. Servan (Ker) 55.,75.

Girls: 100mH: 1. Aliza Mulla (Mah) 14.40s; 2. Antreesa Mathew (Ker) 14.48; 3. Aerrolla Pranathi (TS) 14.59.; 400m: 1. Roshani Yadav (UP) 56.40; 2. Reetheeshree (Kar) 57.50; 3. Tahura Khatun (WB) 57.52; shot put: 1. V. S. Anupriya (Ker) 17.22 ((NMR) (OR: Vidhi, Bhopal, 17.07, 2023); 2. Gurleen Kumar (Pun) 16.38; 3. Tamanna (Bho) 15.82; lengthy soar: 1. Ramani Kumkum Bharate (Guj) 5.57; 2. Janice Tressa (Ker) 5.45; 3. Muskan (Har) 5.45.

Cycling

Boys: 3Km: 1. Kheta Ram Chiga (Raj) 3:50.195; 2. Prahalad Kumar (Bih) 3:51.560; 3. Aashirwad Saxena (TS) 3:53.948; Sprint: 1. Vedant Jitendra Jadhav (Mah) 0:11.535; 2. Atharva Ashok Patil (Ker) 0:11.655; 3. Vedant Amit Kumar Tajane (Mah) 0:14.248; Scratch: 10Km: 1. Aashirwad Saxena (TS) 14:40.132; 2. Kummara Suresh Babu (AP) 14:40.235; 3. Ssakshat Patra (Odi) 14:40.253.

Girls: 2Km: 1. Individual pursuit: 1. J. P. Dhanyadha (TN) 2:52.333; 2. Shiya Lalwani (Mah) 2:54.530; 3. Gargi Bishnoi (Raj) 2:56.396.; Sprint: 1. Vimla Machra (Raj) 0:14.099; 2. J. Srimathi (TN) 0:14.271; 3. Heisnam Premika Chanu (Man) 0:14.267; 10Km: Scratch: 1. R. Tamilarasi (TN) 10:10.625; 2. Shiya Lalwani (Mah) 10:10.713; 3. J. P. Dhanyadha (TN) 10:10.758.

In Coimbatore

Basketball: Boys: Group A: MP bt Mizoram 88-76; B: Karnataka bt Chandigarh 88-84; Girls: A: TN bt Maharashtra 72-67; B: MP bt UP 64-39.

-Okay. Keerthivasan

FOOTBALL

Malappuram’s MIC HSS lifts trophy

MIC HSS defeated NNM HSS 6-5, through the tiebreaker, in an all-Malappuram closing and received the Mar Athanasius Trophy all-India faculties soccer match on the Municipal Stadium in Aluva on Tuesday.

The groups had been stage 2-2 on the finish of the common interval with the targets coming from MIC’s Akshykumar Subedi (17 ^th min.), Muhammed Adhnan (60 ^th, penalty) and NNM’s Avinash (11 ^th min) and Sahil (19 ^th min.).

Best participant awards: Akshaykumar (MIC, participant), Thameen (NNM, goalkeeper), Aswin Jaikumar (NNM, defender), Okay.P. Akash (MIC, midfielder), Sahil (NNM, ahead).

– Stan Rayan

CRICKET

Anjo shines for Stroke Makers

Anjo L. Singh’s half century helped Stroke Makers crush Wisden CA by eight wickets within the Span-New BPCA Talent Cup all-Kerala under-13 cricket match on the Municipal Stadium in Paravur on Tuesday.

The scores: Wisden CA 117/43 in 20 overs (Brian Jijo 46) misplaced to Stroke Makers, Tvm 118/2 in 19.3 overs (Anjo L. Singh 56).

Stroke Makers 100/6 in 15 overs (Kesunath 30) misplaced to Trident CA 101/6 in 14.3 overs (Agney Prajith 39).

– Stan Rayan