TENNIS
India’s Sidharth Rawat enters pre-quarterfinals at ITF Mysuru Open
India’s Sidharth Rawat outclassed Dali Blanch of USA 6-3, 6-2 to storm into the lads’s singles pre-quarterfinals on the ITF Mysuru Open right here on Tuesday.
Rawat, the seventh seed, was scientific in his execution and used his serve to good impact. The Indian had a shocking 100% success charge on his first serve, whereas he collected 95 p.c of factors on his second function nicely en path to a facile win.
Three different Indians — Ishaque Eqbal, Faisal Qamar and Karan Singh — too entered the spherical of 16.
-PTI
Balachandar Subramanian advances to National Wheelchair Championship
Fifth seed Balachandar Subramanian beat third seed Mariappan Durai 9-0 within the males’s quarterfinals of the National wheelchair tennis championship on the Indore Tennis Club on Tuesday.
In the semifinals, Subramanian will play prime seed Karthik Karunakaran. The different semifinal will probably be between second seed Shekar Veeraswamy and fourth seed Sathasivam Kannupayan.
In the ladies’s occasion, with 4 gamers competing in a spherical robin league, prime seed KP Shilpa had gained her matches towards Prathima Narayan and Nalina Kumari 9-2 and 9-0 respectively. She will play Sheranthi Thomas within the final league match.
Results: Men (quarterfinals): Karthik Karunakaran bt Indrajeet Pandey 901; Balachandar Subramanian bt Mariappan Durai 9-0; Sathasivam Kannupayan bt H Madhusudan 9-4; Shekar Veeraswamy bt S Sureshkumar 9-0.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
India boys win second league tie towards New Zealand in Asia-Oceania World Juniors
Prakaash Sarran and Shivtej Shirfule gained the decisive doubles 7-5, 2-6, [10-6] towards ZachaWu and Liam Youn to assist India beat New Zealand 2-1 within the second league match of group-C within the Asia-Oceania World Junior under-14 tennis match in Kuching, Malaysia, on Tuesday.
After Rudra Badham had misplaced the opening singles, Shivtej Shirfule had revived India’s possibilities by successful the second singles.
India, which had earlier misplaced to Chinese Taipei, will play fourth seed Hong Kong within the final league match on Wednesday.
Hong Kong leads the desk with two wins already. Top two groups from every of the 4 teams will make it to the quarterfinals.
Korea, Thailand, Japan, Pakistan, Australia and Kazakhstan are the groups in different teams which have gained their two matches every to date.
Results (league): India bt New Zealand 2-1 (Rudra Batham misplaced to Liam Youn 2-6, 4-6; Shivtej Shirfule bt Zachariah Wu 7-5, 6-4; Prakaash Sarran & Shivtej bt Zachariah Wu & Liam Youn 7-5, 2-6, [10-6])
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com