CHESS
Chess sensation Vantika Agrawal rises to India No. 3 rank
Rising Indian chess participant Vantika Agrawal continues to take speedy strides in her profession as she achieved a career-high rank of India No. 3 within the ladies’s part with a complete of 2428 ranking factors.
The 21-year-old Vantika, who was a part of the 2020 Olympiad-winning Indian group, has been spectacular in her latest outings as she added 61 factors from her final 4 worldwide tournaments, which additionally consists of turning into ladies’s champion on the Menorca Open in Spain.
“It’s an amazing feeling to become India No. 3. Honestly, I knew that I will do this but wasn’t expecting it to happen this quickly. I managed to increase rankings in the last four tournaments and get this spot,” the Noida resident Vantika expressed her pleasure.
“I will not stop here and keep working harder so that I can get the Grandmaster title and become India No. 1, that’s my aim. To achieve that, I will need to play more strong tournaments now,” she additional added.
Women’s Grandmaster Vantika has been a constant performer on the worldwide circuit. She additionally grew to become the eleventh Indian girl to achieve the International Master title final month.
Vantika will look to proceed her good present when she performs some high tournaments later in an effort to put together for the 2022 Asian Games, to be performed in Hangzhou. She can be assured of turning into Grandmaster this yr as she requires three GM norms and crosses 2500 ranking factors to realize that title.
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TENNIS
AITA ladies’s tournament- Sonal made to work onerous in her win in opposition to Rachita
The champion of the final event, third seed Sonal Patil was stretched to a few units by fifth seed Rachita Talwar within the quarterfinals of the Rs.100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis event on the Joygaon Academy on Wednesday. Sonal received 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
In the semifinals, Sonal will problem the highest seed Sahira Singh who eased previous Shefali Arora for the lack of 5 video games.
The different semifinal will likely be between Divya Bhardwaj and second seed Kashish Bhatia.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Sahira Singh bt Shefali Arora 6-3, 6-2; Sonal Patil bt Rachita Talwar 6-3, 4-6, 6-2; Divya Bhardwaj bt Chandana Potugari 6-3, 6-3; Kashish Bhatia bt Medhavi Singh 6-1, 6-1.
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Junior Billie Jean King Cup: India beats Mongolia
India outplayed Mongolia within the final league match, dropping solely three video games in all, but it surely was no comfort because the group had missed the possibility to qualify for the quarterfinals within the Asia-Oceania Junior Billie Jean King Cup under-16 ladies tennis event in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday.
In the match for the minor placings, India which had earlier misplaced to Chinese Taipei and Thailand, will play Vietnam on Thursday.
Chinese Taipei topped the group by beating Thailand within the final league match. Host Kazakhstan, Australia, Hong Kong, Uzbekistan, Korea and Japan have been the opposite groups to make the quarterfinals, two every from the three different teams.
The outcomes (league)
India bt Mongolia 3-0 (Sejal Bhutada bt Oyungerel Khasbaatar 6-0, 6-0; Asmi Adkar bt Ninjin Sanchir 6-0, 6-0; Asmi & Aakruti Sonkusare bt Namuunkhuslen Erdembileg & Ninjin 6-0, 6-3).
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Source: sportstar.thehindu.com