CHESS
Arnav and Aayush share lead
Fourth seeded Arnav Kherdekar and tenth seed Aaysuh Shirodkar broke away from the remainder of the sphere by registering 5 consecutive wins in as many rounds of the All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, on Monday.
Playing on board 2, Arnav defeated Shanmukha Pulli from the black facet whereas Aayush beat sixth seeded Guru Prakash, and have now emerged favourites to win the title.
Meanwhile, on the highest board, seventh seeded Yohan Boricha created a little bit of a flutter by holding second seed Sauravh Khherdekar to a draw. Both these gamers now are in joint second place with a rating of 4.5, and so they have been joined by high seeded International Master Vikramaditya Kulkarni and teenager Ishan Tendolkar.
A bunch of 12 gamers are occupying the third spot with a rating of 4/5, which incorporates nine-year-old Nirvaan Shah, who bought the higher of fifth seeded Sanjeev Mishra.
-PTI
WRESTLING
Asian Wrestling championships: Vikas wins 72kg Greco-Roman bronze
Vikas secured one other bronze medal for India in Greco Roman 72kg class on the Asian wrestling championships in Astana on Monday.
Vikas beat Kroea’s Jiyeon Lee 11-0 earlier than shedding 1-6 to Iranian Sajjad Ali. In the bronze medal match, the Indian defeated Chinese wrestler Jian Tan 8-0 to make sure a podium end.
Sumit (60kg), Rahit Dahiya (82kg) and Narinder Cheema (97kg) misplaced their respective bronze medal matches.
India completed the Greco Roman competitions with 4 medals, together with one silver and three bronzes.
– Team Sportstar
HOCKEY
Pritam Siwach to conflict with HAR Hockey Academy in remaining of Khelo India Women’s League (U21 Final Phase)
Pritam Siwach Sports Foundation Hockey staff is ready to come across HAR Hockey Academy within the remaining of the Khelo India Women’s Hockey League (U21 Final Phase) on the Padma Shri Mohd. Shahid Hockey Stadium in Gomti Nagar, Lucknow on Tuesday, April 11.
The match is organized by Hockey India, with monetary help from the Department of Sports, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports below the Khelo India Sports For Women element.
On Monday, whereas the Pritam Siwach hockey staff bought previous the Sports Hostel Odisha 3-2 within the semi finals, HAR academy beat the SAI Bal Hockey staff with a 5-4 rating in a dramatic tie-breaker.
The remaining encounter is scheduled at 2 pm on Tuesday afternoon in the identical venue.
-Team Sportstar
TENNIS
India meets Thailand in Billie Jean King Cup
India will open its marketing campaign with a match towards Thailand on Tuesday within the Asia-Oceania Billie Jean King Cup tennis match to be performed on the Olympic Tennis School, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The robust groups within the area, China and Japan have been drawn to play host Uzbekistan and Korea respectively, on the primary day.
The six groups compete in a spherical robin league and the highest two groups qualify for the World group play-off. The backside two groups get relegated to group-2.
India is spearheaded by Ankita Raina, Olympian and the Asian Games bronze medallist with wealthy expertise. Rutuja Bhosale, Vaidehi Chaudhari, Sahaja Yamalapalli and Shrivalli Bhamidipaty would be the different gamers making an attempt to play their function nicely.
With captain Shalini Thakur Chawla, coach Radhika Tulpule Kanitkar and physio Ajeeta Goel, it will likely be a recent begin for the all-women squad.
Thailand has very skilled gamers like Luksika Kumkhum and Peangtarn Plipuech, other than gifted and tenacious gamers like Mananchaya Sawangkaew, Punnin Kovapitukted and Anchisa Chanta.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Asian under-14 match: Shivtej Shirfule beats Pasindu Rukunayaka of Sri Lanka
Shivtej Shirfule beat Pasindu Rukunayaka of Sri Lanka 6-1, 6-1 within the boys first spherical of the Asian under-14 tennis match on the Kalinga Stadium on Monday.
The outcomes (first spherical)
Boys: Rafalentino Ali Da Costa (Ina) bt Dzarif Azhar (Mas) 6-1, 6-1; Dharma Pantaratorn (Tha) bt Bassam Alkallass (Syr) 6-0, 6-0; Yaroslav Pshenichniy (Kaz) bt Muhamad Saleem (Syr) 6-4, 6-1; Shivtej Shirfule bt Pasindu Rukunayaka (Sri) 6-1, 6-1; Aqil Rahiman (Mas) bt Mikhail Michshenko (Kaz) 6-3, 6-2; Abubakar Talha (Pak) bt minh Tran Duc (Vie) 6-3, 0-6, 6-3; Huy Hoang Vu (Vie) bt Methika Wickramasinghe 1-6, 6-2, 6-0.
Girls: Yerkezhan Zhanatayeva (Kaz) bt Yan Rong Tzeng (Tpe) 7-5, 6-2; Githmi Weweldeniyage (Sri) bt Dhevieena Sarawanan (Mas) 7-5, 6-2; Emily Kim (Uzb) bt Ying Chi Wong (Hkg) 6-4, 7-5.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com