TENNIS
BR Adityan Memorial ITF 15K – Digvijay Pratap Singh beats Siddharth Rawat to clinch singles title
Digvijay Pratap Singh beat Siddharth Rawat within the males’s singles finals of the BR Adityan Memorial ITF at The Gandhinagar Club in Chennai on Sunday.
Third-seeded Digvijay had overcome Manish Sureshkumar in a hard-fought 2-setter within the Semifinals yesterday, whereas the fourth-seeded Siddharth had a comparatively simple outing in opposition to an off-colour Ramkumar Ramanathan.
Siddharth appeared to need to give you a selected approach of countering that by enjoying very deep and near the baseline, not permitting Digvijay to come back in and hit. While Siddharth pushed nearly each one among Digvijay’s service video games to deuce, Digvijay’s serve on the deuce court docket, broad to the forehand stored him out of hassle.
At 4-4, it was Siddharth who was put beneath strain and cracked beneath the load of Digvijay’s forehand. Digvijay noticed by a troublesome tenth recreation to wrest the set 6-4.
The second set began tamely with neither having the ability to get a break and Siddharth discovering his rhythm with some well-placed serves. From 4-4, it was a slew of back-and-forth breaks that resulted in a second tie-break. Digvijay stepped on the gasoline early to hurry to a 4-1 benefit and ultimately shut out the tiebreak 7-3.
-Team Sportstar
AITA National Series Juniors – Tanishq Jadhav and Ruma Gaikaiwari wins
Tanishq Jadhav gained the boy’s title, whereas Ruma Gaikaiwari clinched the title within the lady’s part within the AITA National Series under-18 tennis event on the Singha Sports Academy.
Results (finals):
Boys:
Singles: Tanishq Jadhav bt Madhav Sharma 6-2, 6-2.
Doubles: Rian Sharma & Manish Yadav bt Tanishq Jadhav & Chandan Shivaraj 6-1, 7-5.
Girls:
Singles: Ruma Gaikaiwari bt Divya Sharma 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles: Ruma Gaikaiwari & Divya Ungrish bt Abhilipsa Mallick & Gia Alana Pereira 6-3, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
WRESTLING
Asian Wrestling Championships – Indians declare three medals
Indian Greco-Roman wrestlers bagged three medals, together with a silver and two bronzes, within the Asian Wrestling Championships in Astana on Sunday.
Rupin (55kg), who beat Kyrgyzstan’s Sardarbek Konushbaev 16-7, Kazakhstan’s Amangali Bekbolatov 6-4 and China’s Haifeng Zhang 3-1, misplaced 1-3 to Iranian Poya Dad Marz of Iran within the 55kg closing to take the silver medal.
Neeraj (63kg) secured his second consecutive bronze medal. He beat Kyrgyz Dastan Kadyrov 7-6 however misplaced 0-9 to Iranian Iman Hossein Mohammadi. As the Iranian reached the ultimate, Neeraj made it to a bronze medal match and defeated Korean Jinseub Song 5-2.
Sunil Kumar (87kg), an Asian champion in 2020, acquired previous Tajikistan’s Saidislomiddin Aslamov 9-1 earlier than dropping 2-7 to Iran’s Naser Ghasem Alizadeh within the semifinals. Sunil beat Japan’s Masato Sumi 4-1 for bronze.
-Y.B. Sarangi
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com