TENNIS
ITF $15k males’s tennis match: Sasikumar Mukund reaches remaining
Top seed Sasikumar Mukund beat Seydina Andre of Senegal 6-4, 6-1 within the semifinals of the $15,000 ITF males’s tennis match in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on Saturday.
In the ultimate, Mukund will likely be challenged by unseeded Martyn Pawelski of Poland.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
$25,000 ITF girls’s match: Ankita Raina loses to Anastasia Kulikova in semis
Photo of Doubles champions Prarthana Thombare and Ankita Raina within the
$25,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Solapur on Saturday.
| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Top seed Ankita Raina let third seed Anastasia Kulikova of Finland off the hook from a place of power and received crushed 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 within the semifinals of the Balaji Amines $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis match on the District Sports Complex on Saturday.
After preventing again from 1-4 to take the primary set 7-5, Ankita was within the driver’s seat as she was serving 40-30 at 5-2 within the second. However, she did not capitalise on the match level and misplaced her approach, successful three of subsequent 14 video games.
Kulikova who served 9 aces within the match, transformed eight break factors as in comparison with seven by Ankita, to tug by in two hours and 26 minutes.
In the ultimate, Kulikova will play Priska Nugroho of Indonesia, who additionally recovered from shedding the primary set to beat Daria Kudashova.
Ankita did have the comfort of successful the doubles title with Prarthana Thombare, beating Priska and Ekaterina Yashina 6-1, 6-2.
It was the fifth doubles title of the season for the 29-year-old Ankita, and the twenty fifth doubles title of her profession. She has additionally received 11 singles titles within the skilled circuit. For Prarthana, it was her third doubles title of the season and twenty fourth of her profession.
The outcomes:
Singles (semifinals):Anastasia Kulikova (Fin) bt Ankita Raina 5-7, 7-5, 6-3; Priska Nugroho (Ina) bt Daria Kudashova 1-6, 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles (remaining): Ankita Raina & Prarthana Thombare bt Priska Nugroho & Ekaterina Yashina 6-1, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Beighton Cup: Indian Navy units up remaining conflict with Punjab National Bank
Indian Navy edged out Indian Oil through penalty shootout to arrange a title conflict with the Punjab National Bank (PNB) within the 124th Beighton Cup hockey match on the SAI astro-turf floor right here on Saturday.
Navy and Indian Oil had been locked 1-1 after the regulation interval, taking the semifinal contest to the tie-breaker. The two sides had been tied 3-3 within the common shootouts earlier than Navy prevailed within the ‘sudden death’ to safe a 4-3 win.
PNB beat Canara Bank 2-0 within the different semifinal.
SCORE: Indian Navy 1 (Sushil Dhanwar 17) vs Indian Oil 1 (Raman 39), penalty shootout: Indian Navy 4 (Prashant, Kuldeep, Ashis, Kuldeep) bt Indian Oil 3 (Sumit Kumar, Talwinder Singh, Vikramjit Singh); PNB 2 (Vishal Antil 27, Gursimran Singh 52) bt Canara Bank 0.
-Y.B. Sarangi