Here are all the key developments in Indian sport on Thursday, December 9.
TENNIS
AITA ladies’s match
Riya Sachdeva’s preventing spirit was to the fore but once more as she recovered from the brink of defeat to beat second seed Riya Uboveja 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 within the closing of the Rs.100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis match on the clay courts of the Joygaon Academy in Jhajjar on Friday.
Uboveja was main 6-3, 5-3 earlier than Sachdeva stepped it up. Moreover, the second seed had a shoulder drawback which stopped her from making a greater struggle of it.
THE RESULT (FINAL)
Riya Sachdeva bt Riya Uboveja 3-6, 7-5, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Nehru ladies’s hockey match
Skipper Bharti Saroha scored twice in guiding Pritam Siwach Academy, Sonipat, to a 4-1 victory over Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) within the semifinals of the Nehru ladies’s hockey match on the Shivaji Stadium on Friday.
Tannu and Tamanna Yadav scored for the Sonipat crew whereas Raju Ranwa lowered the margin for CRPF with a penalty nook conversion.
In the opposite semifinal, Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) defeated Madhya Pradesh Academy, Gwalior, 6-1.
The closing will likely be performed at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday.
THE RESULTS (Semifinals)
Railway Sports Promotion Board (Preeti Dubey 2, Gagandeep Kaur, Devika Sen, Shilpi Dabas, Priyanka Wankhede) bt Madhya Pradesh Academy, Gwalior (Prashu Singh Parihar) 6-1.
Pritam Siwach Academy, Sonipat (Bharti Saroha 2, Tannu, Tamanna Yadav) bt CRPF (Raju Ranwa) 4-1.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
WEIGHTLIFTING
Bindyarani finishes twenty fifth at World Championships
Bindyarani Devi totalled 200kg to complete twenty fifth within the ladies’s 59kg weight class on the World weightlifting championships in Bogota on Thursday.
Competing in Group ‘D’, Bindyarani — a Commonwealth Games silver medallist in 55kg with an combination of 202kg — lifted 86kg in her (second) snatch try. She recorded 114kg in her third clear and jerk effort, which was preceded by two ‘no lifts’ whereas trying 112kg.
– Y.B. Sarangi