Tennis
India’s problem in singles ends at ITF juniors tennis event
Maya Dutta of USA beat prime seed Suhitha Maruri 6-4, 6-2 within the women quarterfinals of the ITF juniors tennis event on the CLTA Complex on Thursday.
The Indian problem in singles ended as NIyati Kukreti and Madhurima Sawant had been additionally overwhelmed within the quarterfinals by Doinika Podhajecka of Poland and Allegra Korpanec Davies of Britain respectively.
Results
Boys: Timofei Derepasko bt Pranav Karthik 6-0, 6-2; Shingo Masuda (Jpn) bt Chieh En Hou (Tpe) 6-3, 6-1; Cho Se Hyuk (Kor) bt Rohan Belday (USA) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Donghyun Hwang (Kor) bt Ke Hau Hung (Tpe) 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
Girls: Maya Dutta (USA) bt Suhitha Maruri 6-4, 6-2; Lidia Podgorichani (Tha) bt Kitti Molnar (Hun) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Dominika Podhajecka (Pol) bt Niyati Kukreti 6-3, 7-6(9); Allegra Korpanec Davies (GBR) bt Madhurima Sawant 6-3, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Kerala beats Jammu & Kashmir 3-0 in Santosh Trophy
Host Kerala scored a complete 3-0 win towards Jammu & Kashmir within the Santosh Trophy qualifying event right here on Thursday. All the objectives got here within the second half.
M. Vikensh drew first blood for Kerala six minutes after the interval. Riswan Ali and Nijo Gilbert scored the opposite objectives.
It was Nijo’s nice lengthy ball into the field that arrange the opening objective, with Viknesh doing nicely to shoot from a troublesome angle.
The second objective got here off an outstanding sq. cross from contained in the field by Vishak Mohanan, whose tempo had overwhelmed the defenders. Riswan did the remaining. Then within the damage time, Nijo transformed Viknesh’s cross.
The outcome:
Kerala 3 (M. Viknesh 51, Riswan Ali 76, Nijo Gilbert 90+3) bt Jammu & Kashmir 0.
-PK Ajith Kumar