Indian sports wrap, April 24:TS Divya wins shooting gold at Kumar Surendra Singh Championship
SHOOTING
TS Divya wins gold at Kumar Surendra Singh Championship
Divya Subbaraju was in top form as she beat Riya Thatte 31-28 for the 25-metre sports pistol gold in the 23rd Kumar Surendra Singh Shooting Championship at the Madhya Pradesh Academy on Thursday.
The 29-year-old Divya had topped qualification with 586 and shot a strong final to assert her supremacy in a strong field, which included Asian Games and multiple World Cup gold medallist Rahi Sarnobat.
Naamya Kapoor won the junior gold, beating Tejaswani 34-33.
RESULTS
25m sports pistol: Women: 1. TS Divya 31 (586); 2. Riya Thatte 28 (581); 3. Arshdeep Kaur 23 (578).
Juniors: 1. Naamya Kapoor 34 (570); 2. Tejaswani 33 (572); 3. Prisha Gupta 30 (569).
-Team Sportstar
BOXING
Asian U-15 & U-17 Boxing Championships: Five more Indians advance to semifinals
Five Indian boxers, including three boys and two girls, advanced to the semifinals of the Asian U-15 Championships here.
From the men’s U-15 championship, Nelson Khwairakpam (55 kg) secured a Referee Stops Contest (RSC) win in the first round over Chinese Taipei’s Wang Sheng-Yang on the fifth day of competitions on Wednesday.
Abhijeet (61 kg) and Lakshay Phogat (64 kg) cruised to 5-0 victories against opponents from Kyrgyzstan and Jordan, respectively in their quarterfinal bouts.
Among the girls, Princi (52 kg) delivered a strong 5-0 result over Ukraine’s Yeva Kubanova.
Samruddhi Satish Shinde (55 kg) wrapped up her bout with an RSC in the third round against Ukraine’s Kseniia Savina.
Six Indians had already made their way into the semifinals on Tuesday.
Results:
Men’s U-15 – Quarterfinals: 52 kg: Ravi Sihag (IND) lost to Elshod Shakirjonov (UZB) – WP 2:3 55 kg: Nelson Khwairakpam (IND) def. Wang Sheng-Yang (TPE) – RSC R1 58 kg: Naman Saini (IND) lost to Jakhongirjon Usmankulov (UZB) – WP 0:5 61 kg: Abhijeet (IND) def. Mukhammad Burkhanov (KGZ) – WP 5:0 64 kg: Lakshay Phogat (IND) def. Laith Ajailat (JOR) – WP 5:0
-PTI
Tennis
Sherry enters quarterfinals of U18 quarterfinals of AITA Junior National Series
Sherry Sharma beat second seed Riya Sachdeva 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in the under-18 girls Quarterfinals of the AITA National Series Junior Tennis Tournament at the CLTA Complex on Thursday.
The results:
Under-18 boys (quarterfinals): Swaraaj Dhamdhere bt Vivaan Bidasaria 6-3, 6-2; Armaan Walia bt Dhruv Ghanghas 6-4, 6-0; Ribhav Saroha bt Anuj Tahsildar 6-2, 6-2; Nithin Barath bt Megh Patel 6-2, 1-6, 6-2.
Doubles (final): Swaraj Dhamdhere & Neev Kothari bt Shreyas Dogial & Dhruv Ghanghas 2-6, 7-6(6), [10-7].
Under-18 girls (quarterfinals): Ranjhana Sangram bt Manshi Singh 6-4 6-4; Shagun Kumari bt Pal Upadhyay 7-6(5), 6-2; Nainika Bendram bt Iha Joshi 6-3, 6-2; Sherry Sharma bt Riya Sachdeva 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
Doubles (final): Nainika Bendram & Riya Sachdeva bt Afreen Rahil & Ranjhana Sangram 6-2, 7-6(2).
-Kamesh Srinivasan