Indian Sports activities Information Wrap, December 12

TENNIS

$25,000 ITF ladies’s event

Shrivalli Bhamidipaty beat Sai Samhitha 6-2, 6-3 to make the principle draw of the Balaji Amines $25,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event on the District Sports activities Complicated in Solapur on Monday.

In the principle occasion, Shrivalli will face second seed Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers of Spain within the first spherical.

Ankita Raina has been seeded No.1 within the event and can open in opposition to qualifier Lanlana Tararudee of Thailand. The highest quarter additionally options Sharmada Balu, Zeel Desai, Sahaja Yamalapalli and Vaishnavi Adkar amongst Indians. Ankita has been seeded No.1 in doubles as properly, in partnership with Prarthana Thombare.

Nationwide champion Vaidehi Chaudhari will play third seed Anastasia Kulikova of Finland within the first spherical. Riya Bhatia, Rutuja Bhosale, Jennifer Luikham and Sowjanya Bavisetti would be the different distinguished Indian gamers in motion.

The outcomes:

Qualifying singles (second and remaining spherical): Katarina Kozarov (Srb) bt Soha Sadiq 6-2, 6-1; Mananchaya Sawangkaew (Tha) bt Elena Jamshidi (Den) 6-2, 7-5; Lanlana Tararudee (Tha) bt Smriti Bhasin 6-0, 7-6(4); Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Sai Samhitha 6-2, 6-3; Jennifer Luikham bt Teja Tirunelveli (USA) 6-4, 6-4; Ines Murta (Por) bt Sravya Shivani 6-4, 4-6, [10-8]; Gio Jang (Kor) bt Humera Baharmus 0-6, 6-4, [10-6]; Sharmada Balu bt Shreya Tatavarthy 1-6, 6-1, [10-8].

The seedings: 1. Ankita Raina, 2. Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers (Esp), 3. Anastasia Kulikova (Fin), 4. Diana Marcinkevica (Lat), 5. ValeriyaStrakhova (Ukr), 6. Ekaterina Yashina, 7. Conny Perrin (Sui), 8. Priska Madelyn Nugroho (Ina).

– Kamesh Srinivasan

CHESS

Mumbai boy Aryaveer wins silver in Bangkok Speedy Chess

Eight-year-old Aryaveer Pittie claimed a silver medal within the under-8 class on the Bangkok Speedy Chess Championship.

Aryaveer of the American Faculty of Bombay (ASB) completed second with a creditable rating of 4 factors out of potential six on the Prasarnmit Plaza Sukhumvit on Sunday. Thailand’s Suthiponpaisarn Proudpitcha received the gold with 5 factors.

“We’re happy with his victory and he certainly performed this championship extraordinarily properly and stay up for extra victories in future,” Aryaveer’s mom Neesha Chhabria stated in a launch. Aryaveer is a pupil of SMCA and trains beneath coach Durga Nagesh Guttula. He’s presently getting ready for the Worldwide score chess championships to be held in New Delhi.

ESPORTS

Inaugural Asia Open Esports Championship from January

Players from throughout 40 international locations in Asia and the Center East will compete within the inaugural Asia Open Esports Championship (Asia Open) to be held from January 30 to March 15 subsequent 12 months.

The inaugural version, to be held online, will function 4 esports titles, together with eFootball recreation and PES. The avid gamers will have the ability to compete in three classes — amateurs, mid-core and professionals.

A three way partnership between the Worldwide Esports Federation (IESF) and India’s Massive Bang Media Ventures (BBMVPL), the occasion will present avid gamers with a platform to compete and construct communities internationally.

President of the IESF Vlad Marinescu stated the occasion could possibly be taken past Asia and the Center East within the years to come back.

“The championship reaffirms our collective dedication to creating esports immersive and inclusive and gives each gamer the chance to compete with one of the best. IESF is happy on the potentialities this occasion may create even past the colourful areas of Asia and the Center East,” he stated in a launch.

BBMVPL can even launch a number of large-format tournaments to develop the esports market in partnership with avid gamers, creators, designers and coders.

– PTI

CRICKET

Jhulan Goswami conferred lifetime achievement award by CSJC

Former India captain and the main wicket-taker in ladies’s cricket, Jhulan Goswami, was accorded the lifetime achievement award in a perform hosted by the Calcutta Sports activities Journalists’ Membership on Monday.

The legendary ladies’s cricketer remembered the help she acquired from the media in her rise from a humble background to grow to be one of many main names of ladies’s cricket. The perform, which was held to rejoice the 67th basis day of the Membership, was attended by the state Sports activities Minister Aroop Biswas and a bunch of dignitaries from the town’s sports activities fraternity.

– Amitabha Das Sharma