Indian sports activities information wrap, December 23

TENNIS

The reigning nationwide champion Vaidehi Chaudhari put up battle earlier than being crushed 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-2 by third seed Ankita Raina within the quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis match on the Ganesh Naik Advanced on Friday.

Ankita transformed 10 of 20 break factors she compelled whereas Vaidehi managed to transform six of 15 break factors within the match that lasted two hours and 23 minutes.

Within the semifinals, Ankita will play sixth seed Valeria Savinykh. The opposite semifinals will probably be between Anastasia Kovaleva who beat second seed Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers of Spain 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, and Priska Nugroho who put out fourth Diana Marcinkevica in a similar way in three units.

Ankita and Prarthana made the doubles remaining, and can search for their second successive title once they play Priska Nugroho and Ekaterina Yashina.

The outcomes:

Singles (quarterfinals): Valeria Savinykh bt Daria Kudashova 6-3, 7-6(5); Ankita Raina bt Vaidehi Chaudhari 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-2; Priska Nugroho (Ina) bt Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) 5-7, 7-5, 6-4; Anastasia Kulikova (Fin) bt Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers (Esp) 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.

Doubles (semifinals): Ankita Raina & Prarthana Thombare bt Ines Murta (Por) & Vasanti Shinde 6-4, 6-2; Priska Nugroho (Ina) & Ekaterina Yashina bt Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) & Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) 5-7, 7-6(4), [10-8].

-Kamesh Srinivasan

The second seeded Paige Hourigan and Erin Routliffe beat fourth seeds Ashmitha Easwaramurthi and Yuka Hosoki 6-1, 6-0 to clinch the doubles title within the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Tauranga, New Zealand, on Friday.

It was the second doubles remaining this season for Ashmitha who had received her solely doubles title within the skilled circuit in 2014.

The outcomes:

$25,000 ITF girls, Tauranga, New Zealand

Doubles (remaining): Paige Hourigan & Erin Routliffe (Nzl) bt Yuka Hosoki (Jpn) & Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-1, 6-0.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Riya Sachdeva received a double crown within the AITA Nationwide series under-18 tennis match on the Singha Sports activities Academy on Friday.

The second seed Riya beat high seed and her doubles accomplice Sreenidhi Balaji 7-5, 6-2 for the singles title.

Riya and Sreenidhi beat Suhani Gaur and Aishwarya Jadhav for the doubles title.

Within the boys part, Satwik Murali pipped Bharat Phulwaria 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(3) to arrange a title conflict in opposition to high seed Jason David.

The outcomes:

Underneath-18 boys (semifinals): Jason David bt Shivam Devam 6-2, 7-5; Satwik Murali bt Bharat Phulwaria 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(3).

Doubles (remaining): Nishant Kumar & Kaamlesh Rath bt Tanishq Jadhav & Manish Yadav 6-4, 3-6, [13-11].

Underneath-18 women (remaining): Riya Sachdeva bt Sreenidhi Balaji 7-5, 6-2; Semifinals: Sreenidhi bt Shataksha Sahayak 6-1, 6-2; Riya bt Aakruti Sonkusare 7-6(6), 2-6, 6-2.

Doubles (remaining): Sreenidhi Balaji & Riya Sachdeva bt Suhani Gaur and Aishwarya Jadhav 7-6(6), 6-2.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

GOLF

Chikka takes third spherical lead at TATA Metal Tour Championship golf

Bengaluru golfer S Chikkarangappa stormed into the third spherical lead after firing a elegant 10-under 62, the week’s lowest rating to date, on the TATA Metal Tour Championship right here on Friday.

With a complete of 17-under 199, Chikka took a one-shot lead on the Rs 3 crore season-ending match being performed on the Beldih and Golmuri Golf programs.

Fourteen-time PGTI winner Chikka (66-71-62), who has been a runner-up on two earlier events in Jamshedpur, zoomed 12 spots from his in a single day tied thirteenth after his extraordinary third spherical effort that featured two early eagles.

Delhi’s Kapil Kumar (63-70-67), in a single day tied second, produced a 67 to shut the day in lone second place at 16-under 200 and stored himself within the top-3 for the third day working on the richest occasion on the PGTI.

Bengaluru’s Khalin Joshi (69-67-65) struck a 65 to maneuver up six spots to 3rd place at 15-under 201.

TATA Metal PGTI Rankings chief Manu Gandas of Gurugram was in place to stake his declare for the PGTI Order of Benefit title.

His spherical of 68 noticed him proceed in tied fourth place at 14-under 202, comfortably forward of his nearest rivals for the title -- Chandigarh’s Ajeetesh Sandhu (tied 14th at 10-under 206), Om Prakash Chouhan of Mhow (tied seventeenth at nine-under 207) and Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (tied forty second at one-under 215).

Second spherical chief Mohd Azhar (70) of Vikarabad slipped three spots to hitch Gandas and Karandeep Kochhar (68) of Chandigarh in tied fourth place.

- PTI