Tarun Sangha, National in DSA semis
Riding on Sudip Banik’s 75th minute decisive goal spirited Tarun Sangha scored a close 2-1 win over Hindustan FC to book a place in the semifinals of the Sail-ONGC Delhi Soccer Association’s senior division open club football league championship played at the Ambedkar Stadium here on Sunday.
Sangha went ahead in the very first minute through Prabir Ray but the score was equalised six minutes later. Both the team went into the second-half after squandering several opportunities.
Last year’s runners-up Indian National FC also confirmed its berth in the last four when it drew 1-1 with City FC in the day’s other encounter.
National got into lead in the 44th minute through Trilok Singh Bisht before City restored parity nine minutes before the final whistle through P. K. Thing.
Vikram, Nicha gets top billing
Vikram Reddy and Nicha Lertpitaksinchai have been given the top billing in the ITF Grade II junior tennis tournament starting at the NTA Complex in Gurgaon from Monday.
SEEDINGS
U-18 boys: 1. B. Vikram Reddy, 2. David Agung Susanto (Ina), 3. Joachim Sternbach (Fra), 4. Sudanwa Sitaram, 5. James Richardson (GBR), 6. Christopher Marquis, 7. Chandril Sod, 8. Faris Akhazzan (GBR).
U-18 girls: 1. Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (Tha), 2. Anna Rapoport (Rus), 3. Grace Sari Ysidora (Ina), 4. Satjaporn Majajaroenkul (Tha), 5. Sweta Kumari Solanki, 6. Tanvi Shah, 7. Rashmi Teltumbe, 8. Alieva Sevil (Aze).
Delhi’s Dhara on a roll
Delhi’s Dhara Gupta came up with the biggest upset of the opening round when she scored an upset win over IM Vikramaditya Kamble here on Sunday. Dhara has been on a roll for quite some time, as she defeated seasoned IM Anup Deshmukh in the first round of Commonwealth championship here last month.
RESULTS
First round: Sumant Subramanium lost to Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Iri); Surya Shekhar Ganguly Ganguly bt Chiraranjan Bhuyan; Rishi Tharianilost to Igor Kurnosov (Rus); Abhijit Kunte bt S.K. Sharma; Sanjib Ghosh lost to Elizbar Ubilava (Esp); Yuri Solodovnichenko (Ukr) bt Samunder Kumar; Pratik Patil lost to Dzhumaev; Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) bt Rajesh Kumar Nath; Deepak Kumar lost to Nguyen Anh Dung (Vie); Enamul Hossain (Ban) bt D.S. Shashank; Rajan Chhetri lost to Morteza Mahjoob (Iri); Abhijeet Gupta bt Priyanka Kumari; Sanjay Chhabra lost to Shukhrat Safin (Uzb); Ziaur Rahman (Ban) bt A. Sudarshan; Jaydeep Sharma lost to Aswin Jayaram.
R.B. Ramesh bt S. Kaushik; Manjunath Jain lost to Pravin Thipsay; Sapar Batyrov (Tkm) drew with Johnharry Perreira; Vaibhav Khanna lost to Sriram Jha; Venkatesh bt Ram Gupta;Dinesh Gupta lost to Shojat Ghane (Iri); S. Kidambi bt Vigneshwaran; Kiranpal Singh lost to R.R. Laxman; K. Ratnakaran bt Ambesh; BiswajitNaik lost to P.D.S. Girinath; S. Arun Prasad bt Annat Dole (RSA); V.M. Rajeev lost to Tania Sachdev; Saptarshi Roy received a walk over from Aditya Gupta.
Nirbhay Nanda lost to Morteza Darbar (Iri); Akshayrak Kore bt Malabika Singh; Nitin lost to Himanshu Sharma; P. Konguvel bt Aminismail Khadri; Dhara Gupta bt Vikramaditya Kamble.
M.S. Thejkumar bt Karma Pandya; Uttam Raj Thapa (Nep) lost to V.Saravanan; Roktim Bandyopadhyay bt Kuldeep Kashyap.
Tarun Mathur lost to Zhanibek Amanov (Kaz); Ram S. Krishan bt Akshat Aggarwal; K. Durgesh lost to G.B. Prakash; Vishnu Prasanna bt Amrendra Kumar.
Simi Mehra emerges winner
Simi Mehra carded the best round of the day, a four-over 76, with an aggregate of nine-over 225 to win the seventh leg of the DLF women’s Pro-golf tour at the Army Environmental Park and Training Area here.
Simi was nine strokes ahead of the second-placed Nalini Singh (234), who shot 79 in the third and final to prod ahead of the jittery Irina Brar (239).
The scores: Smriti Mehra (71, 78, 76) 225; Nalini Singh (75, 80, 79) 234; Irina Brar (81, 76, 82) 239; Shalini Malik (88, 76, 84) 248; Saaniya Sharma (81, 86, 83) 250.
Neha, Torgalkar advance to quarters
Delhi’s Neha Aggarwal had to fight it out with Priti Mokashi as he got the better off her opponent 7-11, 11-6, 11-13, 12-10, 11-9, 11-7, while Railways’ Omkar Torgalkar overcame Petroleum’s Mohit Verma 11-5, 4-11, 11-3, 10-12, 11-7, 11-9 to make it to the quarterfinals in their respective section of the National Ranking table tennis championship (North Zone) played at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Gymkhana here on Sunday.
RESULTS (PRE-QUARTERFINALS):
Boys: Youth: Abhishek R. bt Subash M. 11-9, 11-3, 11-7, 11-1, Harmeet Desai bt Aman Balgu 11-8, 5-11, 4-11, 11-9, 13-11, 11-9, Omkar Torgalkar bt Mohit Verma 11-5, 4-11, 11-3, 10-12, 11-7, 11-9, Sanil Shetty bt Navneeth A. R. 11-7, 11-9, 11-6, 12-10.
Aniket Koparkar bt Sivananda Seshadri 12-10, 10-12, 11-8, 11-8, 11-6, Arpit Bhopalkar bt Anirban Roy Choudhuri 11-8, 11-7, 9-11, 11-8, 9-11, 8-11, 11-9, Sayan Paul Roy bt Anshul Garg 11-8, 10-12, 11-6, 13-11, 11-1, Devesh Karia bt Sanmay Paranjape 11-8, 11-6, 11-3, 12-10.
Sub-juniors: Rajib Sarkar bt Sameera Kumar D 11-6, 13-15, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4, Vivek Bhargava bt Sabhay Virmani 11-9, 10-12, 11-9, 10-12, 11-7, Subham Basak bt Arnav Sachdeva 9-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-9, Surojit Das bt Devdutta Phadanvis 8-11, 11-3, 11-5, 11-7.
Abhishek Yadav bt Kamal Teja 12-10, 11-7, 11-9, Sudarshan S bt Utkarsh Gupta 11-3, 11-5, 11-5, Sandeepan Dey bt Puneeth P 11-8, 11-5, 11-8, Arnab Adhikari bt Dev Khandelwal 11-2, 11-5, 11-6.
Girls: Youth: Neha Aggarwal bt Priti Mokashi 7-11, 11-6, 11-13, 12-10, 11-9, 11-7, Swetha Kumaravel bt Meghna 11-8, 12-10, 11-7, 11-9, Shamini K bt Esha Monga 11-6, 11-7, 11-4, 11-6, Madhurika Patkar bt Narmadha K K 10-12, 11-9, 5-11, 11-5, 11-5, 12-10. Agni U V bt Soumi Mondal 11-7, 1-11, 11-9, 13-11, 7-11, 11-7, Divya Deshpande bt Kakoli Lahkar 11-9, 4-11, 11-3, 8-11, 11-6, 11-7, Ashlesha Bodas bt Sanya Sehgal 11-8, 11-1, 11-3, 13-11, Pooja Sahasrabudhe bt Jayeeta Pushilal 8-11, 6-11, 11-8, 11-5, 12-10, 11-7.
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